The human rights group, Amnesty International, has accused the Irish government of complacency over its failure to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into Irish law. Publishing its annual report this morning, the group also criticised the fact that there was still no independent Garda complaints procedure.
The Irish government does not seem to be taking these and other issues seriously enough, according to Amnesty International. Among the criticisms levelled at the Government is a failure to fully address growing levels of racism here, gaps in relation to the asylum process, and a failure to make the European Convention on Human Rights part of domestic law.
The Director of Amnesty's Irish section, Sean Love, also blamed complacency for the continuing failure to set up an independent Garda complaints procedure.
On the international front the group has warned that a number of governments, notably that of the United States, have used the events of 11 September as an excuse to step up repression and undermine human rights.
