A new era for human rights
The Lower Ormeau Concerned Community (LOCC) are holding a
conference focusing on the interconnected issues of human rights
and parades in light of the Good Friday document. The conference
is to be held in Shaftesbury Recreation centre on Saturday 20
June from 11am.
The morning session of the conference will be chaired by Majella
McCloskey, a community activist, and speakers will include Sinn
Fein's Gerry Kelly, 26 counties Fianna Fail TD Conor Lenihan and
Alex Attwood of the SDLP. It will deal with the human rights
agenda in the broadest possible sense.
Michael Goodman of the LOCC said ``This conference has been
planned for some time but now seems the best time to hold it as a
more accessible forum for the whole community to debate these
issues.''
The afternoon season will explore the marching season in relation
to the Belfast document and will be chaired by the journalist
Anne Cadwallader.
Speakers for this section will include civil rights activist and
former MP, Bernadette McAliskey and Brendan MacCionnaith of the
Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition.
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