Reminds the EU that there must be coherence between its policies, including in arms trade and raw materials trade, and that negotiations for agreements in the region must promote peace, stability, development and human rights.

91. Regrets that its call to enhance visibility of the annual Sakharov Prize is not taken on board as the Sakharov Prize is only mentioned in a declarative manner in the section on the European Parliament in the Annual Report; underlines once more that a proper follow-up by the EEAS is needed on the well-being of the candidates and laureates, and on the situation in their respective countries; reiterates its call on the EEAS and the Commission to stay in regular touch with the candidates and laureates of the Sakharov Prize to ensure continuous dialogue and monitoring of the situation of the human rights situation in the respective coun ...[+++]tries, and to offer protection to those suffering persecution; calls on the EEAS to include the Sakharov Prize in the section on human right defenders in the Annual Report on Human Rights;

97. Regrets that its call to enhance visibility of the annual Sakharov Prize is not taken on board as the Sakharov Prize is only mentioned in a declarative manner in the section on the European Parliament in the Annual Report; underlines once more that a proper follow-up by the EEAS is needed on the well-being of the candidates and laureates, and on the situation in their respective countries; reiterates its call on the EEAS and the Commission to stay in regular touch with the candidates and laureates of the Sakharov Prize to ensure continuous dialogue and monitoring of the situation of the human rights situation in the respective coun ...[+++]tries, and to offer protection to those suffering persecution; calls on the EEAS to include the Sakharov Prize in the section on human right defenders in the Annual Report on Human Rights;

133. Recalls the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by United Nations General Assembly resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, which recognises that the right to development is an inalienable human right and that States have the primary responsibility for the creation of conditions favourable to the realisation of the right to development, and must take steps to formulate international development policies with a view to facilitating the full realisation of that right; calls for measures to ensure that international devel ...[+++]opment programmes designed to address this responsibility of States are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities, in accordance with Article 32 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, signed by the European Communities on 30 March 2007;

94. Recalls the Millennium Development Goals, and stresses that access to education and health are basic human rights; believes that health programmes, including sexual and reproductive health, promotion of gender equality, empowerment of women and rights of the child should be prominent in the EU´s development and human rights policy, in particular where gender-based violence is pervasive and women and children are put at risk of HIV/AIDS, or denied access to information, prevention and/or treatment; calls on the Commission to inte ...[+++]grate core labour rights and the decent work agenda in its development policy, in particular in trade-related assistance programmes;

(5a) In his report entitled “In Larger Freedom - Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All”, the Secretary-General of the United Nations also describes the relation between development, security and human rights, stating: “Not only are development, security and human rights all imperative; they also reinforce each otherAccordingly, we will not enjoy development without security, we will not enjoy security without development, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.