Activities of Barbara LOCHBIHLER related to 2018/2040(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
73rd Session of the UN General Assembly (debate) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council on the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly PDF (402 KB) DOC (82 KB)
Amendments (51)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU remains fully committed to multilateralism and the promotion of UN core values, the promotion of UN core values and the three pillars of the UN system: Human Rights, Peace and Security, and Development; whereas a multilateral system founded on universal rules and values is best suited to addressing global crises, challenges and threats; whereas the very future of the multilateral system is facing unprecedented questioning;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas EU Member States need to make every effort to coordinate their action and speak with one voice in the organs and bodies of the United Nations system;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU and its Member States remain collectively the single largest financial contributor to the UN; whereas UN agencies, including UNRWA, have suffered from important financial cuts; whereas the current overall level of funding to the UN system remains grossly inadequate in order to allow the organization to implement its mandate and to face the current global challenges;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are coming under increasing threat in different regions of the world; whereas human rights defenders and civil society activists are facing increasing threats and risks for their legitimate work; whereas human rights defenders are facing increasing reprisals for interacting with UN bodies and mechanisms;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) to support the UNSG in the implementation of the UN Strategy on Gender Parity as an essential tool to ensure the equal representation of women in the UN system;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) to call for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the basis of a broad consensus; to urge UN Security Council members to refrain from using their right of veto in cases where crimes against humanity are being committed; to promote the revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly and improved coordination and coherence of the actions of all UN institutions;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) to reiterate its support for the work of UN Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, including the Special Rapporteurs, and other thematic and country-specific human rights mechanisms and its call on all UN State Parties to extend open invitations to all Special Rapporteurs to visit their countries;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) to support the UNSG in his efforts to increase UN involvement in peace negotiations;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)
(gb) to ensure that all UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations have a human rights mandate and adequate staff to carry out this function;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g c (new)
(gc) to increase Member State support for UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to welcome the trilateral cooperation between the African Union (AU), the EU and the UN as a strong signal in terms ofway to strengthening multilateralism and global governance and providing assistance to those in need of international protection while ensuring the respect of human rights and international humanitarian law;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i c (new)
(ic) to use all instruments at its disposal to enhance compliance by state and non-state actors' actions with international humanitarian law (IHL); to support efforts led by the International Committee of the Red Cross towards the establishment of an effective mechanism for strengthening compliance with IHL;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i j (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i j (new)
(ij) to push for stronger multilateral commitments to find sustainable political solutions to current conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly in Syria, Yemen, Israel/Palestine and Western Sahara; to continue to support UN special envoys’ work, actions and initiatives aimed at solving these conflicts; to call for continued humanitarian, financial and political assistance from the international community; to hold to account those responsible for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law and to work towards the immediate cessation of violence;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i o (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i o (new)
(i o) to act upon the rulings of the European Court of Justice on the Western Sahara and to support UN efforts to secure a fair and lasting settlement of the Western Sahara conflict, on the basis of the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people and in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions; to push for the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to be provided with a human rights mandate, in line with all the other UN peacekeeping missions;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i r (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i r (new)
(i r) to uphold the nuclear agreement between Iran and the Security Council Members plus Germany as an important success of international and notably EU diplomacy and to continue putting pressure on the United States to deliver on the practical implementation;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i v (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i v (new)
(i v) to support the intra-Korean talks in their efforts towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula; to call on all international actors involved to actively and positively contribute towards this goal on the basis of dialogue;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i x (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i x (new)
(i x) to urge the General Assembly and the Security Council to discuss the tensions in the South China Sea with the intention to bring all concerned parties to finalise the negotiation of a code of conduct;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i y (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i y (new)
(i y) to support the work of the UN Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar and to insist on the importance of allowing access to the country by the Myanmar authorities; to call for an independent international investigation into the mass atrocities committed in Rakhine State since August 2017 in order to ensure accountability and avoid impunity; to ensure UNHCR is involved in the implementation of the 23 November 2017 arrangement between Myanmar and Bangladesh;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) to call on all Member States to continue to support and implement the eight UN Security Council resolutions2 which make up the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, and guide work to promoteachieve full gender equality and strengthen ensure women’s participation, protection and rights across the conflict cycle, from conflict prevention through post-conflict reconstruction; __________________ 2 1325 (2000), 1820 (2009); 1888 (2009); 1889 (2010); 1960 (2011); 2106 (2013); 2122 (2013) and 2242 (2015).
