[Enwl-eng] newsletter 17 March 2019

Sun Mar 17 21:37:35 MSK 2019



                              # 18 sunday, 17 March 2019- edited by Ilaria 
Saltarelli and Martina Paterna


                       Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer, has 
been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes because of 
her work defending women's rights & protesting against Iran’s forced hijab 
laws. She has reportedly been detained since June 2018 after her arrest for 
a 2016 in absentia conviction and five year prison sentence. She received 
the European Union’s most prestigious human rights award, the Sakharov Prize 
for Freedom of Thought, in 2012.In the conference held in Rome at the 
headquarters of the Radical party on Friday 15 March, Hands Off Cain 
launched an appeal for Nasrin release.

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                       On 13 march 2019, the Governor of California Gavin 
Newsom signed an executive order that declares a moratorium on executions of 
California’s 737 inmates on death row. Governor Newsom also orders a 
withdrawal of California’s lethal injection protocol and calls for the 
immediate closure of the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison.

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                       The European Commission and the High Representative 
for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini reviewed European 
Union-China relations and the related opportunities and challenges. With a 
Joint communication, they set out 10 concrete actions for EU Heads of State 
or Government to discuss and endorse at the European Council of 21 March.

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                       A humanitarian crisis fuelled by the suppression of 
basic human rights is continuing across Myanmar’s Rakhine state, said the 
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar in an appeal 
for alleged atrocities there to be referred to the International Criminal 
Court. She highlighted several areas of concern across the country, 
including grave abuses linked to the mass exodus of some 700,000 Rohingya 
Muslims from Rakhine in August 2017, which was sparked by separatist 
violence against police posts.

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                       European Parliament resolution of 13 March 2019 on 
the 2018 Commission Report on Turkey adopted on wednesday by 370 votes in 
favour, 109 against with 143 abstentions.

                              The European Parliament want the Council and 
the Commission to suspend Eu accession talks with Turkey. MEPs remains 
seriously concerned about Turkey’s poor track record in upholding human 
rights, the rule of law, media freedom and the fight against corruption as 
well as its all-powerful presidential system.


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                       The volume of international transfers of major arms 
in 2014–18 was 7.8 per cent higher than in 2009–13 and 23 per cent higher 
than in 2004–2008, according to new data on arms transfers published on 11 
March by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The 
ﬁve largest exporters in 2014–18 were the United States, Russia, France, 
Germany and China. Together, they accounted for 75 per cent of the total 
volume of arms exports in 2014–18. The flow of arms to Middle East increased 
of 87% between 2009–13 and 2014–18, while there was a decrease in flows to 
all other regions. Saudi Arabia became the world’s largest arms importer in 
2014–18, with an increase of 192 per cent compared with 2009–13.

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                       With the Resolution of 14 march 2019 on a European 
human rights violations sanctions regime, the European Parliament calls on 
the Council to swiftly establish an autonomous, flexible and reactive 
EU-wide sanctions regime that would allow for the targeting of any 
individual, state and non-state actors, and other entities responsible for 
or involved in grave human rights violations.This regime should allow for 
the imposition of restrictive measures, notably asset freezes and EU entry 
bans, against any individual or entity responsible for, involved in or which 
has assisted, financed or contributed to the planning, directing or 
committing of gross human rights violations, abuses and acts of systemic 
corruption related to grave human rights violations; emphasises the need to 
clearly define the scope of violations as well as to set up appropriate 
legal avenues through which a listing can be challenged.

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            From: Radical Party
            Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2019 9:05 PM
            Subject: newsletter 17 March 2019


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