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"I would like to congratulate Mr Howitt on his report. Our twin reports in Parliament on human rights in the world and human rights in the Union demonstrate the importance we place on this issue. Our consistent campaign against the death penalty, whether in the United States or China, Iran or Japan, is to be welcomed. My own Government in Britain was influential in pushing this forward during its Presidency last year.
My only criticism on this Foreign Affairs Committee report would be its unevenness in places and its over-reliance on third-hand reports. For example, Saudi Arabia barely gets a mention. The situation is that the majority of the population – its women – face vicious discrimination. Followers of all faiths, save its own peculiar form of Islam, face persecution and where torture and mutilation are rife. Equally, it reports persecution of journalists in North Korea. Yet as someone who follows the country closely, it is a complaint I have never heard. There is much rightly to raise with the Government of North Korea regarding human rights in the prisons and camps, plus the humanitarian situation in the countryside, rather than these blanket and unsupported catch-all allegations that do no credit to our work."@en1
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