C 67/156
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
8.2.2022
Wednesday 9 June 2021
law at the international level’ and call for the continuation of this dialogue with a view to fostering the rule of law at the international level; Parliament calls on the Secretary-General and the UN system to systematically address, as appropriate, aspects of the rule of law in relevant activities, including the participation of women in rule of law-related activities;
(m) actively counteract attempts by some individual or coalitions of countries to undermine the international consensus around reproductive health and rights; in particular, denounces the recent ‘Geneva Consensus Declaration’, led by the Trump administration and co-signed by 32 largely illiberal or authoritarian governments; Parliament expresses its profound discomfort at seeing two EU Member States, Hungary and Poland, sign this retrograde declaration which seeks to undermine reproductive freedoms of women and the rights of LGBT persons;
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support the work of the recently established open ended intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG) for the development of a legally binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with a view to establishing a legally binging instrument that ensures that companies are fully accountable for human rights violations and environmental crimes;
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further step up the EU’s commitment to combating impunity for crimes against journalists, media workers and associated personnel, including local ones, and launch concrete initiatives in this regard; support the call of the UN Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression and on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions to set up a UN standing investigative mechanism on crimes against journalists and support the appointment of a UN Special Representative for the Protection of Journalists worldwide; adopt a policy to denounce, systematically and unequivocally, the killing of human rights defenders (HRDs), including environmental and land human rights defenders and any attempt to subject them to any form of violence, persecution, threat, harassment, disappearance, imprisonment or arbitrary arrest; call on UN Member States to adopt policies to provide protection and support for human rights defenders at risk; continue advocating, through all diplomatic means and in close cooperation with the UN, to abolish the death penalty worldwide and call for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty;
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continue to expand its diplomacy and outreach toolbox, with particular regard to peace, international security and long-term stability, climate diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, human rights, gender equality, fair globalisation and the capacity to pursue policy dialogue and policy consensus, not only with UN members, but also with relevant interlocutors such as cities, regions, academia, religious entities and communities, civil society, local and indigenous communities and the private sector; use efforts to find solutions for global problems, such as climate change, as an entry point for diplomatic relations with partners with whom other agenda items are highly contested, thereby offering an opportunity to enhance stability and peace; Parliament welcomes the fact that the EU and its Member States contribute actively to the work of the UN system in various ways and in various forms;
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reiterate its unequivocal condemnation of terrorism and its full support for actions aimed at defeating and eradicating terrorist organisations, in particular Daesh/ISIS, which pose a clear threat to regional and international security; work with the UNGA and the UNSC to combat the financing of terrorism, and to build mechanisms to designate terrorists and terrorist organisations and strengthen asset-freezing mechanisms worldwide; commit to strengthening joint EU-UN efforts in combating the root causes of terrorism, particularly in countering hybrid threats and developing cyber defence research and capacity building; support current initiatives by local partners to design, implement, and develop approaches countering radicalisation and recruitment to terrorist organisations; continue with its efforts to clamp down on recruitment, fight against foreign fighters, violent extremism, fight terrorist propaganda; support actions strengthening the resilience of communities vulnerable to radicalisation, including by ensuring social inclusion and by exploring initiatives that engage with moderate religious leaders and ministers; work to strengthen the efficacy of international policing, and legal and judicial cooperation in the fight against terrorism and transnational crime to support counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation policies in line with the UN Plan of Action to Prevent Violent