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class="ep_title"> <div class="ep-p_text"><span class="ep_name" data-visibility480="" data-visibility320="" style="position: relative;" spellcheck="false">Protecting fundamental rights in the EU</span><span class="ep_icon" style="background-image: url("http://www.europarl.europa.eu/external/img/icon/aboutparliament.svg"); background-position: 0px -120px;"> </span></div> </div> </h2> <div class="ep-a_text" data-visibility480="false" data-visibility320="false" spellcheck="false"> <p>Fundamental rights apply to all people in the EU, no matter their status or origin.</p> <p>Some of these freedoms are as old as Europe: life and liberty, thought and expression.</p> <p>But others have had to be redefined to keep pace with the times. Protecting personal data or prohibiting human cloning were far from the minds of the first elected MEPs, some four decades ago.</p> </div> <div class="ep-a_links ep-layout_titlehidden"> <div class="ep_list"> <div class=""> <div class="ep-p_text ep-layout_page ep-layout_page"><a href="/about-parliament/en/democracy-and-human-rights/fundamental-rights-in-the-eu" target="_self" title="Go to the page"><span class="ep_name"><span class="ep_linklabel">Go to the page</span><span class="ep_hidden">: </span><span class="ep_linktitle">Protecting fundamental rights in the EU</span></span><span class="ep_icon"> </span></a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ep_gridcolumn ep-m_product" data-view1200="8" data-view1020="8" data-view750="12" data-view640="8" data-view480="8" data-view320="4" data-layout1200="center" data-layout1020="center" data-layout750="center" data-layout640="center" data-layout480="center-link" data-layout320="center-link"> <div class="ep_gridcolumn-content"> <h2 class="ep-layout_icontop ep-a_heading ep-layout_level2" data-visibility480="false" data-visibility320="false"> <div class="ep_title"> <div class="ep-p_text"><span class="ep_name" data-visibility480="" data-visibility320="" style="position: relative;" spellcheck="false">Defending human rights beyond the EU</span><span class="ep_icon" style="background-image: url("http://www.europarl.europa.eu/external/img/icon/aboutparliament.svg"); background-position: -50px -120px;"> </span></div> </div> </h2> <div class="ep-a_text" data-visibility480="false" data-visibility320="false" spellcheck="false"> <p>The European Parliament does not believe that people’s basic rights end at the EU’s borders.</p> <p>MEPs regularly speak out – individually and in unison – about human rights issues in non-EU countries. Because these rights are considered universal, the response is the same whether the violation takes place in Myanmar/Burma, some 8 000 kilometres away, or in Belarus, which borders on the Union.</p> <p>The battle for human rights has also brought many prominent defenders to the European Parliament.</p> <p>Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani campaigner for children’s education, Yazidi women who had been prisoners of the Islamic State in Iraq, a doctor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, political prisoners from Latin America: all have found a voice on the European Parliament’s stage.</p> </div> <div class="ep-a_links ep-layout_titlehidden"> <div class="ep_list"> <div class=""> <div class="ep-p_text ep-layout_page ep-layout_page"><a href="/about-parliament/en/democracy-and-human-rights/human-rights-outside-the-eu" target="_self" title="Go to the page"><span class="ep_name"><span class="ep_linklabel">Go to the page</span><span class="ep_hidden">: </span><span class="ep_linktitle">Defending human rights beyond the EU</span></span><span class="ep_icon"> </span></a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ep_gridcolumn ep-m_product" data-view1200="8" data-view1020="8" data-view750="12" data-view640="8" data-view480="8" data-view320="4" data-layout1200="center" data-layout1020="center" data-layout750="center" data-layout640="center" data-layout480="center-link" data-layout320="center-link"> <div class="ep_gridcolumn-content"> <h2 class="ep-layout_icontop ep-a_heading ep-layout_level2" data-visibility480="false" data-visibility320="false"> <div class="ep_title"> <div class="ep-p_text"><span class="ep_name" data-visibility480="" data-visibility320="" style="position: relative;" spellcheck="false">Supporting democracy around the globe</span><span class="ep_icon" style="background-image: url("http://www.europarl.europa.eu/external/img/icon/aboutparliament.svg"); background-position: -100px -120px;"> </span></div> </div> </h2> <div class="ep-a_text" data-visibility480="false" data-visibility320="false" spellcheck="false"> <p>Sustaining democracy is a key element of this effort, spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “<em>The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government</em>.”</p> <p>MEPs defend democratic systems around the globe. Some have travelled far to observe elections, mediate in conflicts and support fledgling parliaments.</p> <p>The EU’s own founding texts require that the Union as a whole defends democratic principles in its foreign affairs. 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