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From Russia with Love, European youth claim their rights and freedom of speech

September 24, 2012

From our latest blog, AEGEE On the morning of Monday, September 24th, AEGEE-Europe, through its president Luis Alvarado Martínez, participated in a flashmob-like protest denouncing the violation of freedom of speech and youth rights in Russia, during the opening ceremony of the 9th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth, in Saint Petersburg.

English, EU Citizens and Media, Human Rights, Media Freedom

UNinvolved in PEACE: Living Reality

July 26, 2012

By Armenak Minasyants (President of AEGEE-Yerevan, Speaker of International Politics WG of AEGEE-Europe) “If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, RUN.” Andrew Thomson, Emergency Sex Few days ago in the evening I was making my usual staff in internet: surfing, surfing and again surfing at… » read more

English, Global Europe, Human Rights, Sustainable Dev.

Freedom of expression made in Russia

July 12, 2012

The Russian Duma adopted on 12 July 2012 a law limiting freedom of expression on the Internet. The law “on the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development” makes it possible for any website to be listed in a forbidden pages register and closed down. The list of reasons, besides child… » read more

blogactiv, English, Europe's East, Global Europe, Human Rights, Media Freedom

In Srebrenica, in Europe, 11 July 1995

July 11, 2012

Europeans, we can not and should not escape from the past century’s disturbing memories if we want to build a better Europe in the 21st century. Seventeen years ago today, some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and murdered by Serbian troops. The killings were allegedly ordered by ex-Serb military leader Ratko… » read more

blogactiv, English, EU Institutions, Europe's East, Global Europe, Human Rights

The EU Directive on the access to a lawyer vs. the ECHR standards

In many EU states the prosecution questions the suspect as if he or she was a witness. This tactic is used in order to avoid the need to guarantee the access to a lawyer. On 10 July 2012 the LIBE Committee voiced its concerns regarding the amendments introduced to the draft of a Directive on… » read more

English, Human Rights, Member States

Geert Wilders’ difficult choice: Being Immigrant or Exigrant?

February 5, 2010

Geert Wilders’ international actions are made of European-Union bashing, advocating the most right-wing Israeli views and collecting money from rich, but scared, American Jewish elder people in Florida. Not counting the -officially- unsolicited mo…

English, Human Rights

How the Wilders Hysteria is Linked to Holland. Who exploits it. And how it can be ended. (4, Solutions)

February 2, 2010

How will it be overcome, the Wilders agitation and its sisters in many European countries?My friends say: By understanding the fears of men and women who live in marginalized urban neighborhoods. Elder people, who lost their references, when their chil…

Advocacy against Islam, Daniel Pipes, English, Human Rights

Holocaust2 : Human Rights vs the Final Solution

January 28, 2010

Schuman’s report on the Holocaust may not have been the only one to be brought to the attention of the Allies in August 1942. At least one other independent testimony of the systematic extermination of Jews arrived at that time. Professor Howard M Sachar wrote: ‘The first reliable information of the ‘”Final Solution” evidently […]

English, Human Rights

The Dutch Wilders Hysteria. Who exploits it. And how it will be Overcome. (3, The Funders)

January 27, 2010

Who are exploiting the Dutch crisis? And How? Follow the Money! 1. A loophole in Dutch legislation.While most developed (”judeo-christian”) democracies have laws and rules that block organizations with foreign funding and/or no democratic structure, fr…

Advocacy against Islam, Daniel Pipes, English, Human Rights

Jasenovac – Holocaust promoted by Vatican

The UN General Assembly chose January 27 as the official day for the commemoration, as it was on this day in 1945 that Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz extermination camp, the last such camp still functioning. Throughout Europe, tributes will be paid to the 53 million people who died during World War II, of whom… » read more

Croatia, English, Human Rights, Jasenovac

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Schuman’s warning of the Nazi extermination of the Jews. How it led to Europe’s Convention of Human Rights and the supranational Community.

January 26, 2010

After Robert Schuman’s warning of the Nazi destruction of the Jews, Why did those who were warned not act? August 1942 “The Jews are being systematically destroyed. There are no more Jews in the Ukraine. Men, women and children have been separated and taken. Men and women have been transported to concentration camps. Often they… » read more

English, holocaust, Human Rights, Justice & Home Affairs, Schuman

20 years since freedom and anti-war movement was created – Liberal Alliance of Montenegro

Many countries in Europe have dark and bright moments in history. Dark periods are marked by either tyranny, totalitarism or wars, while bright periods usually refer to revolutions, ideas of progress and prosperity, anti-war movements and prominent people who organized it. In recent European history, almost all Eastern countries experienced shifts of political systems and… » read more

Balkans, English, Enlargement & Neighbours, Freedom Movement, Human Rights, Justice & Home Affairs, Liberal Alliance of Montenegro, Montenegro

Toulouse Film Festival

January 23, 2010

As fewer legal professionals nowadays still take an interest in defending human rights, the city of Toulouse stands out as a shining example to the contrary. The well-known organisations such as Avocats sans frontieres, Cimade, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and others organise regular events bringing human rights to the top of the political and civic… » read more

33352, education, English, film Festival, Human Rights, Languages and Culture, Toulouse

How the Wilders Hysteria is Linked to Holland. Who exploits it. And how it can be ended. (2, Dutch society)

January 22, 2010

Wilders is NOT about Islam. Any foreign intrusion would have done. He is about xenophobia and hate-mongering.In the first part of this series, we talked about the transnational effects of the Dutch Wilders hysteria against Muslims. And how it is exploi…

10572, 10573, Advocacy against Islam, anti-discrimination, Daniel Pipes, English, Human Rights, Legal Alien, Netherlands, Poverty and Marginalisation, Wilders

Why Wilders Hysterics happen in Holland. Who exploits it. And How it will Disappear. (1, Daniel Pipes)

January 21, 2010

Ritual slaughter, normal in Jewish and Muslim traditions, is attacked at right-wing pro-Wilders manifestation in Amsterdam, Jan. 20, 2010. In the USA, loonies like Mr. Geert Wilders, just appear in the shape of hysteric bloggers, or television pri…

33218, Advocacy against Islam, anti-discrimination, Daniel Pipes, English, Human Rights, Israel, Legal Alien, Netherlands, Wilders

Human rights: a Chinese perspective

January 15, 2010

The paper written by Prof Li Junru for EU-China Observer Issue 6, 2009 is worth closer examination, bearing in mind the importance of the author. Prof. Li Junru is former Vice President of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He is now Vice Director of the China Reform… » read more

China, English, External Relations, Human Rights