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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8680

3 April 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/human rights
Parliament fails to adopt annual report on human rights in the Union

Strasbourg, 02/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament is once again divided on the human rights situation in the European Union, as evinced by the vote in Thursday's plenary on the report by French Green Alima Boumediene-Thiery. Before it was rejected (177 votes in favour, 184 against and 13 abstentions) by the right wing of the Parliament, several paragraphs of the report were narrowly adopted. These stressed 1) women's right to sexual education, contraception and abortion, 2)...

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