This interview with Robertson was one of several that helped crystallise the UN rapporteur's concern about the spare-room subsidy, pushing it to the top of her agenda on what was meant to be a wide-ranging study of Britain's housing crisis over the past two weeks.
He got another seven for assembling and smuggling out to the UN rapporteur, in 1995, details about human-rights abuses in Insein, editing them secretly in the darkest corner of his cell.
She hopes that a visit this week to the UK by the United Nations special rapporteur (special representative) on housing, may bring about change.
Do our officials want to be in an endless conspiracy with torturers?" Martin Scheinin, a UN special rapporteur on human rights, is quite clear about what is happening: the British government, he says, has been attempting to "conceal illegal acts from oversight bodies or judicial authorities, or to protect itself from criticism, embarrassment and - most importantly - liability".
I would like to say a few words about the matters that the rapporteur has raised.
I therefore support the rapporteur' s conclusions although I am concerned about the impact of tariff liberalisation for cut flowers as this could have negative repercussions on certain European regions specialising in this type of agriculture, such as the outermost regions.
The kindest thing that Jean-Pierre Chevènement the Minister of the Interior and, as such, the government's official rapporteur of any election laws ever had to say about parité was that "a revolution can't succeed without a little pragmatism".
It's an interesting debate, our Canadian counterparts claimed, "If someone takes money from the U.S., does that make him a political prisoner?" 7. (C) In his meetings with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, Kent reportedly asked also about the visit of the Special Rapporteur, but again the Cubans changed the subject.
The kindest thing that Jean-Pierre Chevènement — the Minister of the Interior and, as such, the government's official rapporteur of any election laws — ever had to say about parité was that "a revolution can't succeed without a little pragmatism".
The rapporteur seemed to suggest that there was some misunderstanding about this, but that is how it comes across.
