Russia: Ildar Dadin prisoner of conscience
The alleged torture and detention of Ildar Dadin, prisoner of conscience in Russia MEPs express serious concern about the welfare of Mr Ildar Dadin, an activist who is [...]
Human Rights
EU-Turkey: adieu, membership!
Anna van Densky, OPINION A long journey of Turkey to the European Union clearly came to a halt – in the European Parliament’s plenary there were just a few MEPs [...]
Saudi Arabia, a low step forward for women #saudiarabia #equality #elections #women
Timid steps toward gender equality – or at least the acquisition of some public role by women – are being made in Saudi Arabia, the ultra-conservative [...]
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #EU #EUcommission #women #humanrights
In view of today’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, members of the European Commission including Federica Mogherini, Vice-President of [...]
Saudi Arabia, 100 executions in 6 months #executions #humanrights #SaudiArabia
During the first semester of 2015, Saudi Arabia has double the number of executions compared with those ocurred throughout last year. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced [...]
Declaration of Vice-President of the Commission Federica Mogherini on Water Day
On the occasion of World Water Day, the European Union recalls that safe drinking water and sanitation are crucial for a healthy and dignified life. And yet, over 750 million [...]
Committee of Ministers in the Council of Europe to examine implementation of human rights judgments
STRASBOURG The representatives of the 47 member States of the Council of Europe will examine the implementation of judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human [...]
Malaysia Airlines. UN: “Shooting down of Boeing may be a war crime”
After the meeting with the Minister of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs, Pavlo Klimkim, during a press conference in Washington, the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, told [...]
ISRAEL JOINS HUMAN RIGHTS UN COORDINATING GROUP AND BECOMES OBSERVER STATE IN THE PACIFIC ALLIANCE
Israel this week participated for the first time in one of the core coordinating groups focused on human rights and social policy at the United Nations in New York. Israel [...]
300 DEMONSTRATORS AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA IN RUSSIA
Three hundred people gathered today at the Rond -Point Schuman in Brussels to protest against Vladimir Putin, President of Russia . The 32th EU-Russia summit , which starts [...]
AGREEMENT EU-GEORGIA SIGNED IN TBILISSI
The European Union supports Georgia with a new € 16 million programme on Border Management and Migration. On Thursday 11 June, 2013 the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and [...]
EU INVESTS MORE IN HUMAN RIGHTS
European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs has announced the EU will respond to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s urgent appeal to invest [...]
TO REMEMBER RWANDA’S GENOCIDE
A message of Ban-Ki-Moon, UN secretary general “On the nineteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, we remember the more than 800,000 innocent people who lost [...]
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER: A NEW POPE, NEW HOPES
The cardinals were very quick in choosing a new pope: an experimented argentinian jesuit of 76 known for his sense of simplicity: the new pope François. The choice of a [...]
THE POPE RESIGNS
FEB.11.2013- Pope Benedictus XVI announced his resignation this morning. The announcement arrived as a totally unexpected news for the whole world. Pope Benedictus XVI was [...]
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