Seanad debates
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Order of Business
10:30 am
Brendan Ryan (Labour)
I ask the Leader to arrange statements on the most recent report of Amnesty International, an organisation held in high esteem across the political spectrum. Individual governments have individual issues with it but Amnesty International's independence means its report is effectively an independent review of human rights across the world. I invite the Leader to hold a debate in which those of us who have different views on human rights in different countries can express them. It would be interesting to hear those who were critical of me mount a defence of Saudi Arabia, a country in which half the members of the Government consorted last week and perhaps the most totalitarian state in the world.
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