This past few weeks have been tough for human rights advocates taking on companies in court. Most prominent was the United States Supreme Court decision in Kiobel v. Shell, where the Court restricted the […]
Professor John Ruggie, the former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on business and human rights, has published ‘Just Business’, a book recounting his experience with business and human […]
The privatisation of water in Ireland may be imminent. In its correspondence with the International Monetary Fund, the Irish Government has stated its intention to “move towards full cost-recovery in the provision of […]
On May Day, a remarkable story from the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland: Muhammad Younis grew up in a rural area of Pakistan. He has a wife and nine children. In […]
The factory collapse in Bangladesh is the latest in a long line of fatal incidents that have taken place in developing countries supplying the bulk of cheap clothes to consumers […]
83% of Irish people recently surveyed are interested in knowing what companies do to behave responsibly, yet almost three in five (59%) do not feel that they have adequate information […]
This is big news in the field of business and human rights and even if not directly relevant to Ireland, I thought it was worth a mention here. The United […]
