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".
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen.
If we assess the situation of human rights in 2008, with particular regard to the relevant EU policy, we still have cause for concern.
On this point I would like to highlight the situation on children’s rights, which is a global problem. To ensure respect for children’s rights we must not only focus on specific rights violations, but also on indirect threats such as, for example, Internet crime or violence in the media.
Our human rights policy must be based on the acknowledgement that human rights violations are not something which typically happens in another external country. Unfortunately, there are numerous current incidences of this within the EU too.
I would like to refer specifically to events in Budapest on 23 October 2006 as we witnessed a mass violation of human rights when violent actions and abuses were committed by the police against innocent people attending a peaceful commemoration. Evidence of all this is also provided by an exhibition of pictures which can be currently visited here in Parliament.
We must do everything to ensure that such incidents do not happen again and we must realise that even in the European Union we must continue the struggle every day in support of respect for basic human rights and freedoms, democracy, the freedom of speech and the rule of law."@en1
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