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Burma: Emergency Aid Impounded By Junta
In an amazing move, the Burmese junta have refused entry to foreign…
Kosova: Bringing Democracy To The Next Generation
A project by the Arizona State University will, over three years, promote…
East Turkestan: Security Forces Clear A Path For The Olympic Torch
Uyghur leaders, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer and Mr. Dolkun Isa have spoken out…
Photo News: Envoy to H.H. the Dalai Lama Arrives In China For Talks
The first in a new round of talks aimed at resolving the crisis in Tibet…
Tibet: Putting China’s “Catastrophic” Record Before The European Parliament
Tibet’s Minister for Information and International Relations,…
Burma: Junta Gives Referendum Priority Over Cyclone Relief
Disregarding the disaster caused by Cyclone Nargis, Burma’s military…
Inner Mongolia: Journalists Arrested
Chinese authorities have arrested two journalists in Inner Mongalia,…
Taiwan: UN Discriminatory Violation of Press Freedom Denounced
A Brussels-based NGO sent an open letter to UN Secretary General Ban…
Burma: A Death Toll Mounts
Estimates of up to 150,000 dead are not being discounted as international…
Tibet: China Will Not Listen To Dissenting Voices
A journalist who wrote of a need for China to review its policy to Tibet…

UNPO General Assembly Simulated by Students
An increasing number of students from around Brazil have taken an interest…
UNPO 9th General Assembly - May 2008
EU Proposes Gandhian Nonviolence to Promote Human Rights
In its annual report on human rights in the world, written by Italian…
De facto States Conference 2008
Opening the World Order to de facto States

UNPFII Calls for A New Era of Partnership
On the last day of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous…
Language: The Main Topic of UNPFII’s Fourth Day
Delegates took up the discussion of language by illustrating the threats…
Third Day of UNPFII Focuses on the Pacific
The UNPFII has assessed the Millennium Development Goals from the perspective…
UNPO Attends Seventh Session of UNPFII
UNPO is in New York attending the Seventh Session of the United Nations…

UNPO Applauds Approval of Human Rights Report

Thursday, 08 May 2008
The draft report on the European Union’s human rights record, compiled by Rapporteur Marco Cappato MEP, was approved by a massive majority in the European Parliament this afternoon. In raising concern over continued rights abuses in Burma, China, Iran, and Russia, UNPO hails the report as sending an important signal of intent from Europe to the regimes perpetrating these abuses. However, it now falls to the European Union to live up to the recommendations of the report.
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