Cyberspace and digital technologies

World Ethical Data Forum 2022 Video message by the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore ‘Cyberspace and digital technologies: A new impetus for human rights’   Good morning from Brussels. It is a great pleasure to address the 2022 World Ethical Data Forum. The ethical use of data to prevent violations of fundamental…

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Responsible Business Alliance Annual Conference

Responsible Business Alliance Annual Conference Address by the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore   Thank you to the Responsible Business Alliance for the invitation to address you today to talk about what the EU is doing on business and human rights. Business and human rights has become more important in recent years;…

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EuroMed Rights 25th Anniversary Conference

EuroMed Rights 25th Anniversary Conference Keynote Speech by EUSR for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore Thursday, 13 October 2022, Brussels   CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Good morning everyone. It is probably my political background, that I prefer to speak standing up. I don’t know what it is about politicians speaking standing up, maybe it is the instinct…

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My September Newsletter – UN General Assembly and Beyond

UN General Assembly High Level Week: I was in New York representing the European Union at various events during the high-level week.  This included the High-level meeting to mark the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities;…

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Protect Defenders Annual Meeting

ProtectDefenders.eu Annual Meeting “The Human Rights Defenders Movement at a crossroad” Welcome Address by the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore Tuesday, 27 September 2022   Thank you Antoine [Bernard] and thank you to ProtectDefenders.eu for inviting me to talk with you this morning. Welcome to Brussels, the capital of Belgium of course,…

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Working together to stop Internet shutdowns

EU-OHCHR webinar ‘Working together to stop Internet shutdowns’ Opening remarks by the EUSR for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore Monday, 26 September 2022, 13.30 CET   Recoding available here (2:12-9:36) CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Thank you very much, Peggy [Hicks]. Good afternoon to everybody. It is a pleasure to be with you on this online event tackling…

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UN General Assembly High Level Week – Minority Rights

UN General Assembly High Level Week 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities Statement by the European Union delivered by Eamon Gilmore, EU Special Representative for Human Rights 21 September 2022  (Watch video recording below) I have the honour of…

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Responsible business conduct, innovation, Artificial Intelligence

Intel and Article One Symposium in association with the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin Keynote Address by the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore Monday, 12 September 2022 Good morning everyone.  It is a great pleasure to be with you today for this symposium and I would like to thank Intel and…

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Opinion: The world needs a renewed push for human rights

Opinion published on 11 September 2022 by Politico. Read the full opinion here. Freedom, equality and dignity shouldn’t just be aspirations and ambitions, but actions. In the last year, we have seen an avalanche of crises. Afghanistan, where girls are denied education, and women their equality; Belarus, where there are now over 1,300 political prisoners;…

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Global State of Human Rights conference

Annual Conference on the Global State of Human Rights Organised by the European Parliament and Global Campus of Human Rights Remarks by the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore Saturday 16 July 2022, Venice, Italy   Watch the video recording here (from 09:32:00 to 09:45:25) CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY   Thank you very much…

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