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World Press Freedom Day is marked every year on 3 May, but there is little reason to celebrate as journalists continue to be repressed and persecuted all over the world. The challenges facing the press are discussed by Parliament's human rights subcommittee on Thursday morning 4 May, with a special focus on the growing threat of disinformation. Check out our handy guide on how to spot fake news.
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Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D, IT), Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights made the following statement today on the situation of human rights activist Yuri Guaiana, detained by police in Russia: "I am extremely concerned for the safety of Yuri Guaiana, an Italian activist, who was detained by police in Moscow on his way to the General Prosecutor's Office to hand over signatures collected in a petition against the treatment of gay men in Chechnya.
I urge the Russian authorities to release him as soon as possible..."
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I urge the Nicaraguan authorities to refrain from continuing to harass Francisca Ramirez and her family. The latest ambush against her son, Maynor Lopez, who was injured as a result of driving into a trap where barbed wire was strung across the road, has to be investigated, and those who have committed this act must be brought to justice", said the Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, Mr Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D, IT).
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World Press Freedom Day is marked every year on 3 May, but there is little reason to celebrate as journalists continue to be repressed and persecuted all over the world. The challenges facing the press are discussed by Parliament's human rights subcommittee on Thursday morning, with a special focus on the growing threat of disinformation. Check out our handy guide on how to spot fake news.
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Handy guide on how to spot fake news
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"Defending the right to freedom of expression and the right to receive information is paramount in times like today when verifiable news and information are in decline and fake news is on the rise", Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D, IT), the Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), declared in a press statement issued on 3 May.

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The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights will take place on Tuesday 30 May from 3 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. in meeting room A3G-3.

Representatives of NGOs as well as other organisations are requested to accede to the EU Transparency Register and follow the procedures therein for access to the European Parliament.
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Clause de non-responsabilité : L'interprétation des débats facilite la communication mais ne constitue en aucun cas un enregistrement authentifié des débats. Seuls le discours original ou la traduction écrite révisée du discours original peuvent être considérés authentiques.
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The Chair of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights, Antonio Panzeri (S&D, IT) condemns the execution of two members of the UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

"The summary execution of two United Nations experts is a clear sign of the security crisis in the DRC. The observers, of American and Swedish nationality respectively, were shot dead in March 2017 at the hands of criminals, who did not hesitate to broadcast the video on social networks,"declared the Chair of the Subcommittee on Human rights, Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D, IT)..."
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The Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Committee on International Trade (INTA) will hold a joint hearing on 'Business and human rights in EU External Policies: due diligence, non-financial reporting and access to remedies', on 3 May from 15.00 - 18.30, Meeting room PHS 5B1

Human rights has become a topic of importance for the European Union in relation to trade and is ever more present when the EU is negotiating new agreements with third countries. Notwithstanding the positive achievements realized to date there are still several challenges ahead if we are to fully integrate the human rights perspective into the business dimension. The joint hearing is divided into three panels: the first panel on Corporate Social Responsibility and global value chains, the second will analyse the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and access to remedies, while the third will focus on the UN intergovernmental working group on a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations.

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The EU has developed an impressive range of policy tools for pushing back against restrictions on civil society across the world. It has gradually improved the way it deploys these instruments and has helped protect many activists at risk. Notwithstanding this, the EU needs to sharpen its ‘shrinking space’ strategy. This study suggests a range of precise policy changes it should contemplate to this end.
It advocates a number of strategic guidelines that could help make the EU's responses more proactive; better able to tackle the broad structural elements of the shrinking space; fully balanced between political and development approaches; and geared towards building more inclusive alliances against new restrictions on civil society.
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Study
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The Chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, Antonio Panzeri (S&D, IT) condemns the execution of two members of the UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
"The summary execution of two United Nations experts is a clear sign of the security crisis in the DRC. The observers, of American and Swedish nationality respectively, were shot dead in March 2017 at the hands of criminals, who did not hesitate to broadcast the video on social networks,"declared the Chair of the Subcommittee on Human rights, Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D, IT)..."
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Full statement
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• Draft opinion on Impact of international trade and the EU's trade policies on global value chains, rapporteur for the opinion: Mr Panzeri

• Exchange of views on the occasion of the Press Freedom Day

• Exchange of views with Aristride Nononsi, the UN Independent Expert on Sudan

• Briefing by the EEAS ahead of the DROI ad hoc delegation to Uzbekistan

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The Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Committee on International Trade will hold a joint hearing on 'Business and human rights in EU External Policies: due diligence, non-financial reporting and access to remedies'
Human rights has become a topic of importance for the European Union in relation to trade and is ever more present when the EU is negotiating new agreements with third countries. Notwithstanding the positive achievements realized to date there are still several challenges ahead if we are to fully integrate the human rights perspective into the business dimension. The joint hearing is divided into three panels: the first panel on Corporate Social Responsibility and global value chains, the second will analyse the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and access to remedies, while the third will focus on the UN intergovernmental working group on a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations.
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The European Union is committed to supporting democracy and human rights worldwide, in accordance with its founding principles of liberty, democracy and respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law. As the only directly elected EU institution, the European Parliament is particularly committed to promoting democracy. The two Fact Sheets in this booklet present the EU’s role and engagement in promoting democracy.
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