As part of its National Plan on Business and Human Rights 2017-2020, the Irish Government committed to having a baseline assessment undertaken of the legislative and regulatory framework as it […]
Comhlámh are hosting one of their regular #firstweds debates in Dublin tonight, exploring the role of business and human rights in the context of the extractive industry. I am very […]
With the transposition into Irish law of the 2014 EU Directive on Non-Financial Reporting, 2018 will see a significant change in the annual directors’ reports of large Irish companies. Pursuant to Regulations […]
I am very pleased to welcome this latest guest post in the series on Ireland’s recently published national plan from Julian Waagensen, a policy adviser with Trócaire based in Maynooth. Having recently […]
So here it is. Ireland has finally published it’s National Plan on Business and Human Rights. The document was launched this morning by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon […]
With Ireland having a new Taoiseach in Leo Varadkar, the former Minister for Social Protection, and a new Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, whose Department has assumed the responsibility […]
As the Dáil begins a full day debate on corporate tax avoidance and the specific case of unlawful State aid to Apple, it is worth recalling that Irish and international human […]
The Business and Human Rights Journal has just made an advance version of my article on corporate tax avoidance and business and human rights freely available. Here is the abstract for the […]
Corporate tax avoidance has received considerable media, civil society, governmental and scholarly attention in recent years, but it has not yet been fully engaged with within the business and human rights […]
I am very pleased to post the views of Dr. Claire Methven O’Brien on Ireland’s ‘Working Outline’ for its national action plan on business on human rights. Claire works as […]
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