MEP Kinga GÁL (EPP) reminded that Human Rights Day is celebrated on10 December and added that every action that violates, outrages or puts in danger the human rights or human dignity of any person, is unacceptable.
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Due to the critical current developments, the situation in Tibet figured again on the agenda of the European Parliament during its plenary session in Strasbourg. Kinga Gál MEP stressed in her written statement submitted to the debate the need to support Tibetian people in their peaceful struggle for self-determination.
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During the June plenary session members of the European Parliament debated their recommendations to the mandate of the new European Union Special Representative on Human Rights. Kinga Gál MEP greeted during the debate the creation of this new position and stressed the importance of the clear definition of its mandate.
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Today the European Parliament voted in favour with a large majority of its annual report on the situation of human rights in the world. As a result of the amendments tabled by Kinga Gál MEP the report contains a separate part dealing with the rights of national minorities, furthermore other accepted amendments of hers strengthen the rights of the child in the text.
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Today the European Parliament adopted the newly-revised measures governing the distribution of EU development aid. Kinga Gál MEP was the rapporteur for the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights.
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At the beginning of November, the Human Rights Subcommittee (DROI) of the EP invited Jerzy Buzek, the President of the European Parliament one of its meetings. The President's commitment to human rights is outstanding. He met the members of the DROI to discuss the issues related to human rights both at the start and also at the end of his mandate.
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