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Maeve O'Rourke


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May 2011: 'Maeve O’Rourke, a Harvard Law School human rights fellow, presented the Magdalenes’ case last Friday. She told the committee that the Irish government’s failure to deal with the abuse amounted to continuing degrading treatment in violation of the Convention Against Torture. She also said the state had failed to promptly investigate “a more than 70-year system of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of women and girls in Ireland’s Magdalene laundries.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/world/europe/25iht-abuse25.html

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Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Harvard University Organization Jul 21, 2011

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May 25, 2011 Irish Church's Forgotten Victims Take Case to U.N.

QUOTE: An estimated 30,000 women were sent to church-run laundries, where they were abused and worked for years with no pay... No one has taken responsibility for what happened in the laundries.

 New York Times