Promote human rights

AS the Labour Party and Fine Gael meet to negotiate a Programme for Government, it might be timely to remind them of one area where the two parties would seem to agree: the need for Ireland’s foreign policy to be based on human rights.

All major parties in the previous Dáil supported a foreign policy that promotes human rights. The next Government can build on this consensus, and develop a truly rights-based foreign policy. Ireland can send out a strong signal to the world that it is serious about investing in international cooperation and that the new, stronger Ireland we intend to build will be one that delivers on its core principles.

Hans Zomer

Dóchas

12 Harcourt Street

Dublin 2