New Editorial Team for the Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog
I am delighted to announce that Dr Rachel Widdis, Dr Ciara Hackett and Gerry Liston have joined the Business and Human Rights blog as co-editors. Each brings with them a […]
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Guest Post: A Civil Society View of Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence in Ireland
I am very pleased to share this guest post by Dr. Rachel Widdis of Trinity College Dublin who has been working with the Irish Coalition on Business and Human Rights […]
Guest Post: Impeachment, Freedom of Speech, and the Failure to Regulate Tech Corporations
I am really pleased to share this very topical post by Dr Michael Kearney, a fellow graduate of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway and currently a senior […]
Whose business are human rights?
The following post is a revised and slightly longer version of a piece that appeared yesterday on the RTÉ Brainstorm website. * * * During a hearing of the public […]
Guest post: The Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Battle for the Future
I am really delighted to share this timely and topical post from Dr John Reynolds, an Associate Professor of Law and Chair of the International Justice LLM programme at Maynooth University. You can […]
Benchmarking Business & Human Rights in Ireland
The Centre for Social Innovation in Trinity Business School is hosting a webinar to launch the 2020 national benchmark of Business & Human Rights in Ireland on 25 November at 5pm. […]
European virtual consultation on business and human rights treaty
On 1 July 2020, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law will host a virtual consultation on the revised draft of the proposed business and human rights treaty. The […]
Human rights due diligence for business: elements and developments
This is a cross-post of a piece I wrote for the new Irish Centre for Human Rights blog. The Centre, which is based in the School of Law at the National University […]
New report: Business and Human Rights in Occupied Territory
Al-Haq, together with the Global Legal Action Network, have just released ‘Business and Human Rights in Occupied Territory: Guidance for Upholding Human Rights’. The report is a most valuable contribution […]
Trócaire launch of ‘Women Taking the Lead: Defending Human Rights and the Environment’
On 25 February 2020, Trócaire will launch its new report: ‘Women Taking the Lead: Defending Human Rights and the Environment’. The launch will include a discussion with several women engaged in […]
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