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Every year we are confronted with this exercise in hypocrisy of the European Parliament on human rights in the world.
Obviously the report contains points which we support. However, in essence, it is a perfect example of the instrumentalisation of human rights and their unacceptable use as a political weapon in favour of the interests of the EU’s major powers, and their large financial and economic groups, and against those people who reject their dictates.
As such, there is a total absence of any references to and denouncements of the flagrant violations of human rights in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, occupied Cyprus or the Western Sahara, as perpetrated by EU countries and/or their allies such as the US, Israel, Turkey or Morocco.
As such, there is once again an attempt to dissociate human rights, by subordinating them to economic and social rights. The defence of human rights – including the fact that they are indivisible and cannot be ranked – and their status as a prerequisite for respect for the rights of people and for genuine social justice, peace, freedom and democracy must form the framework of our political action. For us they are about defending the rights of people, not exercises in hypocrisy."@en1
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