Activities of Péter NIEDERMÜLLER related to 2017/2125(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2016 (debate) HU
Amendments (92)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the work carried out by the European Institute for Gender Equality,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)
Citation 4 b (new)
- having regard to the case law of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 c (new)
Citation 4 c (new)
- having regard to the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 27 #
- having regard to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights,
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)
Citation 7 b (new)
- having regard to European Commission Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate speech
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 c (new)
Citation 7 c (new)
- - having regard to its resolution on the situation in the Mediterranean and the need for a holistic EU approach to migration Texts adopted, (2015/2095(INI))
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 d (new)
Citation 7 d (new)
- having regards the European Parliament resolution of 25 October 2017 on fundamental rights aspects in Roma integration in the EU: fighting anti- Gypsyism
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 e (new)
Citation 7 e (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 25 November 2015 on the prevention of radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 f (new)
Citation 7 f (new)
- having regard Article 18 of the Reception Conditions Directive(2013/33/EU) ruling that asylum seekers must be provided with an adequate standard of living during the time required to examine their application for international protection.;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas respecting the rule of law is a prerequisite for the protection of fundamental rights and is of particular importance within the EU since it is also a prerequisite for upholding all rights and obligations deriving from the Treaties and from international law;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the way the rule of law is implemented at national level plays a key role in ensuring mutual trust among Member States and their legal systems, hence it is of vital importance to establish an area of freedom, security and justice as described in Title V of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU);
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the aberrant governance practices, including political parties and political leaders promoting racist and xenophobic ideas, policies, speeches and practices ad spreading fake news, seen in some Member States reflect a selective approach to the benefits and responsibilities of EU membership, and whereas the refusal by those Member States to fully uphold EU law, the separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary and the predictability of State actions is undermining the credibility of the EU as a legal area;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the influx of migrants into Europe is continuing; whereas many of these migrants place their lives in the hands of traffickers and criminals; whereas in 2016 racist and xenophobic reactions against refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants have been widespread; whereas Muslims individually and as a community have been experiencing increasing hostility and intolerance; whereas only a few Member States document and collect data specifically on incidents relating to refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants; whereas , according to UNHCR data, 27% of the migrants arriving in Europe via the Mediterranean are children; whereas , according to the IOM, 23% of these children stated that they had never been to school;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the influx of migrants into Europe is continuing; whereas many of these migrantsmany migrants arriving to Europe place their lives in the hands of traffickers and criminals; whereas , according to UNHCR data, 27% of the migrants arriving in Europe via the Mediterranean are children; whereas , according to the IOM, 23% of these children stated that they had never been to school;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the dangers faced by refugee and migrant children include separation from their families, detention, multiple discrimination, sexual and gender-based violence, exploitation and physical and psychological damage;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the ongoing wave of terrorist attacks across the EU has fuelled widespread mistrust of Muslim migrants and Muslim citizens of the EU, and whereas certain political parties are employing the rhetoric of cultural isolationism and hatred of those who are different;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas in many Member States there are no action plans on countering discriminative ethnic profiling and racism on the national level,
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas hate speech includes all forms of expression which propagate, encourage, promote or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsism, Afrophobia,, Islamophobia, or other forms of hatred based on intolerance; whereas the development of new kinds of media is making it easier to engage in online hate speech;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas exclusion and discrimination can create a fertile ground for individuals invulnerable situations to join extremist organisations that can be violent.
