Activities of Soraya POST related to 2016/2329(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Implementation of the European Protection Order Directive (debate)
Implementation of the European Protection Order Directive (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order PDF (590 KB) DOC (73 KB)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28
Citation 28
- having regard to the European Parliamentary Research Service’s European Implementation Assessment (PE 603.272) of Directive 2011/99/EU, produced by the Ex-Post Evaluation Unit,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas victims of violence and abuse are at risk of being subjected to secondary and repeated victimisation, retaliation and intimidation; whereas, therefore, providing them with the necessary protection, including across borders, depends to a great extent on the awareness of victims, society at large and all practitioners who come into contact with them;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the lack of provision of appropriate protection of a human being against gender-based violence demonstrates failure of the state in carrying out its human rights responsibilities, which has a detrimental effect on society as a whole;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the Istanbul Convention stipulates that all of its provisions, in particular measures to protect the rights of victims, shall be secured without discrimination on any ground and explicitly calls its signatories to recognise stalking as a criminal offence (article 34);
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern that, since the transposition of the EPO Directive, only seven EPOs have been issued bydentified across the Member States, although thousands of national protection orders have been requested and issued in the Member States in recent years20 ; _________________ 20 The EPRS’s study on the ‘European Protection Order Directive 2011/99/EU – European Implementation Assessment’ reports that ‘it has been estimated that in 2010 over 100 000 women residing in the EU were covered by protection measures related to gender-based violence’.
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Highlights that, due to the increasing and dangerous trend of trafficking in human beings, the European Protection Order can be a very beneficial instrument for victims of human trafficking; therefore calls on the European Commission to incorporate the EPO within an EU strategy to combat human trafficking;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fix a clear and short timeframe of two weeks for the competent authorities of the Member States when issuing EPOs in order to avoid increasing the uncertainty of protected persons, and, for the sake of achieving the same goal, to instruct the competent authorities to provide sufficient information to the victims during the process of taking a decision on their EPO requests;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Member States to step up their work with NGOs and to provide, with their involvement, mandatory human rights- based, service-oriented, practical and intersectional training courses for all public officials working with victims on a professional basis in relation to the EPO and who are key to the correct implementation of this directive; stresses that specific and regular training and courses on the EPOs for the police, the personnel of the competent national authorities and for legal practitioners should be established in all Member States;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States, given the deeply rooted nature of misogyny and sexism in our societies and the increasing exposure of children and teenagers to violence online, to consider includinge education on gender equality and non-violence on the school curriculumprimary and secondary school curriculum by engaging pupils in discussions and by utilising all possible teachable moments;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Gender-based and interpersonal violence being the reality of almost all of us, calls on the Commission to include the priority of safeguarding personal security and the protection of all individuals from gender-based and interpersonal violence in the European Agenda on Security.
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Member States to take full responsibility for their citizens and launch long-term awareness-raising and intersectional sensitising campaigns on both gender-based violence and the available instruments of protection with the involvement of relevant NGOs;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Underlines that the judicial and practical flaws in the implementation of this directive can be counteracted by the proper interplay of the various EU victim- protection instruments, such as Directive 2012/29/EU of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime; , which has established the right to receive information, to receive free of charge interpretation services and translation of information, and which adopts an all-encompassing approach to victims with special needs, including victims of gender-based violence.
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and the European Institute for Gender Equality.