EU: Steps Toward Rights-Based Leadership

Expand Women hold candles and European Union flag as they demonstrate in solidarity with Polish judges in front of the Ministry of Justice on December 1, 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. © 2019 Omar Marques/Getty Images (Brussels) –The European Union showed willingness to tackle human rights challenges within the EU and to defend human rights around the world during a year of renewal of EU institutions in 2019, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020. But EU member states failed to stand up consistently for rights values, especially on migration policy, with migrants and refugees paying…

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