Traduction de «Clause relative aux droits de l'homme » (Français → Anglais) :

70. Welcomes the EU’s efforts to include a human rights and democracy clause in all EU political framework agreements, but reiterates its call for all contractual relationships with third countries – both industrialised and developing, and including sectoral agreements, trade and technical or financial aid agreements – to include clearly worded conditionality and clauses on human rights and democracy, without exception; considers that the current threshold in Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) schemes that could trigger action on the human rights clauses is high but should be adjusted to each country concerned; notes the new GSP r ...[+++]eform proposal from 2011 which suggests that the consultation procedure should be widened and which contains provisions to ease investigations of human rights violations in the GSP Committee; expresses, in this regard, deep concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in Cambodia where land grabbing has lead to increasing poverty and to the violation of human rights clauses which are part of agreements in force between EU and Cambodia; warns that the lack of consistency in the implementation of the human rights clause can undermine the credibility and effectiveness of the EU’s conditionality policy;

As a severe violation of human rights mentioned in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, trafficking in human beings will continue to be covered under the Human Rights Clauses in the EU's agreements with third countries, including the Free Trade Agreements, providing the basis for cooperation on and promotion of human rights[33].

Inclusion of human trafficking in the Human Rights Clauses || COM/EEAS || Ongoing

having regard to all agreements between the EU and third countries and the human rights and democracy clauses contained in those agreements,

126. Recalls its above-mentioned resolution of 14 February 2006 regarding future EU policy on the application of human rights clauses in all EU agreements; notes as a first reaction that the Commission outlined several measures to improve the application of the clause, such as gradually extending human rights committees to more third countries; points out that the Council has not yet given a specific reply to the above-mentioned ...[+++]resolution, preferring continued implementation of the clause in the more general foreign policy context; welcomes the fact that heads of Commission delegations in third countries are required, as part of their mandate, to emphasise human rights more specifically; is concerned, however, by the recent Commission proposal to exempt India from the rule that all EU agreements must include a human rights and democracy clause, in the context of the negotiations for the EU-India Free Trade Agreement; considers that such a move would be a retrograde step and could set a worrying precedent for future negotiations on trade agreements; requests, therefore, that the Commission and the Council adopt a clear position on the detailed proposals contained in the above-mentioned resolution of 14 February 2006; stresses in particular the need to introduce a monitoring mechanism, regular assessment of compliance with human rights obligations and a progressive system of penalties for non-compliance in order to ensure proper implementation of the human rights and democracy clause contained in agreements concluded by the EU with third countries;

where the legal formulation of those rights is concerned, the parties should refer, in particular, to their international obligations and undertakings which have already been ratified, and it must be made clear that the parties are required to comply with the norms which constitute an 'essential element' of the agreement; in particular, the parties should undertake to promote those fundamental rights set out in the UN Declaration on Human Rights of 1948, the two International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the internationally recognised UN covenants and legal norms of the "jus cogens"; points out that, in its relations with thir ...[+++]d countries and in the context of promoting democratic principles and human rights through the human rights and democracy clause, the European Union is called upon to pay special attention to implementing policies for gender equality and women's rights, whilst satisfying itself that the third-country authorities uphold the fundamental rights not to be arbitrarily arrested, tortured or executed and that their citizens have access to an impartial court of law as a priority; points out that, in accordance with the European treaties, in its relations with third countries and in the context of promoting democratic principles and human rights through the human rights and democracy clause, the EU also undertakes to oppose any discrimination based on sexual orientation or concerning the rights of disabled people;