Overwatch Report

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Trade] Meeting with Senator Frances Black and partner organisations to discuss Occupied Territories Bill (PMB)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Meeting on Amnesty International's new report on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Meeting on Amnesty International's new report on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Health] Activists were asked to request their TDs to contact Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, to seek support for a TRIPS waiver and call on the EU to negotiate a much more comprehensive and inclusive deal

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'The grassroots campaign asked activists to target their own TDs by email or letter'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Joint letter from STAD (Standing Together Against Direct Provision) coalition expressing concern at delays accessing Temporary Residence Cards and resulting inability to access PPSN, Medical Cards and DP Allowance payment; requesting information on steps Department is taking and calingl for immediate action to resolve this situation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'David Delaney', 'role': 'Director (Department of Justice)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Trade] Communication re Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment hearing on the TRIPS waiver for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Invitation to Oireachtas AV Room Briefing on AI's new report and campaign on Israel's apartheid against Palestinians

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': "AV room use at invitation of Deputy Patrick Costello.\n\nAlso in attendance was Saleh Higazi, Head of Office, AI's East Jerusalem Middle East and North Africa Regional Office"} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Haughey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Informal meeting with Minister of State Joe O'Brien re Amnesty's new report and campaign on Israel's apartheid against Palestinians

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Local Government] Joint NGO meeting with Minister of State Malcolm Noonan re Electoral Act's severe funding restrictions on CSOs' advocacy activities

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Trade] People's Vaccine Alliance meeting in advance of Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment hearing on a TRIPS waiver for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Louise O'Reilly", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Gavan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Share AI’s public statement calling on international community including Ireland to act immediately to put pressure on the Israeli authorities to end continuing patterns of unlawful killings and other gross violations and take concrete steps towards dismantling its system of apartheid against Palestinians

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Patrick Costello', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lisa Chambers', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Trade] Letter calling for Ireland's support for a comprehensive TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19 health tools at the World Trade Organisation (WTO)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Maurice Quinlivan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Trade] Grassroots campaign led by the Peoples Vaccine Alliance Ireland asking people to email Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment before the WTO meeting to support the TRIPS waiver

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Health] Abortion Working Group joint letter in response to published statistics on numbers travelling from Ireland for abortion care in England and Wales

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] An overseas case of a person experiencing and/or at risk of serious human rights violations in another state

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Sonja Hyland', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Briefing on AI's new report on Israel's apartheid against Palestinians

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brian Dennehy', 'role': 'Councillor (Fingal County Council)'} {'name': 'Kieran Dennison', 'role': 'Councillor (Fingal County Council)'} {'name': 'Jimmy Guerin', 'role': 'Councillor (Fingal County Council)'} {'name': 'David Healy', 'role': 'Councillor (Fingal County Council)'} {'name': 'Adrian Henchy', 'role': 'Councillor (Fingal County Council)'} {'name': 'Ted Leddy', 'role': 'Councillor (Fingal County Council)'} + 46 more

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] invite to a joint protest with IPSC outside Leinster House Monday 19 September to end Israel's apartheid

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Patrick Costello', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 6 more

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Trade] Letter re Ireland's support for extension of WTO TRIPS Decision to Covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostics

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Maurice Quinlivan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Communications on foot of Cathaoirleach of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement agreeing to a meeting with Amnesty UK on the UK Government's Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill and its plans around the Human Rights Act:

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Fergus O'Dowd", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Letter re possible international treaty to control trade in goods that could be used for torture/ill-treatment and the death penalty

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Communication in advance of EU-Israel Association Council, and sending a copy of Amnesty International's European Institutions Office letter to EU High Representative and EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs on this issue

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Invitation to proposed briefing from Amnesty’s Campaigner on Iran, Nassim Papayianni, for Oireachtas members

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'The proposed briefing did not take place'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Email Notifying some interested TDs and Senators of the launch of the Irish Anti Apartheid Coalition for Palestine

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paul Gavan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Vincent P Martin', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Barry Ward', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Garrett Ahern', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Maria Byrne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Micheál Carrigy', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 23 more

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Health] Letter conveying Amnesty International’s recommendations to states ahead of negotiations on the conceptual zero draft of an international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, and the briefing document to which it refers.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Seán Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Loss and Damage Finance Agenda Item for the COP27 Climate Conference: communication in advance of September informal UNFCCC Heads of Delegation meeting in Cairo,

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Communication with Taoiseach's office following up Amnesty International's Secretary General's request to meet Taoiseach at COP27

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Joint letter on remote access to education needs of children in Direct Provision during lockdown and school closures

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Children and Youth Affairs] Joint letter with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties re Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Letter All TDs', 'role': 'Letter conveyed by email'}

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Communication re arbitrary pre-trial detention of Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirtas In Turkey

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Amnesty International Ireland

January–April

[Children and Youth Affairs] Letter re final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}

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