Moratorium on death penalty

Greens/EFA motion for a resolution

In the context of the recent execution of Saddam Hussein and other important personalities of the former Iraq dictatorship, Greens/EFA reaffirm their longstanding position against the death penalty in all cases and under all circumstances ...

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Human rights20.10.2006

Promoting human rights

Greens play a key role

Thanks to the work of the Green presidency, the subcommittee is increasingly playing an expert role on human rights and democracy, providing input to reports from the Foreign Affairs committee, mainstreaming human rights issues throughout Parliament bodies and creating a platform for permanent dialogue with civil society representatives

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Human rights20.10.2006

Freedom of expression

The Sakharov Prize is a symbol of Parliament's commitment

Over the years, Greens have very often supported candidates who also supported environmental progress in their fight for fundamental rights. Our fight for the cyber-dissidents from China, Iran and Tunisia in 2005 resulted in a resolution on the freedom of expression on the internet. What about 2006 ?

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Human rights20.10.2006

Illegal detention of prisoners in Europe

Temporary committee on CIA activities

Many suspicions have recently been confirmed by the recent statement made by George Bush admitting the existence of secret detention centres operated by US services. The main task of the committee now is to check whether such centres have actually been operated in the EU but it is particularly difficult to find the truth

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Human rights20.10.2006

Human rights in the world

Report and resolutions

The European Parliament issues an annual report on human rights and democracy in the world and adopts every month resolutions cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

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Human rights19.10.2006

European Union - Copyright: Alexander Briel

Human rights and democracy clause in EU agreements

Greens pushed for first initiative report

The Greens have worked for years on the implementation of the human rights and democracy clause in EU agreements. Since the adoption of the report, when negotiating with countries with poor record of human rights, the inclusion of a human rights clause and a special monitoring mechanism is part of the discussion

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