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12/22/2011 Hurriyet Daily News Emma Bonino, Howard Dean, Ana Palacio The West’s choice

An indispensable member of NATO and an EU accession candidate, Turkey shatters the notion that liberal democracy and western values are at odds with Islam. Yet, Turkey today presents us with a puzzle.

11/27/2011 Alwefaq - Media Center Al-Wefaq: International umbrella essential for rebuilding trust

BICI report soul implicates government removal is only way forward

In a statement issued on 27 Nov 2011, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society has commented on outstanding political developments in the light of realities exposed in the report of Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI). The society stressed that the report in its entirety depicts a comprehensive humanitarian and political picture of those calling for democratic reforms. To its credit, the report provides a chilling description of everyday fact in the kingdom of Bahrain.

09/28/2011 Other News Emma Bonino Middle East: farewell to dictatorships and the death penalty

The approval by the UN General Assembly in December 2007 of the Resolution for a Universal Moratorium against Capital Punishment was a fundamental step forward not only for the anti-death penalty campaign but also for the affirmation of the rule of law and of those natural rights historically won and often written into national law but not always respected.

 

05/12/2011 The Witness Mario GR Oriani-Ambrosini Toothless lapdog

DEAR Human Rights Commission,

My widely reported statement that you are "meek, weak and largely a waste of money" demands a public explanation for those who could not hear it in the justice committee conference, hence this open letter.

Four years ago the ad hoc parliamentary­ committee, led by Professor Kadar Asmal, produced a report showing how you have misunderstood your role and served too much as an adviser to the government­, rather than the potential­ antagonist to the government that our Constitution wants you to be.

02/09/2011 The Tibet Post No Chinese SIMs Found- Italian MP Visits Gyalwa Karmapa

 Dharamshala: The Karmapa Office of Administration has released a statement on Monday (7 February) expressing its immense gratitude to those who have shown their unwavering support for the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Rinpoche both within India and from around the world. The statement comes after Matteo Mecacci, a member of the Italian Parliament, paid a personal visit to the Karmapa yesterday at his residence in Dharamshala to show his support.

02/04/2011 Financial Times Emma Bonino, Anthony Dworkin EUROPE MUST STAND BEHIND EGYPT'S DEMOCRATS

 As Europeans see the images of popular unrest in north Africa, it is hard not to be reminded of the democratic uprisings in eastern Europe of 1989. But the reaction of the European Union has lacked the passion and excitement of that earlier moment. In the Mediterranean, the EU has long followed a strategy of betting on authoritarian regimes to maintain stability and protect Europe’s security, while maintaining a façade of concern for democracy and human rights.

12/16/2010 The Guardian Hélène Mulholland Legalise drugs, says former defence secretary

Bob Ainsworth describes war on drugs as 'nothing short of a disaster' and calls on government to look at other options

A former Labour minister was rebuked by Ed Miliband's office today after calling for a "grown-up debate" to consider legalising drugs on the grounds that prohibition has failed to protect the public.

12/10/2010 www.euractiv.com Emma Bonino The euro will only be saved if Europe exists

Political unity in Europe is essential in order to rid the financial markets of doubt and stabilise the single currency writes Emma Bonino, vice-president of the Italian Senate, former European commissioner and former MEP.
The following contribution was authored by Emma Bonino, vice-president of the Italian Senate, former EU commissioner responsible among others for consumer policy and a former MEP.

11/04/2010 http://charter97.org/ Italian Senate passes a motion on human rights in Belarus

 

The motion, submitted by the Senators of the Nonviolent Radical Party, commits the Italian Government to promote human rights in Belarus at the European level.

 

10/01/2010 The Guardian Richard Norton-Taylor Blair's case for Iraq invasion was self-serving, lawyers tell Chilcot inquiry

 

The Blair government undermined the UN, bowed to US political pressure and relied on self-serving arguments to justify its decision to invade Iraq, according to evidence to the Chilcot inquiry by international lawyers.

 

A key theme of the evidence, yet to be published, is that the government weakened the UN, damaging the country's reputation in the process – arguments made by Ed Miliband in his inaugural speech to the Labour conference.

09/29/2010 La Discussione The Parliament inquires into Iraq war

The matter at issue
Marco Pannella has asked for the institution of an Iraq war Commission.
«I address an appeal to the government and the oppositions too, but first of all to the top State’s authorities, thence to the Parliament too , because – as in Great Britain and in the United States has been done , it will possible to set in Italy a Commission or , at least, an official inquiry about the behave of our Country on the previous Iraq war affair» said in a Radio Radicale interview.

09/20/2010 Unpo South African Parliament Discusses Tibet

South African MPs brought the 50th anniversary of Tibetan Democracy in exile to the attention of the parliament and issued an invitation to the Dalai Lama to visit the country. Freedom Front Plus MP Corné Mulder called on the ANC government to recognise Tibet as an autonomous region and to help find a solution to human rights abuses.

