PRESS RELEASES

11/03/2010	EPP Group joins forces with those inside Cuba crying for freedom. José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra MEP
10/03/2010	International Tibet Memorial Day: Hundreds of MEPs send out important signal. Thomas Mann MEP
26/02/2010	UN Human Rights Council: EP priorities welcomed. Laima Andrikienė MEP
25/02/2010	Defending human rights: our interest is an efficient EU in a strong UNHRC. Laima Liucija Andrikienė MEP
24/02/2010	Belarus: Abusing minority rights as an organic part of human rights must not be considered as an internal affair. Edit Bauer MEP

POLICY

The EPP Group is engaged constantly and actively in the area of human rights and democracy building. Human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent. The Group is very concerned about the respect of human rights, religious freedom and democracy building in the world. The Group takes initiatives to put this issue on the agenda inside and outside the European Parliament...

EPP-ED HEARING

EPP-ED Hearing on Anti-discrimination directive: expected impact on the ground Brussels, 29 January 2009

THIS MONTH'S URGENCY RESOLUTIONS

Every month during the plenary week, the European Parliament adopts resolutions and holds debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Here you will find the texts of the resolutions as proposed by the EPP-ED Group, which sometimes differs from the text that was eventually adopted by the plenary.

	Resolution on Press Freedom in Kenya - January 2009
	Resolution on Iran: the Shirin Ebadi case - January 2009
	Résolution sur le coup d'Etat en Guinée - Janvier 2009

YEARBOOK 2009

The EPP Group presented its 2009 Yearbook on 2 March 2010