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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Strasbourg, France - Hanging up a crucifix in a school classroom limits parents' right to educate their children according to their own religious convictions as well as the student's right not to believe in God, the European Court of Human Rights rul...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
STRASBOURG, France -- Europe's court of human rights says the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms.
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Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
European Parliament Opposes Pro-Life Amdts to Stop Forced Abortion Funding Strasbourg, France (LifeNews.com) -- Members of the European Parliament voted against amendments to the budget to revoke funding from groups that promote coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations as part of their family planning programs in other nations. They had been asked by pro-life groups to support them. One amendment...
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Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A clutch of far-right political parties have cobbled together an alliance of convenience to represent their interests in the European Parliament, the leader of Hungary's extreme nationalist grouping, Jobbik, announced in Budapest over the weekend. Far-right monitoring groups however say that the coalition is made up for the most part of ultra-right wing groupuscules that have no representation in Strasbourg,...
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Euractive (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek is a passionate defender of the European Parliament's Strasbourg seat, Belgian daily reported last week.La Libre Belgique
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LifeNews.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Strasbourg, France (LifeNews.com) -- Members of the European Parliament voted against amendments to the budget to revoke funding from groups that promote coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations as part of their family planning programs in other nations. They had been asked by pro-life groups to support them.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Strasbourg, France/Moscow - Three Russian human rights activists who campaigned to shed light on the crimes of the Soviet Union have won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, parliament president Jerzy Buzek announced Thurs...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Strasbourg, France - Three Russian human-rights activists who campaign to shed light on the crimes of the Soviet Union have won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, parliament president Jerzy Buzek announced Thursday. The ...
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LifeNews.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Strasbourg, France (LifeNews.com) -- Members of the European Parliament are getting encouragement from pro-life advocates to support amendments to the budget to revoke funding from groups that promote coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations as part of their family planning programs in other nations.
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Judiciary Report (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Thorbjoern Jagland of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway The Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, have leapt to the defense of U.S. President Barack Obama, the recipient of this year's Peace Prize. Many have spoken out, stating the President has not done anything of great accomplishment yet, to merit receiving the award. The criticism has been quite heavy and harsh, with some even calling for...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Mainstream British voters and MPs elected to what the BNP calls the "one-party state" at Westminster will have to get used to the kind of publicity the far right has attracted this week. Their European neighbours have put up with it for years. In the space of a few days the main parties have nominated champions to face Nick Griffin, BNP leader and new MEP, on BBC1's Question Time next Thursday....
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HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
How brain dead do these guys have to be ? Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president. Asked to comment on the uproar following Friday's announcement, four members of the five-seat panel told The Associated Press that they...
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Haystack Commentary (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
In response to criticism of their giving the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barrack Obama, the 5 member Nobel committee defends the action by stating: "We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the prize for what he has done." Jagland singled out Obama's efforts to heal the divide between the West and the...
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
RubinReportsBarry Rubin It’s bad enough that lunatics are running the asylum but to make matters worse they’re charging us rent! UN General Assembly chaired by Libya; EU chaired by Sweden; UN Human Rights committee run by Sudan. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received as a great statesman by the UN after stealing the election and repressing demonstrators. President Barack Obama’s...
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Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
ECLJ: Council of Europe Postpones Vote on Pro-Abortion Report October 01, 2009 (Strasbourg, France) - The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) has announced that a vote on a resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that promotes abortion as a means of family planning and population control in developing countries has been postponed. The ECLJ has learned the vote...