21 Amendments of Ignazio CORRAO related to 2015/2258(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes new Objective 12 in the Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2015-2019; calls on the Commission to ensure that CRPDthe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities implementation is systematically raised in human rights dialogues with third countries; calls on the EU Special Representative for Human Rights to lead and monitor progress in this field;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. CStrongly calls for Section 8 of the European Disability Strategy referring to external action to be matched by the inclusion of genuine and concrete commitments in the strategy’s new ‘list of actions’ for 2016- 2020, such commitments having been absent in the 2010-15 list;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the mid-term evaluation of the external financing instruments to assess how effectively these have contributed to the inclusion of persons with disabilities; demands an end to any expenditure in EU programmes that perpetuates the segregation of persons with disabilities; calls for the spreading, implementation and financing of programmes aiming at the effective inclusion on person with disabilities in society, through an holistic approach;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Deplores the discrimination and exclusion which persons with disabilities still suffer today; calls on the Commission to maximise synergies between the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and the provisions of the CEDAW and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, in order to ensure, not least by harmonising and implementing the legislative framework, that the rights granted under those instruments can in fact be exercised;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission to assess whether EU legislation is compatible with the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; urges that any loopholes hampering the implementation of the Convention should be closed;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Invites the Commission to draft an implementation plan for the CRPD; underlines that such a plan should make an important contribution to the definition of indicators in areas related to disability and socio-economic inclusion; stresses that poverty, social protection, health coverage, violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and rights, access to water and sanitation and energy, resilience to disasters and birth registration deserve particular attention in the definition of SDG indicators;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States and the EU institutions to ensure that opportunities to take part in public consultation procedures are effectively and widely publicised by means of communications which are accessible to persons with disabilities who use languages such as braille and Easy Read;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to give persons with disabilities an active role in decision- making processes, also through their representative organisations, in accordance with Article 4(3) of the CPRD; urges, further, that due account should be taken of the views expressed by persons with disabilities in the course of such processes;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 5
Paragraph 5 – indent 5
- put in place focal points for disability issues in EU delegations., appointing trained liaison officers who can offer the benefits of their expertise and professionalism to persons with disabilities;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses concern that EU delegations and agencies do not display a sufficient understanding of EU disability strategies and thus do not work in an inclusive and accessible way; suggests the creation of a ‘focal point’ for CRPD in the European External Action Service; calls for an urgent introduction of a disability perspective in all the training courses on human rights provided in the framework of the CSDP missions;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises that, if the rights of children with disabilities are to be protected, their families must be guaranteed proper support by strengthening and building on the legislative instruments available to the EU, such as that providing for extended parental leave for parents of children with disabilities;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)
- provide children likely to be at risk with swift, appropriate and comprehensive care, given the importance of early intervention;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)
- provide parents of disabled children with the training they require in order to take a full and active part in the children's care;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 b (new)
- promote the early integration of the children and the provision of special education services in infant and primary schools;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. RStrongly regrets the absence of consultation by the EU with disabled people’s organisations in its preparations for the review process by the UN CRPD Committee in 2015 and in drafting its progress report; calls for disabled people’s organisations to be fully involved in future, including participation in official EU delegations for future reviews.
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers full and complete access to the political system for persons with disabilities to be a priority; recognises that this access must bcalls, in this regard, on the Commission to include an assessment of compatibility with the UNCRPD in its reporting on the implementation of Council Directives 93/109/EC and 94/80/EC, which lay down the right to vote and stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament and local elections; deplores the fact that, in the EU, many persons with disabilities who do not have legal capacity are also denied the right to vote; urges the Member States, therefore, to revise their national laws in such a way as to ensure that the right to vote is not systematically denied to persons with disabilities who do not have legal capacity, and instead to assess each case on its merits and provide persons with disabilities with assistance during the voting procedure; recognises that the right to vote must constitute more than mere physical access to cast a vote, and that it should include a wide range of initiatives to open the democratic process to all citizens; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the provisions of Article 3(2) of Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime and of Directives 2010/64/EU on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings and 2012/13/EU on the right to information in criminal proceedings, and in particular Directive 2013/48/EU on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings and in European arrest warrant proceedings, and on the right to have a third party informed upon deprivation of liberty and to communicate with third persons and with consular authorities while deprived of liberty, are properly and fully implemented, especially in the case of persons with disabilities;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Urges that such data collection and such surveys must be as specific and as targeted as possible and that they should be followed by appropriate studies and workshops which result in suitable and effective forms of action;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Emphasises that, if the rights of persons with disabilities are to be safeguarded in full, it is essential that such persons should be guaranteed the right to choose how they want to live and how they want to maximise their potential, for example by making greater use of arrangements such as caregivers;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Urges that, with a view to guaranteeing social inclusion for persons with disabilities, it is essential to do away with all the barriers and obstacles which still hamper their integration into education systems, at the workplace, into public life and into the communities to which they belong;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Urges that the principle of freedom of movement for persons with disabilities within the EU must be guaranteed by removing all the remaining barriers to the exercise of that freedom;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Urges that, with a view to guaranteeing proper social integration for persons with disabilities, incentives must be provided for the correct use of EU funds which are intended to foster that process by means of research into and the development, implementation and dissemination of new ideas, new technologies and new methods;