Activities of Soraya POST related to 2017/2041(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Recommendation to the Council on the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council concerning the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly PDF (311 KB) DOC (63 KB)
Amendments (46)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the UN human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
– having regard to the UN Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888, 1889, 1960, 2106, 2122 and 2242 on Women Peace and Security,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 b (new)
Citation 3 b (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament resolution from the 16th of March 2017 on the EU Priorities for the UN Human Rights Council session in 2017,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 c (new)
Citation 3 c (new)
– having regard to the EU Annual Report on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union´s policy on the matter 2015,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 d (new)
Citation 3 d (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 28 April 2016 on attacks on hospitals and schools as violations of international humanitarian law,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to the revised EU Guidelines on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child - Leave No Child Behind, adopted 6 March 2017,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the EU and its Member States were instrumental in shaping the global UN 2030 Agenda, EU remains committed to be a front-runner in mobilizing all means of implementation and a strong follow-up and review mechanism to ensure progress and accountability; that this is reflected in the EU external action and other policies across EU financial instruments;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU’s security environment is increasingly unstable and volatile owing to a large number of longstanding or newly emerging challenges, including violent conflicts, terrorism, organised crime, unprecedented waves of migrationmigratory pressures and climate change, which are impossible to address at national level and require regional and global responses;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)
Subheading 1 a (new)
to support the strengthening of the coherence, synergies and complementarities of the UN peacebuilding architecture and of UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security; to support the implementation of the UN Security Council's resolution 2242 on women, peace and security, which makes women the central component in all efforts to address global challenges, including rising violent extremism, climate change, migration, sustainable development, peace and security;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 b (new)
Subheading 1 b (new)
stresses the importance of women's equal and full participation as active agents and the incorporation of a gender analysis in all areas concerning prevention and resolution of conflicts, notably peacekeeping operations, humanitarian operations, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation processes in line with landmark UNSC resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888, 1889, 1960, 2106, 2122 and 2242 on women, peace and security; calls for the development of indicators to measure progress on the participation of women in peace and security building;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 c (new)
Subheading 1 c (new)
to remind of the impact of sexual violence in conflict on the maintenance of peace and security and recalls that sexual violence such as rape is used as a tactic of war and constitutes a war crime, in this context to ensure that safe medical attendance to female war rape victims are provided in line with the Commission's review of its humanitarian aid policy;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph b
Paragraph b
(b) to push for stronger multilateral commitments to find sustainable political solutions to current conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly in Syria, Yemen and Libya; to continue to support UN special envoys’' work, actions and initiatives aimed at solving these conflicts; to call for continued humanitarian, financial and political assistance from the international community in order to address the humanitarian situation and to work towards the immediate cessation of violence; of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, including the direct targeting of civil infrastructure and civilian populations; to support efforts deployed by the UN to find a sustainable resolution to the conflict in Syria and to continue to back the EU’'s role in the humanitarian field and the EU’'s regional initiative; to call on all States Parties to the UN Refugee Convention to recognize the Syrian community's right to safety and protection and the obligation of State Parties to offer sanctuary; to support the UN peace plan initiative in Yemen and to tackle the ongoing humanitarian crisis as a matter of urgency; to call for stronger support for the UN-backed government in Libya;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph c
Paragraph c
(c) to call for a stronger empowerment of Iraqi institutions and for the need to work towards a more inclusive society and the reintegration of all the ethnic and religious minorities that have been displaced; while engaging the most vulnerable people (i.e. children, youth, women, people with disabilities) at all levels of decision-making;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph h
Paragraph h
(h) to further encourage the UN’'s efforts to bring about peace in Afghanistan and to overcome the fragile security environment in the country; to strengthen support for local actors by empowering the most vulnerable (especially children, youth, women) to act as agents of change and create the spaces to engage them in all phases of humanitarian and peacebuilding work;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph i
Paragraph i
(i) to strongly condemn the actions of the North Korean leadership that threaten peace and security in the Korean peninsula and beyond; to draw up and implement a strongresilient response, supported by a broad and sufficiently robust international consensus, in order to deter the North Korean regime from further developing hostile nuclear capabilities and carrying out extra- territorial assassinations, attacks and kidnappings;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph j
Paragraph j
(j) to significantly increase Member State support for UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, in particular by contributing personnel and equipment, and to enhance the EU’'s role as a facilitator in this respect; to ensure better visibility for this support and contribution; to further develop procedures for the use of EU Common Security and Defence Policy in support of UN operations; to support the UNSC reform of its use of veto power when evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity occur;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph k