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas there is a risk that the increased levels of racial violence and hatred, xenophobia and Afrophobia, anti- Gypsism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or other forms of hatred based on intolerance whether expressed in the form of hate crimes, anonymous messages spread on social networks, protests or political propaganda, will come to be seen as normal in the Member States;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas there is a risk that the increased levels of hatred, xenophobia and Afrophobia, whether expressed in the form of hate crimes, fake news, anonymous messages spread on social networks, protests or political propaganda, will come to be seen as normal in the Member States;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas around 27% of children in the EU are threatened by poverty or social exclusion; whereas this number is an average, and it can be much higher in certain Member States and among especially vulnerable groups, such as Roma, migrant and refugee children;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Warns that governments, parliaments and the judiciary all have a responsibility to uphold the rule of law at the national level and to stop the erosion of the rule of law;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that corruption undermines the rule of law, democracy and human rights, poses a threat to good governance and the existence of a just and socially equitable judicial system and slows economic development; strongly condemns systemic and institutionalized instances of corruption in certain Member States;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that violent conflicts, persecution, inequality, terrorism, repressive regimes, natural disasters, human-made crisis and chronic poverty are all drivers of migration that have led to increased mobility in recent years.
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that refugees and migrants have the same universal human rights and fundamental freedom, which need to be protected regardless of their status; urges Member States to comply with existing fundamental rights and asylum legislation while paying attention to the most vulnerable groups, namely minors.
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Expresses concern over the fact that several Member States have toughened their asylum and migration legislation in terms of increasing police measures, reducing benefits for refuges, introducing cuts in social benefits, introducing time-limited residence permits for refugees and beneficiary of subsidiarity protection.
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Strongly condemns the growing phenomenon of human trafficking; urges Member States to increase cooperation and step up their fight against organised crime, including smuggling and trafficking of human being, but also exploitation, forced labour, sexual abuses and torture, while protecting victims, in particular women and children.
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Deplores that the little progress that has been registered on resettlement were offset by restriction in family reunification with several EU member states introducing limits in their national laws
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Deplores the lack of safe and legal channels for asylum seekers and refugees into the European Union; urges therefore Member States to open up and allocate sufficient resources to create new safe and legal possibilities and channels for asylum seekers and migrants to enter the European Union. Stresses the importance of addressing the root causes of large movements of refugees and migrants in developing countries.
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the imperative need for all persons of Islamic faith and culture, including those who have already been living here for a long time, to be integrated as effectively as possible intoto be included on equal terms in European society; stresses that integratclusion of this kind will be the best way to tackle Islamicall forms of radicalisation in Europeand terrorism in Europe; recommends that Member States’ counter-terrorism measures are proportionate and that the restriction to the enjoyment of human rights are subject to judicial review and independent oversight;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Strongly condemns hate speech, threats and hate crime, and calls on Member States to properly investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, including the perpetrators of crimes against refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants; calls on the Member States to properly document and collect data on hate speech, hate crimes and xenophobic attacks committed specifically against refugees, asylum- seekers and migrants;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Warns that there are obvious gaps in the reception conditions of unaccompanied minors, and calls on the Commission to renew its action plan on unaccompanied minors; calls on the Member States to strengthen their child protection services, including those for asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children; calls on Member States to ensure the proper involvement of child protection services in the asylum and migration procedures of children; urges the Commission to come up with a coherent concept of guardianship systems to safeguard the best interest of unaccompanied minors;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need for measures to be taken as a matter of priority in all the Member States to give immigrant children access to education, language learand their children adequate and dignified reception conditions - including accommodation, literacy and language courses, inter- cultural dialogue, education and professional training, healthcare, – good living conditions and the opportunity to be reunited with their family;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12a (new)
Paragraph 12a (new)
12a. Is concerned about the wide divergences in the level of reception conditions provided by some Member States that do not ensure adequate and dignified treatment of applicants of international protection.