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(ka) to urgently address all aspects of the 15 May 2015 UN Evaluation Report on Enforcement and Remedial Assistance Efforts for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by the United Nations and Related Personnel in Peacekeeping Operations without delay and to hold perpetrators to account; to investigate, prosecute and sentence any military and civilian personnel who committed acts of sexual violence without delay and with firmest resolve;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point k b (new)
(kb) to launch the reform of relevant structures in a way to end impunity of UN and EU personnel serving in military operations and civilian missions and to establish functioning and transparent oversight and accountability mechanisms; to urgently change the fact that currently legal actions regarding alleged abuses remain purely voluntary and depended on the troop-contributing country;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to support and strengthen international efforts through the UN to ensure gender analysis as well as gender and human rights mainstreaming in all UN activities, notably in peacekeeping operations, humanitarian operations, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation processes; to develop indicators and to implement monitoring tools to measure progress on the participation of women in peace and security building and to ensure accountability; to ensure that the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda is accompanied with adequate funding;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) to provide all means to proactively support the UNSG’s priorities for conflict prevention and mediation3 , by such initiatives as the establishment of the High- Level Advisory Board on Mediation; to ensure that human rights are at the core of conflict prevention and mediation policies; __________________ 3 As set out in his first statement to the UN Security Council on 10 January 2017.
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
(na) to strongly support the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda and its objective of giving youth a greater voice in decision-making at the local, national, regional and international levels; to support in this regard the setting up of mechanisms that would enable young people to participate meaningfully in peace processes;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subheading 5
Paragraph 1 – subheading 5
Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point p a (new)
(pa) to urgently advance nuclear disarmament both regionally and globally by following the Parliament’s resolution of 27 October 2016 which calls on all EU Member States to support the United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, which adopted the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on 7 July 2017, and calls on all Member States to sign this Treaty, as Austria and Ireland have already done;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) to promote the fully implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and to encourage all UN Member States to sign and ratify the ATTratify or accede to it;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) to work towards more effective action against the diversion of, and illicit trade in, weapons and ammunition, including small arms and light weapons, in particular by developing a weapons tracking system; to request that UN members actively take steps towards global disarmament and towards the prevention of arms races;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
(ra) to promote a UN-based legal framework which strictly stipulates that the use of armed drones has to respect international humanitarian and human rights law;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r b (new)
(rb) to work towards an international ban of weapon systems that lack human control over the use of force as requested by the Parliament on various occasions and, in preparation of relevant meetings at UN level, to urgently develop and adopt a common position on autonomous weapon systems and to speak at relevant fora with one voice and act accordingly;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r c (new)
(rc) to reaffirm the commitment to the objectives of the Chemical Weapons Convention, to encourage all UN Member States to ratify or accede to it; to strengthen the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and its work by ensuring it has appropriate financial resources and staff to fulfil its objectives; to ensure that in the cases were the use of chemical weapons is reported, perpetrators are brought to justice;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r e (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r e (new)
(re) in light of their confirmed use in Syria during Operation Inherent Resolve, to dissuade coalition partners from any further use of depleted uranium munitions in either Syria or Iraq and to develop an EU common position that better reflects the Parliament’s repeated calls for a precautionary global moratorium and the developing global consensus on the potential civilian health risks, complex post-conflict radioactive waste management burden and financial costs associated with the use of such weapons;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r f (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r f (new)
(rf) with reference to UN Environment Assembly resolution UNEP/EA.3/Res.1, and UN Human Rights Council resolution 34/20, to work towards the clarification and development of post- conflict obligations for the clearance and management of contamination from the use of depleted uranium weapons, and the assistance of communities affected by their use;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) to recall that human rights are indivisible, interdependent and interrelated; to call on the EU and the UN to condemn the disturbing global trend towards a marginalisation of human rights, particularly with regard to the closing space for civil society around the world; to urge all UN Member States to ratify and effectively implement all core UN human rights conventions, including the UN Convention Against Torture and the Optional Protocol thereto, the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant of Economic Social and Cultural Rights establishing complaint and inquiry mechanisms, and to comply with the reporting obligations under these instruments and the commitment to cooperate in good faith with UN human rights mechanisms; to draw attention to the global backlash against human rights defenders and advocates of democratisation;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point t a (new)
