21 Amendments of Irena JOVEVA related to 2021/2057(INI)
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the fight against racism and discrimination in our societies, both overt and latent, needs to be stepped up and is a shared responsibility; whereas the European Union needs to further reflect on and commit to tackling the structural racism and discrimination faced by many minority groups;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s dedication to ensuring that Member States develop national action plans against racism; calls for specific targets on culture, education, media and sport to be included in the development of those plans; considers it necessary in this regard to collect good practices and share them with Member States in order to facilitate the development of their national action plans as well as to promote learning between National Agencies;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the publication and implementation of specific EU guidelines on the collection of equality data based on racial or ethnic origin; calls on the Member States to adapt national statistics and to remove legal barriers in order to facilitate the collection of quality data on equality; callsonsiders that, if data on ethe Commission and the Member States to use this data to develop policies to attain racial justicenic discrimination and hate crime were to be collected, this should be for the sole purpose of identifying the roots of and to combat racism and discriminatory discourse and acts, in accordance with the relevant national legal frameworks and EU data protection legislation;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the commitment to diversity and inclusion within Erasmus+, Creative Europe, the European Solidarity Corps, and the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme; emphasizes the need to systematically follow and analyse the contribution of each of these programmes to the fight against racism and create an overview of good practices; calls on the Commission to ensure that the recently published inclusion strategies are mainstreamed across all educational, cultural, media and sporting initiatives;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the commitment to diversity and inclusion within Erasmus+, Creative Europe, the European Youth Guarantee, the European Solidarity Corps, and the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme; calls on the Commission to ensure that the recently published inclusion strategies are mainstreamed across all educational, cultural, media and sporting initiatives;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the commitment to diversity and inclusion within Erasmus+, Creative Europe, the European Solidarity Corps, ESF+ and the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme; calls on the Commission to ensure that the recently published inclusion strategies are mainstreamed across all educational, cultural, media and sporting initiatives;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Urges the Member States to reach a common position as soon as possible on the proposal for a Council directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation(Anti-discrimination directive), which has been blocked in the Council since 2009;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Reiterates the crucial role of education in deconstructing prejudices and stereotypes, promoting tolerance, understanding and diversity, and highlights that education is a key tool to end structural discrimination and racism in our societies;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses the need to give greater space in the history curricula to objective and factual learning about different racial or ethnic ideologies, such as slavery, colonialism or fascism, and their forms and origins, including the misuse of science for their justification, as well as their consequences and possible remnants in present times;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to foster the development of diverse and inclusive educational curricula to ensure that authors, historians, scientists and artists among other figures from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds are included in key materials;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the history of all racial and ethnic communities living in Europe to be included in all history curricula in order to encourage a broader perspective on world history centred on the interactions between different continents before, during and after European colonisation;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Deplores the practice of segregation in schools; calls on all Member States to introduce policies to prevent children from minority groups from being placed in separate schools or classes, whether intentionally or not; emphasizes that such practices often stem from misdiagnosing children from certain minority groups with intellectual disabilities based on their social or personal circumstances, resulting in their placement in special schools with reduced curricula and, consequently, limiting possibilities for their further education. Calls, therefore, on the Member States to ensure that their educational systems embrace the concept of adjustment to different needs of different children instead of retaining the concept of a child that does not meet the demands of the system and needs to be separated;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to enable talented children of racial and ethnic minorities to access high level schools and quality educational opportunities, accompanying them in their paths to excellence including by making funding available if needed;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Recalls that teachers and educators should be trained to work with children from all backgrounds and to be sensitive to their different needs as well as possible issues, including racial or ethnic discrimination. Underlines the need for a specialised training for all teachers and educators in order to become aware of their implicit bias and to be able to translate the training into their teaching methods;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Member States to avoid budget cuts for education programmes, as it might result in less room for discussions on cross-cultural awareness and antiracism;8a _________________ 8a p. 13; https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2021/690905/IPOL_STU(20 21)690905_EN.pdf
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Encourages the Member States to put more emphasis on responsible citizenship education in their curricula as well as on education about the EU, its history and values, in order to foster cohesion and tolerance and to help create a sense of common European identity, while acknowledging the existing differences;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses the urgent need to put a greater emphasis on the development of critical thinking, media literacy and digital skills in education programmes through targeted age-appropriate activities in order to fight the spread of disinformation, hoaxes or harmful content, including those pertaining to race and racism;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to launching a communication and awareness-raising campaign to foster diversity in the audiovisual sector; calls for this campaign to be centred on the diversity and history of racialised communities and on how achieving racial justice can contribute to a more democratic Europe;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the cultural and media industries to avoid practices that reinforce negative stereotypes about ethnic and racial minorities and encourage showing them in positive roles;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that some Member States have audiovisual regulatory bodies with the power to issue sanctions following programmes that showpromote discriminatory or racist content; encourages the Member States to empower their regulatory agencies in this sense; calls for the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services to be given a greater role in coordinating the national agencies and collecting and sharing data;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Member States to incorporate more sports activities in their curricula, especially a broad variety of team sports, and encourages educational institutions to organise and/or participate in sports competitions more often, with the aim of facilitating bonding opportunities among children from diverse backgrounds;