Christiane Taubira

Christiane Taubira in Toulouse in April 2007

Christiane Taubira or Christiane Taubira-Delannon (born 2 February 1952, Cayenne, French Guiana) is a French politician. President of her party Walwari, she has served as a deputy at the French National Assembly since 1993, and was re-elected in 1997. Non-affiliated in 1993, she then voted for the investiture of the conservative Edouard Balladur cabinet in 1993. In 1994, she became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP),^[1][2] being the fourth on the Énergie Radicale list led by Bernard Tapie. In June 1997, she then joined the Socialist party (PS), and then-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin (PS) commissioned her for a report on gold search in Guiana.

Christiane Taubira gave her name to the 21 May 2001 law which recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity. In 2002, she was a Left Radical Party (PRG) candidate for the presidency although she did not belong to the party. She gained 2.32% of the votes. After 2002, she became vice-president of the Left Radical Party. She was elected again as deputy on 16 June 2002, and joined the socialist group in the Assembly.

Books

• (French) L'Esclavage raconté à ma fille ("Slavery explained to my daughter")

References

• page on the French National Assembly website

1. ^ "Christiane TAUBIRA-DELANNON". Your MEPs. European Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=2137. Retrieved 14 February 2011. 
2. ^ Tagliabue, John (3 April 2002). "France's First-Round Presidential Ballot Takes Shape". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20815F6385E0C708CDDAD0894DA404482. Retrieved 14 February 2011. 

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