During the World Congress Against the Death Penalty, held in Geneva PACE Rapporteur on the question of abolishing the death penalty Renate Wohlwend suggested that Japan and the United States as observers at the Council of Europe, to join the “movement for the abolition of this barbaric punishment “.
PACE continues to strictly monitor the implementation of the ban on the death penalty. Currently, she is trying to extend it to countries that have observer status with the Council of Europe. This in particular applies to the U.S. and Japan ( ed. – in February this year the Government of Japan announced the results of the study: more than 85.6% of Japanese favor of retaining the death penalty, only 5,7% – against) .
“Certainly, PACE has already considered the possibility of recommending to withdraw from the U.S. and Japan observer status with the Council of Europe. But as far as it will help the cause, prohibition the death penalty? “I believe that such a” sanction “simply spur retentsionalnye those political forces that could benefit from some of the European perception of arrogance” – she said.
Currently, Europe is the world”s only region in which almost everywhere the death penalty is prohibited by law. All 47 member states of the Council of Europe have abolished or a moratorium on the death penalty.
Tip of Europe comes from the fact that the death penalty has no place in a democratic society. Such a position the organization in 1983 resulted in the adoption, on the initiative of the PACE protocol N 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights to abolish the death penalty in peacetime. Read more »
LONDON (Reuters) – Since the drug for male impotence, Viagra exploded on the global market for pharmaceuticals, laboratories are seeking an equivalent for women. Little Pill blue made by the U.S. giant has revolutionized the sex lives of many people frustrated, and the possibility that a pill do the same for women”s libido and economic expectations generated enthusiasm among drug developers.
Still, the strong initiative of the German company Boehringer Ingelheiml, current leader of this race with its experimental product flibanserin, is attracting other women passions among some health experts.
A survey funded by the firm and released this week sought to demonstrate the emotional impact and distress experienced by women due to the lack of sexual desire.
But the work infuriated critics . Some believe that this is an attempt to position the absence or reduction of the female libido as a medical disorder. This, they say, threatens to stereotype the problem and makes women feel they have a deficiency. “The idea that the lack of sexual interest should be treated with a pill immediately implies that the multiple factors contributing to sexual problems might be overlooked, resulting that the medication is ineffective, “said Lisa Martinez, founder of the Foundation of Women”s Sexual Health, an international group based in the United States. “The medication may be the right treatment, but can not be. It depends on what the true cause of the lack of desire. If a woman is tired, distressed and need help raising their children, the pill is not the answer, “he said. In this case, the solution would be to decrease their level of fatigue and get help at home to raise their children, he said. Boehringer says it ran into the effects of flibanserin, a serotonin modulator, while investigating the chemical as a potential antidepressant. CLASSIFY THE lack of libido Martinez and other experts fear it will generate excessive medicalization of sex, a phenomenon that could inundate many couples rooms with patented pills, potions and creams. Read more »
Speaking in Beijing on Wednesday, the U.S. special representative for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, said in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, discussed “how to get a new drive and return to the negotiating table.” Bosworth is visiting China and then travel to South Korea and Japan, while North Korea”s neighbors seek to resume stalled negotiations aimed at ending the nuclear weapons program the isolated Asian country. “I think we all share the view that it is important to return to the negotiating table as soon as possible,” he told reporters at a brief news conference, but said it would be premature to describe how the negotiations would be boosted. North Korea a year ago to quit the disarmament negotiations to six parties, which also included China, North Korea , USA, Japan and Russia. Read more »
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1. Banks issue credit cards of several different types. Before filling out the application form you should make sure that you understand what type of card you are offered. Find out the information about each type of the card to see that you need exactly this type.
2. Think about the way you are planning to use the credit card. If you plan to repay the balance in full every month, then the best variant for you is to get a charge card. If you are going to use the card for balance transfers, then pay attention to the interest rate on balance transfers and look for the card with the lowest rate. If you plan to postpone the balance repayment till the next month each time, try to find the card with a low percentage rate. Read more »
Recent examples illustrate this “democratic backsliding, which affects mainly fo1000rmer French colonies: first, the coup in Niger, and secondly, the wave of violence affecting the Ivory Coast after the successive postponements of the presidential elections since 2005. After the coup in Niger, President Mamadou Tandja deposed the democratically-elected but recently dismissed the government and the constitutional court, a question remains in the air: “Whose turn now?” Within two years there have been coups in Mauritania (August 6, 2008), Guinea (December 23, 2008) , Madagascar (March 17, 2009) and Niger (February 18). In March 2009, Guinea-Bissau suffered the double murder of army chief and President Joao Bernardo Vieira. “The democratic system that had been built by consensus in the early nineties with national conferences, was gangrenous, “he told AFP official African Meeting for the Defense of Human Rights (RADDHO), Alioune Tine. ” We”re seeing a consolidation personal power, from #39; charismatic leaders #39;, to the detriment of the institutions have weakened, “he said. “Several heads of state want to last forever and die in power. There is a diversion of constitutions, elections and the entire democratic process.” Temptation of dynastic succession, by contested elections, is also undermining efforts to entrench democratic rules in Africa. In the DRC, Joseph Kabila, who was barely 20 years, succeeded his father, Laurent-Desire, who was assassinated in 2001 by one of his bodyguards. Read more »
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on Monday backed the creation of a Palestinian state “viable” but was cautious about repeating the support of his foreign minister to a possible recognition of a state before establish their borders. At a Paris news conference with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Sarkozy repeated France”s support for a Palestinian state, but added: “We have always that a viable Palestinian state. ” ” What we want when we discuss a Palestinian state is a real state that can give hope and a future for millions of Palestinians. It is not just an idea “Bush told reporters. In an interview with a newspaper published at the weekend, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said that to break the deadlock in the peace process in the Middle East, some countries may recognize a Palestinian state before setting its borders. “One can imagine a Palestinian state being declared quickly and immediately recognized by the international community even before negotiating its borders. I would be tempted by it, “Kouchner told the Journal du Dimanche. Read more »
FUNCHAL, Portugal (Reuters) – The number of people missing after the floods in the resort island of Madeira soared, raising fears that the death toll in the worst natural disaster in decades gets Portugal grow dramatically, officials said on Monday. Workers of the rescue services were removing the rubble to find survivors and clear the area after torrential rain on Saturday turned streams rivers that swept the island”s capital, overturning cars , destroying houses and blocking roads. The number of residents reported by relatives as missing on Monday rose to 32 people-well above the previous estimate, while four would restore communications. The official death toll is 42. “The number of missing has grown since the restoration of communications, people have begun to report missing relatives,” he told reporters Vice President of semi-autonomous Government of Madeira, Joao Cunha e Silva. He also said he1000has confirmed the deaths of 42 people and that 370 were left homeless on the island, which receives thousands of European tourists each year. Rescue work focused initially on the capital, Funchal, but as they were reopening the roads of the mountainous island became apparent that the Floods have also affected inland populations. FOUR BODIES DISINTERRED A Reuters cameraman saw the inhabitants of Trapiche, by above Funchal, remove four bodies from the mud and debris. It is unclear whether they were included in the official toll of 42. Earlier on Monday, the Government of Portugal in Lisbon quickly promised to send economic aid to Madeira.
