Concerned about the situation of human rights in europe today we have a lot to do across so many issues so many groups migrants older people at the disabled theres a huge program of work to be done but much the challenges with the achievements but you have said that quote twenty seventeen was not a great year in terms of respect of protection and the promotion of human and fundamental right not a great year thats an. Minute now i agree it was a it was a very very challenging time it remains a challenging time to take the Migration Crisis its still a crisis we still have not a crisis because of the migration it is the crisis of democracy in the Member States of europe its a crisis of Migration Policy in other words i largely agree with you its about a failure to show solidarity to risk to share the responsibility across Member States its about failure to get the basics in place in so many places weve been following the story very closely for the last two years and yesterday in some
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We have really serious and growing problems and its the job of my agency to get the data about those problems out there in the Public Domain the Actual Experience of Muslims In Europe the Actual Experience of jews in europe put that in front of the policymakers the Decision Makers and then challenge them but deliver only human rights from it is the problem not the solution in some countries its not that simple and theres an enormous diversity of of willingness to make for better societies but its not just the Policy Makers the politicians who make our societies its also about Civil Society its also about the faith groups its the citizens themselves and a large part of our work is to engage with them and to convince them that this is something worth fighting for i will repeat my question in some countries are the governments the problem or the solution like poland for example. I just wouldnt put it that simply in some countries weve got far more serious
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has to be and we accusing for example countries like turkey. what is the difference what we have to be just as hard on ourselves as we do with any other state outside the european union and again as i say that s that s a that s a job for the entire of the european political community not just for a single agency which is providing the data and the evidence so that those hard words can be spoken and i see those hard words spoken increasingly. again. is the situation getting better or not at the moment we re in a bad situation but i do see a change of light towards the future and why why because i see more and more governments in this european your union. or even on the top or the junior partner parties which are openly openly discriminating races nationalists right wing parties we re optimists come it s
top or the junior partner parties which are openly openly discriminating races nationalists right wing parties were optimists come it s coming from many places for example we re getting more serious about promoting economic equality and so-called social economic rights the dimension of human rights we haven t had a chance to speak much of in this conversation i see it in young people it could sound condescending but jenny warning from traveling around europe meeting with youth groups and with children s groups i see solutions being offered i see a willingness to to go over the divisions and i see more and more government power which are representing all these issues we re talking about certainly there are populist tendencies out there against which we have to push very hard but we can do that as i said earlier by shattering myth by dispelling these crazy stories on the basis of which people are being rallied by delivering for people better tackling
top or in the junior partner parties which are openly openly discriminating races nationalists right wing parties were optimists come it s coming from many places for example we re getting more serious about promoting economic equality and so-called socio economic rights the dimension of human rights we haven t had a chance to speak much of in this conversation i see it in young people it could sound condescending but genuinely from traveling around europe meeting with youth groups and with children s groups i see solutions being offered i see a willingness to to go over the divisions and i see more and more government power which are representing all the issues we re talking about certainly there are populist tendencies out there against which we have to push very hard but we can do that as i said earlier by shattering myth by dispelling these crazy stories on the basis of which people are being rallied by delivering for people better tackling inequality by showing that we can have fa