Keeping an eye on Burma's new course
Chair of the European Parliament’s Human Rights Subcommittee Green MEP Barbara Lochbihler describes meeting internationally renowned Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Video:...
Russia must accept its human rights obligations - in Syria and at home
As Russia continues to oppose a possible UN Security Council resolution on Syria, election protesters in Moscow and other Russian cities prepare for what might become the largest wave of...
The EU and the Human Rights Convention
(Brussels, 26th of january 2012).- Together with collegues from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, I have been actively pushing for the adhesion by the European...
Sakharov Prize: Five activists from the Arab Spring Awarded
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established in December 1988 by the European Parliament as a means to honour individuals or...
Export of Surveillance Technology to Bahrain
An article on Bloomberg.com about the sale of Nokia Siemens surveillance-technology to Bahrain, 25 of August: EU Legislators Ask for Inquiry Into Spy Gear Abuses in Bahrain ›
Human Trafficking and EU Initiativs
Barbara Lochbihlers Speaking at the Summer School Berlin of the Alice-Salomon-Hochschule at Juli 2011. PDF
Remarks by Judge Dr. jur. h.c. Hans-Peter Kaul, Second Vice-President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Joint public Hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the EP on „EU...
Human Rights Committee in the European Parliament
The EP committee of human rights (DROI) counts 30 members and deals with human rights issues in non-EU countries, such as the persecution of dissidents in Russia, the discrimination of women in...