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that integration is best achieved through schooling for young people and education in European citizenship for older people, that the EU should therefore promote a policy reception and integration in all the Member States, and that it is unacceptable that certain Member States should claim that the migration phenomenon is not their concern; ; reminds that children’s access to education is not only important for their individual lives, but also for the whole of society through their long term and sustainable inclusion, as well as for the economy; stresses that the EU should therefore promote a policy reception and integration in all the Member States, and that it is unacceptable that certain Member States should claim that the migration phenomenon is not their concern; condemns the intolerance and atrocities towards migrant and refugee children in schools which not only hinders their access to education but is also against national and EU legislation on discrimination and hate motivated crimes; calls on Member States to efficiently prosecute instances of hate speech and hate crime with special attention to the schooling of migrant and refugee children and fully enforce relevant national and EU legislation; encourages Member States to promote a culture of mutual understanding social cohesion; strongly condemns fear- mongering and xenophobic rhetoric in certain Member States; urges Member States to exchange experiences and best practices to include the families of migrant and refugee children in the education process, including through the European Integration Network formed by the Commission in 2016; reminds that Roma children suffer from the same intolerance and atrocities in education and schools; calls on the Member States to follow up and prosecute these crimes, as well as to address the roots of this behaviour;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that integration is best achieved through schooling for young people and education in European citizenship foreducation, training, housing, access to the labour market, social and health services and also effective access to democratic structures in society for young and older people, that th; therefore EU should therefore promote a policy reception and integration in all the Member States, and that it is unacceptable that certain Member States should claim that the migration phenomenon is not their concern;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Urges the Commission and Member States to introduce fundamental rights safeguards when designing and utilising information systems to tackle the high flow of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants, including when designing inter- operability of such systems;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on Member States to demand their authorities to examine whether their legitimate objectives could be achieved by less coercive measures than detention and to fully justify with facts and legal reasoning when detention is chosen in the case of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls on Member States to refrain from adopting legislative means to prevent family reunification of persons under international protection;
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Points out that the EU and its Member States still do not specifically deal with multiple discrimination and intersectional discrimination;
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Takes note of the positive trends in certain Member States regarding the rights of victims, notes however that there are still obvious gaps in the general services assisting victims of crime;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Welcomes that the last three Member States have signed the Istanbul Convention on violence against women in 2016; condemns the statement from the government of Poland to withdraw from the Convention; calls on all Member States that have not yet done so to ratify the Convention and make meaningful steps towards applying it in practice; calls on Member States to pay specific attention to avoid repeated victimisation, including by effective application of restraining orders;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Regrets that LGBTI persons experience widespread bullying and harassment that starts already at school, and suffer discrimination at work, housing, social services and access to other goods and services; condemns instances of hate speech, hate crime and intolerance against LGBTI persons;
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Expresses concern at the rhetoric of hatred and fear directed at migrants entering Europe and the upsurge in anti- Islamic, anti-Semitic and anti-African rhetoric; reminds that this rhetoric has already led to a surge in anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic and anti-African hate crime;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Expresses concern at the rhetoric of hatred and fear directed at migrants entering Europe and the upsurge in anti- IslamicAfrophobic, anti-Roma, anti-Semitic, and anti-Africanti- migrant and Islamophobic rhetoric;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Expresses concern that during 2016 no major improvement happened in terms of achieving the goals of the National Roma Integration Strategies; points out that resources from the ESIF are not connected to the National Roma Integration Strategies and often do not benefit Roma people; condemns the instances of discrimination, segregation, hate speech, hate motivated crimes and social exclusion experienced by Roma people; condemns the continuous discrimination of Roma people in access to housing, health care, education and labour market; regrets that in the application of the Racial Equality Directive there are still shortcomings, including in the area of awareness of rights and access to justice; warns that Roma children and women are especially vulnerable;
