Submission Handover 1
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RIGHT TO REPLY: Patrick Yu from Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM), and Lynda Sullivan from the Human Rights Consortium needed a forklift to deliver a record 32,000 signatures backing their call for the introduction of a strong Bill of Rights in Northern Ireland. Pictured outside Hillsborough Castle, the responses were today (Wednesday 31st March) delivered to the Northern Ireland Secretary of State Shaun Woodward.
The Human Rights Consortium led a cross-community campaign that engaged as many people as possible in Northern Ireland to back its call for a strong Bill of Rights. In addition to the 30,000 individual signatures, the organisation expects 80 submissions from organisations across Northern Ireland. The campaigners want a Bill of Rights, proposed in the 1998 Belfast Agreement, to contain social and economic protections, such as rights to housing, work and healthcare.
