P. 1/7 Gva1030 P

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

P. 1/7 Gva1030 P Ub'hB +4122 9170618 CODE CABLE RIZA, UNATIONS, NEW YORK 4 APR 14 1625 CC: PRENDERGAST, UNATIONS, NEW YORK RAM0HARAN, OHCHR, NEW YORK lit *—s"f -~ FROM: RAMCHARAN, OHCHR, GENEVA DATE: 14 APRIL 2004 GVAi030 NUMBER: SUBJECT: PRESENTATION FROM MRS. BONINO 1, In his recent address to the Commission, the Secretary-General emphasized the importance of responding urgently to situations where there is a serious threat of mass killings. In this regard please see attached a letter I received today from Mrs. Emma Bonino on the risks of mass violajions of Jmman rights in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. I have sent an immediate acknowledgement to Mrs. Bonino which is attached. As you will see from it I have begun by bringing the content of the letter to the relevant Special Rapporteurs. 2. We shall need to do more than this and I would appreciate the recommendations of DPA on how we might deal with this letter. "" Best regards. ;£></> ^3: o P. 1/7 GVA1030 P. 2/7 PARLAMENTO EUROPEO cortesoattenzione dl: (To the attention of) Da parfe di: (From) Tbte/e pagine (tnclusa fa presents): (Total pages - including this) Data; (Date) Messaggio: (Message) So la trasmis*ione * Utegglbifo VI preghfamo di contatfara D s«guente num*ro: (If the transmission is faulty please contact the following number)(+39) 06.689791 GV/U030 CT;ST SVH i-o, MR. ^m 15:^ UN OSbB +4122 9170618 ^59':70 P. 3/7 PARLAMENTO EUROPIO DEPUTATO AX, PAKLAMENIO EU&OPBO HON. EMMA BONONO MEMBER OFTHB EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ROMEOFHCE! TO. f*3M 05 4W791 PAX. (-1-39) 06 £8805396 Bfcussras OPWCB: IH. (-1-32) 2 2M7496 PA* (+320 2 2849496 Rome, April 13,2004 to the urgent attention of: Mr. Rudolphua Fraociscus Marie Lubbers UN High Commissioner for Refugees (fax. +41-22-7397346) Mr. Bcrtrand BotMrliafan Acting UN Hight Commissioner for Human Rights (fax: +41-22-9179012) Mr. Kofi Annan UN Secretary-General (fax +1.212.963 J511) Mr. Chris Patten EU Commwsionei1 in charge of E»enwl Relations (£uc +32-2-2981299) Mr. Foul Nielson EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid (tax: +32-2-2981098) CC: PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE US STATE DEPARTMENT, EU COUNTRIES AMBASSADORS IN VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA, UNHCR OFFICE IN CAMBODIA P. 3 GVA'1030 9.0 WON 609COS9a906C Tfd T-T'flT «VH VQ. TO/CT P. 4/7 Dear Mr. Ramcharan, I write to alert you on the -worrying situation of Vietnam's Central Highlands, la fact, on 10 April 2D04, on the occasion of Easter, a series of peaceful demonstrations were staged in the provinces of Pleiku, Kontum, Gia Lai e Da Lot by thousands - some sources say hundreds of thousands - indigenous hill tribes people also known with the French name of Montagnard. According to sources of my own, the demonstrations were a non-violent way to respond to an escalating repression carried out by Hanoi, which does not recognize that type of Christian denomination, in patent violation of its own new Constitution. Since last Saturday, it has been reported that scores of people - some sources say hundreds • have been mistreated, beaten, injured met T«-»TU«J by the Vietnamese police and Army in the city of Buon Ma Tuot, in the Dak Lak Province and in other areas. The Vietnamese government is publicly downplaying the incidents r"'T1'T"1''"'"g the number of people involved and the figures of casualties, and has scaled off the region establishing checkpoints that bar foreigners to travel to the Highlands. As a consequence of the crackdown, thousands of men escaped towards the jangle that borders -with Cambodia, leaving their women and children brbfTii4 at the mercy of the army and the police. I have reason to believe that both in the jungle and in the villages the Montagnards will suffer the consequences of their protests with fierce violence and repression. "We have seen that happening in the past years. In fact, as you may recall, in February 2001. the Vietnamese repression after the staging of other demonstrations forced over a thousand men CO escape to Cambodia. Those people, after almost a. year, were eventually transferred to the United States, which granted them asylum status. Throughout 2001, the life in the camps was particularly stressful as several acts of violence instigated by Vietnamese infiltrators occurred and as a few refugees were bought back by the Vietnamese army. Once the United States resolved the emergency, the boarder in the Cambodian provinces of Mondolkiri and R&tanakiri was closed and heavily patrolled ever since. When my MEPs colleagues Marco Pannella and Marco Cappato visited Cambodia wich a delegation of the non-governmental organization Transnational Radical Party on the occasion of the local elections in July 2003, they were discouraged to^isff the region as security could not be