The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has attacked Ireland’s abortion laws, stating that they impede a woman’s right to bodily autonomy. In a report, set to inform a wider United Nations study on Ireland’s performance on gender equality, ‘Ireland and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’, the IHREC calls on the ongoing Citizens’ Assembly to fully consider recommending calls for a referendum to change the Eighth Amendment constitutional protection for the unborn. It further states that Article 41.2 of the Constitution stereotypes women as it presumes they occupy primary carer roles within the home. The full report will be presented to the United Nations in Geneva next week by IHREC chief commissioner Emily Logan.