Chairwoman Hautala sent today a letter, below, to the Turkish authorities together with Hélène Flautre, Chair of the Turkey Delegation; Ms Barbara Lochbihler, Chair of the Iran Delegation and Ms Monica Frassoni, Spokesperson of the European Green Party
On 22 February the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights, led by Chairwoman Heidi Hautala, held a historic debate concerning EU ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The ratification is major development in the protection of human rights in Europe because this is the first ever core UN human rights [...]
Chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights Heidi Hautala visits Dharamsala, the seat of the exiled Tibetan government, between 13th-15th February. Hautala, who has been working 20 years with the Tibetan cause has an audience with the Dalai Lama on 13th February.
Euroopan parlamentti on tänään äänin 378 - 196 päättänyt torjua ns. SWIFT-sopimuksen, joka sallii Yhdysvaltain viranomaisille pääsyn eurooppalaisten maksutietoihin terrorisminvastaisen taistelun varjolla. Europarlamentaarikko Heidi Hautala (vihr.) kiittää parlamentin rohkeutta.
Today we received news that the Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov has decided to abandon libel suits against human rights activists Oleg Orlov, Ludmila Alekseyeva and the journalists of the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
We, the undersigned, are gravely concerned about news that Eutelsat, the leading European satellite operator - partly funded by French public funds - has, under pressure from Russia, refused to broadcast the Georgian channel in Russian language, Perviy Kavkazskiy.
Press conference on Wed 10th of February at 10.30 in room LOW N-1/201 (Strasbourg)
Under pressure from Russia, Eutelsat, the leading European satellite operator, has refused to transmit Perviy Kavkazskiy, the newly established Georgian satellite television channel in Russian language.
Ratkaiseva äänestys ensi viikolla
Euroopan parlamentin oikeus- ja sisäasioiden valiokunnan kokous oli torstai-iltapäivällä ääriään myöten täynnä median edustajia.
On 31 January group of human rights and democracy activists were holding their monthly demonstration in Triumfalnaya Square in central Moscow in support of their constitutional right to freedom of assembly, when police officers broke up the protest, and arrested several people, including Oleg Orlov, Chair of human rights organisation Memorial, the winner of the [...]
Euroopan parlamentin ihmisoikeusalivaliokunnan puheenjohtaja Heidi Hautala on tyytyväinen Helsingin käräjäoikeuden 25.1.2010 päätökseen
Europarlamentin vihreän ryhmän tiedote: EU-US bank data transfers, EU Parliament calls on Council to suspend SWIFT agreement
The European Parliament today voted (1) to grant Nikiforos Diamandourous a further term as EU Ombudsman,
Chairwoman Hautala calls for a release of Emadeddin Baghi, a prominent human rights defender and founder of the Association for the Defence of Prisoners’ Rights and the Society of the Right to Life Guardians in Iran.
Chairwoman Hautala welcomed the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights on 12 January in the case of Gillan and Quinton V the United Kingdom where the Court ruled that section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 violates the right to respect for private life guaranteed by Article 8 of the Convention on Human [...]
Chairwoman Hautala took part in seminar organized by Lech Walesa Institute, concerning the Future of the Eu’s policy towards Cuba on 13 January. In her speech she noted that it is certainly not a new issue to discuss the future of EU’s policy toward Cuba.
On 31 December group of human rights and democracy activists were holding their monthly demonstration in Triumfalnaya Square in central Moscow in support of their constitutional right to freedom of assembly, when hundreds of police officers broke up the protest, and arrested several people, including Lyudmila Alexeyeva, the winner of the 2009 European Parliament Sakharov [...]
Chairwoman Hautala would like to join Jerzy Buzek, the President of European Parliament, in expressing deep concern over the recent human rights violations in China.
Statement on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of CEDAW
- Women’s rights have made a lot of progress during the last 30 years, but we still have a long way to go to achieve equality in the enjoyment of all human rights, says Heidi Hautala, chair of the European Parliament Sub-Committee on Human Rights, on [...]
Today, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on access to EU documents, reiterating that European institutions should keep moving towards greater transparency and urging the Commission to widen the scope of the current regulation to all EU institutions, as well as update the rules on internal documents. The EU Parliament resolution criticised Council and Commission [...]
Today we received very sad news that the mother of the wife of the killed Russian human rights defender Maksharip Aushev has died in a car explosion yesterday 16. December 2009 in Ingushetia. In the car there was also the wife of Mr Aushev. She remains in critical condition in a hospital. She is seven months [...]
Euroopan parlamentti äänestää huomenna 17.12. päätöslauselmasta, joka koskee toimielinten asiakirjajulkisuutta. Tänään Strasbourgissa järjestettiin asiaa koskeva lehdistötilaisuus. Vihreää ryhmää edusti avoimuuden edistämisestä laajalti tunnettu Heidi Hautala, joka on vaikuttanut voimakkaasti päätöslauselmaehdotuksen sisältöön.
Chairwoman of the EP Subcommittee on Human Rights Heidi Hautala, congratulates the winners of the 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Oleg Orlov, Sergei Kovalev and Lyudmila Alexeyeva who received the prize on behalf of the Memorial organisation and all other human rights defenders in Russia.
Photo from this morning in Strasbourg
I am deeply disturbed and concerned of the attacks against the peaceful religious community of Thich Nhat Hahn followers from 8 to 10 December, in Vietnam.
Chairwoman Hautala has received with great concern the news of Thich Nhat Panh monks having to leave the Vietnamese pagoda where they have been in shelter since September. This possible prologue to a tragedy was caused by strong mob pressure. Hautala strongly condemns this crackdown of the peaceful community. The authorities must inform where those already detained are and ensure that [...]
Euroopan parlamentin ihmisoikeusalivaliokunnan puheenjohtaja Heidi Hautalan käynnissä oleva vierailu Venäjällä on johtanut viranomaisten suorittamiin opposition edustajien asuntojen piirittämisiin ja ratsioihin. Piiritykset ovat saaneet suuren huomion Venäjän tiedotusvälineissä, joissa on korostettu Hautalan vierailua kotietsintöjen taustalla.
Euroopan parlamentin ihmisoikeusalivaliokunnan puheenjohtaja Heidi Hautala vierailee Venäjällä 12.-15.joulukuuta. Matkan tarkoitus on osallistua kansainväliseen “Sakharov’s Ideas Today” - konferenssiin, joka järjestetään Moskovassa 14.-15.12.
Heidi Hautala, Chairwoman of European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights and MEP will visit Russia on 12.-15. December 2009 to take part in an international conference ‘Sakharov’s Ideas Today’ in Moscow on 14-15th of December 2009.
Following this morning’s hearing, the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights Chairwoman Heidi Hautala welcomes Baroness Ashton’s public commitment to place human rights at the core of the EU foreign policy.
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