{"id":11903,"date":"2013-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/european-parliament-report-condemns-human-rights-abuses-in-tibet\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:00:00","slug":"european-parliament-report-condemns-human-rights-abuses-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/european-parliament-report-condemns-human-rights-abuses-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament report condemns human rights abuses in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new report adopted by the European Parliament raises strong concern about the human rights situation in Tibet, detailing the high number of self-immolations, displacement of Tibetan nomads, religious repression, and the threats to the survival of the Tibetan language.<\/p>\n<p>Although not binding, the European Parliament report sends a strong political signal to other EU institutions on what priorities they should adopt in their work on human rights issues.<\/p>\n<p>The report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/sides\/getDoc.do?pubRef=-\/\/EP\/\/TEXT+TA+P7-TA-2013-0575+0+DOC+XML+V0\/\/EN&amp;language=EN\">an\u00a0annual report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2012<\/a>, was drafted by MEP Eduard Kukan (Slovakia, European People\u2019s Party) of the Committee of Foreign Affairs (AFET) and adopted by the Parliament on December 11.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Metten, EU Policy Director of ICT Brussels, said: \u201cThe strong language in this report highlights the genuine concern among European Parliamentarians about the deteriorating and dangerous situation in Tibet, and merits serious consideration within the EU towards achieving meaningful progress on human rights. We particularly welcomed the focus on the issue of the settlement and displacement of nomads, following the concern expressed about this issue by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Catherine Ashton in December 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report reiterated the importance of mainstreaming human rights and democracy in all EU\u2019s activities, and called upon the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security as well as the EU Special Representative for Human Rights to pursue the EU\u2019s commitment of placing human rights at the center of all EU\u2019s relations with third countries, including its strategic partners. It also stressed the crucial role played by civil society in the protection and promotion of democracy and human rights, calling on the EU to ensure a stronger cooperation with both civil society and human rights defenders.<\/p>\n<p>The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) shares the EP\u2019s concerns regarding the lack of concrete progress in several of the EU\u2019s human rights dialogues, specifically pointing at\u00a0the failure of the EU-China dialogue on human rights to achieve significant and tangible results. In this context, the EP urged the EU to pursue a more determined, ambitious and transparent human rights policy. These dialogues should be accompanied by clear public benchmarks for measuring their success objectively and when they are not constructive, the EU should draw clear political conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s report saw the addition of a new section on Business and Human Rights, highlighting that European companies should respect human rights standards in all their business and trade activities, including when operating outside the EU in developing countries and when cooperating with authoritarian regimes.<\/p>\n<p>This topic is becoming ever more important for ICT\u2019s work in light of the launch of the negotiations for a bilateral EU-China Investment Agreement and with China\u2019s plans for massive mining of mineral resources in Tibet, which will have devastating environmental and social consequences.<\/p>\n<p>ICT joins the EP in its calls on the EU to challenge the Chinese government on its human rights performance in both China and Tibet, and to promptly implement the EP\u2019s recommendations in all its relations with China.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report adopted by the European Parliament raises strong concern about the human rights situation in Tibet, detailing the high number of self-immolations, displacement of Tibetan nomads, religious repression, and the threats to the survival of the Tibetan language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11904,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[664],"news_tag":[665],"class_list":["post-11903","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-newstibet-europe-news","news_tag-europe-and-tibet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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