Justice for Magdalenes, Submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture

Maeve O'Rourke

doi:10.13025/21463

Justice for Magdalenes, Submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture

Maeve O'Rourke

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Abstract

Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries were residential, commercial and for-profit laundries operated by four Irish orders of nunsi where between the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922ii and 1996, when the last institution closed, a number of girls and women, estimated in the tens of thousands,iii were imprisoned, forced to carry out unpaid labour and subjected to severe psychological and physical maltreatment.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Media of output	Policy Contribution
Publisher	United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13025/21463
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2011

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