EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Human rights

European Parliament calls for making EU’s defence of human rights more effective

Brussels, 16/01/2020 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 15 January, the European Parliament called on the European Union to make its defence of human rights and democracy in the world more effective.

The report by Isabel Wiseler-Lima (EPP, Luxembourg) on 'Human rights and democracy in the world and the EU's policy on the matter' in 2018, adopted by MEPs (496 votes in favour, 113 against and 103 abstentions), calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt a new Action Plan for Human Rights and Democracy for the next five years...