“The measures taken yesterday against three Members of Parliament of the eoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) , including both of its Co-Chairs, further add to the concerns expressed both following the Turkish Grand National Assembly’s adoption last May of a law allowing the immunity of a large number of deputies to be lifted as well as…
Category: Human Rights
Russia: Dadin set free
Russia’s supreme court has overturned the conviction of peaceful dissident Ildar Dadin. The court ordered the 34-year-old immediately released from custody. In 2015, Dadin was the first person to be convicted under strict new laws regulating anti-government demonstrations. Under the statute, violating protest rules more than twice in a 180-day period became a felony….
Europol: Pakistani traffickers face justice
Law enforcement authorities of Germany, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia, in strong cooperation with Europol’s European Migrant Smuggling Centre, have dismantled an organised crime group that arranged smuggling of migrants from Hungary to Italy. Coordinated investigations revealed that members of the smuggling network were Pakistani citizens who formed their criminal enterprise in Italy. More than…
EU aid to South Sudan famine
Today the European Commission has announced an emergency aid package worth €82 million as famine has been declared in South Sudan for the first time since the country gained independence in 2011. One hundred thousand people are facing starvation in parts of the country while 40 per cent of the population (4.9 million people)…
Marine Le Pen rejects to wear veil
Today Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate for France’s National Front party, canceled a meeting with Lebanon’s Grand Mufti after refusing to wear a headscarf. “You can pass on my respects to the Grand Mufti, but I will not cover myself up,” Le Pen said to reporters, explaining the reason of the cancellation. The press office…
Bill Gates pays visit to EU
“We shared, I think, the assessment of the fact that the best way of building security for our own citizens is investing in development in the rest of the world,” said EU top diplomat Federcia Mogherini. Development outside the EU is the best investment for Europeans in their own security and stability continued Mogherini, following…
Diplomacy of submission
Anna van Densky OPINION Bending heads with veils on their heads Swedish ministers pass by triumphant Rouhani, without shaking hands. It is not a Hollywood fiction – in an attempt to strike lucrative deals the Swedish feminist government sacrificed their convictions, and accepted the religious outfits and submissive conduct. A great victory of The Prophet…
EU against child-soldier practise
Ahead of the International Day against the use of child soldiers – 12 February -the EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini and the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, pledge to intensify their efforts to end the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict. BBCAfrica: UN alarm at al-Shabab child soldiers…
UK child refugee limit
Britain’s Conservative government has placed a limit on the number of lone child refugees it will accept into the country, citing fears that people traffickers were exploiting the system. About 350 children will be allowed in – far fewer than the 3,000 originally expected under the law that had been aimed at helping some…
Kenya: world biggest refugee camp to stay
Refugees, aid workers and rights groups have welcomed a Kenyan court ruling blocking the government’s decision to close the world’s largest refugee camp and return more than 200,000 Somalians to their war-stricken homeland. Ministers had acted beyond their powers by ordering the closure of the sprawling Dadaab facility, ruled the judge John Mativo. The government’s…
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