Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I would love it if the Minister could give me a date on that. Why? It is because we are talking about embedding respect for human rights, and protecting, respecting and remedying human rights. While we fail to do that, this is the report from Trinity College, which is now dated, in relation to failure to embed human rights. I could cite various examples. As I understand it, the ESB is still importing coal from north-east Colombia - I will not insult anyone by attempting to pronounce the names of the mines - despite well-documented human rights abuses associated with the actions of that business. We are importing that. Airbnb Ireland allows tourism-related businesses based in illegal Israeli settlements to use its platform to advertise their services. Front Line Defenders, a very respected organisation, has reported 401 killings of human rights defenders in 2022 compared with 358 in 2021. Imagine that we are comparing the numbers of deaths of human rights defenders while there is no plan of action.

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