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3 Amendments of Marc ANGEL related to 2020/2128(INI)

Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the reports of the United Nations Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity;
2020/11/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) pursue further consistent dialogue across UN fora, notably UNGA, on the need to protect the human rights of LGBTI persons, in line with the EU’s guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by LGBTI persons in multilateral fora1a, the EU guidelines on death penalty1b, and in respect of the internationally recognised Yogyakarta Principles1c; encourage UN bodies and Members to include ‘gender identity and expression’ and ‘sex characteristics’ in their scope of consideration of human rights violations, thereby including transgender and intersex persons, as well as human rights violations to which they are victims; use all diplomatic tools at its disposal to advocate at global level towards the decriminalisation of consensual same-sex acts, the abolition of the death penalty as sanction for consensual same-sex acts, the adoption of legislation allowing for legal gender recognition and the banning of intersex genital mutilation and so- called “conversion therapy” practices worldwide; _________________ 1a https://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/c ms_Data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/13758 4.pdf 1b https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/docu ment/ST-8416-2013-INIT/en/pdf 1c http://yogyakartaprinciples.org/wp- content/uploads/2016/08/principles_en.pd f; http://yogyakartaprinciples.org/wp- content/uploads/2017/11/A5_yogyakarta WEB-2.pdf
2020/11/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(ib) contribute to the UN-level political commitment to end the AIDS epidemic by 20301a, which remains a public health threat worldwide; continue to seek greater synergies among UN Member States to remove laws, policies and practices that create barriers in access to HIV services and increase risk for HIV acquisition, such as the criminalisation of HIV transmission, exposure and non- disclosure; use bilateral and multilateral channels in UN fora to promote and protect SRHR/HIV response, with a special attention to marginalised or vulnerable groups, such as sex workers, people who use drugs, gay men and other men who have sex with men, clients of sex workers and sex partners of all key populations and transgender persons, who cumulatively accounted for 62% of new HIV infections globally in 20191b; _________________ 1a https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/ media_asset/2016-political-declaration- HIV-AIDS_en.pdf 1bUNAIDS (2020). “Seizing the Moment – Tackling entrenched inequalities to end epidemics”, accessible at https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/ media_asset/2020_global-aids- report_en.pdf.
2020/11/26
Committee: AFET