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Points out that social networks and the anonymity guaranteed by many different media platforms encourage many forms of expression of hatred, from jihadist preaching to anti-Islam speech, and calls for this phenomenon to be curbed through closer monitoring and the identificracist speech and fake news; urges Member States to halt this phenomenon through improved monitoring investigation and prosecution of the authors of statements or words incompatible with European culture and lawprinciples and values, in collaboration with civil society and IT companies;
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Takes note that several Member States reformed their legislation on intelligence services, increasing their powers and technological capacities; warns that these reforms must comply with relevant international and European safeguards on fundamental rights, especially the right to privacy; cautions that all actions must comply with the principles of necessity, proportionality and legality;
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Is concerned that several Member States consider introducing legislation obliging companies to provide backdoors to their encrypted communication services to law enforcement and intelligence services; warns that measures to circumvent the problem of encryption in law enforcement and intelligence services should be fully proportionate to the purpose and must not disproportionately affect the right to private life and data protection;
Amendment 522 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. For the sake of creating mutual trust, fighting effectively against anti- Gypsyism and making tangible improvement in the living conditions of Roma people, calls on the Commission and the Member States to follow the recommendations and satisfy the demands of the resolution on the fundamental rights aspects in Roma integration in the EU: fighting anti-Gypsyism (2017/2038(INI));
Amendment 527 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on Member States to fully implement the Victims' Rights Directive1a and identify and remedy gaps in their victims’ rights protection system, with special attention to vulnerable groups, such as the rights of children, minority groups or victims of hate crime; _________________ 1a Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA
Amendment 536 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on Member States to assist authorities in effectively identifying vulnerabilities, and provide special protection services where necessary to victims of gender-based violence in line with the Victims' Rights Directive;
Amendment 540 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Deplores the fact that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in EU Member States has risen significantly in recent years;
Amendment 543 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Urges the EU and the Member States to combat and prosecute all forms of violence and discrimination against women; calls on the Member States in particular to deal effectively with the effects of domestic violence and sexual exploitation in all its forms, including that of refugees and migrant children, and early or forced marriage; calls on Member States to exchange best practices among each other and to provide regular trainings for police and judicial staff on new forms of violence against women, such as stalking, cyber-harassment or revenge porn;
Amendment 546 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Deplores the fact that Muslims face widespread discrimination and harassment as well as the disproportionate effect of counter- terrorism legislation, policies and practices which can have a discriminatory bias when not grounded in reasonable suspicion or are not legitimate and proportionate;
Amendment 552 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Paragraph 18 d (new)
18d. Calls on Member States to provide the necessary sensitivity and other specialised trainings for police, judicial staff and judges to enable them to adequately deal with the issue of gender- based violence in order to avoid further trauma and re-victimisation during criminal proceedings;
Amendment 553 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Amendment 555 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 e (new)
Paragraph 18 e (new)
18e. Urges Member States to provide victims of gender-based violence with an adequate number of shelters and targeted and integrated support services, including trauma support and counselling; urges the Commission and the Member States to support the civil society organisations working with victims of gender-based violence in any way possible, including by regular financial support;
Amendment 559 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 e (new)
Paragraph 18 e (new)
18e. Expresses its concern at the lack of reporting of hate crimes by victims due to inadequate safeguards and failure of authorities to properly investigate and bring convictions for hate crimes in Member States;
Amendment 560 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 f (new)
Paragraph 18 f (new)
18f. Calls on Member States to ensure respect for and safeguarding of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights; insists on the role of the Union in awareness-raising and promoting best practices on this issue, given that health is a fundamental human right essential to the exercise of other human rights; urges the Commission to include sexual and reproductive health and rights as basic human rights in its EU Health Strategy in order to ensure coherence between the EU's internal and external fundamental rights policy as called for by Parliament on 10 March 2015;
Amendment 562 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 f (new)
Paragraph 18 f (new)
