20 Amendments of Chiara GEMMA related to 2019/2975(RSP)
Amendment 22 #
Citation 5
— having regard to the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD Committee) of 2 October 2015 on the initial report of the European Union, including those on the European Union institutions’ compliance with the Convention as public administrations,
Amendment 26 #
Citation 5 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 29 #
Citation 5 b (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 and 1338/2017/EA on the accessibility for visually impaired candidates of selection procedures to recruit EU civil servants, organised by the European Personnel Selection Office,
Amendment 121 #
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas the EU Disability Strategy 2010-2020 failed to include and address the specific situation of women and girls with disabilities, who constitute an important group of women facing discrimination and other violations of their rights;
Amendment 142 #
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the advancement in the implementation of the UNCRPD brought about by the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020; calls on the Commission to continue the work by building upon and integrating what has been achieved and by upscaling the present Strategyits commitment to the rights of persons with disabilities through a European Disability Rights Agenda 2020-2030;
Amendment 156 #
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Calls on the Commission to proposepare a comprehensive, ambitious and long-term post-2020 European Disability StrategyRights Agenda (the post-2020 Strategy)
Amendment 184 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 5
- mainstreaming the rights of the childrenall persons with disabilities into all policies and all areas,
Amendment 190 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- recognising and addressing the multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination persons with disabilities may face, and in particular the challenges faced by women, girls, children, older and LGBTI persons with disabilities, as well as persons from racial and ethnic minorities,
Amendment 255 #
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls the Commission to ensure the inclusion of a gender-based and intersectional approach to combat the multiple forms of discrimination faced by women and girls with disabilities; urges the European Union and those Member States which have not done so already to accede to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence;
Amendment 260 #
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 278 #
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for continuous monitoring of the implementation of the UNCRPD; calls for the collection of robust, disaggregated, comparable data on the situation of persons with disabilities to facilitate proper monitoring of progress; urges the Commission to provide adequate resources to the EU CRPD Framework to enable it to perform its functions independently and adequately; calls on the Commission to establish a European Access Board to monitor the implementation of EU accessibility legislation;
Amendment 292 #
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to systematically mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in all the relevant EU laws, policies and programmes; calls for the full integration of the disability- rights perspective in the Green New Deal, the Gender Equality Strategy, the Youth Guarantee, the Child Guarantee and the forthcoming Green paper on Ageing, and underlines the need for a Disability Rights Guarantee to assist persons with disabilities into employment, traineeships, job placements and further education;
Amendment 314 #
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 settings nor be invested in structures which are inaccessible to persons with disabilities; believes that more funds must be invested in research to develop better and more affordable assistive technology for persons with disabilities and towards increasing the participation of persons with disabilities in all EU funded programmes;
Amendment 328 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses that the austerity measures adopted at EU and Member States level worsened the economic and social conditions of persons with disabilities as outlined by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in its concluding observations on the initial report of the European Union;
Amendment 391 #
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Amendment 423 #
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Council as well as all Member States to ratify the Optional Protocol of the UNCRPD;
Amendment 441 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to make the EU a leader in promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, including marginalised groups with disabilities, such as women and girls with disabilities, through its external action;
Amendment 450 #
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Calls on the Commission to include a section 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, focal points, coordination mechanisms, internal policies, accessible infrastructure such as buildings, communications (including in sign language and Braille), websites and ICT applications, as well as permanent mechanisms to consult actively and effectively with representative organisations of persons with disabilities, positive actions and anti-discrimination safeguards that are necessary for the successful implementation of the European Disability Rights Agenda and of the UN CRPD both in the EU at large as well as within the EU institutions and agencies;
Amendment 456 #
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Calls on all Member States to develop their own national disability strategies for promoting disability equality mainstreaming and address the implementation of the UN CRPD;
Amendment 460 #
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12 d. Calls on all EU Member States to adopt the EU disability card and to implement all necessary actions to concretely ensure mutual recognition of disability when persons with disabilities move across the EU in order to guarantee their freedom of movement and the full protection of their rights;