provided. They were only allowed to visit a small group of Montagnards hosted in a house provided by UNHCR in Pknom Penh, where they found the refugees in good conditions bur in m uncertain position vis-a-vis international law. In fiict, Cambodia has ratified the 1951 UN Convention Ofl Refugees, but has never adopted the necessary implementing legislation to fully incorporate the international provisions into its domestic law, partly because of its lack of resources and expertise, partly because under political pressure from Hanoi. la their consultations while in Phom Penh, my colleagues also met with several European diplomats who expressed their firm commitment to work together to find "creative ways" as the British Ambassador to Cambodia put it, to assist the Cambodian Government to fulfill its obligations stemming from the '51 Convention. The time is now ripe to make use of that p , GVA1030 93SJ 9,3 notf eoaco998808C XTO M'.»T HVK fro, UN ubbB t41^ yi/0618 Ny59';70 P. 5/7 creativity and assist Cambodia in all possible ways as it is running the risk of becoming A situation of concern soon. According to an Agence France-Presse report of 12 April, a certain Yoeun Baloung, police chief of the province of Ratanakiri stated thai Cambodian law enforcement agents are on "an high alert all of the time because we fear thac (hey [the Montagnards] will cross illegally into Cambodia,". The report goes on signalling thai in the neighbouring Mondolkiri Province, a police officer called Reach Samnang, said thai border police had been ordered to work round the dock, strengthening the "forces to guard the border" working "24 hours a day. "We won't allow anyone to enter -without proper documents." The heightened security in Cambodia, seems to follow complaints by the Interior ministry that the UN refugee agency had been operating secretly along the Vietnamese border to "lure" Mbntagnards into Cambodia. The ministry reportedly charged that the agency had secretly transferred 46 Montagnards to the capital over the past two years and granted them refugee status, including 16 last February. According to the official Vietnamese News Agency \ The Cambodian Interior Ministry warned that the [above-mentioned] illegal operations and violations of territorial sovereignty by the TJNHCR residential representative would certainly increase the risk of turning Cambodia into a promised land for criminals and illegal migrants." It seems quite evident that Hanoi's influence on Phnom Penh is suggesting the use of the "war on terror* card to misrepresent what is happening in the Central Highlands and to further isolate the indigenous people in their snuggle for a. better life. We need to address those types of statements, and be eztretnely cautious as these allegations will only criminalize indiscriminately all those that are trying to live a freer and decent life. Certain accusations - and their derived policies - might jeopardize sincere efforts to combat terrorism in South East Asia, Thanks to the active support of Mr. Son Chhay a. Cambodian Member of Parliament elected last July with the Sam Rainsy, I have been able to receive through Mr. Pannella and Mr. Cappato news on the recent stance of the Cambodian authorities, which view Montagnard asylum-seekers as illegal migrants. A development that goes against the 1951 Convention on Refugees, and that should be regarded with particular concern, for the consequences it may bring to thousands of people in the region. In fact, if the Montagnards will find a. closed border and hostile Cambodian authorities* any exodus could turn into yet another humanitarian catastrophe. AT the 10th anniversary of die Rwanda, genocide we cannot afford such a tragedy to happen again. As you arc aware, the European Parliamflmr has repeatedly asked the Goimni.ision to take appropriate initiatives vis-a-vis Hanoi concerning religious freedom in Vietnam, and in particular to protect the Montagnard people from the harsh political, social, and religious repression that they have been suffering for decades. Other international bodies, such as the UN Human Rights Committee in July 2002, or the Committee on the Elimination on Racial Discrimination in August 2001, have requested to the Government of Vietnam to open, up the Central Highlands to independent International monitor's. Hanoi has always rejected those appeals and the International communiry has •unfortunately not followed up those requests with tie necessary determination. It is o£ utmost importance, if we want to avert a massacre, to take immediate and concrete actions to allow some sort of international presence in the Central Highlands and to assist p £• 1 GVA1030 S000 SHUTS eznegi QOBJ 3,3 von 608C0889908C TOt STiftT HVH ro, torn \-J.iv UN U5tD WM'l yi/UOIb N-Dy;/0 K. b/ / Cambodia in preparing some camps to give shelter to those thar might flee Vietnam towards the provinces of Rattanakiri and Mondulkiri.
