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"Mr President, once again we are dealing with the annual human rights report and, following the strategic review, we are making progress. The European Endowment for Democracy is established, as is our own Parliament’s democracy support directorate. Unlike the British Conservatives, I take great pleasure in the fact that the European Union Special Representative on Human Rights – a post we called for – is here in this debate and has already undertaken valuable work on Russia and on the African Union, concerning which he is in deep discussion with us. Thank you.
Mr Donskis, you have produced an excellent report, and I commend the personal attention you have given to the issues of selective justice, the proposal for a procedural mechanism in relation to the human rights clause and your proper concern about abuses in psychiatric institutions. I also commend Mr Tavares and the contact group you have initiated, which has strengthened Parliament’s active role in support of human rights.
I commend the Presidency speech this afternoon and celebrate with the Presidency the fact that Europe has acted in the UN to co-sponsor the resolution this year on human rights defenders and to help build the successful coalition in support of the resolution for sexual orientation and gender identity, and has taken the lead in proposing the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria. However, it has taken too long for the Council to agree the common position on ICC referral for Syria. We must now act urgently to build international support in order to enact it at the level of the Security Council.
The EU must also honour the commitment and the strategy to promote human rights without exception, and that means ending the relative silence in relation to violations in the Gulf and in Central Asia. As I said last year, culture change has to happen in the External Action Service, and this is only just beginning. My proposal for human rights criteria in the professional performance review of staff should be enacted.
Currently in the process of drafting this Parliament’s report on business and human rights, having recently returned from being Chief Observer at the elections in Sierra Leone and next week leading this Parliament’s human rights mission to Bahrain, I take great personal pride in contributing to this Parliament’s and this Union’s human rights efforts. But in the week of the Nobel and of the Sakharov Prizes, President, those we celebrate in this debate are the people – inspirational people – who are human rights defenders and who keep human rights defenders alive in countries and in situations around the world where they are in greatest danger."@en1
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