Subcommittee on Human Rights
Latest news
Election of the 3rd and 4th Vice-Chairs
- Isabel SERRA SÁNCHEZ (The Left, Spain) was elected as 3rd Vice-Chair,
- Arkadiusz MULARCZYK (ECR, Poland) was elected as 4th Vice-Chair.
Highlights
On 26 June, DROI jointly with AFET held an exchange of views on the situation in the Philippines in the field of democracy, rule of law and human rights after the general elections of 12 May 2025, with speakers from academia, civil society, and the European External Action Service.
On 25 June 2025, DROI Subcommittee organised a public hearing on "The Human Rights dimension of the EU memoranda of Understanding in its Southern Neighbourhood (Mauritania, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, with a focus on the use of EU funds)". It allowed to reflect upon the EU cooperation policy in the region from a human rights perspective and discuss solutions for the monitoring of the informal agreements and related funding and improving the human rights conditionality in the EU policy tools.