Activities of Ivan JAKOVČIĆ related to 2016/2219(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Annual Report on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter 2015 (A8-0355/2016 - Josef Weidenholzer) HR
Annual Report on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter 2015 (debate) HR
Amendments (14)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas violence against women and girls is one of the world’s most widespread human rights violations, affecting all levels of society, regardless of age, education, income, social position or country of origin or residence, and representing a majordecisive barrier to gender equality;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women and girls belonging to cultural, traditional, linguistic, religious, gender or sexual orientation minority groups are particularly likely to experience multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination based on both their minority status and their gender;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Strongly condemns the continued use of rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls as a weapon of war; calls on all countries, and in particular EU Member States, which have not yet done so to develop NAPs implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 immediately;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a global commitment to preventively ensure the safety of women and girls from the start of every emergency or crisis, by adequately addressing the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, raising awareness, ensuring the effective prosecution of the perpetrators of such violence and ensuring that women and girls have access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health services, including safe and legal abortion for victims of war rape;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas there are numerous states that did not sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; whereas there are numerous regimes that ignore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations' values, and at the core of European values and enshrined within the EU’s legal and political framework;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls onUrges all the EU institutions and the Member States to act on their commitments to promote, protect and realise human rights and fundamental freedoms, by using all necessary peaceful instruments, and to place human rights at the centre of the EU’s relations with all third countries – including its strategic partners – and at all levels;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its call on the EU Member States to lead by example, by speaking with one voice in support of the indivisibility and universality of human rights and, in particular, by ratifying all international human rights instruments set up by the UN; calls on the EU Member States to never compromise when the universality of human rights is in question;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the EU to denounce, systematically and unequivocally, the killings of human rights defenders, to condemn regimes who do or tolerate such atrocities, and to step up its public diplomacy in open and clear support of human rights defenders, also when it comes to their testimony in multilateral fora;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Condemns the dramatic number of deaths at sea in the Mediterranean; is extremely concerned about the growing numbers of human rights abuses against migrants and asylum seekers on their route to Europe; highlights the weaknesses and systematic incoherence of the policies of the EU and the Member States in this area and stresses the need for a holistic approach to find long-term solutions; recalls that migrants and asylum seekers need to respect the rule of law of the EU countries and that illegal migration should be discouraged;
Amendment 671 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. Stresses that the rights to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief is aare fundamental human rights, interrelated with other human rights and fundamental freedoms and encompassing the right to believe or not to believe, the right to manifest or not to manifest any religion or belief, adhering to separation of religion and state, and the right to adopt, change and abandon or return to a belief of one’s choice, as enshrined in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
Amendment 685 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
75. Calls on the EU and its Member States to ensure that religious minorities are respected worldwide, including in the Middle East, where Yazidis, Christians and Muslim minorities are being persecuted by ISIS and other terrorist groups; calls on the EU and its Member States to promote secularism worldwide as an instrument to fight religious discrimination and protect universal human rights;
Amendment 749 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
Paragraph 87
87. Condemns all restrictions on digital communication, including the closing down of websites and the blocking of personal accounts; calls on the EU and its Member States to publicly condemn regimes which restrict the digital communication of their critics and opposition;