18 Amendments of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2016/2220(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the region of South Asia and Southeast Asia consists of the following sovereign countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam – who are all Members of either the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC);
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration affirms that every person that has the right to a nationality as prescribed by law and no person ‘shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality, nor denied the right to change that nationality’; whereas each of the countries concerned is a sovereign state and it is important not to interfere in their internal affairs;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas a stateless person is defined in the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Person as someone ‘who is not considered as a national of any State under operation of its law’; whereas the causes of statelessness can vary, including but not limited to being forced to flee, migration, changes and gaps in nationality laws, expiration of nationality through having lived outside of one’s country for an extended period of time, gender discrimination, administrative and bureaucratic hurdles; whereas statelessness may also be the result of a court judgment in the person’s country of origin;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the right to a nationality is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other global human rights instruments and conventions; whereas each sovereign state remains free to take its own decisions, particularly concerning acts of high treason committed by the citizens of certain countries who voluntarily join a self- proclaimed ‘caliphate’;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas The Global Action Plan to End Statelessness: 2014 – 2024 of the UNHCR aims to resolve existing major situations of statelessness, prevent new cases of emerging and better identify and protect stateless populations; whereas a distinction should also be drawn between stateless persons who are victims and those who become stateless voluntarily (betraying their country by joining foreign armies or terrorist organisations);
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the Council Conclusions on the Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2015 - 2019 affirm the importance of addressing the issue of statelessness in relations with priority countries - within the framework of their sovereignty - and on focusing efforts on preventing the emergence of stateless populations as a result of conflict, displacement and the break-up of states; whereas it is also important to check systematically the past movements of the stateless persons in question, in order to avoid ‘whitewashing’ former terrorists;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the EU has determined that it will place human rights at the centre of its relations with third countries and a key consideration is that while firmly based on universal norms, the EU’s policy on human rights will be carefully designed to accommodate the circumstances of each country while respecting its national sovereignty; whereas, however, the European Union should not be naively optimistic in discussions with certain countries or organisations (e.g. Al-Nusra) at the expense of the security of citizens of EU Member States;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas many of the world’s 10 million stateless persons reside in South and Southeast Asia, with the Rohingya of Myanmar being the single largest stateless group in the world, with over 800 000 persons under the UNHCR’s statelessness mandate, but large communities of stateless people are also found in Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei and elsewhere; whereas South and Southeast Asia have both protracted and unresolved cases, as well as cases where effective progress has been made, at least on paper; notes that this matter is an exclusive prerogative of the UN;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Whilst acknowledging national sovereignty above all over matters such as citizenship, urgescalls on countries with stateless populations to takidentify the concrete steps towardsneeded to resolvinge this issue, in line with the principles enshrined in international conventions;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 2
Paragraph 4 – indent 2
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 3
Paragraph 4 – indent 3
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 7
Paragraph 4 – indent 7
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 8
Paragraph 4 – indent 8
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 10
Paragraph 4 – indent 10
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 11
Paragraph 4 – indent 11
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6