OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2012-13
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 27
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DRAFT RESOLUTION
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN
QUESTIONS
Helsinki +40
RAPPORTEUR
Ms. Ann Phelan
Ireland
ISTANBUL, 29 JUNE - 3 JULY 2013
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DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
Rapporteur: Ms. Ann Phelan (Ireland)
1.
Recalling that the 1975 Helsinki Final Act indicates that the participating States
recognize the universal significance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect
for which is an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure
the development of friendly relations and co-operation among themselves as among all
States,
Concerned about the regression of human rights and fundamental freedoms in some
OSCE regions, and the continued non-compliance of some participating States to their
human dimension commitments,
Welcoming the Ukrainian Chairmanship’s pledge in connection with Helsinki +40 to
continue promoting media freedom, reinforcing co-operation with civil society,
promoting youth education on human rights issues, and combating trafficking in human
beings,
Recalling the 2012 OSCE PA Monaco Declaration’s call for the OSCE and the OSCE
PA to create a civil society board, comprised of representatives of leading NGOs
working on OSCE issues,
Welcoming the adoption by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in
October 2012 of a resolution confirming the definition of political prisoners,
Recalling the Monaco Declaration’s affirmation that there should not be any political
prisoners in the OSCE area,
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6.
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:
7.
Reiterates its call on all the OSCE participating States to fully comply with their
commitments regarding human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of
law;
Emphasizes that the OSCE relies on the consensus rule but has also adopted tools such
as the Moscow Mechanism that should be used in response to clear, gross and
uncorrected human rights violations as mentioned in the Prague Document on Further
Development of CSCE Institutions and Structures (30 and 31 January 1992);
Reiterates the important role that parliamentarians play in leading OSCE election
observation missions;
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10. Reiterates its call for countries that hold the Chairmanship to fully respect their
commitments regarding human rights and to provide a model example to the OSCE
region;
11. Encourages the Ukrainian Chairmanship to continue the efforts to reform the Human
Dimension and to increase the participation of civil society, the public and the media in
key meetings and in the decision-making process;
12. Strongly encourages participating States to benefit from the Helsinki +40 process to
promote the Human Dimension values at the core of the Helsinki Final Act;
13. Strongly urges participating States to co-operate with international institutions like the
OSCE, in allowing delegations to visit political prisoners, as well as to release and
exonerate all political prisoners;
14. Calls on parliamentarians to promote the ratification of the 2000 Protocol to Prevent,
Supress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, as well as
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the 2005
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings;
15. Invites all participating States to take actions regarding education and raising awareness
on the issue of human trafficking and to co-operate fully with the OSCE Special
Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, relevant
OSCE structures and Institutions, including Field Operations;
16.
Invites all participating States to develop and implement a National Action Plan to help
Combat Human Trafficking through the co-ordination of policies and actions by
Government and Non-Government bodies and through education and raising awareness
on the issue of human trafficking;
17.
Calls on all participating States to establish special anti-trafficking units- comprising of
both men and women- with advanced training in investigating such offences involving
sexual exploitation, forced labour, child trafficking, and/or trafficking for the purpose of
the organ trade, in order to ensure that the participating States response to the trafficking
of human beings is effective and equates the scale and scope of the problem in a given
participating State;
18.
Strongly encourages participating States to implement a Counter Trafficking Database
within each Anti-Trafficking Unit which would allow each participating State to collect
and analyse data such as the causes, processes, trends and consequences of trafficking
within a given participating State, as well as to
establish a National Rapporteur or a
similar national monitoring and reporting mechanism to ensure data collection, analysis
and public debate on the efficiency of anti-trafficking measures;
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19. Repeats the need to include civil society, the public and the media in the Human
Dimension events;
20. Expects that the Parliamentarians will adopt measures to protect workers’ rights to avoid
a worsening situation for the rights of women, migrants (both women and men) and
children and to prevent human trafficking for labour exploitation, and calls on diplomats
and parliamentarians to set an example by ensuring the respect of these rights when
applicable;
21. Reiterates its call to OSCE participating States to ensure access to justice and the right to
a fair trial, as well as freedom of expression, including for journalists, bloggers and civil
society activists;
22. Calls on participating States to ensure access to justice for all those detained, and to
ensure that people are not detained indefinitely, under arduous conditions and without
adequate legal counsel;
23. Calls on the participating States to adopt decisions stating that internationally recognized
freedoms such as expression (both offline and online), assembly, association, and
religion, do not change with new technologies and must be respected regardless of future
technological advances;
24. Repeats its call for the Ministerial Council to adopt full, effective and long-term,
mandates for OSCE field operations;
25. Strongly urges the Permanent Council to re-open the Field Missions in Belarus and
Georgia.
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GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
PROPOSED AMENDMENT to the DRAFT RESOLUTION
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Helsinki +40
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