The objective of this evaluation is to provide an overall independent assessment of the Commission’s past and current cooperation with Colombia over the period 2002-2011. It also aims at identifying key lessons in order to improve the current and future strategies and programmes of the...

This Final Report presents the outcome of the “Evaluation of Commission’s cooperation with the Council of Europe (CoE)”. It was commissioned by the DG DEVCO Evaluation Unit and was implemented between December 2010 and July 2012. The evaluation provides an independent assessment of the...

This evaluation has been commissioned by the Evaluation Unit in DEVCO on behalf of the European Commission. It assesses the EC support to human rights and respect of fundamental freedoms by taking into account all rights (political, social and economic), regions and instruments over the period...

The evaluation of the European Commission (Commission)’s co-operation with Egypt over the period 1998-2008 has two main objectives: - to provide the relevant external Co-operation Services of the Commission and the wider public with an overall independent assessment of the Commission’s past...

The main objectives of this evaluation are: (i) to provide an overall independent and accountable assessment of the European Commission’s cooperation relations with Malaysia during the 1997-2007 period, (ii) to identify lessons learnt from past cooperation in order to enhance the...

The evaluation covers the Commission’s co-operation with the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) implemented under the MEDA II Regulation over the period 2000-2006. It includes Commission funds managed by the European Investment Bank (EIB). Geographically it covers the MEDA-8 countries...

A review of the United Nations Human Rights Council is currently under way in Geneva and New York and is set to be finished by July 2011. This study analyses the role of the European Union in the Human Rights Council since the inception of the Council in 2006, and then considers its role in the...

Compulsion creates optimal conditions for the overall functioning of each country. A compulsion includes administrative, criminal procedural, disciplinary etc. types. Legal acts create a basis determining conditions, procedure, and order of application of compulsory measures. The main purpose of...

Current practices in municipal law, as orchestrated by UN conventions and doctrine in international law proclaim that nearly every person is born with citizenship. However, instead of serving as an individual claim of right, governments use the label of citizenship to extract labor, wealth, and...

Terrorism, according to the concept of traditional as an act of violence or threats or intimidation is an assault on a number of human rights of protected in the international conventions and decisions , and with the multiplicity of forms of terrorism and the development of its methods became...