Overwatch Report

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Detention in Turkey ofTO call for Ireland to privately and publically reiterate call for Taner's release and for the charges against the HRDs to be dropped

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Human Rights Defenders in Turkey, in capacity of Chair/Vice-Chair of Joint Oireachtas Foreign Affairs and Trade committee

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Health] Joint letter with NWCI and Repeal the 8th Coalition re Sinn Fein's party policy on abortion in context of Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gerry Adams', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Turkey human rights defenders

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Trevor Ó Clochartaigh', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Joint civil society groups' meeting with Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative organised by AI Ireland to discuss Community sponsorship of refugees

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Local Government] Joint letter with ICCL and Transparency International Ireland re 'third party' provisions in Electoral Act's impact on Irish civil society organisations’ freedom of association and expression

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Niall Burgess', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'John McCarthy', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} + 2 more

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Health] Sinn Féin Party policy on access to abortion at Ard Fheis

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Amnesty International's global report on its 'Brave' campaign - Killings and enforced disappearances of human rights defenders

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Amnesty International's global report on its 'Brave' campaign - Killings and enforced disappearances of human rights defenders

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Health] Joint letter with ARC, ICCL, NWCI, Repeal the 8th Coalition and USI to members of Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bernard Durkan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 10 more

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Amnesty International’s report ‘Libya’s dark web of collusion: Abuses against Europe-bound refugees and migrants’

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Amnesty International’s report ‘Libya’s dark web of collusion: Abuses against Europe-bound refugees and migrants’

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Health] Amnesty International's domestic campaign for a human rights compliant abortion framework in Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Kathy Ann Barrett', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Health)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Local Government] Impact on Irish civil society organisations’ freedom of association and expression of third party provisions in Electoral Act

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Local Government] Serious impact on Irish civil society organisations’ freedom of association and expression of third party provisions in Electoral Act

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Amnesty International's report on Apartheid in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Amnesty International's report on Apartheid in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Transparency International Ireland

May–August

[Local Government] TI Ireland co-signed a letter with Amnesty International Ireland and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties drawing attention to the negative impact that section 22 of the Electoral Acts is having on the work of civil society organisations in Ireland. The letter was accompanied by a submission detailing the difficulties created by section 22 and proposing an amendment to the legislation.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[EU Affairs] EU migration/refugee crisis and EU JHA Council meeting

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Ireland's acceptance of relocations of protection seekers from Italy/Greece under EU programme

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Kirrane', 'role': 'Director General (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[EU Affairs] EU-Turkey agreement on migration crisis

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Enda Kenny', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] High-Level UN meeting on global refugee responsibility sharing

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[EU Affairs] April EU JHA Council and refugees/migration

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Government's response to Constitutional Convention's eighth report on ESC rights to be presented to Dáil Éireann

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Derek Nolan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Concerns at reports of possible rejection by government of Constitutional Convention recommendations on ESC rights

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Ó Fearghaíl', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pádraig MacLochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 6 more

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Health] Amnesty international national poll on public attitudes to expanding access to and decriminalising abortion, and on support for repealing the 8th Amendment to the Constitution

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': ''}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Health] To seek pre-general election party support for repealing the 8th Amendment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Health] To seek Green Party support for repealing the 8th Amendment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Health] To seek pre-General Election Fine Gael party commitment to repealing the 8th Amendment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Enda Kenny', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Marion Mannion', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Health] Sinn Fein party support for repealing the 8th Amendment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gerry Adams', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

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