United Kingdom: slaves freed” “

According to the UK Home Ministry, at least 1500 girls, most of them in their lower teens, have been smuggled into the UK over the last year to feed the prostitution racket. Great Britain is often used as a transit country for women coming from Africa and directed towards other European countries, lured by the […]

di Silvia Guzzetti – London" "" "

prostitution" "

France: an unpunished offence” “

Discussion has begun in the Justice Commission of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies on twelve bills relating to prostitution currently before parliament. The situation in the other European countries is diversified. In France many prostitutes come from the countries of central and eastern Europe, and also from many African countries. Hitherto, the most reliable data on […]

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combating aids" "

The Church reduced to silence” “

The 14th International Conference on’Aids, held in recent days in Barcelona (7-12 July), underlined the progress being made in the prevention of this disease which is currently spreading in Africa in an alarming manner. To curb its advance, according to the United Nations, 10 billion dollars are needed, 7 billion more that currently available. 40 […]

di Miriam Díez Bosch - Barcelona" "" "

European Court of Human Rights” “

There are no “justifications that may prevent transsexuals from enjoying the right to marry”. With two sentences (nos. 366 and 367 of 11 July 2002) the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg established in recent days that transsexuals too have the right to marry. The Court accepted the appeals presented against the United Kingdom […]

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Presentation of bids” “

· COOPERATION – Invitation to present proposals for the co-financing, in 2002 and 2003, of actions of decentralised cooperation in the developing countries. Deadline for the presentation of bids: 28/10/2002. For further information, contact the European Commission, Office of cooperation Europeaid, e-mail Europeaid-cdc@cec.eu.int, or consult the Internet site of the European Commission http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/index_en.htm (OGEC C […]

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EU legislation” “

In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Decision no. 1247/2002/CE of the EP, of the Council and of the Commission, of 1/7/2002, relating to the status and general condition for the exercise of the functions of European guarantor of data protection (OGEC L 183/1, […]

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Dailies and periodicals” “

“The euro overtakes the dollar, growth below 3%”. That’s the front-page headline of Le Monde (17/7), which thus hails the euro’s “overtaking” of the American currency, against a general background of the “collapse” of stock exchanges throughout the world. Inside the paper, the front-page story is analyzed at length: “The weakening of the dollar vis-à-vis […]

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Fears about the programme for scientific research” “

The text of the sixth framework programme for technological research and development, approved by the Council at the beginning of June, provides for the possibility of the EU financing research projects on stem cells if they conform to the requisite of ‘patentability’ and if the final objective is to improve human health. The governments of […]

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Disagreement on the reform of the common agricultural policy” “

To the surprise even of its own staff, the European Commission has grasped the occasion of the publication of the mid-tern review of the EU’s agricultural regime, adopted by the Berlin summit in 1999 and endorsed by Agenda 2000, to present a Communication which calls for a sweeping reform of the CAP, the common agricultural […]

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France: the bishop to holidaymakers, "drive slowly"” “

An appeal to holidaymarkers not to succumb to the passion for speeding and not to drink alcohol before driving has been made by Bishop Georges Gilson of Sens-Auxerre (France). Speed and alcohol – he says – are the main causes of “often fatal road accidents” and are therefore “a sin against oneself and against others”. […]

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