It is ‘new and frightening’ that in too many EU states ‘people in high office boast of abuse’
, also expressed concern about “bad and growing” levels of human rights abuses in Europe.
As levels of human rights intolerance grow, the quality of our democracies is lowered, he warned. “Standing up for human rights is a standing up and strengthening of democracy itself.” It showed racism based on the colour of a person’s skin remains a “pervasive scourge” throughout the EU and a serious problem in Ireland which, along with Austria and Finland, recorded the highest rates of racially motivated violence at 13 per cent.
In the 1990s, human rights abuses “were everywhere but states bent over backwards to deny them”, he said. Children are most severely affected with some 25 million children, 26.4 per cent of all children, across the EU at risk of poverty or social exclusion. In Ireland, 27.2 per cent are at such risk while the risk extends to almost half of Romanian children.
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