WUNRN
GENDER
Women’s
rights:
MEPs wish for bolder measures to combat female genital mutilation and other
harmful traditional practices. They insist that women's rights be explicitly
addressed in all human rights dialogues, and in particular the combating and
elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and
girls, including, gender-selected abortion, domestic violence and femicide.
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EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT: NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE WELCOMES THE ADOPTION OF THE CAPPATO
REPORT AS A STRONG STAND FOR THE WORLDWIDE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
DEMOCRACY AND RULE OF LAW
Brussels-Rome, 8
May 2008
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The
European Parliament Annual Report on Human Rights in the World in 2007,
prepared by Rapporteur Marco Cappato, the Italian MEP, was approved today in
plenary by the European Parliament. The Report, which assesses the state of
human rights in the world in 2007 and also evaluates the EU's efforts to
promote human rights through its policies, is in part a response to the
annual report on human rights published by the Council and Commission last
October. No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), which collaborated closely
with the Rapporteur through the civil society consultation process
established by the EP Foreign Affairs Committee, welcomes the clear stand
taken by the European Parliament on several policy issues we consider to be
priorities for the European Union and its member States in the protection and
promotion of human rights, democracy and the rule of law throughout the
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