Draws attention to its resolutions, as well as its oral questions with debates and its findings from missions in 2009 on concrete cases of fundamental rights, such as on privacy, personal dignity and data protection, on the prohibition of torture, on freedom of thought, conscience and religion, on freedom of expression and information, on freedom of the press and media, on non-discrimination, on the use of minority languages, on the situation of the Roma and on free movement, on Roma women, on discrimination against same sex marriages and civil-partnership couples, on minors, on retention centres for immigrants, and on the alleged illega ...[+++]l detention of prisoners under the CIA rendition programme; stresses that all these resolutions reflect the values enshrined in the Charter, show its clear commitment to the everyday protection of fundamental rights, and send political messages to all individuals in the EU, the Member States and the EU institutions as well as international partners;

In order to protect the fundamental human rights of women, legislation ensuring equal rights for men and women must also be accompanied by implementation.

In order to protect the fundamental human rights of women, legislation ensuring equal rights for men and women must also be accompanied by implementation.

22. Calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to take all necessary action to protect the rights of immigrant women and immigrant girls and to fight the discrimination they face in their community of origin, by refusing all forms of cultural and religious relativism which could violate women's fundamental rights.

22. Calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to take all necessary action to protect the rights of immigrant women and immigrant girls and to fight the discrimination they face in their community of origin, by refusing all forms of cultural and religious relativism which could violate women's fundamental rights;

Recalls the Millennium Development Goals, and stresses that access to education and health are basic human rights; believes that health programmes, including those covering sexual 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 integrate core labour rights and the decent work agenda in its development policy, in particular in trade-related a ...[+++]ssistance programmes;