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The Network is the successor to The International Human Rights Trust
established as a charity in 1996 by Karen Kenny and Brian McKeown. The
work of IHRT was carried out under the guidance of a Board of Trustees
with Noeline Blackwell (Chair), David Begg, Brian McKeown, Grahame Morphey while Harry McKeon
served as Honorary Treasurer. The principles developed through the
Trust’s work are the foundation of those which the Network continues to
develop and advocate.
Brian McKeown served as co-founder
and Trustee of the International Human Rights Trust and as an
independent advisor until his retirement in 2003. He had previously
served as Director of Trocaire, the Irish international development
agency for twenty-one years. During this period he worked on
development issues in Asia, Africa and South America. He was President
of the European Union Development NGOs Liaison Committee, a member of
the (then) Irish Government’s Advisory Council on Development as well
as Chair of the Confederation of Irish Development Organisations. He
was a founder and Trustee of the Association of West European
Parliamentarians for Southern Africa (AWEPA)- African European
Institute. In 1995 he was appointed the European Union's Co-ordinator
for the UN Human Rights Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR).
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