Caroline Lucas’s work on human rights encompasses campaigns around specific countries, like Burma, as well as issues that include women’s and LGBT rights. A passionate advocate of freedom of expression and freedom of speech, Caroline has also focussed on civil liberties and human rights breaches in the UK and Europe. She sees being an MEP as an opportunity to speak out for those denied a voice and to raise awareness of oppression and discrimination worldwide.
Below you can access press releases, reports, articles, Parliamentary work and correspondence related to human rights.
Image: Caroline at Brighton PrideParade 2006
Press Releases
South East MEP Supports Calls For New Licensing Of Lapdance Clubs
- 5.6.2008
Lucas Welcomes Home Office Decision To Grant Asylum To Gay Iranian
- 21.5.2008
Green MEP Calls For World Human Rights Campaign At Brighton Anti-Homophobia Rally
- 14.5.2008
Conservatives Force EU Climbdown On Outlawing Homophobia And Ageism
- 2.5.2008
Greens Protest in European Parliament Over China’s Repressive Policy In Tibet
- 27.3.2008
Green MEP Calls For International Action On Tibet
- 20.3.2008
Green MEP Signs Downing Street Petition Demanding Better Support For Victims Of Rape And Sexual Violence
- 12.3.2008
Green Euro-MP To Address Landmark Anti-Violence Rally On International Women’s Day
- 5.3.2008
Caroline Lucas MEP Condemns Latest Violence in Gaza and Slams US Complicity
- 4.3.2008
Green Euro-MP Slams ‘Immoral and Illegal’ Siege Of Palestinian Population
- 24.1.2008
Green MEP Expresses Disgust At Treatment Of Peaceful Anti War Protester As Consultation On SOCPA Nears Its End
- 14.1.2008
Green MEP Joins Campaign To Reinstate Afghan Politician
- 20.12.2007
Prosecution Of Guantanamo Releasees Further Infringes Human Rights, Says Green MEP
- 20.12.2007
MEP Demands Straw Halts Kent Prison Expansion
- 11.10.2007
Green MEP Joins PRIDE Parade And Celebrations in Brighton
- 1.8.2007
Lib-Dem U-Turn Undermines EU On Human Rights, Say Green MEPs
- 13.7.2007
South East MEP Says Israel Must End Occupation Of Palestine
- 11.5.2007
South East MEP In Palestine To Meet President Abbas
- 27.4.2007
Greens Launch EU Bid To ‘Free West Papua’
- 29.11.2006
Euro-MP Calls On EU To Suspend Israel Trade Deal At Portsmouth Palestine Meeting
- 25.11.2006
Lucas Joins Call For Global Decriminalisation Of Homosexuality
- 14.11.2006
Green MEPs Demand UN Halts Iran’s ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Executions
- 13.11.2006
MEP Demnds UN Acts To End Papua Violence Ahead Of Channel Four Documentary
- 20.10.2006
EU Condemned For Failing To Intervene In ‘Religious Freedom’ Crisis In Indonesia
- 7.7.2006
Israeli ‘Collective Punishment’ of Palestinians Is ‘Unacceptable’, Says Lucas
- 30.6.2006
Lucas Backs Calls For Halt To Chinese Trade In ‘Stolen’ Organs
- 13.6.2006
Lucas Backs Amnesty International’s Irrepressible.Info Campaign
- 7.6.2006
Green MEP Intervenes In Case of Sussex Man Held In Vietnam
- 22.5.2006
EU Must Maintain Payments To Palestine To Prevent Disaster, Warns Lucas At Rally
- 17.5.2006
EU To Monitor Russian State Racism, As Green MEP Warns Hindus Face Persecution
- 24.4.2006
Green Euro-MPs Demand Chernobyl Answers
- 21.4.2006
Greens Condemn State-Sponsored Homophobia And Discrimination In Nigeria
- 12.4.2006
Greens Warn Of Culture Of Homophobic Discrimination After Siege Of Polish Gay Club
- 30.3.2006
Green Euro-MP Condemns ‘Homophobic’ PRIDE Ban In Moscow
- 2.3.2006
Green MEP Calls For Moratorium After Four Men Executed In Gaza
- 16.6.2005
Euro-MP Demands Release For ‘Tortured’ Yugoslavian Soldier
- 2.6.2005
Euro-MPs Attack French Headscarf Ban In Religious Rights Campaign
- 22.2.2005
MEP Backs Portsmouth Family’s Bid To Stay In UK
- 27.1.2005
Green MEP On EU Election Mission Praises Palestinians’ Commitment To Democracy
- 10.1.2005
Letters and Replies
Correspondence about Asylum
- 27.6.2008
Correspondence about LGBT Rights
- 25.6.2008
Correspondence about West Papua
- 9.6.2008
Correspondence about International Human Rights Abuses
- 4.6.2008
Correspondence about the Right to Religious Expression
- 1.5.2008
Correspondence about Palestine and the Middle East
- 23.1.2008
Correspondence about Young People’s Human Rights
- 29.10.2007
Correspondence about Burma
- 25.3.2006
In the Parliament
Written Questions - Palestine
- 15.4.2008
Written Declaration - West Papua
- 30.9.2006
Written Declaration - Forced Labour in Chinese Prisons
- 30.9.2006
Written Declarations - India and Panjab
- 30.7.2006
Written Declaration - Religious Freedom in France
- 30.5.2005
Resolutions - African Human Rights and Development
- 23.5.2003
Written Questions - LGBT Rights
- 20.3.2003
Resolutions - International Human Rights
- 4.9.2002
Written Questions - IIisu Dam
- 13.1.2000
Articles
No green light for occupiers - Jewish Socialist magazine, Spring 2008
- 1.5.2008
** WEB EXCLUSIVE: No Middle Ground In The Middle East ** - 5 February 2008
- 5.2.2008
Speeches
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2008
- 17.5.2008
International Women’s 2008 - speech to Million Women Rise rally in Trafalgar Square
- 9.3.2008
Plenary - Treatment of Prisoners Overseas
- 30.10.2005
Plenary - Palestine
- 30.7.2005
Plenary - West Papuan
- 30.12.2004
Plenary - EC-Israel Association Agreement
- 9.3.2004
Position of the EU on the hearing in the ICJ on the Israeli Wall
- 11.2.2004
Plenary - Right to Protest
- 5.9.2001
Plenary - Human Rights
- 16.11.2000