Traduction de «Forum des ONG sur internet et les droits de la personne » (Français → Anglais) :

21. Proposes that steps be taken to ensure continuous channels of information-sharing on fundamental rights in the EU between the relevant bodies and within the EU institutions and EU agencies, and to hold a yearly interinstitutional forum in order to assess the EU fundamental rights situation; considers that such a forum should be a preparatory step for Parliament’s annual debate on fundamental rights and on the development of th ...[+++]e European area of freedom security and justice; considers that this interinstitutional forum should convene representatives of the Commission, the Council Working Group on Fundamental Rights, Citizens’ Rights and Free Movement of Persons (FREMP), Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Committee on Petitions, Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, and Committee on Regional Development, and representatives of the European Ombudsman, the Fundamental Rights Agency, Eurofound, and the European Data Protection Supervisor;

The European Union and Human Rights NGOs meet at the 12th EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights on July 12-13 at the Egmont Palace in Brussels.

39. Welcomes the start of the EU human rights consultations with Russia; supports the Council in its intention to develop these consultations into a frank and genuine EU-Russia Human Rights Dialogue and calls for the involvement of the European Parliament in such a process; calls on the Council to continue urging Russia to agree that European and Russian NGOs be associated with the consultations given the example of other dialogues on human rights issues; welcomes the Council's debriefing of NGOs on the consultations, however, regrets that there are no systematic consultations with the European Parliament; asks the Council to press R ...[+++]ussia to agree to have this dialogue also take place in Russia in an alternating manner and not only when the summits take place in the EU; is concerned that the new Russian NGO legislation will inhibit human rights organisations from carrying out their activities properly whenever respect for human rights is at stake or even from functioning at all; asks the Commission and Council to raise this issue persistently with Russia, not least in international forums and, in particular, in the Council of Europe, of which Russia is due to take over the presidency in May 2006; asks Commission and Council to raise the issue of extrajudicial killings, disappearances and torture in custody in Chechnya, as well as attacks faced by human rights defenders engaged in investigating and speaking out about human rights violations in Chechnya;

The seminar on "The regional dimension of disability policies", jointly held by the CoR's Commission for Economic and Social Policy, the Government of Rioja, and the European Disability Forum on 16 and 17 December 2003 in Logroño, Spain, was opened by Pedro Sanz Alonso, President of the Autonomous Community of Rioja.

much closer cooperation with the specialised committees of EU national and regional parliaments and relevant NGOs or observatories in the field of human rights and freedoms, and an interinstitutional procedure which, on the basis of the report by the EU network of independent experts in fundamental rights, involves the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission (annual report on human rights; NGO forum),

The leader organization is Penal Reform International, based in London, which will have as counterparts the Ministries of Justice of the three targeted countries, as well as the National Institute of Legal Studies and the Institute for documentation, information and training in human rights in Morocco; the Institute of Human rights of Beirut Bar, the Lebanese NGOs' forum and the Association Dar El Amal in Lebanon; and The Royal Commission of Human Rights and the Royal Institute for Training of Judges in Jordan.