17 Amendments of Anja HAGA related to 2023/2127(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 5 May 2022 on the reports of continued organ harvesting in China (2022/2657(RSP)),
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 n (new)
Citation 8 n (new)
– having regard to the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market COM(2022) 453 final 2022/0269(COD),
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 o (new)
Citation 8 o (new)
– proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937COM/2022/71 final,
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the UN Committee Against Torture and the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment have expressed concern over the allegations of forced organ harvesting from prisoners, and have called on the Government of the People’s Republic of China to increase the accountability and transparency of the organ transplant system and punish those responsible for abuses; whereas the China Tribunal issued its final judgment in March 2020, concluding that forced organ harvesting had been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale and that Falun Gong practitioners had been one – and probably the main – source of organ supply; whereas the Chinese Government refused to testify before the Tribunal;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas freedom of religion and belief continues to deteriorate across mainland China, with the CCP carrying out an intense campaign of ‘sinicisation’ of religion, requiring all religions to adhere to the party's ideology, doctrine, and teachings;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) insist that China fulfils its responsibilities as a global power by upholding human rights and the rule of lawhold China accountable for its violations of human rights and the rule of law, including through multilateral fora such as the UN Human Rights Council;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) communicate their concern to the Chinese authorities about their repression of religious minorities, including Tibetan Monks, Protestant House Churches, independent Catholic leaders and Uyghur muslims; insist that China respects and guarantees the right to freedom of religion or belief and refrains from monitoring, controlling, harassing, detaining or otherwise intimidating leaders and members of religious minorities, both online and offline;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) oppose China's membership of UN Human Rights Council and work with like-minded partners to support the reform of the UNHRC;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)
(gb) demand from the Chinese authorities to promptly respond to the serious allegations of forced organ harvesting and to allow independent monitoring by international human rights mechanisms, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; furthermore to take the necessary actions in order to prevent transplant tourism to China by European citizens and to raise awareness of this issue among European citizens travelling to China;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) ensure a unified European approach when China uses its economic leverage to silence opposition against its human rights abuses; intensify and include Members of the European Parliament in the Human Rights Dialogue with China and work towards a united approach on cultural and academic cooperation with China while preventing undue influence from Chinese sources of finance; ensure that the Human Rights Dialogues aren’t misused for propaganda purposes by China but, instead, that the Union’s representatives fully utilise the dialogue by raising concrete cases;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) support an independent and impartial UN investigation into human rights violations in China, in particular in Xinjiang and, Tibet and Hong Kong, and urge the Chinese authorities to grant meaningful access to the regions concerned and immediately and unconditionally release the Uyghur scholar and 2019 Sakharov Prize Laureate Ilham Tohti; call for the immediate release of Chinese human rights defenders and lawyers, including Li Qiaochu, Xu Yan, Xie Yang, Li Yuhan, Yang Bin, Lin Shenliang, Sophia Huang Xueqin, Wang Jianbing, He Fangmei and Wu Yi;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) insist on China to follow up on the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and UN Committee on Women’s Rights regarding violations of rights and freedoms and breaches of international legal obligations in China, in particular Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(ib) condemn Chinese authorities assimilationist policies in Tibet that violate the educational, religious, cultural and linguistic rights of the Tibetan people and threaten to ultimately eradicate Tibetan culture and identity, in particular, the compulsory boarding school and pre- school system which separates over 1 million Tibetan children from their families and enforces Chinese-language education; urge China to immediately abolish the boarding school and pre- school system imposed on Tibetan children, allow private Tibetan schools to be established and ensure that Mandarin is not the only language allowed as the language of instruction in Tibet; consider adopting sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for designing and implementing the boarding school and preschool system in Tibet;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i c (new)
(ic) condemn the promulgation of the “Administrative Measures for Religious Activity Venues” - also known as "Order number 19” - that came into force on 1 September 2023 and will intensify the ongoing repression in Tibet and elsewhere across mainland China;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i f (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i f (new)
(if) address the deteriorating situation of religious freedom in China; condemn the Chinese government measures aimed at suppressing believers who resist being controlled by the CCP, and which force bishops to join the CCP-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association;
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)
(xc) implement the suspension of the TikTok application on corporate devices, as well as personal devices enrolled in institutional mobile device services across all EU and Member State institutions;
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point y a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point y a (new)
(ya) make clear to China the consequences of supporting Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine and sanctions circumvention, including through the territory of Hong Kong;