Ireland fails to sign UN treaty on renditions

[struggle4progress]

By Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent

IRELAND has put off signing a UN treaty that bans governments carrying out forced disappearances and jailing people in secret ...

Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain have also refused to sign.

They have all been associated with the CIA’s kidnapping of terror suspects and with Ireland will be named in a European Parliament report tomorrow.

The Irish Government was criticised in the parliament yesterday for not signing the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances immediately having been involved in negotiations on it over the past four years ...

http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=25337-qqqx=1.asp

[HappyWeasel]

1. ...and why am I not surprised? I wonder what the US did? Lol.

[LynnTheDem]

2. One of the excuses George W. bUsh used for invading Iraq.

But it's ok when we (and our allies) do it.

So why does the world think we're dirty little hypocrites, anyway???

[countmyvote4real]

3. I guess the taint is retroactive. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. 57 states have signed it

http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=4011

though the presence of Algeria there makes me wonder how much it's really worth. They're pretty bad at taking people without charge, and torturing them.

[Solly Mack]

5. Figured as much

complicity is such an ugly thing...

[HMonk]

6. No surprise here, back in 2005 a treaty was signed...

...that "allow US secret service agents the right to act as they see fit in their ‘war on terror’".

See the second article on this page.

www.32csm.org/statements2005.html

From the Irish Examiner.

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2005/07/21/story463216798.asp

The treaty gives the CIA rights over Irish citizens, but if they seemingly have such little regard for their own why would they do anything in respect to foreign nationals?

[struggle4progress]

7. Thanks for the links!

And welcome to DU! :toast: