19 Amendments of João PIMENTA LOPES related to 2015/2321(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
Citation 11
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19
Citation 19
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21
Citation 21
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 a (new)
Citation 26 a (new)
- having regard to Articles 33.1 and 33.2 of the Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (1984),
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 b (new)
Citation 26 b (new)
- having regard to the Declaration on Territorial Asylum (adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 2312 (XXII), of 14 December 1967),
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 40 a (new)
Citation 40 a (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament report adopted on 8 March 2016 on the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU (2015/2325(INI)),
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Geneva Convention came into being to protect European refugees after the Second World War, and it defines who is a refugee and lays down a series of refugee rights, along with the obligations of states;
Amendment 67 #
Db. whereas women and minors, both refugees and asylum seekers, have specific protection needs; whereas all social inclusion and labour market integration policies need to include a gender and child protection perspective;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas Article 33.1 of the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees stipulates that ‘No Contracting State shall expel or return (“refouler”) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion’;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D d (new)
Recital D d (new)
Dd. whereas Articles 3.1 and 3.2 of the Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (1984) stipulate that ‘No State Party shall expel, return ("refouler") or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture [...] the competent authorities shall take into account all relevant considerations including, where applicable, the existence in the State concerned of a consistent pattern of gross, flagrant or mass violations of human rights’;
Amendment 82 #
1a. Condemns the preliminary agreement reached at the EU-Turkey summit of 7 March 2016 and the agreement of 18 March 2016; stresses that this agreement fails to comply with the Member States’ obligation in relation to the right to international protection enshrined in the Geneva Convention, and it is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights; calls on the Commission to cancel this agreement immediately;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the fact that in order to facilitate the social inclusion and integration of refugees into the labour market, it is necessary to address serious and multi-faceted issues such as discrimination, racism, xenophobia, labour market segmentation, linguistic barriers, diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, poor diversity management in companies, health needs, including psychosocial and post-trauma support, family reunification and the significant share of disadvantaged groups among refugees, in particular worrying numbers of children, including unaccompanied children, people with disabilities, the elderly, LGTBI people, trafficking victims, people with mental health problems and women1; _________________ 1 http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset- Management/oecd/social-issues-migration- health/making-integration-work- humanitarian-migrants_9789264251236- en.
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates the importance of recognising the gender dimension of refugee status determination2, the needs of women who apply for international protection and the specific social inclusion and labour market integration challenges that women face; calls for gender to be fully mainstreamed into all policies and procedures relating to social inclusion, labour integration, asylum and migration; _________________ 2 EP Draft Report: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDo c.do?pubRef=- %2F%2FEP%2F%2FNONSGML%2BCO MPARL%2BPE- 571.702%2B01%2BDOC%2BPDF%2BV0 %2F%2FEN.
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes the particular needs of the most vulnerable people, who are exposed to greater risks of poverty and social exclusion, such as women, pregnant women, single-parent families, LGTBI people, minors, young people, elderly people, immigrants, sick people and people with disabilities;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need forusefulness of an early, fair, transparent and free-of-charge assessment of refugees and’, asylum seekers’ and migrants’ formal and non-formal skills, as well as recognition of their qualifications, in order to develop tailored measures allowing them to make full use of their potential, and to match labour supply and demand in the host countriefacilitating integration into the labour market in the host countries; stresses, however, that this assessment must on no account amount to a process of discrimination in relation to asylum seekers’ qualifications, and the skills factor and potential employability cannot be a criterion for decisions on asylum applications;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. WBelcomes President Juncker’s statement13 in the State of the Union 2015 address affirming his support for grantingieves that it should be possible for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to access to the labour market while their applications are being processed; _________________ 13http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home- affairs/what-we-do/policies/european- agenda-migration/proposal- implementation- package/docs/communication_on_managi ng_the_refugee_crisis_en.pdftp://europa.e u/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-15- 5614_en.htmas swiftly as possible during their integration process, and that they should not be victims of discrimination, exploitation, and labour market integration under precarious conditions without social protection;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to put forward a revision of the Blue Card Directive, by taking into account the extraordinary conditions with which refugees and asylum seekers are faced, as well as the needs of the EU labour market, in particular by looking at the scope and the rules on intra-EU mobility of the dfor the repeal of the Blue Card Directive;