Recommended publications
  • Texts Adopted
    2004 - 2005 TEXTS ADOPTED at the sitting of Tuesday 9 March 2004 PART ONE P5_TA-PROV(2004)03-09 PROVISIONAL EDITION PE 342.484 EN EN CONTENTS TEXTS ADOPTED P5_TA-PROV(2004)0123 Waste ***I (A5-0117/2004 - Rapporteur: Giuseppe Gargani) European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive on waste (codified version) (COM(2003) 731 – C5-0577/2003 – 2003/0283(COD))..........................................................................................................................1 P5_TA-PROV(2004)0124 Extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs ***I (A5-0085/2004 - Rapporteur: Giuseppe Gargani) European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients (codified version) (COM(2003) 467 – C5-0364/2003 – 2003/0181(COD)) ..............................................................2 P5_TA-PROV(2004)0125 Cargo shipping ***I (A5-0086/2004 - Rapporteur: Giuseppe Gargani) European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council decision concerning the activities of certain third countries in the field of cargo shipping (codified version) (COM(2003) 732 – C5-0578/2003 – 2003/0285(COD)) ..................3 P5_TA-PROV(2004)0126 Participation in pre-accession Community assistance programmes * (A5-0089/2004 - Rapporteur: Luis Berenguer Fuster ) European Parliament
    [Show full text]
  • WRITTEN QUESTION E-1182/03 by Marco Pannella (NI), Emma Bonino (NI), Marco Cappato (NI), Gianfranco Dell’Alba (NI) and Benedetto Della Vedova (NI) to the Commission
    8.4.2004 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 88 E/341 (2004/C 88 E/0347) WRITTEN QUESTION E-1182/03 by Marco Pannella (NI), Emma Bonino (NI), Marco Cappato (NI), Gianfranco Dell’Alba (NI) and Benedetto Della Vedova (NI) to the Commission (1 April 2003) Subject: Individual cases of arbitrary arrest and torture of Montagnards (Degar) by the Vietnamese authorities On 15 March 2003, the Montagnard Foundation and ABC Radio Australia reported that, at around 7 a.m. on 24 February 2003, security officials arrested the following Montagnards (Degar) from the village of Buon Cuor Knia (Buon Don district, in the province of Dak Lac) who were members of the Transnational Radical Party: Y-Phan Buon Krong, born in 1950, Y-Be Nie, born in 1945, Y-Pen Buon Ya, born in 1970, Y-Glen Buon Krong, born in 1976 and Y-Gun Hwing, born in 1974. These persons were arrested because they were suspected of supporting the Montagnard Foundation, of being Christians and of collecting the names of Montagnards wishing to join an NGO with consultative status at the UN (the Transnational Radical Party), which promotes the enforcement of human rights world-wide by non-violent means. They were handcuffed and beaten unconscious with clubs and rocks in front of their relatives; in particular, the security officials repeatedly smashed the knees of Y-Phan Buon Krong and Y-Glen Buon Krong with a large rock. The five men were then taken to the Buon Don district prison. The Vietnamese officials who tortured each of them in turn are Nguyen Truong That and Pham Huu Nhat, both of whom had been sent to the Central Highlands by the government authorities in Hanoi.