07/06/2010 International Federation for Human Rights KAZAKHSTAN: Solidarity visit of detained human rights defender Evgeny Zhovtis

 

05/13/2010 World Movement OSCE Representative Meets with Yevgeniy Zhovtis

On May 13, Matteo Mecacci, a senior member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly's (OSCEPA) committee on human rights and World Movement participant, met with Kazakh human rights advocate and World Movement Steering Committee member Yevgeny Zhovtis, who is currently serving a four-year sentence in a prison colony in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan. Mr. Zhovtis was sentenced to four years in prison following a fatal traffic accident last year.

05/08/2010 Montagnard Foundation Security Forces Cut Phone Calls Reporting Human Rights Violations from Central Highlands

Is this the building that houses the cell phone equipment bought by Vietnam? This photo is reportedly the building in Saigon (left) where the Vietnamese security official’s house mobile cell phone monitoring equipment bought from US and UK companies.

03/15/2010 The Guardian Andrew Sparrow Legalise heroin, says former Downing Street strategy chief

 Legalisation could cut drug-related crime by up to 60%, says former policy adviser to Tony Blair

03/11/2010 The Guardian Marco Perduca Up in arms over Brown and Iraq

In his testimony before the Chilcot inquiry, Gordon Brown said he was not privy to crucial information concerning the buildup to the war. Clare Short told the inquiry that at the beginning of 2003 several Arab countries were negotiating exile with Saddam Hussein. The right question to ask those who will be heard should be: how would have you reacted had you known that there was a way, such as Saddam's exile, to avoid a war? The entire truth needs to emerge or we will have missed an opportunity to restore the west's credibility in the promotion of human rights and democracy.

11/19/2009 Montagnar Foundation Kok Ksor Montagnard Foundation Addresses the Italian Parliament: Help Needed to Stop Vietnam's Ethnic Cleansing Against the Degar Montagnard People

STATEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, ROME, ITALY: NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Firstly, I would like to express my deep appreciation to the Honorable Matteo Mecacci, Member of Parliament, for the invitation to speak here today on behalf of the indigenous Degar people known also as Montagnards.

11/15/2009 Corriere della Sera Emma Bonino Tre strade per cambiare la rotta dell'Europa

Europe is proud of its soft power. A pride which, to a great extent, is justified by the return within the European family of people separated for half a century by an iron curtain, by the worthy humanitarian aid provided by the European Union in many critical points all over the planet, and by the determination in promoting multilateral cooperation as a means for conflict resolution.

11/06/2009 Corriere della Sera Emma Bonino, Marta Dassù EU-US Relations and a bet on an economic G3

Last Tuesday the US-EU Summit was held in Washington : no one, or hardly anyone noticed it. On the other hand, everyone knows well in advance that in a few days' time Barack Obama will visit China. In the midst of this oversight and attention, international relations over the past few years is slipping the balance of power away from transatlantic relations towards a transpacific axis, meaning the G2.

11/03/2009 Mouvement Lao pour les Droits de l’Homme New attempt for a pacific protest in Vientiane : More than 300 arrests

More than 300 persons, who wre preparing for a pacific protest in Vientiane to call for ''human rights respect'' and a ''multipartite system'' were arrested on Monday 2 November 2009 by the ''secret police'' of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), according to informations received today by the Lao Movement for Human Rights (MLDH).

10/12/2009 Viasna They wanted me to confess for more cases, but I said they should stop earning points on me

A short frail man, looking quite pitifully, was sitting behind the bars in the court hall. What he was saying was sometimes not very understandable. His words showed that he sometimes did not understand well enough what was going on around him.

That’s they way Vasil Yuzepchuk could be seen by those who attended the sitting of the Supreme Court. At present this 30-year-old man is kept in Minsk pre-trial prison, waiting for being executed, as his death verdict is a judgment at law already.

09/25/2009 The Independent David McNeill I spent 34 years on Japan's death row
September 15, 2009: When his body isn't groaning under the weight of its 83 years, and the sun is shining over his native Kyushu in southern Japan, Sakae Menda sometimes forgets the ordeal he suffered and knows he is lucky to be alive. But most days, there is no forgetting that the Japanese state stole 34 years of his life as retribution for a crime that he didn't commit, nor that he thought every one of those 12,410 days would be his last.
08/17/2009 Washington Post Peter Moskos, Stanford « Neill » Franklin It’s Time to Legalize Drugs: parola del Washington Post

Da un articolo del Washington Post - Undercover Baltimore police officer Dante Arthur was doing what he does well, arresting drug dealers, when he approached a group in January. What he didn’t know was that one of suspects knew from a previous arrest that Arthur was police. Arthur was shot twice in the face. In the gunfight that ensued, Arthur’s partner returned fire and shot one of the suspects, three of whom were later arrested.

12/26/2008 Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affair MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS' SPOKESMAN MR.LE DZUNG ANSWERS QUESTION ON 25 DECEMBER 2008
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS' SPOKESMAN MR.LE DZUNG
ANSWERS QUESTION ON 25 DECEMBER 2008

Question: Why two members of the Italian Transnational Radical Party were unable to come to Vietnam?

Answer:
It was a bussiness