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Martina Purdy will be reporting on Evening Extra on the Human Rights Commissioner Monica McWilliams' decision to step down a year early from her post. Amongst the issues brewing away at the Commission is a decision by the NIO to block extra funding from the US charity Atlantic is the organisation created by the to put into practice his philosophy of "Giving While Living". It has funded numerous local projects including ones dealing with human rights, ageing, children and youth. However the NIO has now decided the Human Rights Commission shouldn't be taking money outside its remit. In addition the NIO is asking the Commission to take a 25% cut in its government funding.

Is it a coincidence that Atlantic has strongly backed those who support the creation of a Northern Ireland Bill of Rights, first canvassed in the Good Friday Agreement, whilst the Conservatives have always been sceptical of this objective preferring to deal with Northern Ireland under the umbrella of a UK wide bill?

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