The European Union’s "double standards" on human rights could erode the bloc’s legitimacy in the Global South, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Tirana Hassan, told Euronews.
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00:20 And the EU risks developing a reputation where it says one set of rights applies to a certain group of people,
00:29 close to Europe, and another set of rights applies to people outside.
00:34 And that will undermine European leaders and the EU's legitimacy in the eyes of many countries in the global south
00:44 when we need to negotiate and call on respecting human rights in different contexts.
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01:12 European leaders will be meeting this week and they need to make sure that they are being explicit on what is meaningful humanitarian assistance.
01:21 Humanitarian needs will not be met by truckloads of water and cartons of medicines.
01:29 There needs to be a meaningful, full, free flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza,
01:35 not only from the Egyptian crossing, but also from the Israeli side.
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