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Recommendation 2055 (2014) Final version
Threats against humanity posed by the terrorist group known as “IS”: violence against Christians and other religious or ethnic communities
1. The Parliamentary Assembly refers
to its Resolution 2016
(2014) on threats against humanity posed by the terrorist
group known as “IS”: violence against Christians and other religious
or ethnic communities, whereby it expresses its deep concern about
the threats posed by this terrorist group and draws attention once again
to the situation of Christian and other religious and ethnic communities
in the Middle East, in general, and in Iraq and Syria in particular.
2. The Assembly therefore asks the Committee of Ministers to:
2.1. develop the political aspect
of its annual Exchanges on the religious dimension of intercultural dialogue,
and consider discussing the different religious perspectives of
human dignity;
2.2. envisage possible ways to monitor the situation of governmental
and societal restrictions on religious freedom and related rights
in Council of Europe member States and in States in the Council
of Europe’s neighbourhood, and report periodically to the Assembly;
2.3. bring to the attention of the governments of the member
States the specific recommendations included in Resolution 2016
(2014), in particular as regards the need to increase humanitarian
aid supplies to refugee camps across Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon
and Turkey, and expand aid programmes further.