The protection of the basic human rights and freedoms in the European Union remains ineffective and incomplete, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in its report evaluating the human rights situation in the EU in 2013.
“In conditions of the ongoing financial-economic crisis in Europe, the number of gross violations of the rights of minorities, refugees and immigrants and infringements on citizens’ rights has increased,” it said.
The ministry voiced concern over insufficient protection of the rights of children, gender inequality, abuse of power by police, violations of the rights of convicts, and the involvement of a whole number of EU countries in the CIA’s program of secret jail, as well as mass intrusions into the private life of individuals and encroachments on the freedom of speech and the press in the EU.
The above facts make it “obvious that the existing system of protection of the basic human rights and freedoms in the EU continues to be ineffective and incomplete,” the ministry concluded.
In its assessment of the human rights situation in the EU, the ministry relied on authoritative international sources, including reports by the UN Human Rights Council, documents of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), reports by the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, and information provided by human rights experts, journalists and nongovernmental organizations.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_15/Protection-of-human-rights-freedoms-in-EU-ineffective-incomplete-Russia-8875/
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Protection of human rights, freedoms in EU ineffective, incomplete – Russia
The protection of the basic human rights and freedoms in the European Union remains ineffective and incomplete, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in its report evaluating the human rights situation in the EU in 2013.
“In conditions of the ongoing financial-economic crisis in Europe, the number of gross violations of the rights of minorities, refugees and immigrants and infringements on citizens’ rights has increased,” it said.
The ministry voiced concern over insufficient protection of the rights of children, gender inequality, abuse of power by police, violations of the rights of convicts, and the involvement of a whole number of EU countries in the CIA’s program of secret jail, as well as mass intrusions into the private life of individuals and encroachments on the freedom of speech and the press in the EU.
The above facts make it “obvious that the existing system of protection of the basic human rights and freedoms in the EU continues to be ineffective and incomplete,” the ministry concluded.
In its assessment of the human rights situation in the EU, the ministry relied on authoritative international sources, including reports by the UN Human Rights Council, documents of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), reports by the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, and information provided by human rights experts, journalists and nongovernmental organizations.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_15/Protection-of-human-rights-freedoms-in-EU-ineffective-incomplete-Russia-8875/
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