    [Show full text]
  • EUI Working Papers
    ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES EUI Working Papers RSCAS 2011/57 ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory FOUR FUNERALS AND A PARTY? THE POLITICAL REPERTOIRE OF THE ITALIAN RADICALS Claudio M. Radaelli and Samuele Dossi EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FLORENCE ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES EUDO - EUROPEAN UNION DEMOCRACY OBSERVATORY Four Funerals and a Party? The Political Repertoire of the Italian Radicals CLAUDIO M. RADAELLI AND SAMUELE DOSSI EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2011/57 This text may be downloaded only for personal research purposes. Additional reproduction for other purposes, whether in hard copies or electronically, requires the consent of the author(s), editor(s). If cited or quoted, reference should be made to the full name of the author(s), editor(s), the title, the working paper, or other series, the year and the publisher. ISSN 1028-3625 © 2011 Claudio M. Radaelli and Samuele Dossi Printed in Italy, November 2011 European University Institute Badia Fiesolana I – 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) Italy www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Publications/ www.eui.eu cadmus.eui.eu Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Stefano Bartolini since September 2006, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society. The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes and projects, and a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration and the expanding membership of the European Union.
    [Show full text]
  • An Anthology on Freedom of Scientific Research
    Baron, Charles H., Professor of Law Emeritus. "Contributors." Scientific Freedom: An Anthology on Freedom of Scientific Research. Ed. Simona Giordano, John Coggon and Marco Cappato. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. ix–xvi. Science, Ethics and Society. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 27 Sep. 2021. <>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 27 September 2021, 19:44 UTC. Copyright © Simona Giordano, John Coggon and Marco Cappato 2012. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. Contributors Charles H. Baron, Professor of Law Emeritus, Boston College Law School. Professor Baron has taught, lectured, and done research in the fi elds of Law and Bioethics and Constitutional Law at several schools in the United States and abroad. He is the author of many articles in those fi elds, as well as the author of Droit Constitutionnel et Bioéthique: L’Éxperience Américaine (Paris: Economica, 1997) and co-editor of The Use, Nonuse, Misuse of Social Science Research in the Courts (Cambridge: Abt Books, 1980). Emma Bonino, Minister for International Trade and European Affairs of the Italian government and Leader of the Transnational Radical Party. Ms Bonino was elected seven times to the Italian Parliament and four times to the European Parliament in Strasburg. She also served in Brussels as European Commissioner, responsible for Health & Consumer Protection, Fisheries and Humanitarian Affairs. Ms Bonino has represented Italy in intergovernmental conferences and the European Union for electoral observers’ missions. Sensible to the freedom and determination of women, in 1975 she funded CISA, the information centre for abortion, and she has been the protagonist of the referendum campaign which has introduced, in Italy, legalized abortion.
    [Show full text]
  • Assisted Suicide: Article 17 of the Italian Code of Medical Ethics Follows in the Footsteps of the Italian Constitutional Court’S Landmark Ruling
    European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences 2020; 24: 10309-10312 Assisted suicide: article 17 of the Italian Code of Medical Ethics follows in the footsteps of the Italian Constitutional Court’s landmark ruling Dear Editor, Less than a year ago, on September 25th 2019, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a land- mark decision on assistance in dying, thus setting a long-awaited standard in terms of regulating assisted suicide1. The ruling related to the case of Fabiano Antoniani, also known as DJ Fabo, a man in his forties who had made a pondered, steadfast decision to receive assistance in dying at a Swiss euthanasia clinic in 2017. Fabiano was left blind and tetraplegic in the aftermath of a catastrophic road accident in 2014. His death has since become the subject of heated debate in a country, such as Italy, where euthanasia, whether active (i.e., doctors actively causing the patient’s death) or passive (the self-administration by the patient of lethal drugs to end his or her life, the way Fabiano ended his), is adamantly opposed by the Catholic Church. Italy’s Constitutional Court has made it clear that euthanasia should be permitted by law in certain circumstances, including those in which a patient’s irreversible condition was “causing physical and psychological suffering that he or she considers intolerable”. The court’s ruling was centered around assisted dying and the “legal framework concerning end of life [situations]”. A request had in fact been made by a Milan court to provide a clear interpretation of the law in the trial against pro-euthanasia politician, activist and campaigner Marco Cappato, who had actively helped Antoniani with his journey to a Swiss clinic which pro- vides assisted suicide.
