EP Plenary session - Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 144)

EP Plenary session - Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 144) Latest attacks against women, women's rights defenders in Iran, and its arbitrary detention of EU nationals

This infoclip presents Oleg ORLOV, Sergei KOVALEV and Lyudmila ALEXEYEVA, representatives of Russian civil rights defence organization Memorial, who have been awarded European Parliament's 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Infoclip: Memorial, Sakharov Prize 2009

Debate on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Stéphane HESSEL, Ambassador, co-writer of the Universal declaration of Human Rights, Souyer BALHASSEN, President of International Federation of Human Rights, Eric SOTTAS, Secretary General, World Organisation Against Torture, Margaret SEKAGGAYA, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders.

60th years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Extract from the debate on the Human Rights Defenders : Activists for democracy, in danger

Shirin EBADI, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate meets with Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, EP President in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, EP President, meets with Shirin EBADI, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate: meeting and extracts from the press point

Salih Mahmoud OSMAN, Sudanese defence lawyer for the victims of the war in Darfur, receives the Sakharov Prize 2007 award during a ceremony held in the plenary in Strasbourg.

Sakharov Prize 2007: award to Salih Mahmoud OSMAN, Sudanese defence lawyer for the victims of the war in Darfur

Anna POLITKOVSKAÏA, Russian journalist, was shot in her Moscow apartment block by unknown assailants on 7 October. The Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) organised an exchange of views on the human rights situation in Russia.

Tribute to Anna POLITKOVSKAÏA: exchange of views on the human rights situation in Russia

The European Parliament, meeting in Plenary session in Brussels, discussed relations with Russia after the assassination of the campaigning Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and to pay homage to her. She was shot in her Moscow apartment block by unknown assailants on 7 October. MEps voted on a resolution on relations between the EU and Russia after her assassination.

EU - Russia: vote on the resolution on relations between the EU and Russia after the assassination of Anna POLITKOVSKAÏA, Russian journalist

MEPs observed a minute's silence in honour of Anna POLITKOVSKAÏA and other assassinated journalists.

Minute of silence in honour of Anna POLITKOVSKAÏA: statements by Josep BORRELL, President of the EP, Paula LEHTOMÄKI, Finnish Presidency and Jose Manuel BARROSO, President of the EC

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