“State visits do not automatically include an invitation to address our parliament, and no previous US President has been invited on a State visit in his first year in office; so it is unfortunate that the Prime Minister seems to have made an exception in this case!”
Washington Attorney general Bob Ferguson commented outside the Federal District Court in Seattle the decision by Judge James Robart which temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order on immigration: “It is obviously a historic decision, an important one for the rule of law, for the people of the State of Washington and for the people of this country. I said from
Two years ago today, February 7, 2015, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, who had taken office just three days earlier, received Marco Pannella for a meeting at the Quirinale. Marco Pannella, who reached the presidential palace by taxi, was the first political leader to be received by the new President Mattarella. As with his predecessor Giorgio Napolitano,
Giulio Terzi e Jason M. Brodsky European powers have been quietly warning members of President Trump’s team that new sancrions on Iran are a nonstarter across the atlantic. One senior European official went as far as to say that if any new us sanctions were to cause the Iran nuclear deal to collapse, most Europeans will say it was Washington’s
by Domenico Letizia* Security remains a cardinal principle for all citizens that they move and act in the social fabric. Our age, defined by many as postmodern, has many aspects of continuous development. Acting politically, in the spread of human rights, humanitarian International law and ensuring security, means being aware that, the context on which it plays, is a transactional
Exactly eight months after Marco Pannella passed away, we welcome the statement by Alfred de Zayas, the United Nations Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order: “Because the right to know is crucial to every democracy, whistleblowers should be protected, not persecuted.” The statement by the Independent Expert of the Office of the UN High
The Nonviolent Radical Party, the Global Committee for the Rule of Law – Marco Pannella and the association Hands Off Cain congratulate Antonio Tajani on becoming President of the European Parliament. We welcome the result of this election as President Tajani has shown concrete attention for the initiatives undertaken, in particular, in favor of a universal Moratorium on the death
Since 1984, the United States have been observing the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January. The federal holiday marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr who was born on January 15, 1929. It celebrates the life and achievements of the American civil rights leader who struggled through nonviolent means for racial equality in the
Introduction by Executive Director Kenneth Roth The Dangerous Rise of Populism. Global Attacks on Human Rights Values Human rights exist to protect people from government abuse and neglect. Rights limit what a state can do and impose obligations for how a state must act. Yet today a new generation of populists is turning this protection on its head. Claiming to speak for
On 6 January 2016, Le Monde published an editorial contrasting the Reason of State to the Rule of Law, providing an interpretation fully consistent with the title that Marco Pannella had given to the First International Conference “Reason of State versus Rule of law”, organized by the Nonviolent Radical Party in the European Parliament in Brussels on 18-19 February 2014.