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Amnesty International has drawn attention to the widening gap between the EU’s human rights ambitions and the resources available to fund them, in its recommendations released today to the forthcoming Luxembourg EU Presidency.

Among the critical areas highlighted by Amnesty International is the chronic lack of resourcing for the EU’s human rights work at Council level including totally inadequate staffing at the Council’s General Secretariat.

Director of Amnesty International’s EU Office, Dick Oosting said:

"The EU stands to gain in authority, both at home and in the wider world, if it can show more consistently that human rights are not dispensable and not negotiable. But there needs to be a critical review within all EU institutions of the actual resources allocated to securing human rights.

Continue story @ http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/15834.shtml

Source: Amnesty International UK

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