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    This week in the EP committees

    Human rights will be one of several high points on the agenda as the European Parliament's committees meet from 28 September to 2 October. Nominations will be presented for the EP's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and a public hearing will put a spotlight on the situation in Russia. Other points of interest include a vote on road tr…
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    Killings of human rights defenders in Russia

    Greens/EFA call on the Russian authorities to put an end to the ongoing and widespread impunity for violence against human rights defenders and to protect and guarantee the physical integrity of human rights defenders in conformity with relevant international and regional human rights instruments.
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    Syria - the case of Muhannad Al Hassani

    Tabled by Hélène Flautre, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Frieda BrepoelsOn behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Parliament, - having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948;- having regard to the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders of 1998;- having regard to the Inte...
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    Kazakhstan - The case of Yevgeni Zhovtis

    Tabled by Heidi Hautala and Bart Staeson behalf of the Green/EFA Group The European Parliament, having regard to its previous resolutions on Kazakhstan and the Central Asia Republics,having regard to its resolution on a EU Strategy for Central Asia of 20 February 2008,having regard to the Partnershi...
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    SWIFT - making available financial payment messaging data to prevent and combat terrorism and terrorist financing

    Motion for a resolution on the envisaged international agreement to make available to the United States Treasury Department financial payment messaging data to prevent and combat terrorism and terrorist financing Tabled by Raul Romeva and Jan AlbrechtOn behalf of the Greens/EFA Group The European Pa...
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    Strasbourg Flash September 2009

    The highlight of next week's European Parliament plenary week is the scheduled vote on Barroso's second term on Wednesday, 16 September. On Monday, however, the Greens will call for a vote on the agenda to postpone this decision to after the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
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    Greens/EFA demand Council not to resume Association Agreement negotiations with Honduras

    Greens/EFA call on the General Affairs Council, scheduled for 14-15 September 2009, not to accept COLAT's recommendations. We demand that no negotiations take place with Central America, including at technical level, as long as democratic order according to the Honduran Constitution is not reinstalled.
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    Zdanoka to observe Moldovan elections

    Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka will next week join an official EU election observation mission to Moldova. Ms Zdanoka is a member of the seven strong European Parliament delegation who will serve as official observers for the 29 July legislative election.Legislative elections were originally held in Ap...
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    Russia - human rights

    Greens/EFA MEPs were today shocked by the news of the brutal murder of Russian human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who had close relations with the parliamentary group. Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit commented: "We deplore the cowardly murder of the exceptio...
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    G8 summit

    Leaders from the world's major economies are set to meet on the fringes of this week's G8 summit (8-10 July) to discuss ongoing efforts to reach a international agreement on climate change. In advance of the meeting, Greens/EFA Co-President Rebecca Harms commented: "There had been much expectat...