BERLIN, Germany, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The German Institute for Human Rights recommends to strengthen human rights aspects when planning and executing EU peace missions. The protection and promotion of human rights has been defined as one of the five goals of foreign policy by the EU. Corresponding guidelines for peace missions have been drafted, but their implementation process has only just begun, as "The ESDP Crisis Management Operations of the European Union and Human Rights" study concluded, published by the German Institute for Human Rights.
Currently, according to the study, the integration of human rights goals and components in the framework of peace missions has been an exception rather than a rule. The military mission EUFOR RD Congo in 2006 was the first one to include a human rights and a gender advisor. Only the Aceh Monitoring Mission from 2005 until 2006 was explicitly assigned to human rights monitoring and was accordingly provided with personnel.
The study conducted by Jana Arloth und Frauke Seidensticker relates EU peace missions to EU human rights obligations. It offers eight recommendations to the EU and its member states. Inter alia, the study suggests the implementation of mission contact points for locals to facilitate the reporting of human rights violations. It also advises to evaluate the effect on human rights during EU peace missions.
Jana Arloth/Frauke Seidensticker: The ESDP Crisis Management Operations of the European Union and Human Rights. Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte. 67 pages, ISBN 978-3-937714-44-8
Please download the study at:
http://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/sl.php?id=194
For more information, please contact:
Bettina Hildebrand,
Phone: +49-30-259359-14,
Mobile Phone: +49-160-966-500-83,
Email: hildebrand@institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de
For more information, please contact: Bettina Hildebrand, Phone: +49-30-259359-14, Mobile Phone: +49-160-966-500-83, Email: hildebrand@institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de
