Luisa Morgantini

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Luisa Morgantini

Luisa Morgantini (born November 5, 1940 in Villadossola ) is an Italian trade unionist, peace activist and non-party politician . She was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 and its Vice-President from 2007 to 2009.

Life

From 1954 to 1958 she worked as a clerical worker for the Roman Catholic Church and from 1958 to 1964 she worked as a social worker. In 1967/1968 she studied sociology and economics at Ruskin College , Oxford. She was the first woman to be a member of the secretariat (i.e. board) of the FLM metalworkers' union in Milan.

As a non-party Morgantini was in the 1999 European elections on the list of Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in the constituency central Italy in the European Parliament elected. There she belonged to the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE / NGL). She was chairman of the delegation for relations to the Palestinian Legislative Council from 1999-2004, member of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy 1999-2002 , and from 2002-04 she was part of the Committee on Development and Cooperation and the Delegation for Relations Countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

After her re-election in 2004 , she was a member of the subcommittee on human rights for the legislative period until 2009 , a delegate to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a member of the Development Committee, which she also chaired until 2007. In January 2007 the European Parliament elected Morgantini as one of its Vice-Presidents. This replaced her colleague from the parliamentary group, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann . The GUE / NGL parliamentary group lost its chairmanship in the development committee due to the growth of the right-wing UEN group.

Morganantini is one of the founders of the international support network of Jerusalem's “Women in Black” . In 2002 she was awarded the “Golden Dove” of the Institut Archivio Disarmo (IRIAD; “Archive for Disarmament”). In June 2008 she took part in an international conference for nonviolent resistance in the Palestinian village of Bil'in in the West Bank . The village is directly adjacent to the Israeli barrier that separates it from part of its farmland. The conference participants took part in the weekly protest by the villagers against the building of the Israeli Wall. Dozens of protesters were injured when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used tear gas , including Morgantini, Irish Nobel Prize winner Mairead Corrigan and Italian judge Julio Toscano . The IDF said stones had been thrown from the protest group.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European Parliament prepares change . In: Euractiv , January 15, 2007.
  2. ↑ EU VIPs hurt at West Bank protest , BBC, June 6, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Morgantini, Luisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Villadossola