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Laima Liucija Andrikienė MEP
Coordinator Patrick Gaubert MEP
Vice-Chairman
 


Human rights and democracy are an objective of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU and the EPP-ED Group is engaged consistently and actively in this area. It encourages a policy which aims to guarantee the respect of human rights, religious freedom and democracy building in the world, because the Group recognises that human rights and democracy are universal, fundamental and indivisible. Therefore, the Group takes initiatives to put this issue on the agenda inside and outside the European Parliament, and considers it a permanent priority to defend all freedoms linked to the rule of law, democracy and the promotion of human rights.

Laima Liucija Andrikienė MEP (Lithuania)
EPP-ED Coordinator on the Subcommittee on Human Rights


PRESS RELEASES

18/12/2008Human Rights in Russia and the murder trial of Anna Politkovskaya. Tunne Kelam MEPen
18/12/2008Zimbabwean peace activist abduction - Gay Mitchell MEP calls on Commission to investigateen
28/11/2008ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: A clear vote in favour of democracy in Zimbabwe. José Ribeiro e Castro MEPen - Photos available
23/10/2008Sakharov Prize to Hu Jia, Chinese Human Rights activist. Joseph Daul, Chairman of the EPP-ED Groupenfr
26/09/2008EU should take lead in favour of a strong and effective Human Rights Council. Laima Andrikienė MEPen


POLICY

The EPP-ED Group is engaged constantly and actively in the area of human rights and democracy building. Human rights      are universal, indivisible and   interdependent. The Group is very concerned about the respect of human rights, religious freedom and democracy building in the world. The Group takes initiatives to put this issue on the agenda inside and outside the European Parliament...


THIS MONTH'S URGENCY RESOLUTIONS

Every month during the plenary week, the European Parliament adopts resolutions and holds debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

Here you will find the texts of the resolutions as proposed by the EPP-ED Group, which sometimes differs from the text that was eventually adopted by the plenary.

Resolution on Zimbabwe - December 2008 pdfen
Resolution on Attacks on Human Rights defenders in Russia / The murder trial of Anna Politkovskaya - December 2008 pdfen
Resolución sobre los ataques contra los defensores de derechos humanos, las libertades públicas y la democracia en Nicaragua - December 2008 pdfen

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