18 Amendments of Ignazio CORRAO related to 2015/2340(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas trafficking in human beings is defined by the United Nations (Palermo Protocol) as the act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring or receiving persons by means of the threat or use of force or other forms coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation; whereas the exploitation includes, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs; whereas these heinous practice are even more execrable when the exploited human been is a children, how often happens;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas according to the ILO the Asia- Pacific region accounts for 56% of the estimated number of victims of forced labour, by far the largest share worldwide; whereas forced labour as a result of human trafficking (and related practices as sexual exploitation) is becoming more and more present also in Europe and in Member States and recently has reached alarming levels;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas child trafficking in Africa, for the purpose of child soldiering, is the highest in the world; whereas an estimated 300 000 children are involved in armed conflicts around the world; whereas child trafficking and related practices as sexual exploitation are becoming more and more present also in Europe and in Member States and recently has reached alarming levels;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood countries, sexual exploitation is the main cause of the reported trafficking in persons; whereas many people from the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood countries suffer also for labour exploitation;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reminds that victims of trafficking are often "invisible people" in the country where they are exploited; that they face difficulties caused by cultural and language diversity and that all this renders even more difficult for them to denounce the crimes of which they are victims; denounces that these difficulties are even more severe for particular vulnerable categories of victims, like women and children;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Denounces the fact that THB is a highly lucrative business and that the proceeds from this criminal activity are largely re- injected into the global economy and financial system; denounces that the most structured and powerful international criminal organization are involved in THB and have created a real international and branched criminal network;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls onUrges the EU and its Member States to urgeput in place compelling normative rules devoted to compel national and international companies to ensure that their products along the entire supply chain are free from exploitation;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls onUrges the EU and its Member States to make a particularny needed effort to combat forced labour in EU industries abroad, andnd SME, operating in the Member States and abroad; Urges the EU and its Member States to make any needed effort in relation to third countries, byin order to make them applying and enforcing labour standards and to supporting governments in adopting labour laws providing minimum protection standards for workers, including foreign workers and to make these standards a precondition for European companies operating in third countries;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Urges the EU and its Member States to train personnel charged with reception and identification of migrants/asylum seekers, at any stages, with specific awareness-raising programmes devoted to the correct distinction between smuggling and trafficking in human beings and to the understanding and discovering of situation in which people (and in particular the ones pertaining to the most vulnerable categories, as women and children) are in fact victims of THB, even when they are induced or forced to dissimulate their situation, for example claiming that they are spouses or children of their exploiters;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Denounces that, according to the press declaration of EUROPOL Chief of staff, more than 10,000 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children have disappeared in Europe, Calls the attention of EU and Member States on the fact that many among the said impressive number of children have been whisked into sex trafficking rings begging, illicit and lucrative organ transplant market or the slave trade;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for the ratification and implementation of the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs; askurges the EU to call on third- country governments to take immediately any legal action against health care professionals, hospitals and private clinics who are operating in the heinous, inhuman illicit and lucrative organ transplant market;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the inclusion of forced begging as a form of trafficking in human beings by the Directive 2011/36/EU; callurges on the Member States to harmonise national legislation and on third-country governments to enact and enforce legal provisions;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Deplores the inadequate attention sometimes given to victims in criminal proceedings; calls for trafficked persons not to be detained and not to be put at risk of being punished for offences committed in the context of their situation as victim of THB;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on Member States to effectively and proactively cooperate with EUROPOL, INTERPOL and the new European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC). in dismantling criminal networks involved in organised migrant smuggling and in dealing with THB;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Underlines the numerous challenges linked to cross-border labour migration, particularly the risk of migrants being illegalised and deprived of their most fundamental rights; denounces the spreading of practices of labour exploitation and sometimes forced labour, affecting cross-border labour migrants in some specific sectors as construction and agriculture sector, in the latter case especially seasonal work; calls on Member States to immediately take any measure to prevent these case and to prosecute those responsible of this heinous exploitation; calls for the establishment of cross-border labour migration mechanisms in the EU and at international level in order to increase and formalise regular labour migration;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the EU to review its assistance programmes regarding trafficking in human beings, to make funding more targeted and to make THB an area of main cooperation in its own right; urges the Commission to regularly re-evaluate its list of priority countries;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Urges the EU to find tangible solutions regarding regular, non-exploitative and safe ways into the EU for migrants and refugees; recalls that safe and if possible voluntary return should be guaranteed to trafficked persons by the receiving state and state of origin, and legal alternatives offered for repatriation in cases where such repatriation would pose a risk to their safety and/or of their family;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Calls on the EU to support third countries in their efforts to increase the identification of victims and prosecutions for THB, putting in place and implementing adequate legislation, and harmonising legal definitions, procedures and cooperation in line with international standards; welcomes ant initiative undertaken by EUROPOL and INTERPOL in order to directly deal with human trafficking as a priority and proactively support Member States in the fight against such heinous, organized and lucrative crime and crimes related;