Paulo Casaca is one of the few Westerners who wrote in a mainstream US publication favoring Bangladesh war crime trial. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/25/casaca-bangladesh-war-crimes-require-justice/print/ In the Jamaati propaganda infested Western media, Casaca's essay is like a silver lining in a cloudy sky.
Paulo Casaca is a founder and executive director of the "South Asia Democratic Forum"; founder of the international co-operation association registered in Brussels ARCHumankind, "Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind", of the consultancy company on sustainable development registered in Brussels, LessMeansMore, Land and Energy Sustainable Systems, Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US in the first semester of 2010; Member of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) in 1999-2009; team leader of a report commissioned by the US based NGO Committee to Study the Organization of Peace "A Green Ray over Iraq" presented to the UN.
Paulo Casaca is a founder and executive director of the "South Asia Democratic Forum"; founder of the international co-operation association registered in Brussels ARCHumankind, "Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind", of the consultancy company on sustainable development registered in Brussels, LessMeansMore, Land and Energy Sustainable Systems, Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US in the first semester of 2010; Member of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) in 1999-2009; team leader of a report commissioned by the US based NGO Committee to Study the Organization of Peace "A Green Ray over Iraq" presented to the UN.Paulo Casaca was a Member of the European Parliament for ten years where he chaired the delegation for relations with NATO Parliamentary Assembly and coordinated the socialist group in the Budgets Control Committee. He was also a member of the fisheries committee and the temporary committee on the financial perspectives 2007-2013. He was founder, president or member of several European parliamentary caucuses, namely the Friends of a Free Iran.
Previous to this position, he was a Councillor in the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union from 1996 to 1999, chief of staff of the Minister for Territorial Planning and Public Works in 1995/1996, economics advisor for the socialist fraction in the national parliament and Founder of Amnesty International Section in Ponta Delgada, Azores. During his academic career, PauloCasaca lectured at the Economics Departments of the Lisbon Accounting Institute and at the University of the Azores from 1980 and was then invited as a professor at the Lisbon Technical University. He is the author of several books and reports on the economic and social affairs, Human Rights and the issue of religious fanaticism.
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