OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2018-19 (1. samling)
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 22
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AS (19) DRS 3 E
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DRAFT RESOLUTION
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
Advancing Sustainable Development
to Promote Security: The Role of Parliaments
RAPPORTEUR
Mr. Kyriakos Hadjiyianni
Cyprus
LUXEMBOURG, 4
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DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
Rapporteur: Mr. Kyriakos Hadjiyianni (Cyprus)
1.
Considering that until today the role of national parliaments in advancing the Helsinki
principles has not been fully utilized,
Acknowledging the huge potential for improvement in further utilizing national
parliaments’
capacity in contributing to human rights
protection,
Recognizing the key role that national parliaments have, both through parliamentary
diplomacy and through parliamentary scrutiny, in our efforts to advance sustainable
development to promote security in the OSCE area,
Reminding that, over seven decades after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, we continue our struggle to respect and promote human rights,
Further reminding that all OSCE participating States have recognized in the Helsinki
Final Act that respect for human rights is a critical security issue in stable societies,
Affirming the need to recommit to the Helsinki principles,
Deploring the diminishing importance of human rights in the foreign policy of some
OSCE participating States,
Concerned that a trend of increasing authoritarianism and impunity for human rights
violations is growing in many participating States, causing untold suffering and
threatening international peace and stability,
Deploring the lack of implementation of human rights commitments in pertinent
Ministerial Council decisions and OSCE PA Resolutions,
Deeply disturbed at the continued increase of political populism across the OSCE region,
often based on the demonization of minorities and reckless spreading of false narratives,
particularly about migrants,
Acknowledging that serious security concerns may at times require the declaration of
states of emergency, but also noting that national security protection may serve as a
pretext to declare a state of emergency that impacts upon human rights,
Regretting that even after the lifting of the state of emergency, democratic principles, as
well as fundamental freedoms and human rights, are not restored,
Recognizing that the continued stability and security of all OSCE participating States
rests primarily on today’s
children and youth and that such vulnerable groups require
special protection,
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14.
Convinced of the need to once again prioritize the protection of children in this 30
th
anniversary year of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Recognizing that participating States have a primary responsibility to protect their
populations from genocide and atrocities, the obligation under international conventional
and customary law to ensure that those responsible for acts of genocide, crimes against
humanity, and war crimes are held to account and that victims have the right to an
effective remedy,
Welcoming the recent recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the Italian Chamber of
Deputies, as well as the designation by France of 24
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of April as the day for the
commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, as measures which promote awareness and
contribute to the eradication of such atrocities, and calling on other national parliaments
to follow suit,
Concerned that Roma and Sinti continue to be the targets of racism and bias-motivated
violence in the OSCE area, and noting that Roma and Sinti women and girls are
particularly vulnerable to multiple forms of discrimination, as well as to violence and
harassment,
Conscious of the fact that, in an era of unprecedented migration, national and
international systems ensuring respect and protection for migrants are more important
than ever,
Noting with concern the grave human rights and fundamental freedoms violations in
Chechnya,
Deeply concerned that journalists continue to face persecution, including targeted
assassinations, imprisonment, abductions, physical and psychological abuse throughout
the OSCE region and the world,
Welcoming the adoption by the OSCE Ministerial Council in December 2018 of Decision
3/18 on the Safety of Journalists,
Alarmed that in some OSCE participating States that have abolished the death penalty,
senior public officials advocate its reintroduction,
Deeply disturbed that women across the OSCE region continue to suffer from gender-
based violence, often unreported, encouraging eventual impunity of offenders,
Welcoming the adoption by the OSCE Ministerial Council in December 2018 of Decision
4/18 on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women as an important step in
countering gender-based violence in the OSCE region,
Deeply concerned by the continuation of child and forced marriages in the OSCE area,
Welcoming the work done by OSCE Institutions and field missions to support
participating States in fulfilling their commitments,
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27.
