AFRICA-EU:  Dodging the (Human Rights) Issue
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LISBON, Dec 6  (IPS) - On the eve of the second Africa-European Union  summit, there is broad agreement on the need to defend human  rights, above all else. But academics, analysts and activists  from both continents harbour serious doubts that this noble aim  will find root in reality.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 13 (IPS) - A top European Union official has been seeking to  create divisions between South Africa and its neighbours in talks  aimed at establishing a free trade deal, African diplomats have  alleged.
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LISBON, Mar 8 (IPS) - In spite of their conquests in the 20th century,  and  so far in the 21st, women in the European Union (EU) are  still a long way  from achieving equality with men -- a goal  unequivocally laid down in the  Universal Declaration of Human  Rights.
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The incoming president of the European commission, JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, today unveiled a number of human rights initiatives in a last-ditch attempt to persuade the European parliament to back his executive team.
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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, Oct 12  (IPS) - The European Union (EU) needs to downscale its  ambition to include the so-called âânew generationââ or Singapore  issues in the economic partnership agreement (EPA) with southern  African countries before the end of the year, says South Africaâs  deputy minister of trade and industry, Dr Rob Davies.
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Â· Shootings in Nairobi slum bring death toll to 20 Â· Western countries express human rights concern
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Corte europea: assegnazione contraria al diritto
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Â· East Europeans 'pose integration challenge'Â· Councils urged to rethink strategies on diversity
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Comment is free: Ulrich Beck: A European community based on the principles of cosmopolitan tolerance could form the template for a new global order
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by our Internet desk, 14 September 2004. The European Union has renewed its threat of sanctions against the Sudanese government unless it takes action to disarm Arab militias threatening refugees in the western Darfur region.
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The EU and the US are among those accepting flawed votes for political expediency, Human Rights Watch says.
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In the panoply of human rights, it isn&#39;t the first to trip off the tongue. But more than 150 delegates at an international conference yesterday urged that it should be.
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European Union lawmakers adopted Thursday a resolution criticising Egypt's human rights record, as Cairo threatened to sever ties with the assembly and summoned EU ambassadors to complain.
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Newer EU members are struggling to promote a more traditional morality.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 27 (IPS) - Seven months after a major investigation spelt out  Europe's involvement in a murky U.S. torture and kidnapping  programme, the EU's governments have claimed they are  powerless to prevent such human rights abuses in the future.
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European Union countries are considering how to respond to Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. Send us your views.
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NEW YORK, Sep 12 (IPS) - The government of Libya routinely subjects  migrants, asylum seekers and refugees -- primarily from  sub-Saharan Africa -- to serious human rights abuses, including  beatings, arbitrary arrests, forced returns and in some cases,  torture, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released  Tuesday.