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"Mr President, defence of human rights should be a matter of conscience, rather than of keeping up with whatever the latest intellectual fashion happens to be. I therefore call for the European Union’s activities in this area to be imbued with greater sensitivity towards the issue of religious freedom. Believers’ consciences are coming under attack ever more frequently, and the problem has now reached dramatic proportions.
I could mention China, Burma, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Vietnam and also Russia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and Cuba. Is that a long enough list? It is therefore striking that so little attention is devoted to this problem, especially in the first part of the report. I welcome the fact that gender issues and children’s rights have been prioritised on our agenda, but regret the lack of attention to religious freedom. This may be interpreted as an indication that certain people in Europe are prejudiced against faith
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The European Union should develop general guidelines on religious freedom as a matter of urgency. Religious freedom is the human right most commonly infringed with impunity in the contemporary world."@en1
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