This archive is a rich source of press releases that covers the range of issues which Emma is involved in. Here you can read a number of short statements concerning elections in Yemen and Iraq, women’s rights in Kuwait, children’s rights and reform in Romania, democracy in Iran…and more. The material posted here was written prior to the 2007 update of Emma’s website (i.e. dated from 2006 and back).

Baroness Nicholson exposes lead poisoning of gypsy children in Kosovan refugee camps

Baroness Nicholson MEP
12 November 2008
Today, 12 November at 10am, Baroness Nicholson MEP will chair a meeting in the European Parliament to call for the relocation of two UN refugee camps in Kosovo built close to toxic wasteland where a generation of children are facing ill health and premature death because of lead poisoning.
Four refugee camps […]

Letter to Financial Times

In the absence of political rights, any bilateral deal on Kashmir will fail
Published: May 30 2007
From Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP.
Sir, Your article on Kashmir (”Political wrangles dim the prospect of a deal with India”, May 29) is timely. Last week, for the first time, the European parliament adopted a formal position on Kashmir. The […]

Bhutto comments on Nicholson’s Kashmir report

Statement by Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party, on Nicholson’s Kashmir Report

24 May 2007
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party, welcomes the European Union Report presented by Baroness Emma Nicholson for drawing attention to the right of self determination of the Kashmiri people;
* for reaffirming the EU’s commitment to the […]

Imran Khan “pledges his full support”

Statement by Imran Khan MP on Nicholson’s Kashmir Report
23rd May 2007
Imran Khan MP today pledged his full support for the European Parliament report “Kashmir: present situation and future prospects” (rapporteur Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne).
He declared:
“This report demonstrates the European Parliament’s concern for freedom and democracy for the Kashmiri people in Gilgit and Baltistan and Azad […]

Conclusive Foreign Affairs Committee vote on Romania

23rd November 2006
Press release 
Commenting on the result of today’s European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee vote on its final Romania report before EU accession, Baroness Nicholson commented:
“I am absolutely delighted that today the work of the Foreign Affairs Committee Romania came to such a triumphant conclusion. Fifty one MEPs voted for a very positive assessment on […]

A “deplorable silence” about Lebanon

27th September 2006
Press release
Emma Nicholson deplores Europe’s silence on Lebanon
Emma Nicholson has criticised the EU’s silence during this summer’s Lebanon crisis, and inaction in the face of a ’slaughter of the innocents’.  During this evening’s meeting in the European Parliament in Strasbourg with Prime Minister Siniora of Lebanon, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP said:
“Lebanon is […]

Observation Mission for 2006 presidential elections in Yemen

7 September 2006
Liberal Democrat MEP, Emma Nicholson leads EU Election Observation Mission for 2006 presidential elections in Yemen
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Member of the European Parliament and Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee is currently in Yemen, where she is heading the EU’s Observation Mission to the Presidential elections taking place throughout the country […]

“Romania has crossed the Rubicon”

26th September 2006
Commenting on the European Commission’s report (published this afternoon at 15.00) on Romania’s preparedness for EU membership, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne said:
“With today’s announcement, Romania has finally crossed the Rubicon and will once again become part of Europe on 1 January 2007.  After 16 agonising years shaking off the grim shadow left by […]

International Conference on Deinstitutionalization

16th March 2006 
Press release
At the opening of the International Conference on Deinstitutionalization: Disseminating a Model of Good Practices, taking place in Bucharest, 17-18 March 2006, Baroness Nicholson will comment:
“I warmly welcome the splendid work of Hope and Homes for Children whose example on the setting up of a small, family style homes in Romania to […]

“Elections in Basra have gone very well”

15th December 2005
Press release
Keywords: elections/Iraq/Basra
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP has spent the day observing the elections in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, at the head of an international delegation of observers.
Baroness Nicholson said: “It has been an excellent day here in Basra, where our multinational monitoring team has visited polling stations and monitored the […]