International Amnesty lawyer, Julia Hall, and the former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Novak, urged today, in a public audition on torture, the European Parliament to reopen a criminal investigation into secret CIA detentions, and namely... more

Three hundred migrant men and women have gone today on hunger strike at Athens Law University demanding for asylum status. The immigrants, mostly from North Africa, have put together the biggest mobilization ever recorded in Greece after a hunger... more

The official results show that Conservative President Silva has been elected to a second term with 53% of the votes, and his top opponent, Manuel Alegre, coming with a distant second with 20%.

Cavaco Silva has been supporting the austerity plan... more

During this weekend a Conference on education took place in Stuttgart with the presence of Maite Mola, EL vice president, and Sissy Velissariou, from Synaspismos. Being both members of EL Education Working Group, a strong based perspective of the... more

Marie-Christine Vergiat, GUE/NGL Coordinator on the Subcommittee on Human Rights and member of the Maghreb in the European Parliament has spoken yesterday in the Plenary Session on the Tunisian regime unrestrained behavior and attacks against the... more