{"id":7105,"date":"2021-01-11T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jan\/11\/high-status-of-northern-ireland-human-rights-body-being-put-at-risk"},"modified":"2021-01-11T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T11:45:20","slug":"high-status-of-northern-ireland-human-rights-body-being-put-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/11\/high-status-of-northern-ireland-human-rights-body-being-put-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"High status of Northern Ireland human rights body &#8216;being put at risk&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equality Coalition makes formal complaint about make-up of ministerial appointments to NIHRC<br><\/p><p>A network of more than 90 NGOs and trade unions has complained that ministerial appointments to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nihrc.org\/\">Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission<\/a> (NIHRC) are undermining the public body.<\/p><p>The group raised particular concerns about the selection of candidates with a policing background at a time when the commission is required to advise on addressing the legacy of the Troubles.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jan\/11\/high-status-of-northern-ireland-human-rights-body-being-put-at-risk\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jan\/11\/high-status-of-northern-ireland-human-rights-body-being-put-at-risk\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equality Coalition makes formal complaint about make-up of ministerial appointments to NIHRCA network of more than 90 NGOs and trade unions has complained that ministerial appointments to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) are undermi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1992,6,1991,1993,14,1314,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7106,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}