Vertaling van "Commissione per i diritti umani " (Italiaans → Engels) :

Thus renewed commitment is required to improve coherence in addressing human rights and integrating human rights considerations in all aspects of EU external action and in the external aspects of internal policies, building on the approach developed by the Commission to ensure the effective implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights by the EU.

The EU would favour establishing the Human Rights Council as a main free-standing charter body of the UN, linked to the GA, meeting throughout the year and reflecting, at the institutional level, the universality of human rights and their central position in the UN system, as well as the concern to place human rights on the same footing as issues of development, peace and security.

The EU further recognises that the MDGs cannot be attained without progress in achieving the Cairo goal of universal sexual and reproductive health and rights; the need to make progress on environmental sustainability issues such as climate change and biodiversity, and a more coherent institutional framework of international environmental governance built on existing institutions including through launching a process leading to the creation of United Nations Environment Organisation; the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission; strong language on terrorism (leading to a definition of terrorism and conclusion of the Comprehensive Convention), disarmament, non-proliferation, and strengthening the rule of law; the responsibility to protect; strengthening ...[+++] the UN's human rights machinery including the establishment of a Human Rights Council in order to truly elevate the Commission on Human Rights and reinforcing the role and resources of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; strengthening gender equality in all UN activities; strengthening the new UN capacity building for rapid action in the face of humanitarian disasters;

The EU recalls the Resolution on the Situation of Human Rights in Cuba, adopted by the UN Commission on Human Rights on 15 April 2004, which “deplores the events which occurred last year in Cuba involving verdicts against certain political dissidents and journalists”, a reference to the trials and sentencing of 75 dissidents in March and April 2003.

The EU calls on the Cuban authorities to release all prisoners of conscience and political prisoners without delay and joins the Commission on Human Rights in urging the Cuban authorities to cooperate with the Personal Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The European Union is concerned to note that the decisions taken in recent months by the Cuban authorities, notably the broadening of the scope of the death penalty by the law of 15 and 16 February 1999 reforming the Cuban Penal Code, the upsurge in executions, and the secrecy surrounding some of those executions, are at variance with the resolutions on the death penalty adopted in the last three years by an increasing majority of the Member States of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.