enhancing respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, as proclaimed in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international and regional human rights instruments, and strengthening their protection, promotion, implementation and monitoring, mainly through support to relevant civil society organisations, human rights defenders and victims of repression and abuse.

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Governance, democracy, human rights and support for institutional reforms:

Calls on the Council and the Commission, therefore, to take priority action — along the same lines as for the establishment of the ICC — to support the activities of all courts involved in protecting human rights; considers, in particular, that the excessive workload of the European Court of Human Rights must be tackled by the allocation of additional financial resources, that maximum support should be given to the work of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, and that steps should be taken to help facilitate the establishment of a Court of Human Rights between states in Asia and th ...[+++]e Pacific;

enhancing the respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international and regional human rights instruments, and promoting and consolidating democracy and democratic reform in third countries, mainly through support for civil society organisations, providing support and solidarity to human rights defenders and victims of repression and abuse, and strengthening civil society active in the field of human rights and democracy promotion;

Beyond these priorities, the partners put in place a series of thematic actions, in particular for democracy and human rights, support for civil society, food security, asylum policy and migration.