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Lectures

William Schabas and Aisling O’Sullivan, Diplomacy and Ireland v. United Kingdom case at the European Court of Human Rights, at the Diplomacy of Human Right Conference, Irish Cultural Institute, Paris, 7 ^th December 2007.

Aisling O’Sullivan, ’ Sean MacBride and the drafting of the European Convention of Human Rights’ at the ACAT seminar on Ireland and International Human Rights Law in the Irish Centre for Human Rights on the 11 ^th July 2006.

William A. Schabas, Sean MacBride, St. Angela’s College, Sligo, in November 2007

Searchable Archive

Melissa Ruggiero, an LLM student from the Cross-border LLM in Human Rights and Criminal Justice 2006/07, diligently assembled a searchable database of the principal papers collected in the National Archives of Ireland.   This work was completed in December 2007 and will be a highly useful tool for researchers interested in Ireland, human rights and the Council of Europe.

Irish Centre for Human Rights PhD student project

Several of ICHR PhD students are researching material available in State Archives in Ireland, Britain and US on government foreign policy and human rights, primarily during the formative period of international human rights law.   This PhD project will produce a collection of papers to publish the results of the research.  This project has been developed by the researcher Aisling O’Sullivan and the final collection, edited by Aisling O’Sullivan and William Schabas, will be published by the Irish Centre for Human Rights.

The collection of papers envisaged in the project:

Aisling O’Sullivan and William Schabas (ed), Human rights and foreign policy: a view from State Archives, (Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway) [tentative title] 

• The diplomacy of human rights
• Ireland’s ratification of the Genocide Convention
• Ireland and the abolition of the death penalty
• Ireland and International humanitarian law
• United States foreign policy and international criminal justice
• Britain and the prohibition against propaganda for war
• Ireland and the Declaration against Torture (1975)
• Irish foreign policy and the Occupied Territories
• Ireland and the Convention on the Status of Refugees (1951)
• Ireland and the UN Commission on the Status of Women 
• Minority rights in Fiji: the question of British foreign policy
• Self-determination and Cyprus [1956-58]: a view from the British State papers

Testing inter-State human rights litigation: the case of Ireland v. United Kingdom [1971-1978]

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