Acknowledging that parliamentary diplomacy can contribute to the promotion of
implementation of participating States’
commitments in the
field of democracy, human
rights and the rule of law, while also recognizing that the primary role for the oversight
of
States’ adherence to their commitments
lies with their national parliaments,
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:
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Urges all OSCE participating States to place promotion and protection of human rights
at the centre of their domestic as well as their foreign policy agendas, and urges national
parliaments to publicly hold governments accountable for violations of their OSCE
commitments, particularly in this field;
Calls on national parliaments to develop a range of diplomacy and co-operation tools to
support the implementation of commitments in the field of democracy, human rights, and
the rule of law;
Calls for the establishment of a dialogue and communication mechanism between the
Parliamentary Committees of Human Rights in the participating States and the
Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions of the OSCE PA,
aiming to better assess the implementation of commitments in the field of democracy,
human rights, and the rule of law, in participating States;
Calls on participating States to ensure the implementation of the UN Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide;
Calls on OSCE national parliaments to adopt 9th December as the International Day of
Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the
Prevention of this Crime, as well as to ensure that their educational systems and security
forces training are geared towards the prevention of such atrocities in the future;
Calls upon OSCE participating States, when working to address conflicts, to focus
attention on the human rights and humanitarian challenges of people in conflict areas and
occupied territories, including refugees and internally displaced persons;
Urges participating States to combat the destruction of cultural heritage and trafficking
in cultural property, aggravated by conflict, as a factor which significantly impacts upon
the identity of individuals;
Urges national parliaments to ratify the Convention on Offences relating to Cultural
Property, criminalizing the illicit trafficking, destruction, theft, unlawful excavation,
importation and exportation, illegal acquisition, and placing on the market of cultural
property;
Applauds the work carried out by the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and other
OSCE field missions to support people’s humanitarian and human rights needs, often
under difficult circumstances;
Welcomes the work carried out by the leaders of the Committee on Democracy, Human
Rights and Humanitarian Questions during the recent visit to Ukraine;
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Calls upon the OSCE Permanent Council to adopt multi-year budgets and mandates
covering the human dimension in OSCE field missions to ensure that they can continue
their work in promoting human rights and democracy;
Welcomes steps by the OSCE PA and its International Secretariat to enhance
transparency procedures for election observation missions, further contributing to the
OSCE’s credibility in this critical field of
democratic development;
Welcomes steps by the OSCE PA and its International Secretariat to enhance monitoring
not only of the formal conduct of the elections but also of political processes in the run-
up to the vote and the election campaign;
Calls for the strengthening of dialogue with NGOs, including in the framework of the
annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting;
Considers that intolerance, including aggressive nationalism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism,
Islamophobia or Christianophobia, presents a real threat to our societies and is contrary
to our fundamental belief in the equality of all people;
Urges all members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and national parliaments to
create a coalition of respect by publicly speaking out against hate speech and other
manifestations of intolerance and to make use of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to
share best practices and experiences in counteracting these phenomena of intolerance;
Encourages OSCE PA national delegations to closely co-operate with the OSCE PA
Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism and Intolerance and to provide
information regarding parliaments’
efforts to address intolerance and discrimination in
their home countries;
Supports the work of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in
raising awareness about discrimination, hate crimes, anti-Semitism and other forms of
intolerance, including against Muslims and Christians, and encourages further study and
guidance on how key actors, including parliamentarians, can prevent and fight
intolerance;
Calls upon competent authorities to see to the protection of human rights of persons of
the LGBTI community in Chechnya who face persecution;
Calls upon the Russian Federation to co-operate with OSCE in addressing these serious
concerns;
Calls upon OSCE national parliaments to increase and improve reporting on hate speech,
including through unified reporting standards, and to identify senior contact points to
work internationally to this end;
Calls upon OSCE participating States' national parliaments, to actively engage with the
OSCE Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues so as to promote protection of the human
