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Former “prisoner of conscience” elected as new IPU president

10/16/2014

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Geneva, 16 October 2014 Bangladesh MP and former Amnesty International “prisoner of conscience” Saber Chowdhury was today elected as the new President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). He defeated three other candidates – Speaker of Australia’s House of Representatives Bronwyn Bishop, Indonesian MP Nurhayati Ali Assegaf and former Speaker of the Maldives Parliament Abdulla Shahid – in an election on the concluding day of the 131st IPU Assembly. He becomes the 28th president of the Organization in its 125-year history. President Chowdhury…

Ireland: Collection of short stories, travel and other essays, by Ita Marguet, 2014

10/13/2014

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Ita Marguet has just published another book about Ireland, entitled Ireland: Collection of short stories, travel and other essays. It is a well-written book, easy to read and well documented. A true pleasure to read if you want to know more about Ireland, it’s history and culture. Following the publication of her first book “Travels Through Ireland”, Ita’s second book presents a miscellany of texts written between 2010 and 2014. They continue to take us on her explorations of…