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10 Amendments of Mylène TROSZCZYNSKI related to 2017/2270(INL)

Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
1a. having regard to Article 51 of Regulation (EC) No 562/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 establishing a Community Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code);
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
1b. having regard to the judgment of the CJEU in case C-638/16 PPU of 7 March 20172
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
A. whereas genderviolence against women is a ground for protection under the 1951 UN Convention relating to the status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (the Refugee Convention) and women worldwide are affected disproportionately by sexual and others forms of gender-based violence;
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas the need for safe and legal pathways to the Union are pressing, also from a gender perspective, and whereas humanitarian visas can be complementary, although not replacing, other safe pathways such as resettlement and humanitarian admissioit is vital that more effective measures to manage the EU’s external borders be taken quickly in order to reduce trafficking in human beings, in particular the sex trafficking of women and children, and to cut off funding for terrorist or organised crime groups operating on the other side of the Mediterranean;
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
C. whereas the current lack of a possibility to request protection on humanitarian grounds outside of the Union min France alone the number of visas issued for humanitarian reasons rose by 35%1a in 2017; whereans that persons seeking asylum are forced to enter Europe in an irregular manner thereby risking their lives and health, with particular and gendered consequences for women, girls and LGBTI persons;it is up to the Member States to decide whether or not to grant visas from their diplomatic representations (consulates and embassies) in foreign countries; __________________ 1a https://www.lemonde.fr/immigration-et- diversite/article/2018/01/16/immigration- les-expulsions-des-etrangers-en-situation- irreguliere-ont-augmente-de-14-6-en- 2017_5242278_1654200.html
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasizes that oftentimes vulnerable economic and other type of dependence puts women and girls Stresses the need to distinguish economic migrants (persons leaving theird countries in a situation where it is even more improbable for them then for men to safely seek asylum - according to the UNHCR in 2017, women comprised from 9 - 22 % of the sea ary of origin not because of a direct threat of persecution or death, but in order to improve their materivals to Italy, Greece and Spain1; __________________ 1 [1] https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/do wnload/63039 living conditions) from asylum seekers;
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that these persons continue to receive the protection of their government when they return to their country of origin;
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Condemns the ongoing situation where in order to seek asylum in the EU, women and girls, as well as LGBTI persons put themselves undercurrent EU policies which expose women and girls to the serious risk of sexual and gender-basedphysical violence along routes and in reception centeres by fuelling the trafficking of migrants by supporting NGOs which work with people-smuggling mafias;
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. CRecalls for a separate instrument on humanitarian visas, in addition and complementary to a Union programme on resettlemethat Member States are not required, under EU law, to grant and humanitarian admission, to be established at the Union level and calls on the Commission to deliver the legislative proposal wherein the third country nationals will receive the possibility tovisa to persons who wish to travel to their territory with the intention of applying for a European humanitarian visa directly at any consulate or embassy of the Member States, while ensuring its gender-sensitive approach and effective protection of persons suffering gender-based persecution.sylum, but that they remain free to do so directly in the countries of origin on the basis of their national law;
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that Member States should be given back control of their borders and should be free not to authorise the free movement of persons holding a humanitarian visa;
2018/06/28
Committee: FEMM