Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan, recently gave a statement outlining the Government’s official position on the efforts underway at the United Nations to develop a binding business and human rights […]
For several years now, the Irish government has been promising to produce a national action plan on business and human rights. It seems that such a plan is imminent for […]
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 […]
United Nations human rights monitoring bodies have engaged to varying degrees with business and human rights issues in recent years. Readers of the blog may recall instances where Ireland was […]
Congratulations to Professor Anita Ramasastry who tops the list of candidates for the vacant seat on the United Nations Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and […]
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on Ireland to take measures to ensure that the rights of the child are respected by companies. In an […]
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 […]