    [Show full text]
  • SITUATION of ROMA in ITALY and REPORT of the VISITS and MEETINGS of MARCO CAPPATO and VIKTORIA MOHACSI (ALDE Meps) in ROME, 17/18 JULY 2008 OM, 24/7/2008
    SITUATION OF ROMA IN ITALY and REPORT OF THE VISITS AND MEETINGS OF MARCO CAPPATO AND VIKTORIA MOHACSI (ALDE MEPs) IN ROME, 17/18 JULY 2008 OM, 24/7/2008 The situation of Roma in Italy - latest developments, further to the information contained in the EP resolution on the census of Roma in Italy based on ethnicity1. - the IT Ministry of Interior issued guidelines addressed to the Commissioners (the Prefects of Rome, Milan and Neaples) concerning the application of the orders on the "emergency" concerning nomads' camps. The guidelines repeatedly underline that ordinary laws have to be applied in reference to data protection and privacy; identification procedures leave a margin of manoeuvre to the Commissioners, although limited by the applicable laws; data collected until now in a way incompatible with the guidelines cannot be used or retained; persons can be fingerprinted if it is not possible to identify them on the basis of available documents and trustful circumstances, on the basis of the ordinary law; minors can be fingerprinted as following: for those who are more than 14 years old, unless it is possible to identify them in other ways; for minors between 6 and 14 years old, only for the purposes of residence permit, when required by parents, on the basis of EU regulation 380/2008 (but it only concerns only residence permits for 3rd country nationals in relation to the possibility of fingerprinting minors from the age of 6, and the Commission has not yet adopted application measures!), or when necessary by the Judiciary Police and according to the rules of the Minors' Tribunal; between 0 and 6, only in exceptional cases, by the Judiciary Police, for minors in degrading situations or suspected of being a victim of a crime.
    [Show full text]
  • 18EN.Doc PE 423.951
    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2004 2009 Committee on Foreign Affairs ACTIVITY REPORT (6th Legislature: 2004 – 2009) ----------------------- 30 April 2009 AFET Secretariat CM 782818EN.doc PE 423.951 CM 782818EN.doc PE 423.951 FOREWORD BY JACEK SARYUSZ-WOLSKI, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS (2007 – 2009) The report before you represents the culmination of the past five years (2004 – 2009) of intensive and productive activity by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Simply looked at in terms of 'raw' statistics, the Committee's work in the course of the 6th legislature has been pretty impressive by any standards: in addition to our regular committee meetings held at least twice-monthly, we have held 72 extraordinary meetings to respond to crisis situations and issues, and prepared, debated and adopted a total of 259 reports, opinions and resolutions which were then voted on in plenary. The Committee was addressed a total of 397 times by visiting speakers from outside the EU and from within, including 176 exchanges with the Commission and the Council, notably with the High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana (10 times), Commissioners Rehn (17 times) and Ferrero-Waldner (15 times), and all 20 EU Special Representatives over the 5-year period. Regular briefings by the Council Presidency-in-office post-GAERC or on Presidency priorities (63), as well as preparatory visits by AFET's Enlarged Bureau to the Member State holding the forthcoming Presidency (8), meetings of the Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairmen (COFACC) held in the Presidency country (9), and regular bilateral meetings in Brussels between AFET and representatives of the foreign affairs and defence committees of national parliaments (6), have strengthened the Committee's contacts and involvement with each Presidency and fostered its involvement in CFSP issues.
