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    This week in the EP committees

    Human rights will be one of several high points on the agenda as the European Parliament's committees meet from 28 September to 2 October. Nominations will be presented for the EP's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and a public hearing will put a spotlight on the situation in Russia. Other points of interest include a vote on road tr…
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    Killings of human rights defenders in Russia

    Greens/EFA call on the Russian authorities to put an end to the ongoing and widespread impunity for violence against human rights defenders and to protect and guarantee the physical integrity of human rights defenders in conformity with relevant international and regional human rights instruments.
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    Syria - the case of Muhannad Al Hassani

    Tabled by Hélène Flautre, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Frieda BrepoelsOn behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, - having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948;- having regard to the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders of 1998;- having regard to the Inte...
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    Kazakhstan - The case of Yevgeni Zhovtis

    Tabled by Heidi Hautala and Bart Staeson behalf of the Green/EFA Group The European Parliament, having regard to its previous resolutions on Kazakhstan and the Central Asia Republics,having regard to its resolution on a EU Strategy for Central Asia of 20 February 2008,having regard to the Partnershi...
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    SWIFT - making available financial payment messaging data to prevent and combat terrorism and terrorist financing

    Motion for a resolution on the envisaged international agreement to make available to the United States Treasury Department financial payment messaging data to prevent and combat terrorism and terrorist financing Tabled by Raul Romeva and Jan AlbrechtOn behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Pa...
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    Greens/EFA Group demands for the next EU Commission

    This autumn will see the launch of a new five-year mandate for the European Commission and its chosen President. Europe needs the Commission to play a vital role as it responds to the triple economic, social and environmental crisis. The Greens/EFA Group have outlined essential considerations for the new Commission.
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    Telecoms package

    The key disagreement between Parliament and Council in 2nd reading concerned the role of the judiciary in the Telecoms Package. A third reading gives the opportunity, and responsibility, to the new Parliament to excercise its codecision power to ensure necessary goals are met.
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    Russia - human rights

    Greens/EFA MEPs were today shocked by the news of the brutal murder of Russian human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who had close relations with the parliamentary group. Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit commented: "We deplore the cowardly murder of the exceptio...
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    Pirate Party

    Following negotiations, the Greens/EFA Group and the Swedish 'Pirate Party' have confirmed that elected Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström will join the Greens/EFA Group for the upcoming European Parliament legislature.
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    Iran: Shirin Ebadi addresses Greens/EFA Group

    Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi today addressed members of the new Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, underlining the right of the Iranian people to protest peacefully.