18f. Expresses its concern that several Member States have not correctly transposed the provisions of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA; Calls for infringement procedures against those Member States that fail to transpose them;
Amendment 564 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 g (new)
Paragraph 18 g (new)
18g. Calls for the adoption of the proposed 2008 Equal Treatment Directive which is still pending for approval by the Council; considers it a condition to secure a consolidated and coherent EU law framework against discrimination, also protecting from discrimination on the grounds of religion and belief, disability, age and sexual orientation outside of employment;
Amendment 567 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 g (new)
Paragraph 18 g (new)
18g. Recognises that the denial of a life-saving abortion amounts to a serious breach of fundamental rights;
Amendment 568 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 h (new)
Paragraph 18 h (new)
18h. Encourages the Commission to appoint EU Coordinators on Afrophobia and anti-Gypsyism, to be responsible for improving coordination and coherence among EU institutions, EU agencies, Member States and international actors and will develop existing and new EU policies to address Afrophobia and anti- Gypsyism, and recommends the adoption of European frameworks for national strategies to combat Afrophobia,anti- Gypsyism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia;
Amendment 569 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 h (new)
Paragraph 18 h (new)
18h. Calls on the Member States, in liaison with the Commission, to recognise the right to access safe and modern contraceptives and sexuality education in schools; urges the Commission to complement national policies to improve public health, while keeping the European Parliament fully informed;
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 i (new)
Paragraph 18 i (new)
18i. Recalls that poverty in old age is especially concerning in the case of women, due to the continued gender pay gap resulting in the gender pension gap; calls on Member States to draw up appropriate policies to support elderly women and to eliminate the structural causes of gender differences in compensation;
Amendment 572 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 i (new)
Paragraph 18 i (new)
18i. Calls on the European Commission to lead by example in promoting the rights of minorities by amending its diversity and inclusion strategy to include race, ethnicity and religion/belief on the diversification of the EU workplace
Amendment 575 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 j (new)
Paragraph 18 j (new)
18j. Calls on the Commission to share Member States' best practices for addressing gender stereotypes at school;
Amendment 577 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 k (new)
Paragraph 18 k (new)
18k. Calls on the European Commission to come up with an ambitious EU legislative agenda that ensures equal rights and opportunities for all citizens and a proper transposition and implementation of EU legislation relevant for LGBTI rights;
Amendment 579 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 l (new)
Paragraph 18 l (new)
18l. Calls on the Commission to issue an action plan or strategy for equality on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, as repeatedly called for by Parliament and as was promised in the process of the Commission hearings, including legislative measures to fully implement ¬the Council of Europe Recommendation to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity; urges the Commission to work in close cooperation with civil society organisations working for the rights of LGBTI persons;
Amendment 580 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 m (new)
Paragraph 18 m (new)
18m. Calls on the Commission to review the Council Framework Decision on combatting certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia so that hate crimes and violence against LGBTI persons are also covered by this rule; urges the Commission to carefully monitor and enforce LGBTI-relevant legislative provisions, such as the Directive on Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation and the Directives on Gender Equality in access to goods and services and employment, which also protect trans-gender people from discrimination (based on the EUCJ extension of the sex/gender characteristics),but also the Victims Right Directive; calls on the Commission to provide interpretation guidelines in order to make clear for national authorities that sexual identity is fully covered by the said legislation; calls on the Commission to use the tools available, including infringement procedures to enforce legislation relevant to LGBTI persons;
Amendment 581 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 n (new)
Paragraph 18 n (new)
18n. Deplores the fact that transgender people are still considered mentally ill in the majority of Member States and calls on respective states to review national mental health catalogues and to develop alternative stigma-free access models, ensuring that medically necessary treatment remains available for all transpeople; deplores that today several Member States still impose requirements on transgender people such as medical intervention in order to have the changed gender recognized (including in passports and official identity documents) and forced sterilization as a condition for gender reassignment; notes that such requirements are clearly human rights violations; calls on the Commission to provide guidance to Member States on best models of legal gender recognition laws in Europe; calls on Member States to recognise the change of gender and provide access to quick, accessible and transparent legal gender recognition procedures without medical requirements, such as surgery or sterilization or psychiatric consent;
Amendment 582 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 o (new)
Paragraph 18 o (new)
