1 Amendments of Aloyzas SAKALAS related to 2008/2203(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Points out that half of the world's population are children; stresses in this respect the need to consider children's rights as a priority of EU development policy; recalls that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child made them an inalienable part of human rights in general, and therefore calls on the Council and the Commission to include this issue in all bilateral and multilateral human rights and political dialogues, and to include children's rights in its social, educational and economical policies;