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(…)
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(…)
Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this guest post from Jim Winters, Advocacy and Rights Officer, Inclusion Ireland as part of Human Rights Week 2012. Founded in 1961 Inclusion Ireland is the national organisation advocating for the rights of people with an intellectual disability. Our focus is on the realisation of the core principles and values(…)
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(…)
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(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Professor Gerard Quinn Director of the Centre for Disability Law & Policy at NUI Galway. A historic hearing took place yesterday (Thursday, July 11th) in the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The issue before the Committee was US ratification of the United Nations Convention on the(…)
The recent events in Houla have, yet again, put Syria front and centre of news reports. Over recent months we have featured posts on Syria here, here, here and here but as the situation disintegrates and fears regarding a sectarian civil war rise, this post discusses, with a particular focus on the Security Council, what the options(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland. It considers the need for UN reform in light of the Syrian crisis. This piece first appeared in the Irish Examiner on May 3rd. A couple of months ago I was watching a BBC report from the city(…)
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(…)
