MEPs commemorated the 1941 deportations from the Baltic states during a statement from president European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek on 6 June 2011.
14 June marks the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of thousands of people who were exiled to Siberia during Soviet rule.
More than 30,000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were sent to prison camps under the orders of Joseph Stalin....
See more of text and video report here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/europe/newsid_9502000/9502920.stm
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Rest In Peace, dear doctor!
Jack Kevorkian, the controversial American doctor who claimed to have assisted more than 100 suicides, has died aged 83.
To his critics, he was Dr Death. To other detractors, Jack the Dripper.
Kevorkian was given plenty of nicknames after receiving international attention in the 1990s, throughout which he waged a defiant campaign to help people end their lives.
But to his supporters, he became the poster boy for legislative reform....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13649381
To his critics, he was Dr Death. To other detractors, Jack the Dripper.
Kevorkian was given plenty of nicknames after receiving international attention in the 1990s, throughout which he waged a defiant campaign to help people end their lives.
But to his supporters, he became the poster boy for legislative reform....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13649381
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Russia: No Democracy if Constitutions are violated. The Rule of Law is essential for the right to life.
05/31/2011
Statement of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty
On 31 May 2011, the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty together with the members of ANNAVIVA held a demostration in Rome in solidarity with the Russian activitsts of Strategy 31, who, for two years now, have gathered, or sought to gather, in the centre of Moscow, in Triumfalnaya Square, and outside Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg on the 31st of each month that has 31 days to highlight Art. 31 of the Russian Constitution, which protects the right to freedom of assembly.
Read more:
http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/russia-no-democracy-if-constitutions-are-violated-rule-law-essential-right-life
Statement of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty
On 31 May 2011, the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty together with the members of ANNAVIVA held a demostration in Rome in solidarity with the Russian activitsts of Strategy 31, who, for two years now, have gathered, or sought to gather, in the centre of Moscow, in Triumfalnaya Square, and outside Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg on the 31st of each month that has 31 days to highlight Art. 31 of the Russian Constitution, which protects the right to freedom of assembly.
Read more:
http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/russia-no-democracy-if-constitutions-are-violated-rule-law-essential-right-life
Sunday, May 29, 2011
General Mladić arrested: triumph of justice over violence.
“No Peace Without Justice and the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty herald today’s arrest of General Ratko Mladić as a victory for justice and a critical step in the healing of the former Yugoslavia. Nearly sixteen years ago, Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladić executed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys and forced another 25,000 women, children and elderly people to leave their homes. The massacre was found to constitute genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2004, a finding reaffirmed by the International Court of Justice in 2007...
More:
http://www.npwj.org/ICC/General-Mladi%C4%87-arrested-triumph-justice-over-violence.html
More:
http://www.npwj.org/ICC/General-Mladi%C4%87-arrested-triumph-justice-over-violence.html
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