(ta) to adopt a policy to denounce, systematically and unequivocally, the killing of human rights defenders (HRDs) and any attempt to subject them to any form of violence, persecution, threat, harassment, disappearance, imprisonment or arbitrary arrest, to condemn those who commit or tolerate such atrocities, and to step up public diplomacy in open and clear support of HRDs; to call on UN Member States to adopt policies to provide protection and support for human rights defenders at risk;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point t b (new)
(tb) to support and strengthen the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a key institution for holding perpetrators to account and assisting victims in achieving justice and to encourage strong dialogue and cooperation between the ICC, the UN and its agencies and the UN Security Council; to provide the ICC with strong diplomatic, political and financial support; to urge all UN Member States to ratify the Rome Statute and the Kampala amendments;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u
Paragraph 1 – point u
(u) to maintain a strong commitment to promoting an end to the death penalty worldwide; to call for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to further work towards its universal abolition; to denounce the increased recourse to death sentences for drug-related offences, and to call for the outlawing of use of the death penalty and summary execution as punishment for such offences;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u b (new)
(ub) to recall the obligation of the UN General Assembly, when electing members to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), to take into account the respect of candidates for the promotion and protection of human rights, the rule of law and democracy; to call for the establishment of clear human rights performance-based criteria for membership of the UNHRC;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u e (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u e (new)
(ue) to support the preparation of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights with the view of ensuring corporate accountability; to support the further implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights by urging all countries, including EU Member States, to develop and implement National Action Plans, obliging businesses to ensure observance of human rights;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u g (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u g (new)
(ug) to recognise that environmental and land human rights defenders in particular have faced increasing threats, including judicial harassment and killings around the world; to express its support for the recent legally binding Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation, and Justice in Environmental Matter in Latin America and the Caribbean;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u i (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u i (new)
(ui) to support the UN Environmental Rights Initiative, which is a recognition that violations of environmental rights have a profound impact on a wide variety of human rights, including the rights to life, self-determination, food, water, health, cultural, civil and political rights;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u l (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u l (new)
(u l) to support and strengthen international efforts through the UN to ensure gender analysis as well as gender and human rights mainstreaming in all UN activities; to call for the eradication of all violence and discrimination against women and girls, by also taking into account discrimination based on gender identity;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u m (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u m (new)
(u m) to step up its efforts within the framework of the International Alliance for Torture Free Trade, co-initiated by the EU alongside regional partners; to set up an international fund to assist countries in developing and implementing legislation banning trade in goods that could be used for torture and the death penalty; to support the establishment of an international instrument to ban the trade in such goods, drawing on the experience of the EU (Council) regulation 1236/2005 on this issue;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to fully support the UN-led efforts to negotiate two Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees based on the September 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants; to encourage UN Member States to make a standalone commitment to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as a central element of the Global Compact, in line with SDG 5;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w
Paragraph 1 – point w
(w) to push for ambitious and balanced provisions allowing for more effective international cooperation and more equitable and predictable global burden- sharingshare of responsibility in dealing with migration flowmovements and forced displacement, ensuring an adequate support to refugees worldwide;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subheading 7 a (new)
Paragraph 1 – subheading 7 a (new)
Sustainable development
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point -z f (new)
Paragraph 1 – point -z f (new)
(-zf) to take concrete steps to ensure the efficient implementation of UN Agenda 2030 and all 17 SDGs as important instruments for prevention and sustainable development; to encourage and support countries to take ownership and establish national frameworks for the achievement of the 17 SDGs; to encourage UN Member States to reorient their budgets towards the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point –z g (new)
Paragraph 1 – point –z g (new)
(-zg) to push UN Member States to meet their commitments on development aid spending and to call for the adoption of a solid framework of indicators and the use of statistical data to monitor progress and ensure accountability for evaluating the situation in developing countries, monitor progress and ensure accountability;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point aa
Paragraph 1 – point aa
(aa) to insist on the need to develop a comprehensive strategy for EU climate diplomacy and to integrate climate into all fields of EU external action, including trade, development cooperation, humanitarian aid and security and defence, taking into account that an environmentally unsustainable system produces instability;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ab
Paragraph 1 – point ab
(ab) to call for the opproactively address the most challenging of a debate on establishing an international legal definition of the term ‘consequences of climate change and to ensure due protection to its victims, namely through the recognition on a UN level of a protection status for climate refugees/migrants’;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ab a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ab a (new)
(aba) to work closely with small island states and other countries facing the most serious consequences of climate change to ensure that their voice and their needs are taken into consideration in the different UN fora;