This article is published in association with United Nations. Independent UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the Iranian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman activist and social worker. “The charges against Ms. Pakh...
Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, para. 4. The Court identified the Member States common constitutional traditions, as well as international human rights treaties which involved the Member States as a source of these right (Nold, Case 4-73, judgment of 14th May 1974 [1974] ECR 491, para. 13)...
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The council also wants an “EU Action Plan by 2021 focusing on shaping global supply chains sustainably, promoting human rights, social and environmental due diligence standards and transparency and which takes the experiences and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic into account.” Meanwhile,...
"stable institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities" requires examination and an action plan before admission can be countenanced, as does "a functioning market economy and the capacity to cope with competition and market forces in...
Children affected by armed conflict are among the human rights priorities of the European Union, as stated in the 2012 Strategic Framework and the Human Rights and Democracy Action Plan. The rights of children affected by armed conflict have also been mainstreamed in the new Human Rights and ...
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, said that in any such action plan, Italy and other EU Member States must uphold their international human rights obligations to protect the right to life of every individual, including refugees and migrants...
UNDERLINING that such policy should build on existing policy documents, in particular the Council Conclusions on the Digital Agenda for Europe, on the first anniversary of the EU Strategic Framework and Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy, on the EU Cyber Security Strategy, and on Internet ...
with the company's code of conduct, or provide targeted and proportionate support for micro, small or medium-sized enterprises (SME) with which the company has an established business relationship where compliance with the code of conduct or the corrective action plan w...
In October of that year, as the EU grappled with the influx of approximately one million asylum seekers, the majority of whom were fleeing the Syrian conflict via the Aegean Sea between Türkiye and Greece, the EU-Turkey Joint Action Plan was released. The plan, a political instrument, was...