29 Amendments of Soraya POST related to 2018/2040(INI)
Amendment 3 #
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 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 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 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 c (new)
Citation 7 c (new)
- having regard to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas EU Member States need to make every effort to coordinate their action in the organs and bodies of the United Nations system with a united voice based on international human rights law and the core values of the EU;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the international order based on cooperation, dialogue, and human rights is being put into question by several nationalist and protectionist movements around the world;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are coming under increasing threat in different regions of the world, and with civil society space shrinking in many UN Member States; whereas human rights defenders and civil society activists are facing increasing threats and risks around the world for their legitimate work;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the EU and its Member States were instrumental in shaping the global UN 2030 Agenda, and EU remains committed to be a front-runner in mobilizing all means of implementation and a strong follow-up, monitoring 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 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas the international community and the European Union must step up their efforts to provide protection and support for human rights defenders, and uphold international norms of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law; especially with regard to the rights of those belonging to minority groups or those in vulnerable situations including women, children, youth ethnic, racial or religious minorities, migrants, refugees and IDPs, people with disabilities, LGBTI people and indigenous people;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) to actively support the efforts by the Secretary General to appoint more women and those belonging to minority groups in senior management posts at the UN HQ level and to adopt gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting; also for the EU and the UN to appoint more female police officers and soldiers to missions and operations; to push for intersectional gender advisors for individual missions and operations and specific action plans which design how UNSCR 1325 and 2242 are being implemented at the level of each mission and operation;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) to ensure that all UN forces have the same minimum education and competence requirements, and that it must include a clear gender, LGBTI, and anti-racist perspective, with zero tolerance for all forms of sexual exploitation and violence and including an effective whistle-blower function within the UN to anonymously report offenses committed by UN personnel against both UN personnel and locals alike;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) to reiterate its support for the work of UN Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, and the work of the Special Rapporteurs;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
(fb) to advocate the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) within the UN system in order to increase the democratic character, the democratic accountability and the transparency of global governance and to allow for better citizen participation in the activities of the UN and in particular to contribute to the successful implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g e (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g e (new)
(ge) to strengthen support for local actors by empowering the most vulnerable groups to act as agents of change and create the spaces to engage them in all phases of humanitarian and peace building work;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(ib) to continue to promote a broad definition of the human security concept and of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and to further promote a strong UN role in their implementation;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i n (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i n (new)
(i n) to call on all Member States to support the full implementation of the Secretary General’s 30 March 2017 Report’s recommendations on UNRWA financing, given UNRWA’s severe financial crisis in 2018 which threatens both the well-being of millions of Palestinian refugees and regional stability, and to reiterate the EU’s essential support for the important work of UNRWA;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j e (new)
Paragraph 1 – point j e (new)
(je) to engage the most vulnerable people (including children, youth, women, people with disabilities) at all levels of decision-making and all processes;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point l a (new)
(la) to support the implementation of 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, conflict prevention and mediation, humanitarian crises, poverty, climate change, migration, sustainable development, peace and security;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point t a (new)
(ta) to continue to encourage all UN Member States to sign and ratify the different human rights conventions and to comply with their reporting obligations under these instruments;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point t b (new)
(tb) 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 provide the ICC with strong diplomatic, political and financial support;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u c (new)
(ud) to encourage the Security Council to further address and strengthen LGBTI rights;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u e (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u e (new)
(ue) to request the EU and its Member States to work with partners on the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, including adoption and implementation of National Action Plans (NAP); to renew its call to the EU and its Member States to be actively and constructively engaged in formulating, as soon as possible, a legally binding international instrument that regulates, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises in order to prevent, investigate, redress and provide access to remedy to human rights violations whenever these occur;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u f (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u f (new)
(uf) to strongly condemn the judicial harassment, detention, killings, threats and intimidation of human rights defenders around the world for doing their legitimate human rights work; to push for international efforts to provide protection and support for human rights defenders at risk, and enable them to carry out their work;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u g (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u g (new)
(ug) to recognise that environmental and land human rights defenders in particular have faced increasing threats, and in particular indigenous human rights defenders, including judicial harassment and killings around the world; to call on UN Member States to support a binding treaty on business and human rights;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u h (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u h (new)
(uh) to underline that human rights defenders and civil society activists are central actors in sustainable development; to call on UN Member States to adopt policies to provide protection and support for human rights defenders at risk;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u n (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u n (new)
(u n) to ensure that women have access to family planning and the full range of public and universal sexual and reproductive health and rights, including modern contraception and safe and legal abortion; underscores the fact that universal access to health, in particular sexual and reproductive health and the associated rights, is a fundamental human right; thereby countering the Global Gag Rule which was reinstated by the United States government in early 2017;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u o (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u o (new)
(u o) to consider that the Roma people are among the most discriminated against minorities in the world and that the discrimination is getting worse in several countries; to remind that Roma people live on all continents and thus it is a global concern; to call on the UN to install a special rapporteur on Roma issues to raise awareness and to safeguard that the UN programs will also reach Roma people;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u p (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u p (new)
(u p) 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 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to ensure that human rights are put at the core of the Global Compacts; to pay specific attention to migrants in situations of vulnerability, such as children, women at risk, victims of human trafficking or persons with disabilities; stressing the importance of designing migration policy from an intersectional perspective in order to respond to their particular needs;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z
Paragraph 1 – point z
(z) to reaffirm the EU’s commitment to the Paris Agreement and to stress the need to implement the Paris Agreement globally to preserve our habitat for future generations; to reaffirm the need for an ambitious EU climate policy and its readiness to improve the existing EU Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) for 2030 as well as the necessity of developing a long-term strategy for 2050 in a timely manner;