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  Þuriður BACKMAN
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Iceland
(08/01/1948 - )
Left-Green Movement
 
Deputy
Althingi, Parliament of Iceland
Althingi
150 - Reykjavik
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Member's roles in the PACE
Membership of political groups:
Group of the Unified European Left (29/05/2009 - ) (Member)
Assembly Member:
since 25/11/2011  (Representative)
from 29/05/2009 to 25/11/2011 (Substitute)
Working language: English
MP's role(s) in Committee(s) and Sub-Committee(s):
Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee
Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
UEL Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights
Signatory
21/05/2013 To facilitate a peaceful, negotiated solution of the Kurdish issue in Turkey, Abdullah Öcalan should be released (Doc. 13109 | Written declaration)
30/04/2013 Equality and the crisis (Doc. 13202 | Motion for a resolution)
26/04/2013 Development challenges in Europe’s islands: what follow-up on Resolution 1441 (2005)? (Doc. 13199 | Motion for a resolution)
24/04/2013 Violations of the right of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to freedom of expression and assembly continue unabated in Russia (Doc. 13191 | Written declaration)
23/01/2013 To facilitate a peaceful, negotiated solution of the Kurdish issue in Turkey, Abdullah Öcalan should be released (Doc. 13109 | Written declaration)
22/01/2013 The implementation of Resolution 1625 (2008) on the Turkish islands Gökçeada (Imbros) and Bozcaada (Tenedos) (Doc. 13104 | Motion for a resolution)
22/10/2012 The situation in Iraq (Doc. 12980 | Written declaration)
10/10/2012 The abuse by social services of member States of the Council of Europe of their authority to remove children from their parents’ custody (Doc. 13054 | Motion for a resolution)
10/10/2012 Ensuring children with attention problems are properly cared for (Doc. 13055 | Motion for a resolution)
10/07/2012 Inhumane pressure by the Government of Iraq on residents of Ashraf and Liberty is totally unacceptable (Doc. 12916 | Written declaration)
06/07/2012 Administrative detention (Doc. 12998 | Motion for a resolution)
26/06/2012 The situation in Irak (Doc. 12980 | Written declaration)
25/05/2012 Need to reinforce the independence of the European Court of Human Rights (Doc. 12940 | Motion for a resolution)
09/05/2012 Paving the way to full public participation in the drafting of a new constitution for Turkey (Doc. 12931 | Motion for a resolution)
04/05/2012 Profiling of Roma and other asylum seekers from the Western Balkans (Doc. 12927 | Motion for a resolution)
26/04/2012 Moldovan authorities’ actions against mass media and freedom of expression in the Republic of Moldova must be stopped immediately (Doc. 12919 | Written declaration)
24/04/2012 Refusing impunity for the killers of Sergei Magnitsky (Doc. 12909 | Motion for a resolution)