opfordrer EU's medlemsstater til at undertegne og ratificere alle FN's og Europarådets centrale menneskerettighedskonventioner og valgfrie protokoller hertil, især den internationale konvention om beskyttelse af vandrende arbejdstageres og deres familiemedlemmers rettigheder af 1990, den internationale konvention om beskyttelse af alle personer mod ufrivillig forsvinding, FN's erklæring om oprindelige folks rettigheder af 13. september 2007, ILO-erklæringen om grundlæggende principper og rettigheder i forbindelse med arbejde, Europarådets rammekonvention om beskyttelse af nationale mindretal, den europæiske pagt om regionale sprog eller mindretalssprog, den valgfri protokol til den internationale konvention om økonomiske, sociale og kulturelle rettigheder, de valgfrie protokoller til konventionen om barnets rettigheder og FN's Konvention om Handicappedes Rettigheder; fastholder, at den til konventionen knyttede protokol bør betragtes som en integreret del af denne, og slår til lyd for samtidig tiltrædelse af begge I december 2009 var konventionen og den frivillige protokol blevet ratificeret af Belgien, Det Forenede Kongerige, Italien, Portugal, Slovenien, Spanien, Sverige, Tyskland, Ungarn og Østrig, mens 15 medlemsstater endnu ikke havde ratificeret den (Bulgarien, Cypern, Estland, Finland, Frankrig, Grækenland, Irland, Letland, Litauen, Luxembourg, Malta, Nederlandene, Polen, Rumænien, Slovakiet); endvidere havde 19 medlemsstater undertegnet protokollen, men 10 havde endnu ikke ratificeret den (Bulgarien, Cypern, Finland, Frankrig, Litauen, Luxembourg, Malta, Rumænien, Slovakiet og den Tjekkiske Republik).
Calls on the EU Member States to sign up to, and ratify, all core UN and Council of Europe human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto, in particular the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of 13 September 2007, the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the Council of Europe's framework convention for the protection of national minorities, the European Charter for Regional or Minority languages, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; insists that the Optional Protocol to the Convention should be regarded as an integral part thereof, and calls for simultaneous accession to the latter (Convention and Protocol) As of December 2009 Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom had ratified both the Convention and the Optional Protocol; all Member States had signed the Convention, but 15 Member States had not yet ratified it (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia); 19 Member States had also signed the Protocol, but 10 had not yet ratified it (Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia).