Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-03-Speech-3-173"
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"Mr President, if human rights form the core of European values, this annual report on human rights represents one of the most important dates of the year within this European Parliament. I congratulate Mr van den Bos on his work, struggling as he was with the large number of competing priorities and demands.
It remains a problem for Parliament on how far individual countries should be named in this report. Why should, for example, freedom of religion be criticised in Laos, Vietnam and Pakistan, but not in Turkmenistan or Saudi Arabia?
The resolution identifies some structural changes at EU level which could genuinely improve enforcement of human rights, including better operation of the human rights clause between the EU and third countries, inclusion of the European Parliament in discussion of the operational programme on human rights, and the introduction of benchmarks which enable EU action short of the two often blunt instruments of sanctions policies or suspension of aid. I hope the Commission will consider these in detail.
Finally, just as Parliament voted earlier today in favour of a UN Convention on disability, it is right that the abuse of the human rights of people with disabilities are represented within this comprehensive resolution. This is not just about economic and social rights, but about people all over the world who have lost their lives or who have been subject to abuse simply because they are disabled. For example, abuse occurs in residential institutions where people are deprived of basic human dignity, including the use of caged beds in psychiatric institutions in countries which will next year become full members of the European Union. On this and all the issues identified in this report, human rights are indivisible within Europe as well as elsewhere in the world."@en1
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