Ireland, one of Europe's most socially conservative countries, has voted by a landslide to liberalise the world's most restrictive abortion laws, Common Dreams.
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As Ireland prepares for its referendum today, May 25, on repealing the聽constitutional amendment prohibiting free, safe, legal abortion, women and health workers in Rojava, the largely Kurdish area in Syria's north,聽have expressed their solidarity with Irish women鈥檚 right to choose.
With the exception of the Vatican state and Malta, Ireland has the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. It exceeds Saudi Arabia and Qatar in its restrictions on women鈥檚 rights to basic reproductive health.
Campaigning for a woman right鈥檚 to choose in Ireland has stepped up since the announcement of the date and wording of a referendum on changing the constitution to allow abortion.
The referendum, to be held on May 25, will ask voters whether to repeal the section of the Irish constitution that bans abortion. If passed, it would allow parliament to make laws to regulate the procedure.
Derry community activist Tony Taylor has been held in jail for more than two years without charge or trial on the orders of a British official, write the Free Tony Taylor Campaign Team.
Ireland鈥檚 Dail Eireann (its lower house of parliament) voted by a large majority on February 8 in favour of a bill to ban the government issuing new contracts for oil and gas exploration.
'It's time for a new, democratic, inclusive, equal and united Ireland,' campaigners say in new video
The new campaign has released the video below, narrated by actor Irish actor John Connors. The video says it is time to build a new, democratic, inclusive and United Ireland.
The Che Guevara stamp produced by the Irish republic鈥檚 postal service (An Post) has sold out its initial 120,000 print run. The stamp was released to mark the 50th anniversary of the Latin American freedom fighter鈥檚 murder on October 9, 1967 by CIA-backed Bolivian state.
The announcement confounds right-wing critics, who opposed the stamp. 聽An Post has described the demand for the 鈧1 stamp 鈥 using Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick鈥檚 image of the revolutionary icon 鈥 as 鈥渦nprecedented鈥.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland is investigating hate crimes committed at bonfires in unionist (supporters of British rule over Northern Ireland鈥檚 six counties) areas on the nights of July 11, An Phoblacht said the next day.聽Bonfires, which are set alight each July 11 by the members of the unionist community,聽were strewn with election posters for Irish republican party Sinn Fein and other non-unionist groups, as well as Irish flags and various expressions of sectarianism and bigotry.
In Northern Ireland 鈥 the partitioned statelet made up of the six Irish counties still claimed by Britain 鈥 the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is the largest unionist party (supporters of an ongoing 鈥渦nion鈥 with Britain).
Few would have predicted, until recent times, that the biggest act at the Glastonbury music festival would be a 68-year-old socialist reciting .
Yet Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn鈥檚 June 24 speech at Glastonbury attracted what was likely the largest crowd in the festival鈥檚 history, said.
Ireland is poised to ban onshore hydraulic fracturing (fracking) after its Senate 聽a bill on June 28 outlawing the destructive oil and gas extraction method.
Anti-fracking campaigning group聽聽the development as a 鈥渧ictory for people power鈥.
In the aftermath of Britain鈥檚 June 8 elections, in which Labour defied expectations to make major gains while the Conservative government of Theresa May lost its majority, the surge of support for Labour鈥檚 socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn and his anti-austerity platform has grown.
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