OSCE, Alm.del - 2013-14 - Bilag 37: OSCE PA's årlige session i Baku: Praktik og procedurer

DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ONDEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONSRapporteur: Ms. Gordana Comic (Serbia)Welcoming the OSCE’s Helsinki +40 process as an opportunity to review theimplementation of Human Dimension Commitments, including addressing the regress inwhole regions of the OSCE with regard to basic freedoms, such as freedom of assembly,freedom of the media, expression, democratic commitments, rule of law and non-discrimination,Recalling that the 1975 Helsinki Final Act addressed issues such as peaceful settlementof disputes, refraining from the threat or use of force, respect for human rights andfundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief,as well as other key human security commitments,Welcoming the use of the Vienna Document, as applied in Ukraine to ensure anoperational response time by the Organization to human rights violations in aparticipating State,Deeply concerned that the OSCE’s field operations are continuously reduced in theircapacity to monitor and report on human rights issues, in particular in participatingStates which demonstrate non-compliance with their human dimension commitments,Welcoming the Swiss Chairmanship’s pledge in connection with Helsinki +40 tocontinue reinforcing co-operation with civil society,Recalling the 2013 OSCE PA Istanbul Declaration’s call for the OSCE and the OSCEPA to create a civil society board, comprised of representatives of leading NGOsworking on OSCE issues,Recalling the Istanbul Declaration’s affirmation that rule of law and independence of thejudiciary should be respected,Deploring discrimination and hate crimes against labour migrants both East and West ofVienna,Expressing deep concern with regard to the rise of restrictive migration policies in manycountries in the OSCE area,

12. Reiterates its call for the safe and dignified return of all internally displaced persons totheir places of living, ensuring access to international humanitarian aid when needed,with the goal of gradual rapprochement of the societies of Georgia and Abkhazia,Georgia, and South Ossetia, Georgia;13.Strongly condemns any acts of hate crime against migrants of any kind, and calls onparticipating States to ensure that these crimes are fully investigated and victimsprotected, regardless of their legal status in the host country, both East and West ofVienna;14. Encourages all participating States to follow Ukraine’s example in multi-lateral co-operation in hosting the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission as an important tool tomonitor and report on human rights in a participating State;15. Reiterates its call on all the OSCE participating States to fully comply with theircommitments regarding human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule oflaw;16. Emphasizes that the OSCE should reduce its reliance on the consensus rule, and furtherdevelop such human rights protection tools such as the Moscow Mechanism, and therecently re-applied Vienna Document tointer aliamonitor gross human rightsviolations;17. Strongly encourages participating States to benefit from the Helsinki +40 process topromote the Human Dimension values at the core of the Helsinki Final Act;18. Strongly urges participating States to co-operate with international institutions like theOSCE, to help ensure that in the future there are no political prisoners in the OSCE area;19. Encourages Parliamentarians to work toward adopting measures in their nationalparliaments to protect the rights of labor migrants, regardless of the migrants’ legalstatus;20. Calls on participating States to ensure access to justice for all those detained, and toensure that people are not detained indefinitely, under arduous conditions and withoutadequate legal counsel, and to consider establishing a special rapporteur on cases ofindefinite detention or lack of rule of law in the OSCE area;21. Repeats its call for the Ministerial Council to adopt full, effective, and long-termmandates for OSCE field operations;22. Strongly urges the Permanent Council to re-open the Field Missions in Belarus andGeorgia, and to return the monitoring and reporting mandates to the status of the OSCEfield operations in Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and to open an OSCE field mission inMongolia.