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Pro-Life Campaign Challenges EU Inaction on Initiative
August 03, 2017
C-Fam reports that the campaign "One of Us" is challenging in the Court of Justice of the EU the European Commission's inaction on the group's successful European Citizens' Initiative seeking respect under EU policy for the principle that life begins at conception and a halt to funding for research that destroys embryos.
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Commission Seeks Hundreds of Millions to Support EU "Solidarity"
August 03, 2017
In May, the European Commission proposed a budget of just over €340 million for its European Solidarity Corps, an institution aimed at instilling support for EU values and integration in young people across the bloc, and called for 100,000 placements in the program by the year 2020.
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CoE Anti-torture Committee Seeks German Prison Reforms
August 03, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) committee on torture has published a report calling on Germany to reduce the use of "mechanical restraints" and solitary confinement in its prisons and warning that diverging confinement standards are in use in different federal states in the country.
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FRA Aims to Communicate to "Intolerant" Society
August 03, 2017
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) hosted a meeting in June with communications experts to address the FRA's "failure" to persuade an "increasingly intolerant" world that the global human rights agenda is important.
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FRA Seeks to Promote Rights Agenda Through Arts
August 03, 2017
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) recently hosted a group of artists to discuss the "shared space between arts and human rights," including how the FRA might use art to "help generate emotions and empathy" in support of its promotion of the global human rights agenda.
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