11 Amendments of Hilde VAUTMANS related to 2020/2113(INI)
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas hundreds of European children have been held for more than four years in the Al Hol and Al Roj detention camps, abandoned by their governments;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the EU guidelines on violence against women and girls andfull inclusion of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts has proven to be beneficial in promoting security and stability globally; whereas the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality shouldcontinues to be at the core of ithe EU's strategy for the region; whereas women’s human rights are beingfundamental rights continue to be systematically violated and women’s rights activists in the region continue to be detained and imprisoned in the regionharassed, intimidated, imprisoned or barred from travelling;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Recalls that after 50 years the occupation must end; furthermore, in contradiction with International Law, Israel is "de facto" proceeding with the process of annexation of the occupied territories through illegal settlements that impede the establishment of the two States solution as set out in the Oslo Accords;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Stresses that the Oslo Accords and the United Nations Resolutions are the only basis for the resolution of the Palestinian conflict;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses the particular responsibility of the Syrian regime in destabilising the region following its all- out repression on peaceful protesters in 2011; underlines the particular responsibility of Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, in opposing 18 vetoes against the UN Security Council resolutions which aimed at finding a political situation to the Syrian crisis since 2011; recalls the human tragedy caused by the killing of half a million Syrians and the displacement of over half of its population internally and as refugees across the region and Europe; urges Syria to stop using chemical weapons on its civilian population; welcomes the decision of April 2021 of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to suspend Syria's members from the organisation;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the humanitarian disaster caused by the war in Yemen since 2016; calls on all parties to abide by International Humanitarian Law and fully engage in the UN-led peace talks;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU to further promote the development of a strong and independent civil society in the region; highlights that the shrinking civil space in several countries poses a threat to regional stability; deeply deplores the sharp deterioration of freedom of association and attacks against civil society organizations, whether through legal or de facto repression and intimidation, in a number of countries in the past decade; strongly reaffirms that defending basic civil and political rights and freedoms are a legitimate field of work for civil society organizations, including in the MENA region;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the authorities in the region to uphold the ban on torture as enshrined in particulareffectively ban torture under all circumstances as enshrined in the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which most of them have signed and ratified; calls for the abolition of the death penalty throughout the region;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the democratic clause in our Association Agreements with third countries is effectively applied whenever there are clear human rights violations;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on the EU to pay special attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict due to its exceptional length and to current perspectives that do not allow for a realistic path towards the stability across the MENA region;