On April 25, Fiorello Provera from the European Parliament's EFD group and Vice Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee condemned the sentencing to death of former Palestinian intelligence official Muhammad Abu Shahala on the grounds of selling a house in the West Bank town of Hebron to Jewish residents.

On 30 November Dutch MEP Bastiaan Belder organized a small-scale seminar in the European Parliament about the human rights situation  in China. He invited some interesting speakers from China and the USA, as well as a representative of the European Commission. The seminar was organized by the Dutch delegation of the EFD group in cooperation with SDOK, a Dutch NGO. According to the speakers, the situation is worsening in China and we asked Mr Belder how the European Parliament could help Chinese human rights defenders.

Lo scorso 25 ottobre 2011 Il Parlamento europeo riunito in seduta plenaria ha votato la relazione sulla mobilità ed integrazione delle persone con disabilità attraverso il riconoscimento e la tutela dei loro diritti, invitando gli Stati membri e la Commissione a elaborare norme giuridiche e atti legislativi a livello dell'UE.