14 Amendments of João PIMENTA LOPES related to 2015/2340(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas human trafficking is the result of policies of exploitation, an imbalanced distribution of the world’s wealth, war and the overexploitation of natural resources, which generate poverty, a lack of job opportunities and isolation, creating areas where access to information, training and education is difficult or indeed impossible;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas human trafficking is one of the most profitable organised criminal activities in the world, alongside the trade in illegal drugs and arms, helping to fuel criminal dealings and activities that are facilitated by money laundering and tax havens, and contributing to the development of extremist, authoritarian, xenophobic and racist groups and movements;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood countriesEurope, sexual exploitation is the main cause of the reported trafficking in persons;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas human trafficking is not a phenomenon that is confined to countries that are considered less developed but is also a phenomenon that can be found, in a more hidden form, in developed countries and which is the result of antisocial policies such as the so-called Financial Assistance Programmes, which impose austerity policies and worsen existing inequalities in wealth redistribution, leading to an increase in hunger, poverty and malnutrition and a lack of healthcare and medicines; whereas these problems help to create desperate situations that lead many people to fall into the hands of human trafficking networks;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underscores the critical distinction that needs to be made between the concepts of trafficking in human beings and migrant smuggling, which require different legal and practical responses and involve different state obligations; takes the view that, despite the conceptual differences, refugee smuggling is also intrinsically linked to human trafficking for sexual or labour exploitation, child trafficking and indeed organ trafficking;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it essential that strategies aimed at the prevention of THB address the factors facilitating THB; takes the view that prevention strategies should include action to combat poverty, economic and social inequalities, labour exploitation and hunger, and put an end to wars and their financing and aggressive military interventions and interference by the EU, US and NATO in pursuit of their objectives of achieving geostrategic and economic world domination;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the EU and its Member States to urge national and international companies to ensure that their products along the entire supply chain are free from exploitation, and to implement policies geared to higher wages and respect for work with rights and collective bargaining;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to make the fight against human trafficking more visible to the public by organising conferences, seminars and case-reporting campaigns, targeting airports, train stations, buses, schools, universities and workplaces;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Calls on the Member States to create and strengthen public networks of centres providing support and shelter and offering psychological, medical, social and legal assistance for trafficking victims;
Amendment 150 #
24. Urges that the criminal justice response guarantees access to justice for victims and information about their legal rights; calls on all states to comply with their international obligation to uphold the rights of victims under their jurisdiction, and to ensure full support for victims, independent of their particular by providing psychologists to ensure closer assistance for victims, regardless of whether or not they are willingness to cooperate in criminal proceedings;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Urges the EU to find tangible solutions regarding reand Member States to promote safe legal routes for migrants and refugees that gular, non-exploitative and safe ways into the EU for migrants and refugees; recalls that safe and if possible voluntary return should be guaranteed to trafficked persons by the receiving state and state of origin, and legal alternatives offered for repatriation in cases where such repatriation would pose a risk to their safety and/or of their familyantee access to EU territory in conditions compatible with human dignity; urges the EU and Member States to provide mechanisms geared to the integration of refugees and migrants, based on access to the labour market, education (in particular access to language courses) and health; maintains that, without prejudice to the necessary integration and reception strategies, the receiving state and state of origin must guarantee the necessary conditions of safety and reintegration where a victim of human trafficking expresses the explicit and voluntary desire to return;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Urges the Commission and Member States to respect the United Nations Charter and the principles of asylum law; calls for the reversal of the current asylum policy, which treats people fleeing hunger, extreme poverty, war, persecution and death as a threat, and which should be replaced by a policy that provides a real response to the tragedy of war refugees and other migrants fleeing extreme poverty, disease and hunger;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35b. Urges the Commission and Member States to make efforts to protect and find all refugees or migrants, particularly children, who have gone missing after arriving on European soil;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Calls for an end to the policies of interference and aggression that the EU, US and NATO have pursued in the Middle East and North Africa; calls for the rights of the peoples of these regions to development and sovereignty to be respected;