13-07-2025
- Politics
- Irish Independent
David Quinn: Thought you'd had your say on women in the home? The UN wants you to think again
Bureaucrats in Geneva and Brussels should not be interfering in how governments run their countries
The United Nations has asked us to hold another referendum on mothers in the home. To be more precise, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has done so. They did not like the answer we gave last year when we voted by almost three to one to keep the Constitution as it is, so they want us to try again and do better.
Does this remind you of anything? It should. Do you recall when we were asked by the EU to go to the polls again when we rejected the Nice Treaty in 2002 and the Lisbon Treaty in 2008?