    [Show full text]
  • Dipartimento Di Scienze Politiche Cattedra Di Public Law the Italian
    Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche Cattedra di Public Law The Italian Constitutional Court and the Lawmaker: the ‘Cappato case’ (Order no. 207/2018) RELATORE Prof. Nicola LUPO CANDIDATA Margherita CAROTTI Matr. 082972 ANNO ACCADEMICO 2018/2019 Index Ch. 1: "The Italian system of Constitutional Adjudication"……………………………………...4 1.1 The Italian system of Constitutional Adjudication: the debated establishment of the Italian Constitutional Court ..............................................................................................................................4 1.2 The Constitutional Court: Title VI, Articles 134-137 of the 1948 Italian Constitution ..................9 1.3 The Court’s Jurisdiction and Effective Functioning: further clarifications provided by Constitutional Law No. 1/1948, Ordinary Law No. 87/1953 and Constitutional Law No. 1/1953 ....13 1.4 The Decisions of the Constitutional Court and Their Effects .......................................................16 Ch. 2: “The ‘Cappato Case’”............................................................................................................19 2.1 Marco Cappato: a brief introduction to the subject .......................................................................19 2.2 Introduction to the facts .................................................................................................................20 2.3 The question of constitutionality raised by the Court of Assize of Milan (Order No. 1/2018) and the evaluations provided by the judge a quo: limits to the
    [Show full text]
  • Associazione Luca Coscioni and the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research: an Italian Experience of Resisting Religious Fundamentalisms
    Associazione Luca Coscioni and the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research: An Italian Experience of Resisting Religious Fundamentalisms Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica !"#$%&'()##%&*+&) Associazione Luca Coscioni The Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica and the World Congress (Luca Coscioni Association for Freedom of Scientific Research, ALC) was founded in 2002 with the aim of resisting religious, dogmatic and for Freedom of Scientific morality-based interventions against the freedom of scientific research, and attacks on self-determination in choices concerning life, health Research: An Italian Experience treatment, reproduction and the family. Diagnosed with Amyotrophic of Resisting Religious Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in 1996, Luca Coscioni used his experience to draw political attention to the lack of appropriate regulation of, and public Fundamentalisms funding for, scientific research in Italy, particularly on human embryonic stem cells. He founded ALC alongside Emma Bonino and Marco Pannella, founders of the Radical Party (RP, Partito Radicale), a bastion of liberalism in Italy., Later emerging as the Nonviolent Radical Party, transnational and transparty (Partito Radicale Nonviolento, transnazionale e transpartito, NRP), the RP includes several political associations that have inherited its campaigns and methods, including ALC.- ALC brings together political and scientific figures, along with civil rights advocates and representatives of patients’ associations,
    [Show full text]
  • 10508/09 Sp 1 DQPG COU CIL of the EUROPEA U IO
    COUCILOF Brussels,29May2009 THEEUROPEAUIO 10508/09 OJCRP121 PROVISIOALAGEDA for : 2277th MEETING OF THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE (Part 1) date : Wednesday 3 (10:00) and Thursday 4 (10:00) June 2009 MEETIGOWEDESDAY3JUE2009(10:00) 1. Adoption of the agenda I(1) 38. Replies to written questions put to the Council by Members of the European Parliament (+) (a) n° E-1845/09 put by Emilio Menéndez del Valle "Afghanistan's deplorable justice system" 9413/09 PE-QE 380 (b) n° E-2290/09 put by Catherine Stihler "Autism" 9420/09 PE-QE 381 (c) n° E-2301/09 put by Catherine Stihler "Article 19 of public procurement Directive 2004/18 and reserved contracts" 9239/09 PE-QE 368 10508/09 sp 1 DQPG E (d) n° E-2671/09 put by Geoffrey Van Orden "Zimbabwe sanctions" 9240/09 PE-QE 369 (e) n° E-2710/09 put by Jean-Claude Martinez "Wind energy as an economic sector" 9286/09 PE-QE 371 (f) n° E-2719/09 put by Glenis Willmott "Exposure of the public to electromagnetic fields" 9288/09 PE-QE 372 (g) n° E-2750/09 put by Hélène Goudin "Human rights violations in Gambia" 9503/09 PE-QE 389 (h) n° E-2765/09 put by Simon Busuttil "Action on misleading directory companies" 9263/09 PE-QE 370 (i) n° E-2980/09 put by Marco Cappato, Marco Pannella, Hélène Flautre and Marie Anne Isler Béguin "Ban on the display of anti-NATO flags in Strasbourg" 9439/09 PE-QE 383 (j) n° E-3083/09 put by Brigitte Fouré "Cross-border application of road safety law" 9446/09 PE-QE 384 (k) n° E-3120/09 put by Nikolaos Vakalis "Late payment to SMEs by public authorities" 9729/09 PE-QE 397 (l) n° E-3139/09 put by Catherine Stihler "Access to broadband" 9642/09 PE-QE 391 (m) n° P-3146/09 put by Zdzisław Kazimierz Chmielewski "Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy - COM(2008)0721" 9644/09 PE-QE 392 (n) n° E-3175/09 put by Marco Cappato and Marco Pannella "Levels of uranium in the air over the territory of the European Union" 9655/09 PE-QE 393 (o) n° E-3243/09 put by Mary Lou McDonald "Ending street homelessness" 9750/09 PE-QE 398 39.
