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Human Rights must be the cornerstone, not just a reference, of the Stockholm Programme - Press release, October, 7th 2009

The European Association for the Defense of Human Rights (AEDH) welcomes the adoption for the upcoming 5 years of a Programme on the “freedom, security and justice area” which will succeed the Hague Programme. AEDH wishes for a more global and balanced Programme, in the vein of the 1999 Tampere Programme. The Hague Programme took a security-based and sectoral approach that tended to confuse security, criminality and migration. This led to discriminative legislative content that often infringed on Fundamental Rights. AEDH took a position many times on the topic through its reports and press releases.

For further information about the AEDH position on the Stockholm Programme, download the press release in English, Spanish or French. 

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