28 Amendments of Ioannis LAGOS related to 2021/2181(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18
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Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25
Citation 25
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is deeply concerned by increasing number of illiberal democracies and autocratic regimes, which are in the majority for the first time in 20 years; calls for the EU and the Member States to make full use of the tools at their disposal to support good governance, democratic institutions and space for civil society worldwide; points to the fact that even in EU Member States, such as Greece, political prisoners are being prosecuted following close cooperation between corrupt politicians and the judiciary;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. WBelcomieves the contribution of the EU Special Representative for Human Rights (EUSR) to defending and advancing human rights in the world; underlines the EUSR’s important role in enhancing the effectiveness of the EU’sat the EU cannot legitimately play the role of global custodian of human rights, policies through engagement with third countries, cooperation with like-minded partners to advance the human rights agenda and increasing the coherence of the EU’s policies in the fieldarticularly if it does not tackle its own internal problems;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights the highly negative impact of COVID-19, which has disproportionately affected women, LGBTIQ persons and vulnerable groups, including the poor, children, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, minorities, informal workers and persons in prison or detention, among others; stresses that vulnerable groups are also more affected by the negative economic and social consequences of the pandemic, as well as the restrictions in access to healthcare and education; notes with concern the increase in hate speech against certain vulnerable groups, in particular minority groups;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that the EU should increase its support to tackle the negative consequences of COVID-19, particularly for vulnerable groups; to this end, calls for the EU to urgently strengthen its efforts to bring to an end the alarming imbalance in the global distribution of vaccines, thereby fulfilling its previous commitment to embrace the COVID-19 vaccine as a global public good through, among other things, technological transfer and the ramping up of local production; stresses the importance of supporting the strengthening of education and healthcare systems to make them resilient to future threats; calls for greater support for innovative technologies to that end and welcomes Team Europe’s response in this regard; acknowledges the right to physical and mental health, which in many countries is still subject to stigma and discrimination, and underlines how the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed enormous neglect in the provision of mental health caremake clear to all Member States that vaccines are a medical procedure which should not be mandatory and that vaccines should be advised or advised against individually for each person on the basis of their medical history; considers that any sanction applied against unvaccinated citizens constitutes a brutal violation of their human rights;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the crucial importance of advancing women’s rights and welcomes the EU Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in External Action 2021–2025 (GAP III) as a sign of the EU’s commitment in this field; commends the important role played by female civic activists in political, social and environmental movementmothers who hold in their hands the future of societies and nations, and deplores the fact that women often become targets of violence as a result of both their gender and their activities, even paying for them with their lives;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Deplores the fact that, especially in Muslim countries, women continue to make up the majority of victims of gender- based violence, such as domestic violence and sexual violence and abuse, including female genital mutilation, and that they face discrimination in political and professional life, as well as in access to education and healthcare; stresses that the provision of care, protection and access to justice for victims of gender- based violence and trafficking has significantly decreased as a result of the pandemic, and calls for the EU to promote the development of emergency assistance plans and protocols both at UN level and in partner countries, with the aim of adapting assistance programmes to the circumstances of the pandemic, its aftermath and future crises;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Regrets the fact that the overall progress in women’s rights is far below the UN countries’ commitments included in the Beijing Convention in 1995 and isis extremely concerned about the trend of backsliding in progress achieved; in this regard, is extremely concerned about the deterioration of the right of every individual to have full control over matters related to their sexuality, as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights, without coercion and discrimination, in particular with regard to safe and free access to abortion; calls for the EU and its Member States to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights as part of their international commitments and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);instrumentalisation of the female body through the practice of surrogacy, which makes women ‘reproductive machines’ in exchange for money,
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Notes that in 2020, the situation of the victims of trafficking, the majority of whom are women, has worsened considerably, since the COVID-19 pandemic has left the victims of trafficking in an even more vulnerable position; welcomes the launch of the EU’s Strategy on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (2021–2025); underlines that the identification of the victims of trafficking has become even more complicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore calls for the EU and its Member States to intensify their efforts in international judicial and law enforcement cooperation to prevent trafficking and identify victims, avoiding their criminalisation, in close cooperation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, NGOs and civil society organisations dedicated to the protection of victims;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Reiterates its call for the EU and its Member States to step up their efforts to eliminate all forms of abuse against children; welcomes the new EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child adopted by and to recognise a child’s right to life from the Cmommission, butent it is conceived; stresses that children continue to be victims of violence, early and forced