Activities of Beatrix von STORCH related to 2015/2325(INI)
Plenary speeches (3)
The situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU (debate) DE
The situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU (debate) DE
The situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU (A8-0024/2016 - Mary Honeyball) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU PDF (348 KB) DOC (141 KB)
Amendments (23)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas an unprecedented and increasing number of men, women and children are seeking international protection in the EU as a result of ongoing conflicts, regional instability and human rights violations, including gender-based violence and rape as a weapon of war; whereas an unprecedented and increasing number of men, women and children are seeking to emigrate to certain Member States as economic refugees;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Christian refugees in reception centres for asylum seekers in the Member States are suffering attacks by and even death threats from fanatical Muslims who live in accordance with Sharia law;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women and men seeking asylum have specific protection needs which require that the implementation of all asylum policies be gender sensitiveand economic migrants have specific needs, and Member States are therefore invited to meet, as far as current circumstances allow, the specific needs of women, men, children and families in the context of asylum policies;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whilst winter is coming, Member States are witnessing a pressing problem with the housing of immigrants, public infrastructures are at its limits and some governments are devising new laws to expropriate private property for refugee housing, the EU-Parliament could offer its concrete help by making available its unused premises in Strasbourg for temporary migrant housing;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas the EU-Parliament has at its disposal a fully equipped infrastructure in Strasbourg, which is only used 48 days per year for parliamentary business, including 750 single rooms, each fully equipped with a bed, shower and WC, and fully operational restaurants/canteens; whereas empty offices of officials can be used for individual counselling services and meeting rooms could serve for classroom language teaching as well as information/training sessions;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Invites the Member State governments, when dealing with the refugee crisis, to focus on the genuinely important problems;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the EU institutions to make it possible for the Member States to reintroduce border checks immediately;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the EU institutions to make it possible for Member States to turn away asylum seekers from safe third countries or safe countries of origin and reintroduce a visa requirement for nationals of the countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia);
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Urges that asylum applications should be submitted in the EU Member State embassies in the asylum seekers’ countries of origin, and dealt with by the relevant national authorities, or in centralised reception centres to be set up under the auspices of the EU or the UNHCR;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Urges the EU institutions to extend the list of safe countries of origin to include those States which have concluded either a partnership and cooperation or an association agreement with the EU and which have signed the Geneva Convention on Refugees;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Urges the Member States to allocate asylum seekers only benefits in kind and to give them cash only once they have been granted asylum, and to allocate unsuccessful asylum seekers benefits in kind for a limited period only; urges the Member States and the EU institutions to implement legislative measures in this area as quickly as they did parliamentary decisions concerning measures to save the euro;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Urges the Member States worst affected by the asylum crisis to exercise their right not to implement the EU distribution scheme until such time as those Member States which are leaving a small number of other Member States to bear the full cost of the asylum process abandon this unlawful stance; urges that all asylum-related additional costs should be borne by those Member States which have not complied with the third-country rule and the rules governing the registration of persons;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 g (new)
Paragraph 3 g (new)
3g. Offers its concrete help for women migrants by making available its unused premises in Strasbourg for temporary migrant housing, as flagship project and in order to protect them against sex based violence;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a new, comprehensive set of EU-wide gender guideliInvites the Member States to adopt comprehensive guidelines on controlling and limiting the number of foreigners to be adopted as part of wider reforms to migration and asylum policyentering the EU, taking the ability to absorb new arrivals and to integrate into society and the economic and the labour market interests of the individual EU Member States into account;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. UrgInvites the Commission to develop interpretative guidelines on FGM which give full consideration to the UNHCR Guidelines on gender-based persecution and Guidance Note on FGM, and which clearly outline Member States’ obligationurges the Member States to apply these guidelines;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Commission and the Member States to guarantee full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to safe abortion, and to allocate additional resources to healthcare provision as a matter of urgencyMember States to take measures to guarantee women in disadvantaged circumstances equal access to public health systems, in particular basic health services as defined by the World Health Organisation, encompassing the protection of mother and child and gynaecological and obstetric care;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Urges the Member States, if the situation in the country of origin in question still permits, to take decisions on asylum applications by persons from safe countries of origin and by persons who have entered their territory via a safe third country within 48 hours; urges, further, that asylum applications which are not supported by documentary proof of nationality and identity should be rejected as clearly unjustified or inadmissible within the same period;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the urgent need for independent investigations by the competent Member State authorities into all allegations of abuse at places of immigration detention and for access to be granted to journalists;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Invites the Member States, keeping in mind the humanitarian urgency and the need to temporarily create shelter for immigrants, to decide on the temporary suspension of Protocol Nr 6, thus facilitating the temporary use of the unused EU-Parliament premises in Strasbourg unhindered by parliamentary business, which could transitionally take place in Brussels;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of womenall economic refugees and asylum seekers, including language classes, lifelong learning and training; stresses the importance of widening access to higher education for women refugeeall economic refugees and asylum seekers; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Invites the Member States and the Commission to document in greater detail cases of discrimination and violence against Christian refugees;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Invites the Member States to introduce quicker and more effective procedures for returning asylum seekers whose applications have been turned down;