24 Amendments of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2012/2145(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
(5a) - having regard to its resolution of 5 July 2012 on the forced abortion scandal in China (2012/2712(RSP));
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas all types of violence and discrimination directed against women, including sexual abuse, sex selected abortion, commercial sexual exploitation of women, and domestic violence and economic discrimination must be considered as unjustifiable under any political, social, religious or cultural grounds;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
(5a) Reiterates the fundamental right of all women to access to public health care systems, in particular to primary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 a (new)
Citation 26 a (new)
- having regard to the resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly A/RES/46/121, A/RES/47/134 and A/RES/49/179 on human rights and extreme poverty, A/RES/47/196 on the observance of an international day for the eradication of poverty, and A/RES/50/107, on the celebration of the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty and proclamation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 b (new)
Citation 26 b (new)
- having regard to the Report by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (A/66/265) examining the laws, regulations and practices that punish, segregate, control and undermine the autonomy of persons living in poverty,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 c (new)
Citation 26 c (new)
- having regard to Resolution 17/13 on extreme poverty and human rights, adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on 17 June 2011,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 27
Citation 27
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas justice, rule of law., natural law, accountability, transparency, fair trials, and an independent judiciary are indispensible elements in the protection of universal human rights, in particular with regard to freedom of expression, of religion, of conscience, of assembly and of association;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the VP/HR, the EEAS, the Council and the Commission, for the sake of efficiency, to ensure coherence between the various existing or planned EU benchmarking, monitoring and evaluation activities and methodologies regarding human rights and democracy situations in third countries, including, inter alia: the human rights and democracy sections in the enlargement and neighbourhood policy progress reports; the assessment of the ‘more for more’ human rights and democracy principles set out for the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Southern Mediterranean; the planned inclusion of human rights in impact assessments carried out for legislative and non-legislative proposals and trade agreements, including human rights monitoring mechanisms in Partnership and Cooperation Agreements and Association Agreements; the Commission plan to introduce human rights assessment in the deployment of EU aid modalities (in particular regarding budget support); the strengthened monitoring mechanism to scrutinise implementation of human rights conventions in the GSP+ countries; the aim of systematising the follow-up use of EU Election Observation Mission reports; and the EU Council's emphasis on benchmarking as well as on continued and systematic consideration of aspects relating to human rights, gmender, women and children affected by armed conflict in the lessons- learned documents of the CSDP missions;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recognises the EU's potential for outreach and creative coalition-building as exemplified by EU action which paved the way to the passing of the landmark HRC resolution on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity, which was supported by states from all regions, and the consensus-building in Geneva and New Yorkconsensus-building regarding the need to fight religious intolerance and protect freedom of religion or belief whilst avoiding a potential detrimental effect on other coreuniversal human rights, such as freedom of expression;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service to include forced abortion and involuntary sterilization on the agenda for their bilateral human rights dialogue with China;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 a (new)
Paragraph 69 a (new)
69a. Equally condemns and calls for specific measures to counter cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments such as forced and sex-selective abortion and forced sterilization of women and men;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Strongly regretNotes that homosexuality remainis criminalised in 78 states under the national laws in force, including five in which it is subject to the death penalty; calls on these states to decriminalise homosexuality without delay, to free those imprisoned on the basis of their sexual orientation and not to execute them; calls on the EEAS to make full use of the LGBT Toolkit to protect the rights of LGBTI people; calls on the Council to work towards binding guidelines in this area; calls on the EEAS and Member States to assist LGBTI human rights defenders in countries where they are at risk, and calls on the VP/HR to continue making clear the European Union’s firm commitment to equality and non-discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in the world, including by launching and supporting initiatives at bilateral, international and UN level on these matters; repeats its call on the Commission to issue a roadmap for equality on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 – Subheading (new)
Paragraph 72 – Subheading (new)
Extreme poverty and Human Rights
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 a (new)
Paragraph 72 a (new)
72a. Recalls the message of the United Nations World Day to overcome extreme poverty (17 October) ‘Wherever men and women are condemned to live in extreme poverty, human rights are violated. To come together to ensure that these rights be respected is our solemn duty’; reaffirms that the existence of widespread extreme poverty stands in the way of the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and that the international community must continue to accord high priority to the reduction of poverty in the immediate future and, subsequently, its final eradication;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 b (new)
Paragraph 72 b (new)
72b. Highlights the need to develop a set of principles on the application of standards and criteria relating to human rights in the fight against extreme poverty (roadmap);
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 c (new)
Paragraph 72 c (new)
72c. Notes with concern that certain factors in the field of human rights particularly aggravate vulnerability to extreme poverty, such as the problems of maternal and child health, mental health, debt, drug addiction, poor accommodation, statelessness and internal displacements;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 d (new)
Paragraph 72 d (new)
72d. Is pleased that the United Nations Human Rights Council’s driving principles on extreme poverty and human rights are based on the interdependence and indivisibility of all human rights, as well as on the principles of the participation and empowerment of people living in extreme poverty; emphasises the indissociability of extreme poverty and human rights: on the one hand, people living in extreme poverty were often also deprived of their civil, political, economic and social human rights; on the other hand an approach in the fight against extreme poverty based on human rights is essential in order to understand and combat this situation; urges the Council of the Union to support this approach with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
75. Urges the EU to enhance its action to end the practices of female genital mutilation (FGM), early and forced marriages, and genderinvoluntary sterilization and sex-selective abortion; insists that these policies should be essential elements in EU approach to development cooperation; stresses the importance of adequate access to medical means, and of information about sexual and reproductive health, to the wellbeing of women in all countriespublic health care systems, in particular to primary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation, and information related thereto, for the happiness of all women and mothers in the world;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80 a (new)
Paragraph 80 a (new)
80a. Particularly support the prioritization of a child's needs for special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection by its parents or legal representative, before and after birth, as outlined in the UN Convention and of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80 a (new)
Paragraph 80 a (new)
80a. Recalls that Article 18(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child enshrines the role of parents as the primary public measure for ensuring the best interests of the child and requires States to actively support parents; invites the competent institutions to therefore take into account the rights and duties of parents, legal guardians, or other individuals legally responsible for the child and implement a family mainstreaming dimension when dealing with universal human rights in external relations;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 18
Subheading 18
Freedom of religion or belief, persecution of Christian communities and murder of Christians
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82 a (new)
Paragraph 82 a (new)
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82 b (new)
Paragraph 82 b (new)
82b. expresses its profound concern about the increasing number of acts of religious intolerance and discrimination, as epitomised by violence and acts of terrorism in various countries against Christians and their places of worship which it firmly condemns ; underlines that no part of the world is exempt from the scourge of religious intolerance ;