Early Day Motion 

 

EDM 1935

 

 

LOVINSKY PIERRE-ANTOINE

01.07.2008

 

McDonnell, John  

14 signatures

 

Burgon, Colin

 

Corbyn, Jeremy

 

Hancock, Mike

 

Meale, Alan

 

Riordan, Linda

 

Simpson, Alan

 

Clark, Katy

 

Meale, Alan

 

Hopkins, Kelvin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cohen, Harry

 

Etherington, Bill

 

Bottomley, Peter

 

Vis, Rudi

 

Wareing, Robert N

 

 

 

That this House is extremely worried that there is still no news of disappeared Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine who fought for justice for the victims of the 1991 and 2004 military coups against elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; recognises that the world owes a debt to Haiti, the first country to abolish slavery in 1804, decades before the US and Europe, and that Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine represents this long revolutionary tradition; notes that many people are accusing the Haitian and UN authorities of not doing enough to find Mr Pierre-Antoine; welcomes the concern expressed by US Congresswoman Maxine Waters, actors Danny Glover and Vanessa Redgrave, Secretary General of Pax Christi International, Claudette Werleigh, and the Amnesty International report which also warns of threats to the life of Mr Pierre-Antoine's colleague Wilson Mésilien; commends the weekly vigils held in Port-au-Prince, London, Los Angeles and San Francisco for keeping Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine in the public eye; and calls on the Government to use its influence to urge the Haitian and UN authorities to double their efforts to locate Mr Pierre-Antoine and ensure the protection of Mr Mésilien.

 

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