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HUMAN RIGHTS, CAPPATO: "NEGATIVE CHOICE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIALISTS AGAINST NON-VIOLENCE. I ASK THEM TO RETHINK ABOUT IT BEFORE THURSDAY VOTE"
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Declaration of Marco Cappato, Radical MEP
Tomorrow the 8th of May the European Parliament will vote the 2007 Report on the Respect of Human Rights in the World, of which I am rapporteur. I learnt that the European Socialists presented an amendment - signed by Swoboda, Wiersma, Tabajdi and Howitt - to delete the paragraph on non-violence - included in the Report which has already been approved at unanimity by the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The paragraph the European Socialists want to delete is the following:
(the European Parliament),
9. Considers Ghandian non-violence to be the most appropriate means of ensuring that fundamental human rights are enjoyed, upheld, promoted and respected to the full; believes that its promotion should constitute a priority objective in EU human rights and democracy policy and intends to contribute to keeping up to date with and studying modern non-violent theory and practice, partly through a comparative analysis of the best practice used in the past; proposes, with a view to giving this idea a central political role, that a European Conference on Non-Violence be convened in 2009 and that 2010 be designated 'European Year of Non-Violence'; calls on the Member States to endeavour, under the auspices of the United Nations, to ensure that the 'Decade of Non-Violence 2010-2020' is proclaimed;
I already personally addressed some of the subscribers - and I will do it again today during the plenary session - in order to review this negative and serious choice before the vote, as it is at odds with the choice of supporting the non-violent strategy of Dalai Lama for the freedom of Tibetan people.
Tomorrow the 8th of May the European Parliament will vote the 2007 Report on the Respect of Human Rights in the World, of which I am rapporteur. I learnt that the European Socialists presented an amendment - signed by Swoboda, Wiersma, Tabajdi and Howitt - to delete the paragraph on non-violence - included in the Report which has already been approved at unanimity by the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The paragraph the European Socialists want to delete is the following:
(the European Parliament),
9. Considers Ghandian non-violence to be the most appropriate means of ensuring that fundamental human rights are enjoyed, upheld, promoted and respected to the full; believes that its promotion should constitute a priority objective in EU human rights and democracy policy and intends to contribute to keeping up to date with and studying modern non-violent theory and practice, partly through a comparative analysis of the best practice used in the past; proposes, with a view to giving this idea a central political role, that a European Conference on Non-Violence be convened in 2009 and that 2010 be designated 'European Year of Non-Violence'; calls on the Member States to endeavour, under the auspices of the United Nations, to ensure that the 'Decade of Non-Violence 2010-2020' is proclaimed;
I already personally addressed some of the subscribers - and I will do it again today during the plenary session - in order to review this negative and serious choice before the vote, as it is at odds with the choice of supporting the non-violent strategy of Dalai Lama for the freedom of Tibetan people.
