Sous-commission Droits de l'homme (DROI) - Parlement européen

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In association with the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America On 5 September DROI Members will hold a hearing on human rights violations by mining companies in Guatemala, with guest speakers: Luis Solano, Economist and investigative journalist; Carlos Choc, Local journalist from the Fenix mine area; Marlies Stappers, Executive director Impunity watch and Miguel Angel Galvez, Judge.
Location : Paul-Henri Spaak 4B001
Programme
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On 5 September the Subcommittee on Human Rights will hold an exchange of views with Emily O'Reilly, European Ombudsman on the Strategic Initiative concerning how the European Commission ensures respect for human rights in the context of international trade agreements.
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This study examines the implementation of the European Union (EU) Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, which constitute the policy framework and provide the operational means for protecting human rights activists in third countries. The first part of the study, written internally, provides an institutional perspective of the implementation of the Guidelines. It assesses the development of the EU framework to support human rights defenders, including EU Member States' emergency measures, and evaluates the coordination of such efforts. It also examines the European Parliament's support for human rights defenders and considers its impact on the EU’s overall work on defender protection. The second part of the study, which was outsourced, evaluates the implementation of the Guidelines from a bottom-up perspective. It provides an evidence-based analysis of how EU missions apply the Guidelines in countries where rights and freedoms are particularly challenged for human rights defenders, and assesses when and why measures for have not been applied. The study also addresses ways in which implementation gaps can be bridged and recommends possible measures and action that could be taken to ensure the protection of human rights defenders.
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The arrest of Cardinal Zen and the trustees of the 612 relief fund in Hong Kong
The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Philips and Bruno Pereira
The situation in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
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The human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the Xinjiang police files
The instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua
Violations of media freedom and safety of journalists in Georgia
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The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights will take place on Monday 5 September 2022 from 15.00 - 18.30 in room SPAAK 4B1.

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DROI Meetings 2022
Urgency Resolutions on human rights
Book by HR/VP Josep Borrell Fontelles on "European foreign policy in times of COVID-19"
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Durée de la vidéo : 274'

Clause de non-responsabilité : L'interprétation des débats facilite la communication mais ne constitue en aucun cas un enregistrement authentifié des débats. Seuls le discours original ou la traduction écrite révisée du discours original peuvent être considérés authentiques.
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Durée de la vidéo : 138'

Clause de non-responsabilité : L'interprétation des débats facilite la communication mais ne constitue en aucun cas un enregistrement authentifié des débats. Seuls le discours original ou la traduction écrite révisée du discours original peuvent être considérés authentiques.
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Durée de la vidéo : 161'

Clause de non-responsabilité : L'interprétation des débats facilite la communication mais ne constitue en aucun cas un enregistrement authentifié des débats. Seuls le discours original ou la traduction écrite révisée du discours original peuvent être considérés authentiques.
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Durée de la vidéo : 190'

Clause de non-responsabilité : L'interprétation des débats facilite la communication mais ne constitue en aucun cas un enregistrement authentifié des débats. Seuls le discours original ou la traduction écrite révisée du discours original peuvent être considérés authentiques.
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The European Parliament and the Global Campus of Human Rights will organise the second Annual Conference on the Global State of Human Rights on 15-16 July 2022 in Venice, Italy. This unique event will include keynote speakers, pannelists and moderators from diverse backgrounds, including Members of the European Parliament, academics from the Global Campus network, high officials from EU and other international organisations, national human rights bodies, civil society, human rights defenders
Over the past year, world developments have challenged efforts made to protect and promote human rights. Ongoing conflicts including on the European continent, social and economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to environmental impacts of climate change, have severely affected countries and societies all over the world, hitting children the hardest. School closures and unprecedented social and humanitarian crises have increasingly exposed children to violence, abuse, exploitation, forced labour, family loss, displacement, and forced and early marriage. The conference will address three key thematic issues, all of which focus on current global human rights challenges through the lens of children and youth. The first panel will focus on "Children Behind Bars". The second panel will be dedicated to the situation of children exposed to armed conflict and violence. Finally, the concluding panel will shed light on children and youth as change-makers.
Location : Venice, Italy and European Parliament, Brussels
Draft programme of the conference
Video message from Maria Arena, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights
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The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights will take place on Tuesday 12 July 2022 from 09.00 - 12.30 in room: Altiero Spinelli 3E2.

The meeting which was supposed to take place on Monday 11 July 2022, 15.00 - 18.30 has been cancelled.

EP Calendar 2022
DROI Meetings 2022
Urgency Resolutions on human rights
Book by HR/VP Josep Borrell Fontelles on "European foreign policy in times of COVID-19"
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Jeudi, le Parlement européen a adopté trois résolutions sur le respect des droits humains à Hong Kong, au Brésil et au Tadjikistan.
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Sous-commission "Droits de l'homme"

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A delegation led for AFET by Chair David McAllister (EPP, DE) and for DROI by Nacho Sánchez Amor and comprising 11 MEPs in total visited the UN headquarters in New York.
The various meetings which were part of the programme were organised around overarching themes, such as (i) UN reform, (ii) UN Security Council reform, (iii) dialogue, cooperation and coordination at EU level in the UN system and cooperation in the UN with candidate countries, (iv) the role and agenda of China and Russia in the UN system and (v) how the UN and its Member States are going about developments crises in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and, more generally, developments in crisis prevention, crisis management and crisis resolution on the African continent, as well as (vi) UN focus on human rights challenges. This allowed Members to focus on a thread throughout the programme and to further their insight looking at analysis, main messages and vision from within the UN system and looking at the role and impact of the UN from the vantage point of its Members States and from the EU vantage point.
Location : New York (USA)
Mission report
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This analysis looks into the complex relationship between two trends in international governance: an increase in multilateral arrangements between countries in order to govern internationally on the one hand, and a lack of democratic control over the decisions taken by multilateral organisations or conferences on the other. Multilateralism in the modern sense refers to an international mode of operation involving peaceful negotiations and diplomacy, also referred to as a ‘rules-based international order’ or ‘rules-based multilateralism’. Several European countries have recently launched initiatives in support of multilateralism, in reaction to the increasingly unilateral behaviour of states undermining the existing rules-based international order. Apart from the European Union, no other multilateral organisation has a parliamentary body with the competence to block or amend its decisions, which indicates that there is a democratic deficit in these multilateral organisations. An initial response to such a democratic deficit is the involvement of national parliaments in international decision-making. This is known as ‘parliamentary diplomacy’. Secondly, the involvement of civil society in international decision-making through protests, petitions, consultations or participation can also enhance democracy. Thirdly, the organisation of national referenda on international decisions can be used by national governments or citizens’ initiatives to increase democratic legitimacy. Fourthly, a lack of democracy at international level can also be countered by creating an ‘alliance of democracies’, aimed at multilateral cooperation between democratic countries rather than the democratisation of multilateral organisations. These are mostly alliances of Western countries, which risks emphasising the differences between West and East or North and South. Three short case studies of parliamentary diplomacy with the strong involvement of the European Parliament (the Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organization (WTO), delegations to the Conferences of Parties of climate change agreements and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly) show that enhancing multilateral democracy is not the only aim of parliamentary diplomacy and that each case reveals a different mix between the ‘parliamentary’ aspect of democratisation and the ‘diplomacy’ aspects of information exchange or influencing.
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