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UN rights experts voice alarm over Northern Ireland professor’s safety after ‘vicious’ online attacks

New York: What independent UN human rights experts are describing as an ongoing smear campaign against a prominent Northern Irish academic and human rights lawyer, “has the potential to spark physical violence” they said on Thursday, amidst increasing polarization once more between nationalists and unionists, following the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote, and the resulting Northern Ireland protocol.

Northern Ireland faces urgent challenges nearly 20 years after peace accord: UN expert

New York, Nov 21 (Just Earth News/IBNS): While much has been achieved in Northern Ireland in the nearly 20 years since a peace accord ended decades of fighting between British forces and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the different communities, urgent issues persist, according to a United Nations expert on transitional justice.