EU
Council annual report on human rights-
The Council’s recently published annual report on Human rights stresses
that thesecut across all action and that women’s rights should be at
the heart of all EU action. On Speaking on the behalf of the Finnish
Presidency, on 19 December, Finnish
foreign ministerPaula
Lehtomäki stressed that women’s rights should cut across all of the Union's
policies.
Commissioner Benita
Ferrero-Waldner welcomed the fact that human rights have been integrated into
the 2007-2013 financial perspectives, and that the human rights clause included
in agreements with third countries allowed “new forms of dialogue”. It was now
necessary, she said, to concentrate on certain specific points, dealt with in
two Commission communications, namely the Roadmap on Gender Equality and
the new Strategy on Children's Rights. For further information: (full web
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