    [Show full text]
  • Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization
    Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization Humanity faces a global crisis in the governance of knowledge, technology and culture. The crisis is manifest in many ways. • Without access to essential medicines, millions suffer and die; • Morally repugnant inequality of access to education, knowledge and technology undermines development and social cohesion; • Anticompetitive practices in the knowledge economy impose enormous costs on consumers and retard innovation; • Authors, artists and inventors face mounting barriers to follow-on innovation; • Concentrated ownership and control of knowledge, technology, biological resources and culture harm development, diversity and democratic institutions; • Technological measures designed to enforce intellectual property rights in digital environments threaten core exceptions in copyright laws for disabled persons, libraries, educators, authors and consumers, and undermine privacy and freedom; • Key mechanisms to compensate and support creative individuals and communities are unfair to both creative persons and consumers; • Private interests misappropriate social and public goods, and lock up the public domain. At the same time, there are astoundingly promising innovations in information, medical and other essential technologies, as well as in social movements and business models. We are witnessing highly successful campaigns for access to drugs for AIDS, scientific journals, genomic information and other databases, and hundreds of innovative collaborative efforts to create public goods, including the Internet, the World Wide Web, Wikipedia, the Creative Commons, GNU Linux and other free and open software projects, as well as distance education tools and medical research tools. Technologies such as Google now provide tens of millions with powerful tools to find information. Alternative compensation systems have been proposed to expand access and interest in cultural works, while providing both artists and consumers with efficient and fair systems for compensation.
    [Show full text]
  • European Parliament
    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2004 2009 Session document 20.5.2008 B6-0258/2008 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION with request for inclusion in the agenda for the debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law pursuant to Rule 115 of the Rules of Procedure by Thierry Cornillet, Marco Cappato, Marielle De Sarnez, Johan Van Hecke on behalf of the ALDE Group on Sudan and the International Criminal Court (ICC)</Titre> RE\P6_B(2008)0258_EN.doc PE407.452v01-00 EN EN B6-0258/2008 European Parliament resolution on Sudan and the International Criminal Court (ICC)</Titre> The European Parliament, - having regard to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and its entry into force on 1 July 2002, - having regard to the EU Common Position on the ICC (2003/444/CFSP) of 16 June 2003 and of the EU Action Plan to follow up on the Common Position on the ICC of 4 February 2004, - having regard to the adoption of UNSC resolution 1593 on 31 March 2005, - having regard to the Prosecutor’s bi-annual reports to the UNSC pursuant to UNSC resolution 1593, - having regard to the Council Conclusions on Sudan/Darfur of December 2007 and January 2008, - having regard to the Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the anniversary of the referral in the situation of Darfur/ Sudan to the ICC, adopted on 31 March 2008, - having regard to the awarding of the 2007 Sakharov Prize to Salih Mahmoud Osman, a Sudanese human rights lawyer working in the Darfur region of Sudan, for his work in trying to bring justice to the
    [Show full text]