OTHER INTERESTING ARTICLES: In this section you can see interviews with Emma as well as articles and press statements made by third parties which we think are of interest.

Emma Nicholson satisfied with Kashmir Report

Pakistan Times
24 March 2007
LONDON (UK): Baroness Emma Nicholson has expressed complete satisfaction on the draft report she prepared for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament which incorporated some 56 amendments at Brussels on wednesday.
Speaking at a news conference here on Friday on her return from Brussels,she said the draft report has now become […]

British MEP to travel to Iran to discuss nuclear issue

The Earth Times
February 25 2007
Brussels, Feb 25 British Member of the European Parliament Baroness Emma Nicholson said Sunday she will be travelling to Tehran soon to discuss the nuclear imbroglio with the Iranian authorities.
‘I hope to be in Iran soon to discuss (the nuclear issue) with the Iranians,’ Nicholson was quoted by IRNA as saying.
She […]

Dark lives of the tunnel children

Sunday Times
February 4 2007
Author: Nicola Smith
On a busy city street where office workers in thick coats were shopping for groceries on their way home, a child’s hand reached up from a manhole and
beckoned me into the shadows below.
With palms pressed against the ground on either side of the hole, I lowered myself into it until the […]

Romanian child rights experts comment on child welfare reform

Press release
Statement by group of independent Romanian child right experts, issued in response to an interview on RTE (Radio Television Eire) with John Mulligan.
Bucharest, August 3rd 2006
FACTS:
-  Romania’s population is almost 23.000.000 inhabitants;
-  In December 2004 Romania had 82,918 children in the child care system;
- 50,239 of these children live with their families (including 15,834 […]

How the Romanian press reacted to Moscovici’s recommendations on EU accesssion

Publication: Curentul (Romania)
Date of publication: November 24, 2006
Author: Victor Iulian Tuca
Extracts from the article:
“The Council for Foreign Affairs (AFET) adopted, yesterday, the amendments recommended in the last draft report of the European Parliament regarding Romania’s admission into the EU. The major themes were the Roma and the protection of the Hungarian minority, and international adoptions. […]

Kashmiri leaders to meet Emma Nicholson

Asian Tribune
January 19 2007
Baroness Emma Nicholson’s draft report on behalf of EU has resulted in a Pakistan led campaign against it. This report has further split the Kashmiri community, with some people supporting it and others strongly opposing it.
However there is a body of opinion which says the report has good points and bad points, […]

Donations to Kashmir ‘may fund terrorists’

The Herald
December 22 2006
Author: Douglas Fraser
Donations to a fund to provide humanitarian relief after the Kashmir earthquake last year may be finding their way to terrorist jihadi groups, according to a report drawn up for the European Parliament.
The claim, by a leading Liberal Democrat MEP, has incensed supporters of Pakistani Kashmir, who are calling for […]

Why won’t Romania stop this horror?

The Evening Standard
September 3, 2006
Author: Chris Rogers
Romania was told to clean up the enduring hell of its notorious orphanages before it could join the EU next year. Its government and Brussels say that it has complied. So how do they explain these heartbreaking images filmed secretly just weeks ago?
We were ushered into a large, sparsely […]

Baroness refuses to flee attack

The Mirror
August 14 2006
Author: Chris Hughes
A BRITISH politician was nearly caught in an Israeli bombing raid yesterday as she saw first hand one of the most heavily shelled parts of Beirut.
Lebanese soldiers pleaded with Baroness Emma Nicholson, 65, to flee to waiting cars in the blitzed suburb of Shiyah.
But as Israeli warplanes returned she refused […]

The terrible lottery of Kidnap

Sunday Express
May 28 2006
Author: Michael Knapp
There was outrage last week when it was revealed that three countries had paid nearly GBP 30million in ransom to Iraqi kidnappers for the release of some of their citizens. MICHAEL KNAPP investigates the murky world of hostage taking and the grim game of chance that means some victims are […]