Simon Coveney, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has provided the Dáil with an update on the delays in the implementation of Ireland’s National Plan on Business and […]
I’m very pleased to welcome this guest post from Hannah Grene, a consultant in the field of community development and human rights, who has previously contributed to the blog. You […]
Trócaire has issued a press release in response to the Irish Government’s publication of its National Plan on Business and Human Rights, calling for effective and timely implementation of the […]
The latest blog in the current series is by Pippa Woolnough, Advocacy Campaigns Officer at Barnardos, Ireland’s largest children’s charity. She attended Ireland’s hearing before the UN Committee on the Rights […]
The submission by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to the consultation on a national action plan on business and human rights is now publicly available. The Department of Foreign […]
Amnesty International has long been an advocate for corporate accountability and for the protection of human rights in the context of global business. The organisation has recently taken a strong […]
In February of this year, I was asked to provide the opening remarks at a brainstorming session organised by Geneva for Human Rights and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on a binding business and […]
Dóchas, the Association of Irish Non-Governmental Development Organisations, highlights issues of poverty and inequality in its submission to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the proposed national action […]
Trócaire has been quite active in the area of business and human rights in recent years, having prepared an advocacy manual on the topic and contributed in various ways to the ongoing Department of […]
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has just released the programme for the 14th Annual Human Rights NGO Forum ‘Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations Guiding Principles’. […]
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