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Files of documents being statements, comments, reports etc. made by Article 19 and in reference to specific issues, cases, countries or matters relating to freedom of expression, the media and press, censorship, freedom of religious belief and such issues, from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Northern Ireland and various international cases.

This file consists of typed copies of statements and contributions by Mary Robinson (MR) and others in relation to Divorce Law in Ireland. It includes contribution by MR "Divorce - Time for Action", Liberty Hall, Dublin 22/04/1980, with notation; address by Right Reverence Monsignor Gerard Sheehy, press release and abstract of address by Justice Costello, The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland Symposium on The Family and The Law, 11/10/1980; report on Family Law workshops, Council for the Status of Women seminar, 15-16/11/1980 and draft recommendations, 21/01/1981; speech by Senator MR "Divorce: Labour's Commitment", to Dublin Regional Council, Liberty Hall, 03/12/1981; summary of contribution by MR at public meeting on Divorce, Dub Laoghaire, 11/03/1982, Liberty Hall, Dublin 12/03/1982, Malahide, 11/06/1985; statement by the Tánaiste and Leader of the Labour Party, Dick Spring TD [Teachta Dála, member of Dáil Éireann, lower house of Irish Parliament] , in relation to the Oireachtas Committee on Marital Breakdown, 24/06/1983; press release from Irish Association of Social Workers, 01/05/1986; "The Divorce Referendum", speech by Barry Desmond TD, Minister for Health, at Labour Party Selection Convention, Dub Laoghaire, 08/05/1986; "Divorce - A Response to the Bishops", summary of contribution by MR, at public meeting organised by Divorce Action Group, Malahide, 14/05/1986; "Divorce - The Right to Remarry", summary of contribution by MR, at public meeting organised by Divorce Action Group, Victor Hotel [Dub Laoghaire], 29/05/1986; press statement, [lawyers for Family Law?], 30/05/1986; "Divorce Referendum - A Watershed for the Country", summary of contribution by MR, at Divorce Action Group meeting, Coolmine Community School, Dublin 05/06/1986; "The Courts, The Constitution and The Family", two-part article for the Irish Times, MR, [06/1986]; statement from The Anti-Divorce Campaign, "We Reject the Tenth Amendment", May 1986; statement on behalf of the Workers in the Women's Aid Refuge, "Who are currently in dispute with the Council of Women's Aid". [02]/1989; Labour Women's National Council, Family Law Sub-Committee interim statement on Nullity/Divorce, 19[7?].

Statements made by members of the Dündar family to the Cizre Public Prosecutor and to the Human Rights Association regarding the disappearance and death of Mesut Dündar, as well as documents pertaining to the Cizre Public Prosecutor’s investigation of the death of Mesut Dündar submitted by the Turkish Government.

Typescript statement (1 p) and copy of a statement/ communiqué from [Sinn Féin] for the [British government], challenging the British to act 'during this rare moment of quietness in Ireland', not to plan for another six-county state solution again, but to enter into dialogue 'long and difficult' as the process must be.

Statement by Mark Campbell, who was part of a trade union delegation to Lice in November 1993, one month after the village was attacked by security forces. Campbell notes that 'the whole of the town had been burnt to the ground apart from the military posts and a few shops, which townspeople said belonged to 'state' people'. Campbell was told by one of the teachers from the village that soldiers had come that morning and told them to lock the children into the secondary school and that one of the soldiers had told them that 'there would be a massacre here today'. Campbell describes tales of residents being burned alive inside buildings, and buildings destroyed with flamethrowers and chemicals. A photocopy of Campbell's photograph showing Turkish troops on the streets of Lice in November 1993 is attached.

Statement to the Court of the Land Commission by John Wilson Lynch, in the case against the representatives of D Liddy, requesting that the rent be set at $80, and complaining that the grazing farm had been neglected by the tenant in question. It includes notes by John Wilson Lynch on the amounts of stock grazing on the land.

Draft copy of statement of John Wilson Lynch before the Sub-commissioners of the Land Commissioners, relating to his tenantry in Knockaculleen, Newtown and Cregboy, Co Galway. He states that the rents were unchanged from 1818 to 1881, that barley and potatoes grow well there and that they have access to seaweed.

Statement issued by the Middleton Committee to Defend Welfare and the Unemployed", detailing an upcoming public meeting to discuss fundraising and support of the unemployed.

Copy typescript statement by [a former SDLP Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly] entitled 'Review of SDLP strategy on the Convention election'. Taking issue with John Hume's strategy as enunciated on 13 November 1974, detailing the writer's own preferred strategy in the lead-up to the elections, stressing among other things the importance of community work by SDLP delegates. Containing a note describing the author of the piece which was reproduced before March 1975 and was made available by courtesy of the Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle in September 1975. (Handwritten date given by [Éamonn Downey].)

Statement released by P. O'Neill Secretary of the Irish Republican Publicity Bureau on behalf of 'The Leadership of The Republican Movement'. The Statement announces that 'The Irish Republican Army will suspend offensive operations as from Midnight 26 June 1972 provided that a public reciprocal response is forthcoming from the armed forces of the British Crown.' This statement was issued by the Provisional I.R.A.