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"en.20120418.18.3-174-000"2
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"Madam President, promoting human rights is an essential part of British foreign policy. EU Member States must ensure that human rights and international law are respected throughout the world.
This report identifies a number of key challenges. It condemns prosecution on the basis of religion, nationality or membership of a minority, or sexual orientation, it raises crucial issues related to women, such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation, and it underlines the importance of supporting a free and fair media as well as standing up for human rights defenders.
Yet, in a report on some of the world’s worst human rights abuses, I am shocked at the two countries which the rapporteur has decided to name and shame. Does the report criticise Belarus, Burma, Cuba perhaps? No, it chooses instead to deplore the attitude of the UK and France on EU accession to the ECHR. Until the rapporteur gets his priorities straight on which countries are really obstacles to human rights, I cannot support this report."@en1
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