Activities of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2011/2069(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Fundamental rights in the European Union (2010 - 2011) (debate)
Fundamental rights in the European Union (2010 - 2011) (debate)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Regrets the judgment of the ECJ of 1 March 2011 ("Unisex-Directive") which declares that gender-based insurance premiums and services are not in line with EU law; invites therefore the Commission to level the consequences of the judgement through clarification in the Unisex Directive in order to specify that different gender-related calculations of premiums and services do not constitute discrimination if there are biologically and/or statistically provable differences between men and women;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses that extreme poverty and social exclusion of citizens cannot be understood solely in economic terms, on the basis of figures, but must also be understood in terms of violation of fundamental rights;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 2
Paragraph 5 – indent 2
– the lack of transparency in the EU agencies, i.e. the Fundamental Rights Agency1, which makes it difficult to ascertain whether or not their actions comply with the principles of transparency, objectivity, effective impartiality, good administration, data protection and antidiscrimination, as well as of necessity and proportionality; __________________ 1 A7-0344/2010, P7_TA(2010)0483, § 31.
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that the principles of human dignity and equality before the law are foundations of democratic society; deems incomprehensible the current blockage of Council negotiations on the Commission's proposal for a horizontal directive extending comprehensive protection against discrimination on all grounds, including religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and urges efforts to ensure adoption as soon as possibleinvites therefore the Member States to implement the large number of already existing instruments of the acquis communautaire and to evaluate the real need of improvement through new EU legislative acts before launching new legislative acts;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Underlines the need to avoid unilateral interpretations of the principle of non-discrimination and rejects the attempt to grant Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights a pre-eminent role compared with other (equally important) provisions of the Charter;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Is alarmed by the fact that the concept of 'hate speech' (including in relation with the term 'homophobia'), whilst not yet defined within the acquis communautaire, is instrumentalised to restrict legitimate manifestation of freedom of expression, freedom of religion and of freedom of conscience which are also guaranteed in international human rights instruments and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Recalls that the fundamental right to conscientious objection is enshrined in Article 10 (2) of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and that the practice of conscientious objection is adequately regulated in the EU Member States by a comprehensive and clear legal and policy framework governing the practice of conscientious objection;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to propose a recast ofMember States to implement the Council Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of a criminal law including other forms of bias crime, including on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expressionand to evaluate the real need of improvement through new EU legislative acts;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Welcomes the Commission’s EU Agenda for the Rights of the Child, the Commission’s efforts to ensure respect for, and promotion of, the rights of the child in judicial proceedings, and the fact that the Directive on victims of crime ensures a higher level of protection of children as vulnerable victims; regret however that the Agenda does not clearly highlight the prior responsibility of both parents for the well-being of their children and the rights of the child;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Recalls that the EU and its Member States must take into account the rights and duties of the parents, legal guardians, or other individuals legally responsible for the child;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 b (new)
Paragraph 40 b (new)
40b. Calls the Member States to pay special attention to the relationships between parents and children, for example through programmes containing concrete measures specifically tailored to national requirements, seeking to provide maximum and optimum assistance for parents or guardians in the fulfilment of their parental duties in order to prevent family breakdown, children mistreatment and placement in social care as a result of serious poverty or ensure that such a measure is envisaged only as a very last resort;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 10 a (new)
Subheading 10 a (new)
Access by the poorest groups to all of their fundamental rights
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43a. Reiterates as a matter of urgency its appeal to the Council to include the topic 'Access by the poorest groups to all of their fundamental rights' in the thematic areas of the Agency for Fundamental Rights' next Multi-annual Framework;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 b (new)
Paragraph 43 b (new)
43b. Calls on the Agency for Fundamental Rights to conduct a preliminary study on the access by the poorest groups to all of their fundamental rights and on discrimination linked to extreme poverty, by involving those NGOs in which the socially excluded are able to express themselves freely;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 c (new)
Paragraph 43 c (new)
43c. Takes the view that extreme poverty is a violation of fundamental rights, characterized by an accumulation of violations that mutually reinforce each other, locking people into a vicious circle.
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 d (new)
Paragraph 43 d (new)
43d. Calls upon national and European institutions to celebrate 17 October as United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty, by involving those NGOs in which the socially excluded are able to express themselves freely;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 e (new)
Paragraph 43 e (new)
43e. Calls on the EU to ratify the revised Social Charter as a whole, including Articles 30 and 31;