Activities of Adam SZEJNFELD related to 2016/2220(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Statelessness in South and South East Asia
Amendments (4)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas statelessness has an important impact on human rights and civil duties, access to, including civil, political and economic rights, and represents a major obstacle to access healthcare and education, land and property, services andas well as weakens social position; whereas this undermines the development prospects of affected populations and the effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 that foresees providing legal identity and birth registration for all; regrets however that statelessness is not explicitly mentioned in the Agenda 2030 either as a ground for discrimination or as a poverty reduction target; calls on the EU and its Member States to consider including statelessness indicators in their monitoring and reporting mechanisms while implementing the SDGs;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the link between statelessness and forced displacement, in particular in conflict-affected regions; recalls that at least 1.5 million stateless persons in the world are refugees or former refugees;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that statelessness in the regionworld is largely unmapped and under- reported, and that existing data is based on different definitions; urges the international community to adopt a unified definition and address the gaps in data collection for measuring statelessness in developing countries, notably by assisting local authorities in putting in place adequate methods to quantify, identify and register stateless persons, and to enhance their statistical capacities;