18 Amendments of Roberta ANGELILLI related to 2007/2145(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the setting-up of the Agency, which represents a first step towards meeting Parliament’s calls for the establishment of an integrated regulatory and institutional framework designed to put the Charter into effect and guarantee consistency with the system established by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; points out, however, that the annual reports on human rights drawn up by the European Network of Independent Experts in Fundamental Rights, published until 2005, scrutinised the application of all the rights recognised by the Charter in each Member State, and is concerned, therefore, at the fact that the Agency’s limited remit and the dissolution of the Network may exclude from systematic scrutiny a series of important areas of human rights policy in Europe, in particular anti-terrorist policies, mistreatment and the use of force by the police, the right to a fair hearing, violence against women and trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Considers that stateless persons permanently resident in Member States are in a uniquespecific position in the European Union, given that some Member States impose unwarranted demands on them or demands which are not strictly necessary, thus discriminating against them by comparison with citizens belonging to the majority community;and calls therefore on all Member States concerned to ratify the United Nations Convention relating to the status of stateless persons and on the reduction of statelessness (1954, 1961); calls on the Member States which gained or regained a new sovereignty in the 1990s to treat all persons previously resident in their territory in the same way as the majority communities, and calls on them to systematically bring about just solutions, based on the recommendations of international organisations, to the problems encountered by all victims of discriminatory practices;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Stresses the need for a global, human rights based approach to non- discrimination reflecting the European dimension of discrimination against the Roma; takes the view that a European Union framework strategy for Roma inclusion should seek to tackle the following problems: - segregation of the Roma as regards access to housing, and their exclusion fromaccess to housing, health cures and compulsory vaccination, inclusion in the world of employment and public education, - frequent denialcognition of their rights by public authorities and their political under- representation, - the very inadequate guarantees against racial discrimination at local level and too few appropriate integration programmes; blatant discrimination in health care, including forced sterilisation and a lack of appropriate information on family planning and access to contraception, - discrimination by the police, in particular (deliberate) shootings, arson, assault or other violent acts, which are not impartially investigated and prosecutions are not brought; the police’s racial profiling – inter alia by taking fingerprints or other forms of data collection – and wide discretionary powers, which give rise to abuses with no disciplinary consequences; training and awareness raising programmes on non- discrimination by the police, which are largely non-existent;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Stresses the need to raise public awareness of the right to reproductive and sexual health, and calls on the Member States to put in place appropriate sex education, information and confidential advisory services, and to facilitate access to contraception in order to prevent all unwanted pregnancies and illegal and high-risk aborcombat the practice of female genital mutilations;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Stresses the need for women to be supported in their careers, including through proactive policies to balance private, working and family life; presses the Commission and Member States to promote both shared parental leave and paternity leave, and to mutualise the cost of maternity and parental leave so that women no longer represent a workforce which is more costly than men;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Reminds all Member States that, in line with European Court of Human Rights case law, freedom of assembly may be exercised even if the opinions of those making use of that right go against the majority, and that, accordingly, a discriminatory ban on marches and any failure to meet the requirement to give appropriate protection to those taking part breachthat right should be upheld in accordance with national rules and the principles guaranteed by the European Court of Human Rights;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
Paragraph 65
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
Paragraph 67
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce realistic, long- term migration policies and more flexible rules governing asylum seekers, rather than focusing all their efforts onlongside measures to preventing illegal immigration, deploying to that end a growing range of frontier checks which lack the mechanisms needed to identify potential asylum seekers at Europe’s borders, a shortcoming which leads to violations ofon the basis of the global approach outlined in the communication published by the Commission in March 2007; calls, furthermore, for greater coordination of asylum rules, in accordance with the principle of non-refoulement, as enshrined in the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
Paragraph 79
79. Points out that migrants who do not submit an application for asylum must also be received in specific, suitable facilities where they can be informed – with the aid of interpreters and specially trained cultural mediators – of their rights and the possibilities offered by the law of the host country, Community law and international agreements; emphasises that reception facilities must not take the form of detention centres;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85
Paragraph 85
85. Considers that the most urgent need of minorities of immigrant origin is to integrate as soon as possible into the society of the country in which they are resident, while ensuring that this takes place in a spirit of reciprocity; considers that it is equally important to recognise the right of each person who is born and lives in a Member State to have access to civil rights concerning citizenship, even in instances where an individual is unable or unwilling to become naturalised;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 138 − indent 1
Paragraph 138 − indent 1
- separate issues of immigrants’ status from workplace inspections and ensure that undocumented workers can safely and anonymously file a complaint against an exploitative employer without being threatened with expulsion;