Sous-commission Droits de l'homme (DROI) - Parlement européen

Looming hunger crisis in southern Africa: aid agencies should receive sufficient funding, say DROI and DEVE Chairs.

Elena Valenciano, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights in the EP, and Linda McAvan, Chair of the Committee on Development in the European Parliament (EP), on the worrying situation in southern Africa:

"No fewer than six countries in southern Africa (South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Zambia) are facing a major crisis due to the worst southern African drought in decades. According to the World Food Programme (WPF) over 10 million people across the region will need food aid in the coming year. The WFP estimates that more than 30 million people are currently food insecure and the WFP believes that these numbers are still going to grow. Full statement - see link below.

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European Parliament Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, Elena Valenciano (S&D, ES) on the situation in Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria:

"I am deeply concerned about the civilians in Yarmouk who are once again suffering extreme shortages of food and clean water. Some 6,000 civilian families are continuing to experience a situation of danger, trapped in the intense fighting taking place in the camp between extremist armed groups which since April 6 has been preventing UNRWA from carrying out humanitarian missions to support the population in the Yarmouk-Yalda area.

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Links between foreign investment in agricultural land in third countries and the rights of local populations, the need for a multi stakeholders approach and mechanisms to protect indigenous peoples were among the issues raised in the Human Rights Subcommittee's hearing on human rights defenders and land-grabbing issues on Wednesday afternoon, 20 April. For the full statement please see link below.
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European Parliament Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, Elena Valenciano (S&D, ES) welcomes the permission given by Baku authorities to Leyla and Arif Yunus, two of Azerbaijan's most prominent human rights defenders, to leave Azerbaijan. For the full statement please see the link below.
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Over the past few years, foreign investment in agricultural land in third countries, which involves large-scale land acquisition, has put at risk the land use rights of local populations and their right to food. Repression of human rights defenders who voice concerns about the issue is also a common practice in some countries. Speakers from Oxfam, Colombia, Honduras and Libera will address these issues during the hearing and Members will have the opportunity to put forward questions.
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Elena Valenciano, DROI Chair denounces the critical plight of thousands of civilians in the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah

"I am profoundly worried about civilians in Fallujah who are at extreme risk. There are reports of lack of medicines and widespread food shortages resulting in people resorting to eating grass and burning anything they have to keep alive..."
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European Parliament Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights expresses her profound concern at the sentencing on 28 March 2016 of 17 Angolan activists to prison terms of between two years and three months and eight and a half years "solely for exercising, peacefully, their rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association."

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A Delegation of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights conducted a visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia from 30 March to 2 April 2016 to obtain information on the human rights situation in the country and exchange views with a wide range of stakeholders. The EU is the first export market for Cambodia and the largest donor of grant development aid and the Delegation's goal was also to evaluate what impact the EU's policies and cooperation have on Cambodia's human rights record.

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The latest response to the situation of refugees in the European Union is the "European Agenda on Migration", which aims to strengthen the common migration and asylum policy. This leaflet provides extracts from relevant supporting analyses prepared by European Parliament’s policy departments for different EP's committees.
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The EU is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, human rights, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights sets out all the personal, civic, political, economic and social rights enjoyed by people in the EU. This leaflet provides extracts from relevant supporting analyses prepared by European Parliament’s policy departments for different EP's committees.
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The present study provides a detailed overview of the actual human rights situation in the frozen conflict regions of EU’s Eastern neighbourhood, namely in Crimea, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The focus of the analysis is on the access to the justice system, as well as on the abilities of the de jure or de facto authorities to administer justice. Particular attention is paid to Crimea because the rapidly worsening human rights situation there affects far more people than the population of the other four frozen conflicts combined. International community actions, as well as the role of civil society in protecting human rights are also analysed.
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Elena Valenciano, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights in the European Parliament said "I welcome the release of several activists, human rights defenders and journalists by the presidential pardon of 17 March.

This is a positive long-awaited step that we hope will be followed by a much needed change in giving more space to civil society in Azerbaijan, in full respect of the rightsto association, expression and freedom of assembly."
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