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"Mr President, any impartial observer would agree that routine and systematic violations of human rights were both the causes and the consequences of the conflict in Ireland. Therefore, a robust bill of rights, containing permanent legal safeguards, is needed to act as insurance against a repeat of past wrongs, to halt the wrongs of the present, and to prevent new wrongs in the future. Such a bill would provide all citizens with a practical tool they can use to hold public authorities to account, to challenge and, ultimately, to end discrimination, inequality and social injustice.
This is not just a Sinn Féin demand. It was a solemn commitment entered into by parties in the Good Friday Agreement and the St Andrews Review. The British and Irish governments must now recognise that, by failing to honour the 15-year-old obligation to deliver a bill of rights, they are feeding societal tension and damaging the process of peace which the majority of people both desire and deserve."@en1
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