On the occasion of my visits to Mexico and in order to advocate for the EU to take Human Rights serious, I and Satu Hassi wrote a question to Catherine Ashton, the High Representative on Foreign Affairs and Security Policies. Both of us engaged a lot in the past in…

TTIP website of the Greens/EFA group online The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament has set up a new web site on TTIP. There you can find campaign videos, up-to-date information and much useful background material. http://ttip2014.eu/   Two LSE studies about ISDS There are two new studies of the…

Watch the LIVE recording of the 7th Conference on Feminicide “Stop feminicide in Europe and in Latin America” hosted by the Greens/EFA on Thursday, 6 March 2014 in the European Parliament, Brussels. Feminicide, or the gender-based murder of women because they are women is a global phenomenon to be addressed with…

Garment workers in Cambodia last week started working again after two weeks of strike. Unfortunately they did not quit their strike because their demands were accepted, but because their protest were struck down so brutally, that five protesting workers were killed and many injured. The garment workers on strike have…

TTIP The second negotiating round, which was postponed due to the US-American shutdown, is taking place this week (11 – 15 November). Market access (especially investment and services), tariffs as well as energy and raw materials are on the agenda. The third negotiating round will take place in December as…

Structural murder – only due a female gender – is an aggravating problem especially in Latin America. In collaboration with NGOs Ska compiled the video campaign “FEMINICIDE”. Ska insists to end this cruelty and hopes to broaden attention concerning the topic of killed women this way. You are very welcome…

Currently, hundreds of negotiators from all over the world meet in Morocco to find an agreement on a new international treaty that should facilitate the access to books for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled people. The World Health Organisation states that there are more than 314 million blind…