The 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) begins in September 2014. This draft to the Council is the European Parliament’s annual recommendation for the UNGA. We have introduced several amendments, notably on: the participation of NGOs in the universal periodic review process (UPR) and in all major human rights sessions in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the International Criminal Court (ICC); the ratification (including all EU member states) of the Kampala amendments on the crime of aggression; the fight against torture and other forms of ill-treatment, especially against children; and the request for a definition of ‘climate refugee’.
Moreover, the S&D Group’s amendments also focus on priorities such as the fight against the death penalty; LGBTI rights; the ratification by all UN members of the UN convention against corruption and the UN convention against transnational organised crime; as well as the establishment of a UN special rapporteur on financial crime, corruption and human rights.