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(…)
The time of year has come around again, when speeches are made to the world via the UN General Assembly and the IMF and World Bank have their annual meetings in Washington D.C.. We have covered these speeches previously here and Darren has covered the most pressing issue before the UN, Palestinian statehood, here. This(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome this guest post by Gilbert Leung, kindly reposted from Critical Legal Thinking. On 14 April 2011, the High Court of England and Wales ruled, in R (on the application of Joshua Moos and Hannah McClure) v The Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, that the police had(…)
On Thursday last, the IMF announced that the Executive Board had approved Ireland’s loan of €22.5 Billion. I have already posted on the structure of the IMF here while Darren has discussed the legal implications of the acceptance of a loan here and here. According to Dominique Strauss Kahn, Managing Director of the IMF and(…)
DuVall summarises the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s thought: ‘if submission were replaced by civil resistance, the people could pierce the shroud of oppression, shifting power in a way that few in the world would have comprehended.’ The starting point for civil disobedience is injustice. However, the question always placed at the feet of those who resist(…)
As the IMF is now a consistently central news item in Ireland and elsewhere, it is crucial that there be general understanding of the nature and functions of the organisation. The International Monetary Fund was established alongside the World Bank in 1944, as part of the Bretton Woods institutions. The Bretton Woods institutions were intended to(…)
