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7 Amendments of Damiano ZOFFOLI related to 2015/2340(INI)

Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to tackle human trafficking, the majority of whose victims are members of the most vulnerable social groups, in particular women, who are exploited for principally for sexual purposes, and children and elderly and disabled persons, who are forced into begging or exploited for the purpose of organ trafficking;
2016/02/26
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Points out that poverty, sexual and ethnic discrimination, ignorance, disinformation, political and economic crises, armed conflict and natural disasters provide fertile ground for child traffickers;
2016/02/26
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that children who are trafficked are exploited for a variety of purposes, including prostitution, domestic work and work on plantations, as soldiers or adjuncts to armed groups, to carry out crimes and to beg;
2016/02/26
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Points out that, according to conservative estimates published by the International Organisation for Migration, child trafficking generates profits of around EUR 7.6 billion each year;
2016/02/26
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Draws attention to the need to address the problem of the disappearance of unaccompanied migrant children following their arrival in Europe and to the fact that Europol has put the number of those currently missing at 10 000;
2016/02/26
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Points out that the children most exposed to the risk of exploitation, abuse and violence are those who do not have a birth certificate and therefore legally do not exist; stresses the need, therefore, to take steps to guarantee every child's right to a name and a nationality and to be entered in a register of births;
2016/02/26
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Calls on authorities to use the best interest of the child as their guiding principle in all action that they take;
2016/02/26
Committee: ENVI