NORTHERN IRELAND
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Around 50 victims of historical abuse in Northern Ireland have died in the years since a campaign for truth and redress began, MLAs have been told.
A leading victims’ advocate highlighted the numbers of people who had passed away as she criticised Stormont’s failure to provide interim compensation payments to those who suffered abuse before an ongoing inquiry had concluded.
Retired judge Sir Anthony Hart is leading what is one of the UK’s largest inquiries into physical, sexual and emotional harm to children at homes run by the church, state and voluntary organisations.
His Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry was formally established in January 2013 by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) to investigate child abuse which occurred in residential institutions over a 73-year period from 1922 to 1995.
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