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

In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.

The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions together with urgent matters in the field of human rights and democracy, are continued.

The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights will take place on Tuesday 16 March, from 13.45 - 16.15 and from 16.45 - 18.45, via videoconference.

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Urgency Resolutions on human rights
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Le Parlement européen a adopté jeudi trois résolutions dressant le bilan de la situation des droits de l’homme en Ouganda, au Rwanda et au Kazakhstan.
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In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.

The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions together with urgent matters in the field of human rights and democracy, are continued.

The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights will take place on Thursday 25 February from 09.00 - 12.00 and from 13.45 - 15.45 via videoconference.

EP Calendar 2021
DROI Calendar 2021 - First Quarter
Urgency Resolutions on human rights
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The crackdown on the democratic opposition in Hong Kong
Human rights situation in Turkey, in particular the case of Selahattin Demirtaş and other prisoners of conscience
Human rights situation in Vietnam, in particular the case of human rights journalists Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Le Huu Minh Tuan
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Jeudi, le Parlement a adopté trois résolutions dressant le bilan de la situation des droits de l'homme à Hong Kong, en Turquie et au Vietnam.
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Suite à l’emprisonnement d’Alexeï Navalny, les députés appellent les États membres à renforcer de façon significative les sanctions à l’encontre de la Russie.
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On 27 January, 13:45 to 14:45, DROI will hold an exchange of views on the new EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, in the presence of three experts. The experts’ interventions will include a general assessment of the new instrument in the EU’s Human Rights toolbox, the possibilities for involvement and oversight by the civil society actors and a US perspective, including possibilities for new synergies under the Biden administration. A Q&A session with the Members will follow.
Video of the presentation of the new EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime by Secretary-General of the EEAS, Stefano Sannino
Draft agenda of the DROI meeting of 27/28 January 2021
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DROI will hold a first exchange of views on democracy, beginning with the loss of faith in democracy and growing authoritarianism. Donatella della Porta from Scuola Normale Superiore and Yascha Mounk from Johns Hopkins University will introduce this problem, its symptoms and root causes. The next meetings will provide the platform for experts from countries defending different visions of democracy to discuss their viewpoints, giving Members an opportunity to analyse their reasons and arguments.
Thursday, 28 January 2021, 14.45 - 15.45
Draft agenda
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Le Parlement est très préoccupé par les nombreux régimes autoritaires ayant utilisé la pandémie pour réprimer la société civile et les voix critiques.
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Les députés condamnent l’arrestation d’Alexeï Navalny et appellent l’UE à élargir le champ des sanctions afin d’inclure les personnes impliquées dans son emprisonnement.
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Forced labour and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Iran, in particular the case of 2012 Sakharov Prize Laureate Nasrin Sotoudeh
The deteriorating situation of human rights in Egypt, in particular the case of the activists of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)
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In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.

The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions together with urgent matters in the field of human rights and democracy, are continued.

Following these decisions, the next meetings of the Subcommittee on Human Rights will take place on Wednesday 27 January 2021 from 13.45 - 15.45 and on Thursday 28 January 2021, from 9.00 - 12.00 and 13.45 - 15.45 via videoconference.

EP Calendar 2021
DROI Calendar 2021 - First Quarter
Urgency Resolutions on human rights
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