Traduction de «Observatoire national des droits de l'homme » (Français → Anglais) :

L. whereas Palestinian refugees remain a particularly vulnerable group in the crisis in Syria; whereas almost all of the 540 000 Palestinian refugees in Syria are in need of emergency assistance, while more than half of them have been displaced again within the country; whereas Palestinian refugees, who have no Syrian citizenship, do not have the same rights as Syrian refugees and are, in the vast majority of cases, unable to leave the country; whereas the situation of the 18 000 Palestinian refugees trapped in extremely difficult conditions in the Yarmouk refugee camp, which has been under siege since July 2013, is particularly alarming; whereas UNRWA and other international ...[+++] aid organisations have been denied access to deliver essential supplies to civilians in Yarmouk for months; whereas this collective punishment of the population is having a devastating effect, with mass suffering; whereas, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 50 people have died in the camp since September 2013 from hunger or lack of medical care; whereas the limited number of food parcels that were allowed into the camp by the Syrian authorities, in the run-up to the Geneva II Conference, were far from enough to meet people’s needs; whereas, in her statement of 17 January 2014, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, in this context, that ‘impeding humanitarian assistance to civilians in desperate need may amount to a war crime’;

As part of its SPRING initiative, the European Commission today adopted a programme of EUR 2.8 million for Morocco to support the work of two key institutions in protecting and promoting human rights in the country, the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) and the Inter-ministerial Delegation for Human Rights (DIDH).

Long before our charter, we were signatories to the Charter of the United Nations. As a signatory to the UN charter, we reaffirmed our “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small..”.

In view of what is going on in that country, and in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador and elsewhere, it seems appropriate for the European Union to establish a permanent human rights observatory for Latin America.

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Hon. Ron Ghitter: Honourable senators, the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that " .the peoples of the United Nations reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women" .

82. The EU will also continue to monitor closely developments on the ground through its own human rights, Jerusalem and settlements watch instruments.