Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-07-04-Speech-3-203"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-07-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights in the world and EU fundamental rights2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010704.5.3-203"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-07-04-Speech-3-2042
lpv:speaker	lp:Bertel Haarder2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-09-13--2001-11-26)3 vice-chair; ELDR (1999-07-20--2001-11-26)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2001-11-26)3 unknown; Venstre (1999-07-20--2001-11-26)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-09-29--2001-11-26)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it was Mrs Malmström and myself who wrote the reports on human rights last year. We are very pleased that the approach adopted then has been carried forward into the reports we are discussing today. We Liberals support Mr Cornillet’s desire for the new charter of human rights to be a model and criterion of relevance for this Parliament’s work on human rights. Like human rights watchdogs, we can make use of the charter even before it acquires formal status, and we can at the same time acquire a much needed means of opposing that watering down of the concept of human rights that threatens to turn the latter into everything and nothing. There has, of course, been a tendency in this Parliament to make every conceivable subject from the party programmes into human rights issues. It happens with the best of intentions, but it damages human rights because it makes citizens who disagree about one point or another say, ‘f those are human rights, then we are opposed to them.’ The whole Austria business did a lot of damage, because it was all about opinions and suppositions. If, instead, it had been about specific breaches of the charter of human rights, there would have been a lot of sympathy for the action. That is why we here in Parliament must make the charter central. We must guard it like watchdogs. We must use it in such a way as to resist its being watered down by do-gooders. That is why we Liberals are voting against almost all the amendments: not because we disagree with the intentions behind the amendments, but because we attach too much importance to human rights to be a party to using them to adorn every conceivable point of view that does not fall within the charter’s human rights criterion. As I say, however, we warmly support the two reports as they stand, except with regard to just a few points, and we are grateful for the fact that we have in this way acquired a better organised treatment of human rights for the future."@en1

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