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"I voted in favour of this report in order to give as strong as possible a mandate to our negotiators to seek to safeguard labour and human rights in the context of the EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
However, the cuts in state protection for trade unionists, which are putting the lives of those who speak out for human rights at risk, and the draft laws on impunity being proposed by the Colombian Government, which will see alleged abuses committed by Colombian armed forces tried in military rather than civilian courts, are both simply not consistent with international human rights commitments which Colombia tells us it respects.
If Colombia moves away from human rights commitments even as it awaits ratification of the agreement, surely it begs the question as to whether such ratification of this free trade agreement itself should go ahead.
In any case, I hope the trialogue will consider these two examples as a test of whether safeguards negotiated would be achieved in practice.
I and my Labour colleagues will continue to campaign strongly on this issue for the sake of those who put their lives at risk for rights which in Europe we take for granted."@en1
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