Norther Ireland, department of Health, research, mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries, forced adoption, inhumane treatment, Amnesty International‘Pregnant women and girls appear to have suffered a range of serious human rights abuses’.

Northern Ireland’s Department of Health has commissioned research to be carried out into mother and baby homes and the Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland.

The research will be undertaken over 12 months by academics based at Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University who will examine the operation of the homes and laundries between 1922 and 1999.

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