We are delighted to welcome this cross-post by Dr Shane Darcy from the Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog. The Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog is dedicated to tracking and analysing developments relating to business and human rights in Ireland. It aims to address legal and policy issues, as well as highlighting human(…)
We are delighted to welcome this Guest post from Dr Shane Darcy. Dr Darcy is a lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway. A previous version of this article appeared in the Sunday Business Post on 11 March 2012. The news that products provided by Irish companies are being implicated(…)
We are delighted to welcome this Guest Post from Dr. Ciara Hackett. Ciara is a lecturer in the School of Law at NUI Galway where she also serves as Deputy Director of the LL.M in Public Law. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, globalisation and marxist theories of development. In 2011, Ireland signed(…)
A one-day conference organised by the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law, NUI Galway entitled “Ireland and the United Nations Framework for Business and Human Rights” will take place on 24 March 2012 at the National University of Ireland Galway. The conference seeks to explore and analyse issues of law and(…)
I was the organiser for this year’s Minority Rights Summer School, held at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, from 13th-17th June. It was the eleventh year of the School, which always attracts an interesting group of academics, students, activists and lobbyists, as well as those with a general interest in minority and(…)
The tenth annual Minority Rights & Indigenous Peoples Summer School will take place from June 13-17, 2011, at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway. This highly acclaimed course gives an overview of the legal, political and philosophical issues pertaining to international human rights law and its relationship to minority rights and the rights(…)
HRinI is delighted to publish this post by John Reynolds. John is a Government of Ireland Scholar and a PhD candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway. With the transfer of our economic sovereignty to an army of foreign accountants dominating the news of late, readers may not have seen reports in(…)
The Irish Centre for Human Rights together with the Office of the European Parliament in Ireland are holding an event to mark the 2010 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought. Time: Thursday 7 October, 6:00pm Venue: NUIG campus, Theatre IT250 (1st Floor IT Building) Since 1988, in the spirit of Andrei Sakharov, the European Parliament has awarded(…)
A film by Dearbhla Glynn entitled ‘ Gaza: Post Operation Cast Lead‘ won the top prize at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Film Awards last evening. The film deals with the difficult day-to-day conditions that exist in Gaza under the Israeli blockade. Recently news on the easing of the blockade have been broadly welcomed and should result(…)
