6 Amendments of Pablo IGLESIAS related to 2014/2216(INI)
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on all the EU institutions and Member States to place human rights at the centre of the EU’s relations with all third countries, including its strategic partners and in all high-level statements and meetings, as well as association agreements; emphasises the importance of effective, consistent and coherent implementation of the EU’s human rights policy, in line with the clear obligations laid down in Article 21 of the Treaty on European Union and in the EU Strategic Framework on human rights and democracy; commends the new Vice- President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) for openly stating her forthright commitment to the implementation of these principles;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance for the EU Member States of speaking with one voice in support of the indivisibility, inviolability and universality of human rights and, in particular, of ratifying all the international human rights instruments established by the UN; calls on the EU to uphold the indivisibility and inviolability of human rights, including those enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in conformity with Article 21 TEU; calls for the EU to further promote universal human rights standards as the basis for its engagement among the Member States and with third countries and regional organisations, in both political and human rights dialogues;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Strongly supports the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; recalls the importance of promoting corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stresses the need to include corporate accountability, including in business operations outside the EU, and ensuring its respect along the whole supply chain; is convinced that European companies and their subsidiaries and subcontractors should play a key role in the promotion and dissemination of international standards on business and human rights worldwide;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Calls on the EU to support the emerging initiatives aimed at concluding a legally binding international instrument on business and human rights within the UN system, including an accountability mechanism, and to engage from early on in the debate on this issue;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Condemns all violence and discrimination on the basis of ideology, religion or belief; expresses its serious concern over the continued reports of violence and discrimination against religious minorities around the world; stresses that the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, is a fundamental human right, interrelated with other human rights and fundamental freedoms, encompassing the right to believe or not to believe, the freedom to practise theistic, non-theistic or atheistic belief alike, and the right to adopt, change and abandon or return to a belief of one’s choice;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Reaffirms its condemnation of all forms of abuse and acts of violence against women, especially the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and domestic violence; calls on all Council of Europe member states, accordingly, to sign and ratify the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women; calls on the EU as such to take steps to accede to the Convention in order to ensure coherence between EU internal and external action on violence against women;