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The European Parliament has repeatedly and in the strongest terms condemned the unprovoked, illegal, and unjustified Russian war of aggression. In the resolution of 19 May 2022, Members of Parliament expressed their utmost outrage and indignation over reported atrocities, and their full support to the Ukrainian authorities to investigate and prosecute such acts.

The EU pursues universal abolition of the death penalty in the world as a matter of utmost priority in its human rights foreign policy. The European Parliament is at the forefront of EU actions promoting and supporting the abolitionism, publicly raising its opposition to the use of death penalty in individual cases and using its influence with governments and parliaments worldwide through parliamentary diplomacy.

The pro-democratic movement in Belarus has since the contested 2020 presidential elections mobilised millions and engaged both new and existing political and civil society actors. With the aim of silencing the country, Lukashenka’s regime has responded to this wave of popular discontent with large-scale oppression, including arbitrary arrests and reports of torture and ill-treatment in detention. The number of political prisoners has exceeded one thousand and continues to be rising.

The growth of international supply chains has brought large benefits to developing countries, but had also had some severe negative consequences such as the violations of human and labour rights, including forced labour and child labour, environmental damage and corruption.

Climate change and continued environmental degradation on ecosystems are one of the greatest threats facing human rights as they pose serious risks to the fundamental rights to life, health, water, food, housing and an adequate standard of living for individuals. They have a particularly negative impact on the poorest countries in the world and the rights of most vulnerable people, the rights of indigenous peoples and of natural-resource-dependent communities.