- Catherine Picard
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birth_place =Hauts-de-Seine ,France
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office = Member,French National Assembly
term_start =June 1 ,1997
term_end =June 8 ,2002
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party =French Socialist Party
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occupation = President, [http://www.unadfi.com/ UNADFI]
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footnotes =Catherine Picard (
August 14 ,1952 - ) is a Frenchpolitician from theFrench Socialist Party . She used to be a member of theFrench National Assembly .Career
Responsible for
public education , Picard was elected onJune 1 ,1997 to the French Socialist Party.With centrist senator
Nicolas About , Picard drafted theAbout-Picard law , onJune 12 ,2001 . Picard has close ties to politicianJean-Luc Mélenchon .Picard is president of the " [http://www.unadfi.com/ Union Nationale des Associations de Défense des Familles et de l'Individu victimes de Sectes] " (UNADFI), and appeared in this role as a commentator in the
2004 France 3 documentary onLandmark Education :Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus .Picard is the regional adviser of
Haute-Normandie .Published works
*"Sectes, democratie et mondialisation.", PUF,
2002 , withAnne Fournier .ee also
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About-Picard law
*Cults and governments
*Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus External links
* [http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/tribun/fiches_id/2403.asp Official page as a deputy] ;Media
* [http://www.hrwf.net/html/2006PDF/France_2006.pdf Creation of a third investigation commission on 'sects'] ,April 7 ,2006
* [http://bernie.cncfamily.com/acm/anti-cult_law/france/articles/reuters_called_extreme.htm Cult crackdown called extreme] , "The Globe and Mail", June 12, 2001
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4196233,00.html France arms itself with legal weapon to fight sects] ,The Guardian , June 1, 2001
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4032666,00.html Church attacks new French anti-cult law] ,The Guardian , June 23, 2000
* [http://www.antisectes.net/french-bill.htm French assembly approves controversial anti-sect bill] , June 22, 2000
* [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week348/news.html French Anti-Religious Sect Legislation] ,PBS , July 28, 2000
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,331743,00.html France to crack down on sects] ,The Guardian , June 14, 2000
* [http://hss.fullerton.edu/comparative/france_articles_p2.html Archived articles on Picard law] ,California State University , College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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