An online hearing on the Right to Know took place on Thursday 3 December at the Culture, Science, Education and Media Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Experts including the director of Access Info Europe Helen Darbishire and members of our Scientific Council Ezechia Paolo Reale, Claudio Radaelli and Laura Harth. Two hours in which our
On 3 December, at around 2 pm, a hearing will be held at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the draft resolution on the Right to Know, of which Senator Roberto Rampi is the General Rapporteur. The hearing will take place online within a session of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of which
We are delighted to receive the extraordinary support from three influential and diverse personalities and friends. Watch the statements by Koloman Brenner, Vice President of the Hungarian Parliament; Ingrid Betancourt, human rights activist, write and former member of the Colombian Senate; Thubten Wangchen, Buddhist monk, member of the Tibetan Parliament in exile and founder of the Tibetan House in Barcelona,
Statement by Norman Baker, former British Home Office Minister, in support of the Radical Party’s initiative for a project resolution on the Right to Know tabled at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Democracy is nothing without citizens who are educated and informed. And to be informed, citizens must have the Right To Know. Democracy cannot simply be
JOINT APPEAL FOR DOCTOR AHMADREZA DJALALI The Global Committee for the Rule of Law “Marco Pannella” and its President Amb. Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata, the Federazione italiana Diritti Umani (FIDU) and eight other organisations are calling on the European Union for immediate action in support of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death in Iran and currently at grave risk of
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – On November 26th, yet another trial is set to start against 140 members of the Cambodia National Rescua Party (CNRP), officially dissolved after a Constitutional Court ruling in 2017, in a move called “the end of democracy” in Cambodia, effectively eliminating the entire democratic opposition in the country. This decision, followed also by the arrest of
FROM #SAVE12HKYOUTHS TO THE CASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN HONG KONG, CHINA, VENEZUELA, IRAN AND CAMBODIA Monday November 23 – Senate of the Italian Republic With Nathan Law, Jianli Yang, Lorent Saleh, Theresly Malavé, Mona Silawi, Mu Sochua, Jared Genser On November 23rd, exactly three months will have passed since the Chinese coast guard intercepted twelve young activists at sea
Lecture at the Senate of the Italian Republic By Joshua Wong Rome, November 18, 2020 – Almost exactly one year after Joshua Wong’s first hearing at the Senate of the Italian Republic, causing a diplomatic row between Members of the Italian Parliament and the Chinese Ambassador to Italy who had accused them of “making a grave error” and “acting irresponsabily”,
Joint Declaration: full solidarity with Hong Kong’s Pan-democratic Legislators On November 11, 2020, the adoption of a new resolution by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) allowed the Hong Kong Executive to immediately disqualify four Members of the Legislative Council without the possibility of judicial appeal. The four pan-dem Legislators Alvin Yeung, Dennis Kwok, Kwok Ka-ki and Kenneth Leung
Statement by Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata and Matteo Angioli, respectively President and Secretary General of the Global Committee for the Rule of Law “Marco Pannella”, on the US elections and the victory of Democratic candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice President. With the election of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States, an election