marriage, sexual abuse, including genital mutilation, trafficking, child labour and recruitment as child soldiers, and that they suffer from a lack of access to education and healthcare, and from malnutrition and poverty, in particular in humanitarian crises and armed conflicts; stresses that 2021 is the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour; calls for the streamlining of the rights of the child and the children and armed conflicts (CAAC) agenda in all the EU’s external policies; calls on the Member States to uphold their responsibilities with regard to the protection of foreign fighters’ children who are EU citizens;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Reiterates its strong condemnation of discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance, persecution and killings linked to race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, disability, caste, religion, belief, age, sexual orientation and gender identity that continue to be a major problem in many countries; welcomes the launch of the EU’s anti-racism action plan 2020–2025, which recognises not only the individual and social dimensions, but also the structural nature of this phenomenon; stresses that in spite of 20 years of work since the signing of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action in 2001, racism, discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance continue to be a scourge around the world and calls for a zero-tolerance approach to themthe absolute necessity of granting native Europeans the right to retain their ethnic identities, their Christian religion, their practices and their customs;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Fully supports the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to hold a belief, or not to believe, and the right to manifest and to change or leave one’s religion or belief without fear of violence, persecution, Points out that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, since, accor discrimination; deplores the persecution suffered by minorities on the grounds of belief or religion in many places in the world; condemns the abuse of blasphemy laws to perpetuate discrimination and deplores the use of religion and religious institutions to the detriment of human rights through the persecution, including by legal means, of belief or religious minorities, women and LGBTIQ personsng to the World Watch List, in 2020 340 million Christians were victims of discrimination, unequal treatment and persecution, while 4 761 Christians were killed because of their faith;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Considers that corruption also constitutes a major violation of human rights and that the EU and its Member States must address it as such in their external action by applying the highest transparency standards to their funding to third countries, as well as by supporting anti-corruption civil society organisations, journalists and whistle-blowers;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the adoption of the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions RegimReiterates that the (EU GHRSR-EU Magnitsky Act) as an essential addition to the EU’s human rights and foreign policy toolbox, which strengthens the EU’scannot legitimately play the role as aof global human rights actor by allowing it to take restrictive measures against legal and natural persons involved in grave human rights violations in the world; condemns any arbitrary and unjustified retaliatory restrictive measures imposed on the EU or other entities as a response to the EU’s decisions under the EU GHRSR-EU Magnitsky Act; regrets the fact that the Council has decided to apply unanimitycustodian of human rights, particularly if it does not tackle its own instead of qualified majority voting when adopting sanctions on human rights issuernal problems;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls for the extensrestriction of the scope of the EU GHRSR-EU Magnitsky Act to include acts of corruption in order to ensure the effective targeting of the economic and financial enablers of human rights abusers; stresses the need for an effective strategy to implement the EU GHRSR-EU Magnitsky Act, consistent both with the EU’s other external policies, in particular with its human rights policies, and with the existing international frameworks on sanctions, international criminal law and international humanitarian law; welcomes the Commission’s announcement that in 2021, it will conduct a review of practices undermining sanctions and of the existing reporting obligations for Member States on their implementation and enforcement;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Reaffirms the inalienable human rights of migrants and refugees, and calls for the EU and its Member States to fully uphold them in their cooperation with third countries, both in terms of the establishment of high legal standards and, equally importantly, their operationalisation in order to ensure the effective protection of these rights in practice; reiterates its call on the Commission to carry out a review of the human righStresses that the EU has taken in an enormous number of illegal migrants and asylum seekers and that these are overstretching its imcapact of migration policy frameworks and of the EU’s cooperation on migration with third countries; underlines the risks related to informal arrangements on return and readmission, which are not subject to judicial scrutiny and therefore do not allow for effective redress for human rights violations suffered by migrants and asylum seekersities, both economically and demographically;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Stresses the multi-faceted threat to the enjoyment of human rights brought about by modern armed conflicts, which, in addition to states, often involve non-state agents and terrorist organisations; reiterates its call for the EU to strengthen its response to conflicts in collaboration with partner countries and regional organisations, including a strong focus on conflict prevention, mediation and good offices efforts, addressing the root causes of the conflicts, humanitarian aid, providing the necessary support to the international peacebuilding and peacekeeping missions, as well as EU missions in the framework of the common security and defence policy, and post- conflict reconstruction operations supporting and applying strong integration and scrutiny of human rights and a robust gender perspective;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
Amendment 399 #
46. Stresses the vital role of social platforms in advancing freedom of expression and of organisation, but underlines the need for proper safeguards to prevent, on the one hand, the unjustified censorship of users’ content, including automated censorship, and, on the other, the spread of hate speech, fake news and disinformation; welcomes the adoption of the new EU rules on the control of exports, brokering, technical assistance, transit and transfer of dual-use technologies;