Paragraph k
(k) to continue to support the efforts to further operationalise R2P and to support the UN in continuing to play a critical role in assisting countries in the implementation of R2P and the role of women in peace- building;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph k a (new)
Paragraph k a (new)
(ka) to promote a broad definition of the human security concept and the Responsibility to Protect principle, bringing it more closely together with human rights, gender equality and human development;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph m
Paragraph m
(m) to support the UN in making counter-terrorism a key element of its prevention agenda in line with the EU’'s engagement in preventive measures to combat terrorism and counter violent extremism; to strengthen joint EU-UN efforts in combating the root causes of terrorism, particularly by supporting resilient societies in countering hybrid threats and developing research and capacity-building in cyber defence; to rely on the existing peacebuilding initiatives set up by local partnersactors (including young peacebuilders in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2250) to devise, implement, and develop approaches to counter radicalisation and terrorist recruitment;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph n a (new)
Paragraph n a (new)
(na) to recall that the promotion and protection for human rights and respect for the rule of law are key elements in counter-terrorism policies;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph r
Paragraph r
(r) to work towards more effective action against the diversion of and illicit trade in weapons and ammunitions, including small arms and light weapons, in particular by developing a weapons tracking system; to request the UN Members to actively take steps towards global disarmament;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph r a (new)
Paragraph r a (new)
(ra) to pay special attention to the technological progress in the field of weaponisation of robotics and in particular, on the armed robots and drones and their conformity with the international law; to establish legal framework on drones and armed robots in line with the existing international humanitarian law to prevent this technology to be misused on illegal activities by state and non-state actors;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph s
Paragraph s
(s) to call for a strengthening of the global response to migrationory pressures, by building on the successful UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants of 19 September 2016 and addressing the challenges and security concerns that arise, such as illegalrregular migration and human trafficking;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph t a (new)
Paragraph t a (new)
(ta) to call on all countries to adopt a human rights-based approach to migration, which safeguards the rights of migrants and refugees in migration policies and management, paying particular attention to the situation of marginalised and disadvantaged groups of migrants and refugees, such as women and children; to call on all states to address gender-related violence against women and girls, and stresses the importance of designing migration policy from a gender perspective in order to respond to their particular needs;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph u
Paragraph u
(u) to demand that greater efforts be made to prevent irregular migration and to fight people smuggling and human trafficking, in particular by introducing safe and legal routes for migrants and refugees and by combating criminal networks through timely and effective exchange of relevant intelligence; to improve methods to identify and protect victims and to reinforce cooperation with third countries with a view to tracking, seizing and recovering the proceeds of criminal activities in this sector; to insist at UN level on the importance of the ratification and full implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and the Protocols thereto against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air and to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph u a (new)
Paragraph u a (new)
(ua) to requests the EU to refrain from the externalisation of the refugee crisis management and to remain coherent with our internal and external policies in order to maintain our credibility;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v a (new)
Paragraph v a (new)
(va) to promote, strengthen and mainstream activities supporting equality between women and men; to support measures strengthening leadership and participation of women at all levels of decision-making; to call on states to secure equal representation for women in public institutions and public life, including special attention to the inclusion of minority women;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v b (new)
Paragraph v b (new)
(vb) to call for further empowerment of women and girls and the eradication of all violence and discrimination against women and girls, including gender-based violence; to continue to support the work of UN women in its action and by taking into account discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v c (new)
Paragraph v c (new)
(vc) to strengthen UN and EU's actions against violence, killings, abuse and discrimination against LGBTI persons, to support close monitoring of the situation of LGBTI persons in countries with anti- LGBTI laws or where such laws have recently been introduced, by condemning these practices in accordance in full compliance with the international human rights law and with the EU Guidelines; stresses the importance of promotion and protection of LGBTI's Human Rights defenders through increased support including by launching awareness campaigns;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v d (new)
Paragraph v d (new)
(vd) to encourage the Security Council to further address and strengthen LGBTI rights;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v e (new)
Paragraph v e (new)
(ve) supports the EU's efforts to promote children's rights, in particular by contributing to ensuring children's access to water, sanitation, healthcare and education, by ensuring the rehabilitation and reintegration of children enlisted in armed groups, by eliminating child labour, torture, child witchcraft, trafficking, child marriage and sexual exploitation, and by assisting children in armed conflicts and ensuring their access to education in conflict zones and refugee camps;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 a (new)
Subheading 5 a (new)