“At the national level and EU level, we will share all necessary assistance,” said Interior Minister Rui Pereira told reporters after a special cabinet meeting that declared three days of mourning. Read more »
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, met with governors of states that touch the inland waterways to describe an “action plan” that will focus on removing invasive species, clean up pollutants, and cure more than half a million acres (200,000 hectares) of wetlands, Jackson told reporters. “It”s about creating a new standard of care for the Great Lakes system (…) instead of minimize the damage, our new standard of care is to leave the Great Lakes better than the condition that we inherited for the next generation, “said Jackson. Late last year, Congress authorized $ 475 million to improve the ecosystem that contains 21 percent of the world”s fresh water. Obama proposed earlier this month in its budget to 300 million addi1000tional dollars in the program for the fiscal year that starts in October. About 60 million dollars will go to fight the fish Asian carp, a nonnative species that threatens to disrupt the fishing industry on Lake Michigan. Read more »
“Dubai police presented no evidence that supports the indictment in this case,” he told AFP a senior Israeli official, who requested anonymity. Chief of Dubai Police, Dahi Khalfan, said Thursday to be sure “by 99% if not 100%” that the Mossad, the Israeli secret service was behind the assassination of Mahmoud Al Mabhuh, one of the founders of Hamas”s armed wing, found dead in a hotel room in Dubai on 20 January. “Until today, nobody knows what happened. The Dubai police did not even explain the circumstances of death “Mabhuh Al, the Israeli official said. Khalfan had declared on Monday by announcing it was reconstituted in its minutest detail the acts and deeds of members of the command that would have killed At Mabhuh, the leader of Hamas was “possibly suffocated after receiving an electric shock.” “There is not even evidence that may have been murdered” insisted, however, the senior Israeli . “Everything you see in the videos are people talking on the phone,” he said. Under these conditions, it was “ridiculous” international arrest t1000hreats that could be launched at the request Dubai, against the head of Mossad, Meir Dagan. Chief of Dubai Police said that “if it is confirmed that the Mossad is behind this crime, which seems now possible Interpol Red Notice should be issued to the head of Mossad, because it would be a murderer. ” Interpol Red Notices are notices of international search view of extradition. Israeli official played down the seriousness of the call for the ambassadors of the Jewish state in Britain, Ireland, France and Germany to provide explanations for the use of passports of those countries, apparently false, carrying eleven people (ten men and one woman) suspected of involvement in the assassination of Hamas responsible. Read more »
DUBAI (Reuters) – The police chief of Dubai said on Thursday he believed that Israeli agents were involved in the death of a Hamas militant in the emirate, adding that the head of the spy agency Mossad of the Jewish state should be arrested if found responsible. As the international dispute over the attack happened last month increased, Paris, London and Dublin Israel demanded explanations for why the suspects used data from passports of their citizens. Israel adheres to the policy of “ambiguity” of Mossad operations, refusing to confirm or deny whether its1000agents assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a group commander Palestinian Islamist who was found dead in a luxury hotel room in January. In a statement to be issued later on television in Dubai, the police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamin asked Interpol to issue “a red alert against the Mossad chief murderer (…) as if it is proved that the Mossad was behind the crime, which now seems likely”. Previously, Tamim was quoted by a UAE newspaper saying he was almost certain that the Mossad, which is the former general director Meir Dagan, was responsible for the murder. “Our research reveal that Mossad is involved in the murder of (Mahmoud) al-Mabhouh. It”s 99 percent sure, if not 100 percent, that Mossad was behind the murder, “the official newspaper The National in a report posted on its website Interpol said it issued a “red alert” for 11 suspects whose photographs were distributed by Dubai. This alert is issued after authorities issued an order a country to assist in identifying or locating a suspect for arrest or extradition. “Because the names on passports found by police investigating Dubai are likely to be those of real people and innocent, Interpol does not believe that you know the true identity of the people wanted, “said Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble. United Kingdom summoned the Israeli ambassador to a meeting with Peter Ricketts, who runs his diplomatic service, to explain how it is that several British citizens living in Israel found that the data in their passports had been used by the alleged murderers. The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband said that Ricketts had made clear “the seriousness with which we take any suggestion of fraudulent use of British passports,” and asked the Israeli cooperation. Read more »
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