A two-tier system has emerged as Ukrainian refugees experience "markedly different" conditions than everyone else, a new Irish Human Rights and Equality (IHREC) report has claimed.
According to their annual report, which was released today, IHREC handled 1,411 public queries on human rights and equality in 2022. According to the figures that emerged from the report, discrimination on the grounds of disability was the top public concern (for more than 40 per cent of the people).
IHREC Chief commissioner Sinead Gibney has said that the treatment that refugees from Ukraine get is different than the one refugees coming from elsewhere receive. She said: "Despite our warnings, the emergence of a two tier asylum system played out in front of our eyes – with Ukraine refugees experiencing a markedly different set of conditions to those in the wider international protection system.
