MEDIA: This section of the site contains articles, letters, interviews and other material such as book chapters. Some of the articles were written by Emma, some are based on interviews with her, and under the “press review” section you can see articles which we consider interesting or important. You can browse the entire list of articles below, or look under the various categories on the left. Journalists who would like to interview Emma are kindly asked to submit their questions in writing.

Pakistan Elections Falls Short of International Standards According to EU Election Observation Mission

18 APRIL 2008
Member of the European Parliament, Baroness Emma Nicholson (MEP) and delegate on the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Pakistan today gave her backing to the Mission’s Final report on the February 2008 National and Provincial elections which found that while improvements had been made from the 2002 poll in Pakistan […]

Discrimination against Muslim women and its causes

17 April 2008
European Parliament (press release), EU
Religion is not the source of human rights abuses, and it is patriarchal culture, not the Koran, that leads to discrimination against Muslim women, concluded a Women’s Rights Committee hearing on 17 April.
“Religion, culture and politics should not be mixed up”, as this risks leading to misunderstandings, said Committee […]

Iraqi Prime Minister calls for further “cooperation and partnership” between Iraq and the E.U

16 APRIL 2008
Nouri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, today (16th April 2008) called for “new steps of cooperation and partnership between Iraq and the E.U” during a wide ranging address at a special joint meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Delegation for relations with Iraq chaired by […]

MEP calls for EU Council to take action on Palestinians in Israeli Jails

15 April 2008
Baroness Nicholson MEP today called on the European Union Council to take action on the 11,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails including hundreds of children and women, the majority held in administrative detention and with little right to judicial oversight.
According to the Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human […]

MEP criticise lack of democracy, development in PoK

13 Apr 2008
Zee News
New Delhi, April 13: The “lack of democracy and development” in Gilgit and Baltistan areas of Pak-occupied Kashmir has come under severe criticism from several Members of European Parliament (MEP), with some of them charging Islamabad with “illegally” separating it from the rest of PoK.
“It is a matter of regret that Pakistan […]

Baroness Nicholson MEP condemns “anomaly” of Kashmir’s forgotten region

10 April 2008
Speaking at the close of a two day seminar at the European Parliament in Brussels, Baroness Nicholson MEP described the Gilgit and Baltistan region of Pakistan as “a political and constitutional anomaly”:
“This region of two million people has been under the direct military rule of Islamabad since 1949. Its people lack a functioning […]

End reign of terror, deprivation in Gilgit, Baltistan

8 April 2008
DailyIndia.com
Brussels, Apr.8: Brussels, Apr.8: Representatives of the European Parliament and the International Kashmir Alliance (IKA) on Tuesday called for an end to Pakistan’s reign of terror and deprivation in the remote and underdeveloped areas of Gilgit and Baltistan.
In a telecon from Brussels, Mr. Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, Secretary General of the IKA and Chairman […]

Baroness Nicholson MEP Backs European Parliament Iraq Report

12 March 2008
Baroness Nicholson MEP who chairs the European Parliament’s Permanent ad hoc Delegation for relations with Iraq and was also the first foreign speaker to address the Iraqi Parliament in October 2007 today gave her backing to the European Parliament’s recommendations to the Council on the European Union’s role in Iraq.
Speaking during the debate […]

Baroness Nicholson MEP Welcomes First Joint Parliamentary Iraq Meeting

29 February 2008
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP yesterday welcomed a high level visit by Iraqi parliamentarians to the European Parliament in Brussels. The visit was the first time a joint meeting has been held between Iraqi parliamentarians and the European Parliament’s newly established Permanent Ad-hoc Delegation for Relations with Iraq, chaired by Baroness Nicholson.
In a […]

Baroness Nicholson MEP calls on Pakistan to Address ‘Profound Democratic Deficits’

22nd February 2008
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP today spoke out on the Pakistan elections on her return from Lahore as a parliamentary member of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EUEOM), calling on the incoming Government to address the imperatives of the ‘profound democratic deficits with rigour and determination so that Pakistan’s democracy can finally […]