rights of Roma and Sinti, to exert greater efforts to ensure their access to education, and
to provide opportunities for their equal participation in social, political, economic, and
cultural life;
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Urges all OSCE participating States to exercise utmost restraint when imposing any
limitations on fundamental freedoms or human rights or other extraordinary measures
which impact upon democratic or rule of law commitments, when they might be required
to address urgent national security concerns;
Urges OSCE national parliaments to exercise full oversight of extraordinary measures
and of any limitations on fundamental freedoms and human rights in cases of emergency
and to regularly evaluate whether such measures may be considered legitimate taking
into account modern communication methods;
Calls on the OSCE Permanent Council to develop clear and effective monitoring
mechanisms, to be implemented through OSCE institutions, to ensure that human rights
are fully respected during states of emergency, martial law, or other cases in which
extraordinary powers are assumed by governments;
Notes with concern that since the introduction of the state of emergency and of
subsequent measures by the Turkish Government, the number of asylum applications by
Turkish citizens has risen dramatically, and calls on Turkey to effectively implement its
commitments in the field of democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights;
Condemns the use of torture and other forms of cruel, degrading, or inhuman treatment
in the OSCE area,
Condemns all forms of ill-treatment in prisons or any form of custody, and calls for the
effective investigation of such crimes;
Calls on OSCE participating States to seek to ensure the release of all unlawfully detained
persons, including those held without a trial, and political prisoners;
Demands effective protection for threatened human rights defenders;
Calls on OSCE participating States to ensure that protection of human rights is not
sacrificed for political gain and to further develop political human rights dialogue at
government level;
Calls all OSCE participating States, which ISIS militants are citizens of, to repatriate
them and bring them to justice, ensuring a fair trial;
Urges all OSCE participating States to collect statistics at national level related to all
forms of gender-based violence, including emerging forms, such as online harassment,
and to work with
the OSCE PA Special Representative on Gender Issues and the OSCE’s
Gender Section to protect women’s rights;
Calls upon OSCE national parliaments to review and revise their legislation to clarify
that sex without consent is rape in all cases, regardless of whether physical violence or
threats were used, and is subject to legal prosecution;
Calls upon OSCE national parliaments to ban child and forced marriages by introducing
specific legislation;
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Encourages all OSCE participating States to make the promotion
of women’s rights a
foreign policy priority, including in their relations with countries outside of the OSCE
region;
Regrets that persons with disabilities remain widely under-represented in parliaments
across the OSCE region more than a quarter of a century after OSCE participating States
agreed to ensure protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons
with disabilities and to promote their participation in decision-making and public life;
Reiterates its call on all OSCE participating States to commit to promoting more
inclusive and representative societies and ensure participatory processes for persons with
disabilities in all phases of developing legislation or policies in the spheres of political
and public life, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
Reiterates its call upon OSCE participating States to fully integrate human rights
education into primary and secondary school curricula with the aim of promoting long-
term respect for human rights concepts and commitments, and suggests that national
parliaments oversee this process;
Recommends that strategies for empowering youth to resist drug addiction be included
in the educational system of OSCE participating States;
Notes the critical importance of the active participation of young people in decision-
making towards achieving stability in our societies and the world;
Encourages members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to explore and promote ways
to effectively engage young people in political processes and to share their experiences
within the OSCE PA;
Calls on OSCE national parliaments to support international fora for dialogue among
young people, with a particular focus on human rights and security issues, including by
establishing a Model OSCE PA;
Calls on OSCE participating States and legitimate local authorities to prioritize the
protection of children affected by armed conflicts, to take all possible measures to protect
children from accidents caused by the explosive remnants of war, to ensure adequate
healthcare and living conditions for children in conflict zones, and to promote schools as
safe havens to ensure continued education;
Further calls on OSCE participating States to support and protect stateless children within
their borders and to take all possible measures to ensure that all stateless children can
benefit from the right to citizenship, in accordance with international law;
Calls upon national parliaments to oversee the establishment of national programmes for
