A WORKSHOP TO BE HELD ON THE FRAMEWORK DECISION AGAINST RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA

armradio.am
19.12.2008 18:18

The European Armenian Federation will organise a workshop dedicated
to the provisions and the implementation of the Framework Decision
against Racism and Xenophobia, which was adopted late November by
the Council of the European Union.

The Framework decision provides a legislative framework to which the
penal laws of the 27 EU Member States will have to adopt within a two
year period, in order to penalize condoning, gross trivialization or
denial of genocides and crimes against humanity.

The meeting is to be held on the 21st January from 2pm to 6pm, at
Brussels, in the European Parliament. Detailed information will be
provided soon.

This meeting concerns chiefly policy makers and leaders of NGOs and
of associations dedicated to prevention and repression of denial,
Human Rights defenders and jurists.

This meeting will be held in the presence of Mrs Martine Roure, Member
of the European Parliament and rapporteur on the Framework Decision,
officer of the European Commission and law experts.

The workshop aims to provide activists and politicians from all
EU Member States with the awareness required for a pan-European
implementation of the Framework Decision which will actually allow
penalising, in the 27 concerned countries, the denial of any attested
genocide, including the denial of the Armenian Genocide.