EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

European Parliament resolution on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU (2004-2008)

 

The European Parliament:

Is concerned at the fact that, for several years, there has been an increase in the number of detention centres for foreign nationals in Member States and at their borders; on the basis of a host of reports, including those by delegations from its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, which condemn frequent violations of human rights, calls for the following actions to be taken:

- ensuring access for NGOs specialising in protecting the fundamental rights of migrants and asylum-seekers so that their presence at detention centres is enshrined in law and not simply the result of good will;

- setting up an independent verification body at European level with responsibility for supervising detention centres as regards the protection of human rights;

- asking the Agency for an annual report analysing the situation of individuals placed in detention centres under the authority of Member States, within or outside their borders, and to submit it to Parliament; (par. 108)

Takes the view that poverty and social exclusion can only be combated by guaranteeing all the fundamental rights, including economic and social rights, of everyone; (…)(par. 136)

Stresses that there is a set of indivisible, interdependent fundamental rights to which all human beings must be guaranteed genuine access; (par. 137)

Recalls that article 35 of the Charter provides everyone with a right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment; calls the Member States to insure access to adequate healthcare in particular for those who are on low incomes and those whose state of health requires long or expensive intensive care. (par. 149)

Source: European Parliament resolution on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU (2004-2008)

 

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