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Richard Howitt

Labour Member of the European Parliament for the East of England and a leading member of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and its Human Rights Sub-Committee.

First elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1994, Richard
Howitt MEP is Labour Member of the European Parliament for the East of
England and a leading member of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs
Committee and its Human Rights Sub-Committee. He also serves as
Spokesperson for the Socialist and Democrat Group on Human Rights and
has called for the EU to take a more systematic approach to monitoring
human rights worldwide.