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"Mr President, may I also welcome this year’s Council and Commission annual report. It certainly makes progress in terms of extra detail, which we have called for in past years. But, if I can say so, it is still a little longer on description and a little shorter on analysis than we would like.
However, I want to wholeheartedly congratulate the Portuguese Presidency on their new guidelines on the rights of the child – a major step forward.
I hope in the next year that successive presidencies will ensure an effective role for the Fundamental Rights Agency and the upgrading of EU legislation to provide effective protection against discrimination on all grounds, and maintain pressure on the countries of the Western Balkans to bring war criminals to justice.
I also want to call today for specific European support in the next year for the final report of the UN Secretary-General’s personal representative on business and human rights. As Parliament’s rapporteur on this issue, I am deeply concerned that in Bangalore this week Indian courts will seek to execute an international arrest warrant against seven Dutch activists from the Clean Clothes Campaign because they posted a report on labour violations at the Indian supplier of the fashion label G-Star, including forced overtime and physical and verbal abuse, on the internet.
This is in contradiction of the Indian Government’s responsibilities under Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. I ask the Council and Commission to investigate this case, and I appeal for all EU governments not to cooperate with this arrest warrant on a fundamental issue both of labour rights and of freedom of speech."@en1
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