10 Amendments of Lars ADAKTUSSON related to 2016/2239(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas several reports by UN bodies, including by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect, the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, have stated that acts committed by so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’ may constitute atrocity crimes;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Contracting Parties to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 and to other relevant international agreements, including the EU Member States, to prevent atrocity crimes within their territory or committed by their citizens as they have committed to doing; calls on all states that have not yet ratified these Conventions to do so;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the development, at international, regional and national levels, of educational and cultural programmes promoting an understanding of the causes and consequences of atrocity crimes for humankind and raising awareness of the need to nurture peace, to promote human rights and interreligious tolerance and to prosecute and investigate any such crimes; welcomes, in this context, the organisation of the first annual EU Day Against Impunity for gGenocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reaffirms, in this context, its strong condemnation of the heinous crimes and human rights violations committed by ‘ISIS/Daesh’ in Syria and Iraq, including killings, torture, abuse, rape, sexual slaveryviolence, sexual slavery, forced abortion, extortion, forced marriage, forced religious conversions and the systematic murder of ethno-religious minorities, Christians (Chaldeans/Syriacs/Assyrians), Yazidis, and others, that amount to genocide; believes that the prosecution of the perpetrators should be a priority for the international community;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Encourages the EU and its Member States to fight against impunity and to lend active support to international efforts to bring ‘ISIS/Daesh’ fighters to justice; calls for the development of a clear approach to the prosecution of ‘ISIS/Daesh’ fighters and their abettors, including by using the expertise of the EU network for investigation and prosecution of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Emphasises that the EU and its Member States should support the prosecution of ‘ISIS/Daesh’ by the ICC by seeking a consensus within the UN Security Council; calls on the EU Member States to investigate and prosecute nationals of theirs who have committed atrocity crimes in Iraq and Syria, or to refer them to the ICC; underlines that, alternatively, the EU should explore and support at international level all options to prosecute ‘ISIS/Daesh’ crimes, including by means of theexplore and support at international level all options to prosecute 'ISIS/Daesh' fighters, including: by seeking a consensus within the UN Security Council to table a resolution referring the situation to the ICC; or by referring the ISIS/Daesh perpetrators to the ICC; or by establishment ofing an International Criminal Tribunal for ISIS/Daesh Atrocities in Iraq and Syria;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Believes thatEmphasises that the EU and its Member States should investigate and prosecute nationals of theirs who have committed, attempted to commit, or were complicit in atrocity crimes in Iraq and Syria; however, prosecuting ‘ISIS/Daesh’ membefighters and their abettors in the Member States can only be a complementary solution to international justice;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Emphasises the need to ensure that a similar international, impartial and independent mechanism to collect evidence of atrocities committed by 'ISIS/Daesh' in Iraq is established as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Emphasises the need for EU Member States to investigate all allegations and suspicions relating to their citizens travelling to Syria or Iraq to join ISIS/Daesh, participating or being complicit in 'ISIS/Daesh' atrocities;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the EUʼs efforts to support the work of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability; calls for the EU to give direct support to Iraqi and Syrian civil society in gathering, preserving and protecting evidence of crimes committed by ‘ISIS/Daesh’; supports the United Kingdom and Belgian initiative at UN levelwelcomes the British and Iraqi initiative, the 'Bringing Daesh to Justice Coalition', to gather evidence of the crimes committed by ‘ISIS/Daesh’ in Syria and Iraq in order to facilitate its prosecution internationally and calls upon the EU Member States to join or support the coalition;