“A wake-up call to Irish industry.” This is how Professor Mary Lee Rhodes, joint director of the Trinity Centre for Social Innovation, described the findings of a new report on the human rights performance of big business from the prestige university.  Launched in mid-January, the report’s findings make for stark reading.  The team behind the study, which includes Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, found that over half of the 50 largest public companies in the Irish economy scored low by the study’s criteria based on UN human rights guidelines.  The low scoring points to an…

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