Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion
Professor Colin Harvey:
Absolutely, and as the Irish Government has made clear, the British Government is misreading the Good Friday Agreement. In that context, entirely understandably, people have tried to point out quite rightly the impact on Emma's and Jake's human rights in relation to the approach that has been adopted, and the human rights and human dignity of people affected by this, that is, of having a nationality conferred on them against their wishes, given this international legal right to choose.
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