This is further recognition of the need for extending the limits of exterior politics, international co-operation and diplomacy something which public opinion in all our countries expects and demands. These limits must be extended to include the international law, humanitarian aid, democracy and social justice.

Emma Bonino (Cuneo, Italy, 1948) is the European Commissioner for Fishing, Consumer Affairs, and Humanitarian Aid. Delegate of the Italian Radical Party, of which she has been secretary, she founded the Food and Disarmament International Association in 1981, of which she has been general secretary since 1985. In the late eighties she presented a proposal for a law that would allocate one billion dollars for the struggle against hunger, continued her activity in favour of human rights, started a campaign for the abolition of the death penalty, and acted as the driving force behind the creation of a permanent tribunal of the UNO that would judge crimes against humanity. This year Enma Bonino led an international awareness campaign against the oppression suffered by the women of Kabul.