Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-02-23-Speech-3-052"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-02-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights (Geneva, 14 March to 22 April 2005)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20050223.6.3-052"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-02-23-Speech-3-0532
lpv:speaker	lp:Hélène Flautre2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2004-09-01--2007-01-15)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 chair; DROI (2004-09-01--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, you rightly referred to the many initiatives taken by the European Union at the sixtieth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. I agree, but I also remember what Shirin Ebadi said following that sixtieth session. Speaking of the silence on Iran and on the human rights situation in Iran, she said: ‘silence is an insult to the victims’. Those words have stayed with me and I believe we must also remember that at that sixtieth session a number of countries, among them China, Zimbabwe and Cuba, took extremely strong initiatives with a view to stripping the Commission on Human Rights of its substance. The European Union must be particularly vigilant in the face of such extremely damaging strategies on the part of some countries. I hear what you say, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, about us having several instruments available – I am thinking of China. But why should they be mutually exclusive? For countries such as these, the European Union’s credibility, its effectiveness, lies in showing that it does not have double standards: yes, it has several instruments, but they are not mutually exclusive. I believe Parliament’s resolution will help to make the European Union’s activity more cohesive and coherent; at any rate, that is what everyone who has spoken in this House wants. We have emphasised a number of rights that are considered new rights, third generation rights. It would be much to the European Union’s credit and advantage to emphasise those rights, which are connected with globalisation. I am thinking of human rights, the rights of man and the responsibility of transnational corporations. The UN is working on these questions; the European Union could encourage and support it. We have also spent a long time debating the right words for the fight against terrorism, which remains a cause for anxiety in many respects, as Mr Ribeiro pointed out. We would like the States to be given recommendations by the UN on counter-terrorism, because we find there are serious failings in this area. I will end very quickly on the question of journalists in war zones. We are talking about a dramatic situation that everyone finds moving. I do not believe the international machinery for protecting such journalists is coherent and effective enough and we ought to give this question some thought, too."@en1

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