High-Level Human Rights Meetings in Washington DC

In December 2010, ICCL representatives held high-level human rights meetings in Washington DC.  On 16 December, ICCL Director Mark Kelly met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of a delegation of the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations (INCLO). On the following day, he and Karen Ciesielski of the ICCL’s Organisational Development Team met privately with Ms Samantha Power, Special Assistant to President Obama for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights.   

Mr Kelly gave Ms Clinton and her senior officials a written note  highlighting key human rights concerns that the ICCL would like see raised by the US Department of State bilaterally with the Department of Foreign Affairs, and at the United Nations in Geneva.  A note raising the same issues was given to Ms Power on the following day.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, working with its partners in the Universal Periodic Review Cross-Sectoral Steering Group (CS-SG) will be encouraging representatives of a number of other well-disposed nations to ask questions about Ireland’s human rights record during its Universal Periodic Review  at the United Nations in November 2011.