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Manufacturing and trade in firearms for civilian purposes employs around 150 000 people in the EU. In 2020, the Commission adopted a 2020-2025 action plan on firearms trafficking to help curb the illegal flows of firearms, and ammunition, while also strengthening the legal market. The adoption of Directive (EU) 2021/555 on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons in 2021was the first legislative outcome of the plan. In October 2022, the Commission presented a proposal for a regulation ...

In una relazione approvata il 17 novembre 2022, la commissione per le libertà civili del Parlamento europeo fa il punto sui progressi compiuti nell'Unione europea (UE) nell'attuazione della Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sui diritti delle persone con disabilità. Il testo sarà discusso e posto in votazione durante la tornata del Parlamento di dicembre.

Adopted in 1989, the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was the first international instrument to explicitly recognise children as human beings with innate rights. Ratified by 197 countries, including all EU Member States, it has become the landmark treaty on children's rights, outlining universal standards for the care, treatment, survival, development, protection and participation of all children. The promotion and protection of children's rights is one of the key objectives ...

This briefing follows up the commitments made by the commissioner since 2019.

Il Parlamento intende avvalersi dei suoi poteri di supervisione nel quadro del rinnovato "tempo delle interrogazioni" fissato per la sessione plenaria di luglio per interrogare la Commissione in merito al livello di ambizione dell'UE in vista della 15a riunione della conferenza delle parti (COP 15) della Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sulla diversità biologica, il principale strumento internazionale per la tutela della biodiversità. Il 22 giugno 2022 la Commissione europea ha presentato due proposte ...

More than two decades after the United Nations General Assembly adopted its Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) to enhance recognition of their role and encourage states to create a more protective environment, many human rights defenders face an increasingly hostile environment, with both repressive governments and some non-state actors, such as economic interest or criminal groups, opposing their work and posing a serious threat. Support for human rights defenders is a long established ...

Adopted in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has gathered the nations of the world with the common goal to limit dangerous global warming. In December 2021, after having been postponed for a year due to the coronavirus crisis, world leaders will meet in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP26) to continue negotiations on the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

Based on Member States' reporting under the Birds and Habitats Directives, the backbone of European Union (EU) nature conservation policy, the latest assessment on the state of nature by the European Environment Agency shows that despite some encouraging developments, the overall picture remains bleak. Only 15 % of habitats and around 27 % of species protected under EU legislation have a good conservation status. An EU-wide assessment of terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems found that, overall ...

The UN Convention against Corruption – the only legally binding international instrument for fighting corruption – was adopted by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in 2003. Although it has been ratified by the vast majority of the states in the world, serious implementation gaps persist to this day. The harmful impact of corruption on human rights and on the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been widely recognised. In this context, the UNGA is to hold its first special ...

Durante la tornata di maggio il Parlamento voterà una relazione, approvata in commissione per l'ambiente, su una proposta intesa a garantire la conformità dell'UE agli obblighi che le incombono in quanto parte della convenzione di Aarhus sull'accesso alle informazioni, la partecipazione del pubblico ai processi decisionali e l'accesso alla giustizia in materia ambientale.