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  • Portuguese Summary of International Panel Report- Bitter Legacy - State Impunity in the Northern Ireland Conflict

    Portuguese Summary
    28 April 2025

  • Demand a Public Inquiry for the Brown Family!!!

    Tell Hilary Benn that it's Time to Act
    17 April 2025
    E- mail Hilary Benn and Demand a Public Inquiry into the Murder of Sean Brown Use the following link: https://actnowni.eaction.online/email-hilary-benn-public-inquiry-sean-br

  • Advocacy Support Worker Post - Derry Office

    PFC is Recruiting an Advocacy Support Worker for our Derry Office
    11 April 2025
    PFC are seeking an Advocacy Support Worker to join our team in Derry. The PFC provide advocacy, advice and support victims and survivors of the conflict in Ireland. We currently have offices in Belfast, Derry and Armagh, with a Dublin office supporting those in the Republic of Ireland through our...

  • Sean Brown Murder Case - British Secretary of State Given Four Weeks to Act

    Court of Appeal in Belfast gives Hilary Benn Four Weeks to initiate a Public Inquiry into the Murder of GAA Official Sean Brown
    04 April 2025
    Link to article published on RTE News site on 3rd April 2025

  • Remembering Dorothy Trainor

    A Grieving Family Reflects on the Fiftieth Anniversary of their Mother's Murder
    31 March 2025
    The Trainor Family share their grief and reflect on the devastation left by the murder of their mother and the attempted murder of their father.

  • The Passing of Monsignor Raymond Murray

    A Colossus in the Field of Human Rights
    25 February 2025
    The Pat Finucane Centre and Justice For the Forgotten mark the passing of Monsignor Raymond Murray

  • An "Independent" Witness ?

    06 February 2025
    Times journalist, John Chartres, feted as an independent witness to the nail bombs allegedly carried by young Gerald Donaghey, was in fact a retired British Army major. His track record speaks for itself.

  • Barnard Judgement

    Glenanne Gang Murders
    16 January 2025
    Judicial Communications Office 1 Friday 5 July 2019 Court Of Appeal Delivers Judgment In Glenanne Report Challenge Summary of Judgment The Court of Appeal1 today upheld a decision that the brother of Edward Barnard had a procedural legitimate expectation that an overarching report would be carried...

  • Press Release by the McGreanery Family

    Press Statement from the Family of Billy McGreanery (RIP 1971)
    09 January 2025
    The family of the late Billy McGreanery, killed by the British Army in 1971, have issued the following press statement following their acceptance of a significant settlement in respect of his death

  • Press Release by the Family of the Late Sean Brown

    Deep Disappointment at Hilary Benn's Decision to Appeal
    08 January 2025
    The Family of the Sean Brown express their deep disappointment at the British Secretary of State's decision to appeal the ruling by Humphries J that a public inquiry be established into Sean Brown's murder

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  • Collusion

    Collusion

    Collusion is any act, or omission of an act, in which state agents encourage or engage in criminal actions with illegal forces. It can never be justified. Collusion, we believe, prolonged the conflict in Ireland by reducing, and in some...
  • Criminal Justice

    Criminal Justice

    The criminal justice system is the system of law enforcement used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment. It includes the police, lawyers, courts and corrections (prisons, parole, rehabilitations etc.)
  • ECHR

    European Convention on Human Rights

    The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, better known as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), was drafted by the Council of Ministers in November 1950 and came into force in 1953. It was drafted...
  • Set the truth free banner

    Truth Recovery

    The PFC believes that bereaved families have a right to truth and justice. We advocate for an independent truth recovery process that is compliant with international human rights standards.
  • State Violence

    State Violence

    PFC believe that the British state’s failure to uphold the principle that no one is above the law was the single greatest factor creating and prolonging the conflict in Ireland.
  • Prison

    Prison

    Maghaberry Prison in particular has been dogged by controversies around humiliating strip searches, association among politically motivated prisoners, the use of solitary confinement and massive failings in preventing self-harm.
  • MI5

    MI5

    The security service MI5 has had overall responsibility for security in the North since August 2007. In August 2007 the British Security Service, MI5, assumed lead responsiblity for 'national security intelligence work' in the North.
  • Lethal Allies Cover

    Glenanne / Lethal Allies

    Drawing on over 15 years of research by the PFC, and using forensic and ballistic information never before published, this book includes official documents showing that the highest in the land knew of the collusion and names those whose...
  • NO to Plastic Bullets

    Plastic Bullets / Tasers / CS Gas

    17 people were killed during the conflict by members of the security forces firing plastic or rubber bullets/ batons. 8 of the 17 people were children, and all but one was catholic.
  • exhibition

    Legacy of Colonialism

    Why would an Irish based human rights group produce an exhibit on the legacy of colonialism? And why here and why now? The question about here and now is easy to answer. This launch of this exhibition took place in August 2017 in the Museum...