Jens Holm

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  • US outsourcing of human rights abuses and Europe’s complicity

    Attacking the ”outsourcing of human rights violations” in the name of the so called ’war on terror’, today in the European Parliament, German GUE/NGL MEP Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann lashed out at EU governments for simply ”looking the other way while the CIA was committing systematic human rights abuses on their territory”. ”The evidence unearthed by our…

  • Report: Greenland

     Together with my party group GUE/NGL I went to Greenland during the last week of August 2007. The main focus of the trip was to study climate change. You can read our report here: Greenland report_GUENGL.doc (as word). Some of our findings were: * The Ilulissat glacier dubbel its speed 1997-2003. 35 meters a day…

  • Colombia – the most dangerous country in the world for union activists

    The international trade union federation ITUC (of which the Swedish trade federations LO, TCO and SACO are members) has recently published its annual report on the situation for union activists around the world. The statistics are discouraging, in particular for Colombia. Of the 144 murders of union activists that occurred in the world, 78 were…

  • Greenland: The Ice gets Thinner

    NEWS UPDATE FROM THE GUE/NGL GROUP GUE/NGL delegation to Greenland observes the effects of climate change first hand The need for industrialized countries to come to terms with the reality of climate change has been the key message from a visit by members of the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament to Greenland this week.…

  • GUE/NGL to Greenland

    GUE/NGL delegation to Greenland, August 27-31 To explore the fundamental issues and challenges facing the people of Greenland, a delegation from the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament is visiting the country this week to meet with political representatives, NGOs and local experts for discussion on four key themes: climate change, militarisation, independence and indigenous…

  • Trade and climate

    Last week we had an interesting hearing about how the world trade affects the climate in the committee for international trade (INTA). Read an excellent report from the experts we contracted: EP-trade-climate-report_FINAL.pdf In the environment committe I am responsible for an opinion on the matter. Read it here: trade_climate_holm.pdf  (as a pdf).