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Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 9:34 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: Amnesty Calls On UN To Condemn Death Penalty As Human Rights Violation
PM's Presser: Tamihere Cut Considerable Slack
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Annan Urges Worldwide Agreement On Widespread UN Reform
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Dave McArthur Gets Energy Wise Done At The Creek
Sam Smith Isn't Buying The Media's John Paul Saintjob
Marjorie Cohn Speculates On John Bolton's Real Mission At The UN
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Government Pays Tribute To Pope
MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES:

LEAD STORY:
Amnesty Calls On UN To Condemn Death Penalty As Human Rights Violation

During 2004, more than 3,797 people were executed in 25 countries and at least 7,395 were sentenced to death in 64 countries, said Amnesty International today. Releasing its annual worldwide statistics on the use of capital punishment, Amnesty International called on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, currently meeting in Geneva, to condemn the death penalty as a violation of fundamental human rights. See... Amnesty: Death Penalty 3797 Executed in 2004 [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00090.htm
[2] - http://news.amnesty.org/mavp/mediaclip.nsf/0/3A76CFF05057A96480256FB700566189

PM's Presser: Tamihere Cut Considerable Slack

[1] - “Mr Tamihere has enormous energy - he has ability but together with those [attributes] you need some self-discipline” declared the Prime Minister to a particularly crowded audience at the Beehive theatrette during a post cabinet press conference devoted almost entirely to the backbench Labour MP. See…PM's Presser: Tamihere's Lunchtime Conversation [2] . MEANWHILE... from Public Address's Russell Brown: I'm starting to wonder whether it was John Tamihere I liked, or just Helen Bain's script. After last week's Parliamentary assault on TV3, which was followed by a blog posting so silly that somebody sensibly deleted it from the party website (I'll paste in the whole thing below),... See... Public Address 05/04/03 - Meltdown! [3] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00034.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00034.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00043.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00029.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00036.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00061.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00060.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00302.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00303.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00016.htm

SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00077.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0504/S00030.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00055.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00057.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00056.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00053.htm

Annan Urges Worldwide Agreement On Widespread UN Reform

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the world's parliaments to throw their weight behind his ambitious agenda of United Nations reform so that global leaders will be "ready, willing and able" to take the necessary decisions when ... See... Annan Urges World's Parliaments To Power Agenda [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00082.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00086.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00078.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00076.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00070.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00064.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:

Dave McArthur Gets Energy Wise Done At The Creek

- “At the heart of this assessment is a stark warning”. So said the 45-member Board of the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report last week. The stats are impressive: 2,500 pages of assessment drawn up by 1300 researchers from 95 nations. See... Bonus Joules: Great Ideas [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00042.htm

Sam Smith Isn't Buying The Media's John Paul Saintjob

- An eight page slobbering special section in the NY Times, Cokie Roberts oozing from the Vatican, endless coverage on cable TV: not since the death of Ronald Reagan has the media so blatantly displayed its hypocritical indifference to objectivity when the occasion suits it. See... Sam Smith: Media Objectivity Embalmed With Pope [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00039.htm

Marjorie Cohn Speculates On John Bolton's Real Mission At The UN

- John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations reminds me of what a US commander in charge of the destruction of Ben Tre city said during the Vietnam War, “We had to destroy the village to save it.” See... Marjorie Cohn: Bolton Nominated to Destroy UN [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00037.htm

MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00041.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00040.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00038.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00036.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00035.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00032.htm

Government Pays Tribute To Pope

- What a remarkable life it was, from his birth in Poland in 1920, to enduring the Nazi occupation and the war as a young man, and then seeing a communist regime rule his country for the next four and a half decades. John Paul II became not only Poland’s first Pope, but also the world’s best known and most travelled Pope – reaching out to every continent and across the faiths. His visit to New Zealand as Pope is recalled with great affection. See…Motion on the Death of Pope John Paul II [1] ALSO: Progressive Party - Anderton: Statement on Pope John Paul II [2] Govt - Governor General to attend Pope's funeral [3] United - Tribute to the Pope [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00085.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00086.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00084.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00083.htm

MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00079.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00074.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00071.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00070.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00068.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00067.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00073.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00069.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00075.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00082.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00087.htm
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00081.htm
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00080.htm
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00078.htm
[15] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00076.htm
[16] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00072.htm

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