reiterates that indigenous peoples today are among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in the world; calls on the international community to recognize and dedicate the means necessary for the special measures required to protect the rights of indigenous peoples and maintain their distinct cultures and way of life; to recognise and protect the exceptional vulnerable situation indigenous human rights defenders have due to climate change and exploitation of their lands;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v f (new)
Paragraph v f (new)
(vf) to call for the UN member states, including the EU Member States, to implement the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 b (new)
Subheading 5 b (new)
reiterates that the Roma people are among the most discriminated against minorities in the world and that the discrimination is getting worse in several countries; reminds that the Roma issue is a global issue as they live on all continents; calls on the UN to install a special rapporteur on Roma issues to raise awareness and to safeguard that the UN programs will also reach the Roma;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph w
Paragraph w
(w) to continue to advocate freedom of religion or belief; to call for greater efforts to protect the rights of religious and other minorities; to call for greater protection of religious minorities against persecution and violence; to call for the repeal of laws criminalising blasphemy or apostasy, which serve as a pretext for the persecution of religious minorities and non-believers; to support the work of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; to actively work for UN recognition of the genocide of religious, ethnic and other minorities committed by ISIL/Daesh, and for referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) of cases of suspected crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph y
Paragraph y
(y) to strengthen the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the international criminal justice system in order to promote accountability and to end impunity; to ensure its independence and provide the Court with strong diplomatic, political and financial support, including in the UN; to encourage dialogue and cooperation between the ICC, the UN, the UNSC and the UN´s agencies;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph z
Paragraph z
(z) to maintain strong engagement in promoting an end to the death penalty worldwide; torecalls the EU's position on zero tolerance for the death penalty and reiterates its long-standing opposition to the death penalty, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment in all cases and under all circumstances; underlines the importance of the EU continueing to advocate zero tolerance for the death penalty; to call for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to further work towards its universal abolition; ance the moratorium on the death penalty and emphasises once again that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph aa
Paragraph aa
(aa) to underline the leading role of the EU in the process that led to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the General Assembly in September 2015; to take concrete steps to ensure the efficient implementation of Agenda 2030 and the 17 SDGs as important instruments for prevention and development; as well as a priority for all external and internal action, especially when it comes to development cooperation financing; to recognize the significant role civil society organizations plays to successfully implement Agenda 2030 and to achieve the SDGs; to recognize the instrumental role and impact of the SDG's for international peace and security;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph aa a (new)
Paragraph aa a (new)
(aaa) To increase EU's leading role in leaving no-one behind while ensuring the most vulnerable, especially children, young people, women, people with disabilities, are consulted and engaged in the implementation and monitoring of Agenda 2030; to emphasise the role local actors play in ensuring resilient and peaceful communities as well as a long- term sustaining peace and development;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph aa b (new)
Paragraph aa b (new)
(aab) to urge the EU to seek for cross- national initiatives in promotion and protection of women´s rights; calls for the full implementation of Beijing Platform for Action and the ICPD Programme of Action;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph ab – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph ab – subparagraph 1 (new)
to participate actively in the debate on the term 'climate refugee', including its recognition of a legal definition in international law or in any legally binding international agreements;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 a (new)
Subheading 7 a (new)
Business and human rights
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 b (new)
Subheading 7 b (new)
to further support the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on improving accountability and access to remedy for victims of business- related human rights abuse in order to contribute to a fair and more effective system of domestic law remedies, in particular in cases of gross human rights abuses in the business sector; to call on all governments to fulfil their duties in securing respect for human rights, access to justice for victims who face both practical and legal challenges to access remedies at national and international levels, with regard to human rights violations linked to business;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph ad
Paragraph ad
(ad) to support actively a comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council on the basis of a broad consensus in order to better reflect the new world reality and to re-launch the question of the necessity for the EU single seat; to promote the revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly, and improved coordination and coherence of the action of all UN institutions, which should enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, legitimacy, transparency, accountability, capacity and representativeness of the system;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph ad – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph ad – subparagraph 1 (new)
reminds of the importance of gender and human rights mainstreaming in all UN activates; calls for the dedication of sufficient means to make the UN an example for gender and human rights mainstreamed organisation;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph ad a (new)
Paragraph ad a (new)
(ada) to foster a debate on the topic of the role of parliaments and regional assemblies in the UN system and on the topic of establishing a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) in order to increase the democratic profile and internal democratic process of the organisation and allow world civil society to be directly associated in the decision- making process;