16 Amendments of Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS related to 2016/2220(INI)
Amendment 19 #
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 discriminationarbitrary deprivation or nationality, discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity or other grounds, administrative and bureaucratic hurdles;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas statelessness is a multifaceted problem, including but not limited to problems relating to birth certificates and other civil status documents, as well as other documents relating to property, educational achievement and business ownership, political representation and voting participation, access to social security and public services; whereas statelessness may contribute to serious violations of human rights, including human trafficking and child abuse;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas The Global Action Plan to End Statelessness: 2014 – 2024 of the UNHCR aims to support governments in resolveing existing major situations of statelessness, prevent new cases of emerging and better identify and protect stateless populations;
Amendment 50 #
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;
Amendment 56 #
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 0001 million 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;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the Rohingya are one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, and have been officially stateless since the 1982 Burmese Citizenship Law; whereas the Rohingya are unwanted by the Myanmar authorities and by neighbouring countries, although some of the latter host large refugee populations; whereas ongoing clashes in Rakhine State are causing continued human traffickingincreasing the deterioration of human rights situation and the humanitarian crisis;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the authorities of Myanmar should allow access for humanitarian groups to Rakhine State, conduct thorough and impartial investigations of killings with perpetrators held to account, and implement concerted efforts to fight and prevent acts of incitement to discrimination, hostility and violence against minorities;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas there are many other stateless groups in South and Southeast Asia; whereas, however, a number of positive developments have taken place in recent years, such as in Indonesia, which reformed its nationality law in 2006 so that citizenship can no longer be lost by Indonesian migrants that spend more than five years abroad, if it results in statelessness and removed gender discrimination in the acquisition of nationality, in Cambodia, where birth registration has been made free of charge in the first 30 days after the birth, in Vietnam, which in 2008 grantedfacilitated the naturalisation nationality to anyone who had been a stateless resident living in Vietnam for over 20 years, and in Thailand where following reform to nationality and civil registration laws 2 .000 stateless persons have acquired nationality since 2011;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas stateless groups should have access to humanitarian programmes providing health, food education and nutrition assistance;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is concerned about the millions of cases of statelessness all around the world, in particular in South and South East Asia, and expresses its solidarity with stateless people;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Whilst acknowledging national sovereignty over matters such as citizenship, urges countries with stateless populations to take concrete steps towards resolving this issue, in line with the principles enshrined in international conventions; notes the number of positive developments taken in the region;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 4 – indent 1 a (new)
– supporting ASEAN Sectoral Bodies and SAARC in supporting their respective Member States to further realise the right to a nationality and ending statelessness;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 – indent 4 a (new)
– consistently emphasising that national identity management regimes need to include and provide identity documentation to all persons on the territory, including hard-to-reach and marginalised groups who may be at risk of statelessness or lack a nationality;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 4 – indent 5 a (new)
– addressing the issue of the content and application of nationality laws and the arbitrary deprivation or denial of the right to a nationality on the grounds of ethnicity which is the major cause of the statelessness in the region;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 10
Paragraph 4 – indent 10
– reserving adequate funding in the Development Cooperation Instrument, European Development Fund and the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights budgets for NGOs and other organisations working to reach stateless communities;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 11
Paragraph 4 – indent 11
– ensuring follow-up, such as awareness raising and technical support for public administrations, including at local level for when there have been positive developments that need to be implemented in practice, such as in Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and Bangladesh, where the Biharis have been granted the right to citizenship and voting rights;