Amnesty International Ireland

Total Lobbying Efforts: 375

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2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: That the Government make the strongest possible representations and interventions in case of two Irish citizens resident in Germany issued with deportation orders in connection with their protesting against Israel’s atrocity crimes in Gaza
Methods: Letter, Email
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Letter calling on Government to make strong representations and interventions in case of two Irish citizens resident in Germany issued with deportation orders in connection with their protesting against Israel’s atrocity crimes in Gaza
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Call on Taoiseach to demand that Benjamin Netanyahu is arrested and surrendered to The Hague for trial when he visits the USA, and for all EU states to refuse to allow Netanyahu fly through their sovereign or EU airspace to the extent they have the ability to deny such overflight permission
Methods: Social Media
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Online petition to Taoiseach calling on him to demand that Benjamin Netanyahu be arrested and surrendered to The Hague for trial when he visits the USA
and for all EU states to refuse to allow Netanyahu to fly through their sovereign or EU airspace to the extent they have the ability to deny such overflight permission
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice
Intent: Call on Ireland (as well as EU and other member states) to take decisive action in response to the US's announced sanctions against the ICC and the broader trend of non-cooperation with the Court by EU member states
Methods: Email
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Email sharing joint NGO statement signed by 58 organisations including Amnesty International
calling on EU and its member states to take decisive action in response to the US's announced sanctions against the ICC and the broader trend of non-cooperation with the Court by EU member states
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Request Ireland to urgently and publicly call on Hungary to immediately arrest and surrender Prime Minister Netanyahu should he set foot in its jurisdiction, or to rescind the invitation
Methods: Letter, Email
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Letter regarding Hungary's inviting Prime Minister of Israel to Europe while the subject of ICC arrest warrant
together with copy of Amnesty Secretary General's open letter of 1 April to the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute on this mattter
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: To secure a meeting with each to discuss what Ireland can do, including in coordination with other like-minded states, to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the worsening crisis in rest of Occupied Palestinian Territory
Methods: Letter, Email
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Separate letter to each seeking a meeting on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and worsening crisis in rest of Occupied Palestinian Territory
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: Recommend  to Ireland some clear asks for the EU to present to its Israeli counterparts to remedy Israel’s grave violations of international law, and to apply effective pressure on Israel to bring them to an end
Methods: Letter, Email
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Sharing letter sent to EU HR/VP Kallas and Foreign Affairs Ministers by our European Institutions Office Director ahead of EU-Israel Association Council meeting
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: Seek meeting in new role as Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to discuss catastrophic situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and Gaza in particular
Methods: Letter, Email
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Letter seeking meeting on the situation in Gaza and rest of Occupied Palestinian Territory
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Seek meeting in new role as Taoiseach to discuss the catastrophic situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and Gaza in particular
Methods: Letter, Email
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Letter seeking meeting on the situation in Gaza and rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications
Intent: Urge  action by Ireland to ensure Council of Europe legal recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Methods: Letter, Submission, Email
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Letter in advance of Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers’ decision on the need for
and feasibility of
a further instrument or instruments in the field of human rights and the environment
2025-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: Urge full participation of Irish officials at the Alliance meeting, and that it agree next steps for 2025 in advancing work towards a Torture-Free Trade Treaty
Methods: Email
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Sending details of a meeting of states which are fellow members of the?Alliance for Torture-Free Trade?