HRDN – Human Rights and Democracy Network Human Rights and Democracy Network
The EU Internal Human Rights Policy Working Group advocates that the EU and its Member States should elaborate a comprehensive internal human rights strategy to strengthen EU action on human rights across all EU internal policies – complementing the externally-focused EU strategic framework on human rights and democracy.
Contact
Berber Biala-Hettinga
Senior Executive Officer Legal Affairs and Human Rights in the EU
Amnesty International – European Institutions Office
Recent Statements
- Submission to the European Commission in the framework of the Second Annual Rule of Law Review Cycle (June 2021)
- Submission to the European Commission in the framework of the stakeholder consultation for the Rule of Law Report (May 2020)
- CIVIL SOCIETY ON THE FRONTLINE – 5 POINTS FOR EU ACTION (November 2018)
- HRDN WG Statement on European Commission’s proposal for a Rights and Values Programme within MFF 2021-2027 (September 2018)
- NGO joint call to members of the European Parliament ahead of the vote on the report on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union (September 2015)
- Joint NGO statement on the upcoming EC Communication on Rule of Law (March 2014)
- HRDN Statement Strengthening the European Union’s Response to Human Rights Abuses Inside its Own Borders (August 2013)
HRDN Members active in this WG
- Amnesty International
- Association for the Prevention of Torture
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Conference of European Churches
- End FGM European Network
- European Partnership for Democracy (EPD)
- Fair Trials International
- Free Press Unlimited
- Front Line Defenders
- Human Rights House Foundation
- International Federation of Actions by Christians for the Abolition of Torture
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network (IPPF EN)
- Human Rights Watch
- ILGA-Europe
- International Commission of Jurists
- International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
- Open Society Foundations
- Scholars at Risk
- The Netherlands Helsinki Committee
- Quaker Council for European Affairs
- Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
- World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)