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What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text
From · plenary report· 8 Jan 2026
on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025
To · adopted text· 21 Jan 2026
Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025
AI:What changed, in short
Adds provisions on Christian persecution in the Middle East and globally, including a call for a coordinator against Christianophobia.14 Adds paragraphs on protecting pregnant women's rights and combating sexual exploitation and prostitution.2 The other change is wording: renumbers a paragraph and removes a word.3
3 changes of substance · 0 formal · 1 of wording only
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Changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations and punctuation-only edits are left out; they are under “Every difference”.
Changes of substance · 3
Change 1 Substance
AI summary:Adds a recital stating that Christian communities in the Middle East face severe persecution, discrimination, forced displacement and restrictions on freedom of religion or belief.
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Added:N. whereas Christian communities in the Middle East, among the oldest in the world, continue to face severe persecution, discrimination, forced displacement and restrictions on their freedom of religion or belief;
Change 2 Substance
AI summary:Adds two paragraphs stressing the need to protect pregnant women's rights and to combat sexual exploitation, including trafficking and the legalisation of prostitution, with calls for prevention and prosecution.
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Added:6. Stresses the critical need to protect the rights of pregnant women, ensuring comprehensive support for their health, safety and dignity;
Added:7. Stresses the importance of combating all forms of sexual exploitation of women, including trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation; underlines the need to prevent and counter the legalisation and normalisation of prostitution, which risk reinforcing exploitation, abuse and organised crime; calls for effective policies focused on prevention, protecting and supporting victims, and the prosecution of those who profit from sexual exploitation;
Change 4 Substance
AI summary:Adds a paragraph regretting the lack of a European coordinator for combating Christianophobia, noting Christianity is the most persecuted religion with over 380 million affected.
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Added:84. Regrets that, while Christianity remains the most persecuted religion in the world today, with more than 380 million people affected, there is no European coordinator responsible for combating Christianophobia, even though a coordinator has been appointed to combat Islamophobia;
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Change 3 Wording
AI summary:Renumbers paragraph 78 to 80 and removes the word 'private' before 'actors', otherwise the text remains the same.
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Changed:78.80. Recalls that the leadership of the EU with regard to AI and digital diplomacy is crucial to promote models that ensure high human right standards, as well as for its relevance and resilience; calls, in this regard, for the EU to scale up its digital and AI diplomacy, to enforce the Digital Services Act and ensure that technology companies and social media platforms comply with human rights obligations and address transnational repression, including against HRDs; calls for the EU and its Member States to ensure that private actors that are enabling digital transnational repression, particularly in the technology sector, are held accountable;