18o. Welcomes the initiative shown by the Commission in pushing for depathologisation of transgender identities in the review of the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases (ICD); calls on the Commission to intensify efforts to prevent gender variance in childhood from becoming a new ICD diagnosis;
Amendment 583 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 p (new)
Paragraph 18 p (new)
18p. Calls on the Commission to collect data on human rights violations faced by intersex people in all areas of life and provide guidance to Member States on best practices to protect the fundamental rights of intersex people; regrets that genital 'normalisation' surgery for intersex children is still in practice in Member States of the European Union despite not being medically necessary, even though medical procedures on children cause long-term psychological trauma for them;
Amendment 584 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 q (new)
Paragraph 18 q (new)
18q. Calls on the Council to immediately unblock and conclude negotiations on the Equal Treatment Directive;
Amendment 585 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 r (new)
Paragraph 18 r (new)
18r. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take full account in their anti-discrimination policies of the effects of multiple discrimination and intersectionality;
Amendment 586 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 s (new)
Paragraph 18 s (new)
18s. Calls on the Member States to adopt national action plans on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; urges Member States to systematically collect and publish disaggregated data on discrimination, hate motivated criminal acts and hate speech; urges Member States to use such collected data to evaluate their national action plans on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and make the necessary improvements; urges Member States to provide equality bodies with the necessary human, technical and financial resources and infrastructure to ensure their efficient operations;
Amendment 587 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 t (new)
Paragraph 18 t (new)
18t. Calls on Member States to stop discriminative ethnic profiling; encourages Member States to provide authorities with trainings to recognise unconscious bias, stereotypes and prejudice;
Amendment 588 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 u (new)
Paragraph 18 u (new)
18u. Calls on Member States to review their National Roma Integration Strategies, and to ensure the active participation and ownership of Roma people of the Strategies; calls on Member States to put in place specific measures to fight ethnic discrimination against Roma in line with the Racial Equality Directive provisions and the European Convention on Human Rights, and to combat anti- Gypsyism in line with the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia; calls for the FRA to continue its data collection on the situation of Roma and develop and propose a "dashboard" of Roma inclusion indicators that would make possible tracking progress in that area; calls for the development of the European Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies into a fully-fledged European Strategy;
Amendment 589 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 v (new)
Paragraph 18 v (new)
18v. Calls on the Commission to incorporate the eradication of child poverty and social exclusion in the European Semester process and also in any further relevant initiatives; calls on the Commission to consider launching a Child Guarantee to combat child poverty and social exclusion; supports the inclusion of free access to healthcare, education, childcare facilities, adequate housing and quality nutrition in the Child Guarantee;
Amendment 590 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 w (new)
Paragraph 18 w (new)
18w. Calls on the Member States to provide better safeguards for children suspected or accused of having committed a criminal offence and identify weaknesses in their practices in this regard;
Amendment 591 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 x (new)
Paragraph 18 x (new)
Amendment 592 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 y (new)
Paragraph 18 y (new)
18y. Strongly condemns actions taken by government or by market players that go contrary to the principles of media freedom and pluralism; urges the Commission to take serious steps against governments and companies that systematically undermine these principles;
Amendment 593 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 z (new)
Paragraph 18 z (new)
18z. Condemns the steps taken by Member States governments to undermine and demonise civil society and NGOs; urges Member States to provide support to civil society organisations as they often do important work complementing social services provided by the state or even filling gaps not provided for by them;
Amendment 594 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18aa. Underlines that the freedom of thought and the right to education are important foundations of democracy; strongly condemns any intrusion by Member State governments into the freedom of universities to form their curricula and into their operations;
Amendment 595 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a b (new)
Paragraph 18 a b (new)
18ab. Warns that the anti-Semitism is still a dangerous phenomenon in many Member States in both open and concealed forms; calls on Member States and EU institutions to monitor, publicise, condemn and penalise any anti-Semitic incidents, and develop effective measures on prevention; urges Member States to strengthen their approach against anti- Semitism and anti-Semitic hate crime; calls on the Commission and the Member States, including regional authorities to protect with all available tools freedom of religion or belief and to promote tolerance and intercultural dialogue through effective policy making, enhancing anti- discrimination policies where needed;