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Same sex marriage battle goes to court

24 Jun 2015

The first gay couple to celebrate a civil partnership in Northern Ireland are seeking a judicial review challenging the ban on gay couples getting married here. 

A healthy approach to asylum that will help us all

Chair of the Health Committee, Maeve McLaughlin, addresses the announcement of expanded care

16 Jun 2015

There won’t be huge political fanfare, but a recent DHSSPS decision to increase access to free healthcare amongst vulnerable groups will save money and improve everyone’s health. Scope looks at why.

Shaking up social policy

Amnesty's Grainne Teggart, Sarah Ewart, and Sarah's mother Jane Christie

15 Jun 2015

Scope provides an update on the recent series of articles on abortion in Northern Ireland, an area of policy that is under extreme scrutiny currently, with developments coming at pace.

Will the courts force through abortion reform?

28 Apr 2015

In the latest in our series on abortion Scope examines the impending court case which could force the Assembly's hand on reform. 

Abortion: the lives of others

28 Apr 2015

David Smyth of the Evangelical Alliance, writing exclusively for Scope, challenges those currently calling for changes to Northern Ireland's abortion law

Modern slavery - antiquity down your street

(l-r) Yoke Farm director Tim Keeling, Justice Minister David Ford, Júlia Tomás from Unchosen and Law Centre NI director Glenn Jordan

27 Apr 2015

For most people the word slavery will evoke the distant and disconnected past. But for some people it is a reality in the here and now.

Opinion: abortion - our laws are in urgent need of reform

Amnesty International's Grainne Teggart

20 Apr 2015

Grainne Teggart, Northern Ireland campaigner for Amnesty Interntional and head of its My Body My Rights campaign, writes for Scope to say that local abortion laws lack decency in the way they treat women in distress.

The Wrong Mrs Vo - do the unborn have rights?

17 Apr 2015

Scope examines the landmark European case which ruled that the unborn do not have a right to life 

Abortion in Northern Ireland: an overview

17 Apr 2015

Abortion is amongst the most divisive issues in our tumultuous society. In the first of a series of pieces looking at this issue as it comes to a time of great flux, Scope outlines where we are and how we got there.

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