the protection of children;
Urges national parliaments to ban military service for persons under the age of 18;
Stresses that international humanitarian and human rights law must be upheld during
armed conflicts and that it is applicable in its entirety in areas under military occupation;
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Underlines that the right of safe return for refugees and internally displaced persons to
their hometowns and their properties must be guaranteed;
Calls upon OSCE participating States which, in violation of international law, have
occupied areas of other States, turning them into ghost-towns, to immediately restore the
human rights of the lawful inhabitants forcibly expelled from these areas;
Declares that the rights of people fleeing persecution must be protected against prejudice
and social discrimination;
Encourages participating States to guarantee the protection of the rights of internally
displaced persons until their return is made possible;
Urges national parliaments to legislate in order to safeguard the rights of internally
displaced persons, persons missing as a result of conflict as well as of their relatives, and
other persons affected by conflict;
Encourages all OSCE participating States to ensure that their government agencies
interacting with asylum seekers respect their human rights, including the right to seek
asylum;
Calls on all OSCE participating States to ensure access of refugees and asylum seekers
to national health and education systems, in order to save lives and to protect local
populations;
Calls on OSCE participating States hosting refugees and internally displaced persons
from protracted conflicts to provide them with all possible opportunities to fully integrate
into their host communities, particularly to alleviate the stress on second and third
generation children growing up outside their home regions;
Expresses concern over reports regarding the increase of modern-day slavery for
purposes of sexual or labour exploitation, resulting from on-going conflicts, instability,
and lack of economic opportunity in regions neighbouring the OSCE region;
Stresses that national parliaments must ensure that competent authorities in their states
have the necessary legislative tools, resources, and training to effectively prosecute
traffickers;
Invites OSCE Governments to regularly evaluate the general situation of migrant
workers, including their human, economic, social, and cultural rights;
Deplores that the persecution of journalists, particularly investigative journalists, and the
aggressive/hate rhetoric against their work, remains prevalent throughout the OSCE
region and undermines freedom of speech and freedom of the media, which constitute a
central pillar of a stable society;
Condemns the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Consulate of Saudi Arabia in
Istanbul as an appalling crime and an unacceptable attack on journalistic freedoms,
stresses OSCE participating States’ responsibility to protect freedom of expression, and
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further stresses that the perpetrators must be brought to justice and that decisions by
competent courts must be fully respected and implemented by all OSCE participating
States;
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Calls upon OSCE participating States to ensure that efforts to protect journalists should
not be limited to those formally recognized and documented as such, but also cover
support staff, ‘citizen journalists’, bloggers
and others active in this field;
Encourages national parliaments to ensure effective parliamentary oversight of
Governments’ actions towards solving all cases of journalists’ murders, imprisonment
and/or ill treatment;
Applauds the strong support to journalists by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of
the Media, and calls on all OSCE participating States to actively co-operate with the
Representative;
Reiterates its call upon participating States to refrain from the reintroduction of the death
penalty;
Calls upon all participating States to work towards a complete legal abolition of the death
penalty and, in this respect, to co-operate with the Office for Democratic Institutions and
Human Rights to conduct awareness-raising activities against recourse to the death
penalty, particularly with the media, law enforcement officials, policy-makers and the
general public;
Invites participating States which still apply the death penalty to consider declaring an
immediate moratorium on executions, turning them into life imprisonment;
Strongly urges that, pending the abolishment of the death penalty, wherever executions
will take place, all necessary medical, psychological, and practical measures be taken so
that the prisoners’ and their families’ suffering is limited to the extent possible.
Reiterates that all previous OSCE PA resolutions must be implemented.
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GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
PROPOSED AMENDMENT to the DRAFT RESOLUTION
on
ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO PROMOTE SECURITY:
THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENTS
[Set out text of Amendment here:]
Principal Sponsor:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in
Capital Letters
Country
Signature
Co-sponsored by:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in
Capital Letters
Country
Signature
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