30 Amendments of Katrin LANGENSIEPEN related to 2019/2975(RSP)
Amendment 41 #
Citation 20 a (new)
- having regard to the study of the European Parliament Policy Department C of 2016 on European Structural and Investment Funds and people with disabilities in the European Union,
Amendment 49 #
Citation 22 a (new)
- having regard to the European Ombudsman’s strategic inquiries into how the European Commission ensures that persons with disabilities can access its websites (OI/6/2017/EA), how the European Commission treats persons with disabilities under the Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme for EU staff(OI/4/2016/EA), and the Decision in the joint inquiry in cases 1337/2017/EA and1338/2017/EA on the accessibility for visually impaired candidates of selection procedures to recruit EU civil servants, organised by the European Personnel Selection Office,
Amendment 51 #
Citation 23 a (new)
- having regard to the exploratory opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee requested by the European Parliament on the situation of women with disabilities,
Amendment 56 #
Citation 26 a (new)
- having regard to the reports and recommendations of representative organisations of persons with disabilities,
Amendment 69 #
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the persons with disabilities are still deprived of their basic human rights;
Amendment 118 #
Recital H
H. whereas the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (the present Strategy) has served as a framework for policy proposals to implement the UNCRPD both within and outside of the EU;
Amendment 122 #
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas the present Strategy has not been coordinated with the Europe 2020 strategy, the European Semester process and with the EU funds and programmes;
Amendment 123 #
Recital H b (new)
H b. whereas the present Strategy has not been adaptable to emerging policy areas, e.g. it has not been aligned with the Agenda 2030, which the EU and all its Member States are committed to implementing, nor with the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 126 #
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas the present Strategy has achieved limited progress;
Amendment 128 #
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas the present Strategy does not address the Concluding Observations (CO) of the UNCRPD Committee to the EU;
Amendment 129 #
Recital I c (new)
I c. whereas the present Strategy has a general approach and thereby has failed to recognise the diversity of disabilities, what barriers they pose to the persons living with them, what needs they create and what support they demand;
Amendment 130 #
Recital I d (new)
I d. whereas the present Strategy fails to address the specific situation, forms of discrimination and rights deprivations of women and girls with disabilities;
Amendment 131 #
Recital I e (new)
I e. whereas there has been a lack of mainstreaming of the rights of persons with disabilities in a large number of EU policy areas;
Amendment 152 #
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Calls on the Commission to continue the work by upscaling the present Strategy and proposeing a comprehensive, ambitious and long-term post-2020 European Disability Rights Strategy (the post-2020 Strategy)
Amendment 173 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
- reflecting the diversity of persons with disabilities including through targeted actions,
Amendment 179 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 4 a (new)
- addressing the specific challenges of persons with disabilities being victims of intersectional discrimination,
Amendment 189 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 5
- mainstreaming the rights of the childrenpersons with disabilities into all areas,
Amendment 198 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- with a child-sensitive approach,
Amendment 201 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 b (new)
- safeguarding gender mainstreaming and placing specific attention to the multiple forms of discrimination and rights violations faced by women and girls with disabilities,
Amendment 208 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 7 a (new)
- adaptable to emerging policy areas and challenges,
Amendment 249 #
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to prepare the post-2020 Strategy with the close and systematic involvement of persons with disabilities and of their representative family members or organisations, and to ensure their accessible and meaningful participation in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the post-2020 Strategy also through funding their capacity-builthe provision of capacity-building and sustainable funding;
Amendment 273 #
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for continuous monitoring of the implementation of the UNCRPD; calls for the collection - with legally established safeguards - of robust, disaggregated, comparable data on the situation of persons with disabilit data broken down by type of disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, ethnic origin, asylum or migrant status, relevant to the monitoring of progress in the implementation of the UNCRPD and relevant to addressing the barriers to facilitate proper monitoring of progresfaced by persons with disabilities in exercising their rights; urges the Commission to provide adequate resources to the EU CRPD Framework to enable it to perform its functions independently and adequately;
Amendment 294 #
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission expert Task Force under the supervision of Commissioner Dalli to systematically mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in all the relevant EU laws, decisions, policies and programmes, including in its gender equality policy, with a special attention placed on the fight against violence, and in its foreign policy; reminds the Commission to also monitor this inside the EU institutions;
Amendment 307 #
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 320 #
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the UNCRPD-compliant use of EU funds and to ensure that EU funds will not contribute to the construction or refurbishment of institutional care settingsegregation or to social exclusion in any fields, and safeguard that EU-funded opportunities actively reach out to persons with disabilities;
Amendment 339 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to examine if EU-funded opportunities reach persons with disabilities equally;
Amendment 341 #
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Calls on the Commission to include a section in the post-2020 Strategy on European Union institutions as public administrations to ensure that they comply with the UN CRPD in all respects, which includes making available the necessary resources, coordination mechanisms, internal policies, accessible infrastructure such as buildings, communications (including in sign language and Braille), websites and ICT applications, as well as positive actions and anti-discrimination safeguards that are necessary for the successful implementation of the post-2020 Strategy and of the CRPD both in the EU at large as well as within the EU institutions and agencies;
Amendment 368 #
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive campaign in accessible format to raise awareness of the UN CRPD among the persons with disabilities, the duty-bearers and the society in general;
Amendment 435 #
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to contribute to the adoption ofCouncil to adopt the proposed horizontal anti-discrimination directive thereby extending protection to persons with disabilities outside the area of employment;
Amendment 465 #
Paragraph 13
13. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission and the Council., the Council, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and candidate countries, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, the Court of Auditors, the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee, for distribution to subnational parliaments and councils, the Council of Europe, and the United Nations;