One World Human Rights Film Festival in the EP in Brussels. Extracts from the debate with Olivier BASILE of Reporters Without Borders, Sakharov Prize Laureate 2005, Elena VALENCIANO (S&amp;D,ES), Chair of the EP Subcommittee on Human Rights, and S&oslash;ren Steen JESPERSEN, Director of Warriors from the North.

Brussels

statement

debate

Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought 2005 (T)

respect for human rights in the world (T)

VALENCIANO, Elena (S&D, ES)

BASILLE, Olivier (BE)

One World Human Rights Film Festival: Extracts from the debate with Olivier BASILE, Elena VALENCIANO (S&D,ES), and Søren Steen JESPERSEN

Trailor of the film "Warriors from the north"

SOUNDBITE (English), Elena VALENCIANO (S&amp;D, ES), Chair of the EP Subcommittee on Human Rights, &ldquo;Talking on fundamentalism and radicalization from the human rights perspective, the most important thing is to maintain, on one hand, the importance of keeping the awareness of human rights as a universal value, a universal obligation. This is the main asset for the European Union. I think this is our main competitive advantage. &rdquo;

SOUNDBITE (English), Olivier BASILLE, Reporters Without Borders, Sakharov Prize Laureate 2005, &ldquo;When Charlie Hebdo issues happened in January, during the last months I made a lot of conference in the schools. And when you look at all those young and sometimes very young people, you need to spend hours, first of all, to explain: it is not a target that you can reach, it is not a hope that you could have. Before talking about freedom of expression, freedom of information and so on, you need to start by this. And then you have already the question if you want a view of an organisation dedicated to freedom of the press. Then you have the importance of the Internet. I think this changes plenty of things between my first twenty years and my last twenty years.&rdquo;

SOUNDBITE (English), Olivier BASILLE, Reporters Without Borders, Sakharov Prize Laureate 2005, &ldquo;At that time also there was the military service. I&rsquo;m part of a generation that didn&rsquo;t have to. But maybe, that was giving you what war is, what a gun is, what a bomb is before getting convinced that you want to make a war. And maybe that changes something in the young generation&rdquo;.

SOUNDBITE (English), S&#248;ren Steen JESPERSEN, Director of Warriors from the North, &ldquo;What I realise in the process, is that the Somali community, at least in Denmark, is extremely isolated. These young men and girls, they don&rsquo;t have a public voice. There is no public voice in Denmark that has a Somali face, or a Somali voice. Other immigrant groups have members of parliament, members of the City Council, people that are speaking in public. But the Somalian don&rsquo;t have a voice. This isolation and this invisibleness is a part of the problem&rdquo;.

SOUNDBITE (English), S&#248;ren Steen JESPERSEN, Director of Warriors from the North, &ldquo;Secondly, what we experienced in Denmark is that the public debate on radicalization has been on one dimension. It has only been about punishment, put them to jail for a long time, and when they have served their sentence deport them. And some politicians have even said that we should deport their families as well. So the rhetoric and the debate have been radicalized also. It&rsquo;s not just the young Somalis that have been radicalized, it&rsquo;s also the politicians and the medias.&rdquo;