Subcommittee on Human Rights
The Chair
DG EXPO-DROI D(2018)
To the Chair of the Committee concerned
Dear colleague,
The European Parliament proposes to bring together European and National Parliamentarians on
the theme of
“Human rights and external actions of the EU and Member States”.
This meeting
is organised within the Human Rights Week of the European Parliament, which will take place
from 19 to 23 November 2018 to celebrate the 70
th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration on
Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.
On this occasion the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) would like to invite members of
national parliaments of the EU Member States to attend an inter-parliamentary committee
meeting on Tuesday, 20 November 2018, from 9.00 to 12.30 in the European Parliament in
Brussels. It would be of great importance and value for us to discuss experiences at national level
as well as strategic action and ideas for the way forward at European level. The programme
includes three thematic sessions: “Mainstreaming human rights into external action”, “Business
and Human Rights” and “Sustainable development and human rights”.
We are pleased to invite up to four Members of the corresponding committee(s) of each National
Parliament (two from each chamber in cases of bi-cameral parliaments) to attend this inter-
parliamentary meeting. Should you and/or your Members be unable to attend, we would
welcome any written contribution which would be distributed to the participants.
You are also cordially invited to attend the high level conference which will take place in the
afternoon. The conference will be opened by the President of the European Parliament, Antonio
Tajani. Many international dignitaries, including the Secretary-General of the United Nations
António Guterres, have been invited to attend and celebrate the gift of the Universal Declaration
and to help reaffirm the enduring human rights principles and standards it has helped to
establish.
Practical details regarding the meetings as well as a detailed draft programme will be forwarded
in due course to your Parliaments Representatives/Services responsible for relations with the
European Parliament.
We sincerely hope that you will be able to accept this invitation and we are looking forward to
welcoming you to the European Parliament on 20 November 2018.
Yours sincerely
Pier Antonio Panzeri
[email protected] - www.europarl.europa.eu