{"id":122076,"date":"2024-01-12T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T07:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/troubling-gap-between-eu-promises-and-actions-on-human-rights-watchdog-says\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T07:15:29","slug":"troubling-gap-between-eu-promises-and-actions-on-human-rights-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/troubling-gap-between-eu-promises-and-actions-on-human-rights-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Troubling gap\u2019 between EU promises and actions on human rights, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122076\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe European Union &#8220;persistently failed&#8221; to act on its human rights commitments in 2023, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The watchdog\u2019s latest annual report lists &#8220;repressive&#8221; migration policies, discrimination against marginalised communities and democratic backsliding by certain member states as some of the EU\u2019s human rights shortcomings in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc is also denounced for its &#8220;double standards&#8221; on foreign policy, as it endorses accountability for war crimes in Ukraine whilst shying away from similar efforts in Gaza. Such contradictions mar the EU\u2019s \u201cstanding as a principled global actor,\u201d the report says. The highly-valued publication provides a barometer of respect for human rights across the world. Human Rights Watch\u2019s EU Advocacy Director Phillippe Dam pinned personal responsibility for the EU\u2019s underperformance on human rights on Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU is increasingly parking human rights to a lower level of engagement, or is, in fact, de-prioritising it,\u201d Dam told Euronews. \u201cAnd of course, von der Leyen has a responsibility. Her contribution to the EU-Tunisia deal really puts human rights aside, but also in other international engagements, be it with the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, or the conflict in Israel and Gaza. We really hope that in the months left for this Commission, there will be efforts to put human rights back at the centre again.\u201d Euronews contacted the European Commission for comment, but they did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n<p>Respect for human rights is one of the EU\u2019s founding values. But the report denounces the current EU executive for prioritising trade, economic and political ties at the expense of human rights, and for failing to exert sufficient diplomatic pressure on states in the Persian Gulf, China and India to tackle abuses. \u201cThe rest of the world sees this discrepancy, and it makes the EU perceived not as a principal international actor,\u201d Dam explained, \u201cbut it also makes the EU less effective and less impactful in the world because human rights violators see that reality and they feel that they can also blackmail the EU in return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report lists other glaring shortcomings in the bloc\u2019s foreign policy efforts, such as its failed attempts at mediating the long-standing dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Baku\u2019s military takeover of the region in September led to the forced displacement of its ethnic Armenian population. Sudan, where a bloody civil war broke out last April, has also been neglected by the EU in 2023, the report says.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/01\/11\/troubling-gap-between-eu-promises-and-actions-on-human-rights-watchdog-says\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/01\/11\/troubling-gap-between-eu-promises-and-actions-on-human-rights-watchdog-says\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/124348\/\">\u2018Troubling gap\u2019 between EU promises and actions on human rights, watchdog says<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[12915,274,2075,383,12916,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-122076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-between","tag-eu","tag-gap","tag-human-rights","tag-promise-actions","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}