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Mind Map by Chloe Miller, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chloe Miller
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NICRA's Aims
- Achieve "one man one vote" - This
would allow all people over 18 to
vote & remove the multiple votes
from business owners.
- Achieved as part of O'Neill's Five
Point Reform Programme and in
the reforms introduced after the
Downing Street Declaration.
- Achieved as part of O'Neill's Five
Point Reform Programme and in
the reforms introduced after the
Downing Street Declaration.
- Ensure that local councils
allocated their houses fairly - At
this time only those who paid
rates were allowed to vote in
local council elections. If councils
did not give Catholics houses, then
they could not vote
- Achieved in O'Neill's Five
Point Reform Programme as
a point system is introduced
- Achieved in O'Neill's Five
Point Reform Programme as
a point system is introduced
- Introduce a formal complaints
procedure - This would allow people to
report local council violations
- Achieved on 22nd November
1968 as part of O'Neill's Five
Point Reform Proramme
- Achieved on 22nd November
1968 as part of O'Neill's Five
Point Reform Proramme
- Stop discrimination in the allocation of
government jobs - The Cameron
Commission found widespread
favouritism towards Protestants in the
allocation of jobs. Evidence was also
found that Catholics were
under-represented in senior Civil Service
jobs amongst NI's judges.
- Achieved in the
reforms made after
the Downing Street
Declaration as they
prevented
discrimination in
public employment.
- Achieved in the
reforms made after
the Downing Street
Declaration as they
prevented
discrimination in
public employment.
- End the use of Special Powers Act -
This gave police the power to arrest
and detain suspects without trial
- Partially removed as
part of O'Neill's Five
Point Reform
Programme in 1968.
- Partially removed as
part of O'Neill's Five
Point Reform
Programme in 1968.
- Disband the B Specials - This
reserve police force (almost all
Protestants and Unionists) was
seen by Catholics as a biased an
sectarian force.
- Recommended in the Hunt Committee Report.
- Recommended in the Hunt Committee Report.
- Stop Gerrymndering - Most famous
example of this was in Londonderry in
966 where the Unionist controlled city
council ruled over a Catholic population
of 20,00 compared to a Protestant
Population of 10,000. Gerrymandering
id the practice of drawing electoral
boundaries in a way that benefits one
group at the expense of another.
- Achieved in the reforms that
were made following the
Downing Street Declaration in
August '69.
- Achieved in the reforms that
were made following the
Downing Street Declaration in
August '69.
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