Motion or amendment: Women’s Rights in Northern Ireland Prisons
Motion or amendment by Mr Doug Beattie MC on .
- MLA
- Mr Doug Beattie MC
- Party at the time
- Independent
- Date
- 22 June 2026
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Women’s Rights in Northern Ireland Prisons
- Assembly identifier
- Document 491925
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Women’s Rights in Northern Ireland Prisons
That this Assembly affirms its support for women’s rights; notes both the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers that a woman is defined by sex and the Scottish Court ruling that accommodating male prisoners with female prisoners is unlawful; recognises the importance of safeguarding single-sex spaces, associations and organisations for women; further notes the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), including the principle that prisoners should be accommodated according to their sex; calls on the Northern Ireland Prison Service to cease housing biological men in women’s prison facilities; and further calls on the Minister of Justice to review and amend the guidance on transgender prisoners to ensure compliance with the Mandela Rules.
132 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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