16 Amendments of Vytautas LANDSBERGIS related to 2010/2202(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of minors and of persons belonging to minorities,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas new forms of human rights abuses are occurring in the world, notably in the area of the new information technologies, onsome of them being internet misuse and censorship,
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the work of the UNHRC and stresses its crucial role within the overall UN architecture and its potential to develop a valuable framework for the European Union’s multilateral human rights efforts; notes that this new body has to keep workingwork ever better in order to gain more credibility;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes that, as the Annual Report points out, EU Member States are in a minority in the UNHRC; calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to take concerted action in developing appropriate alliances with those countries and non-state actors that are continuing to defend the universal and indivisible nature of human rights questioned by certain non-democracies;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Reiterates that the EU is opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances including extra-judicial executions; recalls that the EU is the lead donor to civil society organisations which fight against the death penalty; asks the Commission to continue to give priority to the fight against this cruel and inhuman punishment and to keep it as a thematic priority under the EIDHR;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Calls urgently for additional EU measures against child labour especially that similar to slavery and calls for the EU to apply more efficiently the instruments at its disposal by incorporating them in human rights dialogues and consultations; calls for the EU to implement effectively the EU Guidelines on the Rights of the Child and to study the possibility of adopting guidelines on combating child labour; recognises the supportive role of EU trade policy in the fight against child labour, notably through the use of GSP+ incentives;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Expresses deep concern about children involved in or otherwise affected by armed conflicts; urges the Commission and the Council to strengthen the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflicts; welcomes the new UNSC resolution 1882 (2009), which further strengthens the protection of children involved in, and affected by, armed conflict;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Acknowledges conclusions in many human rights reports that human rights defenders have been suffering from increasingly strong attacks in various forms, such as attacks on freedom of expression or association, assault on, and murder of, relevant persons, arbitrary arrests, unfair trials and closure of the offices of civil society organisations;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Remains vigilant vis-à-vis non-EU governments which use the adoption of controversial laws governing NGOs as a subtlen attempt to silence the human rights movement;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Notes that the detention, as well as the release and subsequent deportation, of local human rights defenders in Cuba without the right of return is also a grave human rights violation;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. Emphasises the importance of human rights clauses together with democracy clauses, in trade policies, partnerships and trade agreements between the EU and third countries; proposes a ‘human rights assessment’ of non-EU countries that engage in trade relations with the EU;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68
Paragraph 68
68. Remains deeply concerned that discrimination based on religion or belief still exists in all regions of the world, and that persons belonging to particular religious communities, including religious minorities, continue to be denied their human rights in many countries; condemns the Chinese authorities for the persecution of individuals who practise their religion outside officially sanctioned channels, including Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Falun Gong practitioners; consistently and permanently urges the Chinese authorities to refrain from their oppressive policy in Tibet, which might eventually lead to the annihilation of the Tibetan religion and culture;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Supports the right of expression and peaceful assembly in Russia as formally but not in life guaranteed by Article 31 of the Russian Constitution; expresses solidarity with the organisers and participants of Strategy-31, the series of civic protests in support of this right which started on 31 July 2009 and take place on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow on the 31st of every month with 31 days; regrets that so far all of Strategy-31 demonstrations have been refused permission by the authorities on the grounds that other activities had been scheduled to take place in Triumfalnaya Square at the same time; is deeply concerned that on 31 December 2009, among dozens of other peaceful protesters, Russian police detained the Chairperson of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who had been awarded Parliament’s Sakharov Prize only a few weeks before her detention;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Notes that measures to fight terrorism have resulted in violations of basic human rights in a number of countries around the world, in the form of the application of excessive surveillance measures, illegal detentions and the use of torture as a means of extracting information from suspected terrorists; condemns these violations of human rights and is convinced that civil liberties should not be compromised in the fight against terrorism, as the disruption of normal democratic life in Western societies is precisely what the terrorists are seeking, while in Russia even terminology as "terrorist" or "extremist" goes applied with heavy consequences to opponents of a regime too much arbitrarily;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
Paragraph 80
80. Welcomes the establishment of human rights dialogues with each of the Central Asian states – Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan – in 2008; welcomes the first EU-Uzbek civil society seminar on human rights dialogue in October 2008; regrets that the EU-China human rights dialogues have consistently failed to deliver any improvements as regards specific human rights abuses in China; expresses its disappointment that EU-Russia human rights consultations after they replaced usual dialogue, have not yielded any substantial results, if any; welcomes the launch in 2009 of human rights dialogues with Indonesia, and the holding of the first dialogue meetings with Georgia and Armenia;
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83
Paragraph 83
83. Recognises that economic, social and cultural rights should be given equal importance to civil and political rights together with a right to live in democracy, to enjoy the access to fair trial, bearing in mind the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and inter- relatedness of all human rights, as confirmed by the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna; urges countries around the world to sign up to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR), which was opened for signature on 24 September 2009;