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    2013 - European Year of Citizens

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    Press release |

    Boardroom quotas for women

    A draft European Commission proposal aimed at introducing a binding EU quota for the representation of women on executive boards, which is anticipated to be presented tomorrow, received a major boost with cross-political endorsement from the EPP, S&D, ALDE, Greens/EFA and GUE/NGL groups.  C...
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    Iran - death penalty

    According to official reports, ten prisoners were executed by hanging in the early hours of Monday, 22 October, in Teheran. The executions were initially scheduled for 11 October - one day after the World Day against the Death Penalty - but postponed following international outcr...
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    Strasbourg Flash

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Strasbourg Plenary include the EU budget 2013, the future financing 2014-2020, the rules on data retention, the issue of the single seat of the European Parliament, the EU economic governance, the decision on the Sakharov Prize winner...
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    Press release |

    Belarus

    Commenting on the outcome of today's council of EU foreign ministers and their conclusions on Belarus, Green foreign affairs spokesperson Werner Schulz said:"The failure by EU foreign ministers to expand sanctions in Belarus is a source of regret. Targeted sanctions against individual firms and...
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    News |

    Bail out countries hit by water privateers

    The EU is supposed to take a neutral position on the issue of water privatisation, but the European Commission seems to have forgotten this.  As part of the Troika, it has been pushing for the large scale privatisation of public services in Greece and Portugal, including water utilities, as p...
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    Event |

    Libya - The Hounding of Migrants Must Stop

    WATCH THE EVENT LIVELivestreaming of the press conference Thursday 11 October 10:30-11:00 Franziska Brantner MEP (Greens-EFA) and The International Federation for Human Rights - FIDH invite you to a press conference/launch of report "Libya: The Hounding of Migrants Must Stop" The repo...
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    News |

    Land-grabbing in Hungary

    State-owned land is being swallowed up in Hungary by corporations while farmers are prevented from creating a livelihood for themselves and their communities, delegates heard last week in Budapest. Green MEP Jose Bové attended the "Land for Local Famers" conference co-sponsored by Greens/...
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    Feminicide has reached "alarming proportions"

    UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo honours a terrible fact in her latest report "Gender-related killings of women": more and more women are killed around the world, just because they are women. The vast majority of these crimes take place with absolute impunity, which many observers con...
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    Human rights in Mexico Diary

    Saturday 6th October "Migrant Hub" A large number of people are migrating from Central American countries to the USA due to the catastrophic situation in their home countries. One possibility to cross Mexico is to jump on cargo trains. In the North of Mexico City many railroads converge ...