In the years preceding independence, the vision of Ireland as a women in need of protection became a standard of nationalism. Genderised Ireland has roots in Róisín Dubh and the Earl of Tyrone’s attempts to stay off the Tudor expansion in Ireland. Directly linking the Earl’s resistance to his daughter’s woes, standing in for a(…)
Two events earlier this month have put global development at the forefront of the Government’s Irish Aid programme’s objectives for 2013. First, the Department of Foreign Affairs co-hosted, with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), a forum on Women entrepreneurs in Developing Countries. This was followed by a forum on global poverty with the World Alliance(…)
The Law School at Durham University is pleased to invite applications for two three-year doctoral studentship, fully funded (fees and maintenance grant) as part of the ERC – funded project entitled “Dividing Political Power among People(s): A New Federal Theory for the 21st Century”. The project aims to explore international and national phenomena that have(…)
Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this post from our regular author, Aoife O’Donoghue, as part of its contribution to Human Rights Week 2012. This post examines Ireland’s role within the various international human rights regimes over the past 12 months, particularly Ireland’s chair of the OSCE and the outcome of Universal Periodic Review. First, Ireland’s(…)
The UK has announced that, next June, the G8 Summit will be held in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. This will probably be the most powerful international meeting ever to be held on the island. Coming during a period that sees Ireland’s Presidency of the OSCE, Ireland holding the Presidency of the EU Council, the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting(…)
Over recent years I have become increasingly skeptical regarding the Nobel Peace Prize. As blog posts over the past several awards evidence, my growing disillusionment is mainly directed at the choices of laureate that the Committee have made. With the exception of Liu Xiaobo in 2010, there appears to be no particular purpose, vision or aim connected to the prize(…)
This year’s annual General Assembly meeting passed off without much of the histrionics and theatre of other sessions. Previous years have been marked by a group of often usual suspects, using the platform to make their yearly decries against the West and most often the United States. The removal of Colonial Gaddafi coupled with the retirement of Fidel(…)
The Security Council’s mandate in Syria has come to an end and while a UN liaison office will remain in the country, all the peace observers have vacated their mission. Coupled with Kofi Annan’s decision to end his role as envoy of the UN and Arab League, this pull out suggests that the international institutional(…)
Several recent high-profile elections such as Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma as Chair of the African Union, Christine Lagarde as Managing Director of the IMF, Fatou Bensouda as Chief Prosecutor at the ICC as well as Margaret Chan at at the World Health Organisation, Irina Bokova at UNESCO and the candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the World Bank, suggests progress has been(…)
In my previous post on Syria I discussed the possibility of NATO action in Syria. The shooting down of a Turkish military plane in international waters by Syrian forces once again raises the issue of potential NATO involvement in the conflict. In the earlier post, I noted that previous Syrian military engagement across the border(…)
