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Zimbabwe

The Greens/EFA Group strongly appeals to the international community to ensure the rapid provision of substantial humanitarian aid to the people of Zimbabwe and salls on the future government of national unity to set up a neutral and independent peace and reconciliation commission with a view to promoting a national healing process that w…
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Agenda 1-5 December 2008

Highlights for 1-5 December include the Dalai Lama's address to plenary, climate package trialogue negotiations, a new study on nuclear energy in France and Greens' initatives and conferences on arms controls and combating gender stereotypes and human trafficking.
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Somalia

The Greens/EFA Group condemns the stoning and execution of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, a 13 year old girl and calls on the Somali government to bring to justice those accused of raping her by due process. The Group calls on the international community to establish a commission of enquiry into this and other human rights abuses committed in Som…
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Death penalty in Nigeria

The Greens/EFA Group calls on the Federal Government of Nigeria and State Governments in Nigeria to abolish the death penalty and, pending abolition, to declare an immediate moratorium on all executions as provided by UN General Assembly resolution 62/149 and commute without delay all death sentences to terms of imprisonment.
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Case of the al-Kurd family

The Greens/EFA Group condemns the eviction of the al-Kurd family and the recent destruction of houses of Palestinian families by the Israeli authorities in several areas of East Jerusalem; recalls that these operations are inhuman and are illegal under international law; calls the Israeli authorities to immediately put an end to settlemen…
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Climate campaign newsletter

The EU's climate package of legislation moved a step closer to reality after key votes in the European Parliament but opposition in the Council also intensified. Also in this issue, the latest climate news from around the world.
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Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo)

The Greens/EFA Group expresses its deep concern at the recent fighting which causes an immense suffering of civilian population including rape, indiscriminate killings, looting and illicit mining activities; Calls upon all parties to uphold their commitments to protect the civilian population and respect for human rights as outlined in th…
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Burma

The Greens/EFA Group strongly appeals to the military government of Burma to immediately release all political prisoners and to put an end to the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi; It denounces the arbitrary charges behind the arrests of many dissidents and the harsh conditions of detention of political prisoners including widespread use of t…
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European Council

All the current crises are linked: social, financial and environmental. Greens copresident Daniel Cohn-Bendit has called for a New Green Deal to tackle the situation and transparency of financial transfers to tax havens.
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European Council of 15-16 October 2008 - Economic and financial situation

The Greens/EFA group takes the view that we need a 'New Deal' to relaunch the real economy and that enhancing the transparency of non-regulated markets is one of the key problems to address if new systemic financial crises are to be avoided.