Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2015/2316(INI)
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Amendments (10)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that migration is a human right enshrined in Article 13 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights; urges the Commission and Member States to respect this article and all other international obligations concerning refugees and migrants, and to recognise the contribution that refugees and migrants make to our societies; requests that special attention should be given to securing the rights of vulnerable groups such as women and girls, disabled people and the elderly; considers that forced migration has root causes (notably economic, political and social reasons) that must be tackled;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that poverty, inequality and the lack of perspectives constitute root causes for migration and that development cooperation is an effective tool to address these issues; regrets in this context that EU aid levels are currently not on a path to achieve the 0.7 % ODA/GNI goal and that several Member States have even cut their aid programmes;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Warns thaabout the persistence of human rights violations of third- country migrants are systematically violated in the EU, at itsin some EU Member States, at EU borders and in itsEU partner countries; stresses that this happens particularly in detention centres, and that migrants are often victims of deportation, illegal refoulement, and violations of their rights to health and education; welcomes that in many EU Member States, human rights of third- country migrants are being respected;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the EU and its Member States to assume their responsibilities with respect to forced migration and human rights violations in third countries, and to address the root causes both of human rights violations in third countries and of forced migration from third countries to Europe; notes in this context the highly critical report from the European Court of Auditors on the EU external migration spending in Southern Mediterranean and Eastern Neighbourhood countries;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that the non-ratification of the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families by the EU Member States undermines the credibility of the EU’s human rights policy and its stated commitment to the indivisibility of rights;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Underlines the positive effects that migration can have for development, notably through the transfer of remittances; calls for regular channels for labour migration, including for low-wage sectors, to be established;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. CoUndemns the negative effects ofrlines that EU trade and tax policies and activities byof EU multinationals and of EU trade policies in thirdin third countries at times countries, such as general impoverishment and the systematic violation of human rights through the exploitation of these countries’ human and natural resources; calls on the Commission to urgently present and implement a legally binding international instrument on business activities in third countbute to the impoverishment of populations in developing countries and to migration; stresses once more the key importance of respecting policy coherence principles in EU trade and tax policies and encourages the EU to support the ongoing process of elaboration of a UN legally binding international instrument on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises andwith respect to human rights;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Condemns the use of development funds to finance migration policies, and rejects any instrumentalisation of development cooperation agreements aim such as border management and recalls that development policies shall be based on the needs of the recipient countries; is worried that imposing migration, trade and economic policies in third countries and interfering in their internal affairs anthe current strong focus on migration prevention by the EU will result in a redistribution of development aid between source countries of migration to the EU and other developing countries that may be more in need, especially the least developed economic planninguntries;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the cancellontinuation of the process to cancel the external debt of impoverishleast developed countries, as such debt makes it impossible for their governments to develop public policies that guarantee respect for human rights.