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This issue covers the Sakharov Prize Award Ceremony in Strasbourg and exchanges of views with: Mary McGowan Davis, Chair of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict and Fabrice Leggeri, Executive Director of FRONTEX; the DROI Mission to the UN General Assembly, New York and debates on Burundi, Eastern Ukraine and Crimea and Mauritania

This issue looks at the DROI meetings of September and October, including the joint hearing on Migration Flows, the hearing on the Death Penalty and the joint hearing on Women in Armed Conflict. Also included are the DROI missions to Ukraine, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and Serbia.

Main points include: Hearing on Sport and Human Rights; Human rights in Central Asia; Exchange of views with Habib Essid, Prime Minister of Tunisia; Human rights situation in Egypt; Human rights in Venezuela; Respect of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Gaza Conflict; Human rights situation in Ukraine and Human rights in Angola;

Main points : Human rights situation in Eritrea with Sheila B. Keetharuth; Discussion with Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders; Situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon with Ninette Kelley; Sakharov Prize laureate Denis Mukwege; Evaluation of the activities of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) since its establishment; Exchange of views with the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula (DARP);

Highlights in this issue include: * Hearing on human rights and technologies * Exchange of views with Ambassador Robert King * Update on Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia * Hearing on freedom of religion or belief

During the first quarter of 2014 hearings on topics such as the human rights situations in Mexico and Kazakhstan and the link between human rights and business were held. Exchanges of views on prison conditions in Russia as well as on human rights criteria in arms exports were also organised.