Establishing a mechanism for the protection of human rights in European states not members of the Council of Europe

Recommendation 1219 (1993)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 27 September 1993 (45th Sitting) (see Doc. 6902, report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Rapporteur: Mrs Haller). Text adopted by the Assembly on 27 September 1993 (45th Sitting).

Thesaurus

1. The Assembly stresses that the situation in the former Yugoslavia shows that protection of human rights once conflict has actually broken out is no easy matter.

2. It considers that prevention is therefore particularly important where human rights are concerned, and every possible resource must be urgently directed to setting up prevention machinery.

3. It assesses that if the international community is prepared and able to commit $30 million a year to the urgent matter of setting up an international court to try serious violations of international humanitarian law, the Council of Europe must spare no expense either in establishing the mechanism already under discussion for the protection of human rights in European non-member states.

4. The Assembly refers to its Recommendation 1183 (1992) on access by European non-member states to institutions operating under certain Council of Europe conventions relating to human rights and to its Recommendation 1204 (1993) on the creation of a transitional mechanism in the protection of human rights for European non-member states of the Council of Europe.

5. The Assembly accordingly urges the Committee of Ministers:

5.1 to establish without delay the mechanism, already under discussion, for the protection of human rights in European non-member states;

5.2 to press Council of Europe member states to make urgently available the necessary resources.