Resolutions: promoting human rights throughout in the world

Promoting human rights throughout the world regardless of nationality has been and remains one of the top priorities for the Alliance of European Liberals and Democrats for Europe. The Resolutions adopted by the ALDE Group, accessible from this website, reflect the scale of this effort, dealing respectively with human rights abuses within the European Union, the risk of xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism in the candidate countries and the human rights situation in the rest of the world. The European Union has now come to define itself in terms of the promotion of these rights and democratic freedoms.

Yet we have no room for complacency. Whatever efforts the international community is currently undertaking, millions of people continue to live in regimes where there is no independent judiciary, democratic system or freedom of expression and where torture, racism, capital punishment, slavery, forced labour, crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing, still tragically occur on a daily basis.

This is not a new situation. The embryonic nature of the international legal system, combined with the fact there is still insufficient monitoring of situations of internal violence means that the international community still has a lot to do. Quite correctly therefore the European Parliament, frequently led by the European Liberals and Democrats for Europe , continues to fight to promote human rights throughout the world.

All the ALDE national parties continue to fight hard in their own countries to improve individual liberties. We believe that the political and economic progress made by the European Union including the decision to enlarge the EU to include the countries of Eastern and Central Europe is a fundamental step in the right direction but it is not enough. Despite the economic advances, men and women as individuals are not yet able to fully exercise their personal freedoms in all spheres of life, and as the Alliance of European Liberals and Democrats for Europe we will continue the struggle to achieve this goal.