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Ireland to Join Leading International Astronomy Collaboration
29 Jun 2017; posted by the editor - Science, Technology, Ireland

Ireland is joining the International LOFAR Telescope collaboration following the signing of a funding agreement between the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and Trinity College Dublin to enable Ireland to join the collaboration. The agreement was signed on behalf of Trinity College Dublin by the Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Dr Patrick Prendergast.

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Congress, Amartya Sen, and the Saudi-Imposed Famine in Yemen
26 Jun 2017; posted by the editor - United States, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

By Robert Naiman, Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy
The development economist Amartya Sen famously asserted that famines do not occur in democracies. ‘’No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,’’ he wrote, because democratic governments ‘’have to win elections and face public criticism, and have strong incentive to undertake measures to avert famines and other catastrophes.’’

Tags: Yemen blockade

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Judicial Commission of Inquiry Into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse
23 Jun 2017; posted by the editor - Human Rights, International

click to enlarge Two years have passed since the Inauguration and Ceremonial Seating of the International Tribunal for Natural Justice on 15th June 2015 at Westminster Hall in London. The event marked the momentous occasion of the 800th anniversary of the signing of the western world’s most ancient and cherished legal treasure, the Magna Carta.

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Masked men with machetes and knives attack four media outlets
19 Jun 2017; posted by the editor - Journalism, Gabon

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores the simultaneous attacks that masked men armed with machetes and knives launched against four radio and TV stations in Gabon’s capital, Libreville, on 16 June in an attempt to get them to broadcast a threatening video message by a former presidential candidate.

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Ireland elected to Government Body of International Labour Organisation
15 Jun 2017; posted by the editor - International, Ireland

Ireland has been elected to the Government Body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as a full member in Geneva for a three year term. It is the first time Ireland has been a full member of the Governing Body of the ILO since joining the Organisation in 1923.

Tags: International Labour Organisation

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Corbynize This Trumped Up World
02 Jun 2017; posted by the editor - Opinion

By David Swanson
Making Jeremy Corbyn the Prime Minister of the U.K. would do more for the world and everyone in it than either of the two available outcomes of any recent U.S. election could have done. Here in the U.S. I always protest that I am not against elections, I think we should have one some day. Well, now we have one - only it's across the pond.

Tags: Jeremy Corbyn

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UK government pushes for companies to weaken encryption
01 Jun 2017; posted by the editor - Journalism, Internet news, United Kingdom

by Pam Cowburn, EDRi member Open Rights Group, the United Kingdom
The terrorist attack in Manchester on 22 May has led to a relaunch of the encryption debate in the UK.

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Irish police phone tapping undermines citizens' rights
01 Jun 2017; posted by the editor - Human Rights, Ireland

by Zarja Protner, EDRi intern
An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force has fallen, yet again, under public scrutiny for privacy violations of innocent citizens. An investigation by the Irish Independent newspaper has found that members of the public had their phones tapped without proper justification.

Tags: phone tapping

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