Human Rights

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