38 Amendments of Mireia BORRÁS PABÓN
Amendment 1 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15
Citation 15
Amendment 4 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17
Citation 17
Amendment 5 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24
Citation 24
Amendment 8 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 29
Citation 29
Amendment 9 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 43
Citation 43
Amendment 10 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 46 a (new)
Citation 46 a (new)
– having regard to its report of the Committee of Foreign Affairs on the persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion (2021/2055(INI));
Amendment 11 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 46 b (new)
Citation 46 b (new)
– having regard to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, known as the ‘Oviedo Convention’ of 4 April 1997;
Amendment 77 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates its call to include robust clauses on human rights in agreements between the EU and non-EU countries, supported by a clear set of benchmarks and procedures to be followed in the event of violations; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to actively reflect on how to ensure that the human rights clauses in current international agreements are effectively enforced; reiterates that in the face of persistent breaches of human rights clauses by its partner countries, the EU should react swiftly and decisively, including by suspending the agreements in question if other options prove ineffective;underlines that the EU should completely avoid financing and providing any assistance to countries ruled by regimes that systematically violate basic human rights and have in place governmental systems deeply corrupted; reiterates that in the face of persistent breaches of human rights clauses by its partner countries, the EU should react swiftly and decisively, including by suspending the agreements and any financial aid provided to those countries in question if other options prove ineffective; Underlines the importance of the EU promoting and demanding that the countries with which it engages uphold equality in dignity and before the law for both men and women
Amendment 120 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for a systematic and consistent approach to promoting and defending children’s rights through all of the EU’s external policies; calls for more concerted efforts to promote the respect, protection and fulfilment of children’s rights in crisis or emergency situations; condemns the decline in respect for the rights of the child and the increasing violations and abuses of these rights, including through violence, early and forced marriage, sexual abuse including feminine genital mutilation and online sexual abuse, trafficking, child labour, recruitment of child soldiers, lack of access to education and healthcare, malnutrition and extreme poverty; further condemns the increase in death of children in situations of armed conflict and stresses the need for effective protection of children’s rights in active warfare; reiterates its call for a systematic and consistent approach to promoting and defending children’s rights through all EU external policies;
Amendment 122 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recalls that Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) states that the children have the right, as far as possible, to know and be cared for by their parents; condemns methods of procreation that are in breach of this right, such as surrogacy;
Amendment 123 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Calls for the integrity of children to be preserved by prohibiting the use of puberty-inhibiting hormones before the age of majority, in accordance with Article 39 of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which states that ‘today's girl is tomorrow's woman’, and with Chapter II of the Oviedo Convention on the Consent of Persons;
Amendment 130 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses that women’s rights and gender equality are indispensable and indivisible human rights, as well as a basis for the rule of law and inclusive resilient democracies; deplores the fact that millions of women and girls continue to experience discrimination and violence, especially in the context of conflicts, and are denied their dignity, autonomy and even life, as illustrated by the persistence of sex- selective abortions in some countries, including in Europe; calls for the EU, its Member States and like- minded partners to step up their efforts to ensure the full enjoyment and protection of women’s and girls’ human rights; condemns in the strongest terms the increasing attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights around the world, as well as gender-based violence; welcomes the accession of the EU to the Istanbul Convention; calls for the EU and its international partners to strengthen their efforts to ensure that women fully enjoy human rights and are treated equally to men; stresses the need to pursue efforts to fully eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killing and early and forced marriages, which are particularly widespread in Islamic communities;
Amendment 143 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Stresses that the abuses of transgenderism in certain countries, including in the European Union, threaten the status of women by blurring their identity, by allowing men freely to substitute women's identities, by encouraging men to take part in institutions and competitions as women, by allowing men to benefit from men- women equality as women, by provoking violence or by threatening whistleblowers who denounce these abuses;
Amendment 146 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Condemns the practice of surrogacy, which compromises human dignity, exploiting the woman's body and its reproductive functions, as well as considering the unborn child as an object; calls on the Member States to follow the example of Italy, which recently adopted a law strengthening the ban on surrogacy by making it illegal abroad; welcomes the initiative of the Casablanca Declaration, an international group of experts, researchers, lawyers and doctors who have drawn up a proposal for an international convention for the universal abolition of surrogacy;
Amendment 159 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Deplores the human rights violations, including discrimination, persecution, violence and killings, against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) persons around the world; is extremely concerned by the spreading of hatred and anti- LGBTIQ+ narratives and legislation that target LGBTIQ+ persons and HRDs; reiterates its calls for the full implementation of the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 as the EU’s tool for improving the situation of LGBTIQ+ people around the worldany person on the grounds of sexual orientation, stresses that these violations are particularly widespread in Islamic countries;
Amendment 167 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Is concerned by the challenges to the full enjoyment of the rights of persons with disabilities; reiterates its calls for the EU to assist partner countries in the development of policies in support of carers of persons with disabilities regardless of sex; calls for the EU, in its external policy, to make use of the strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities 2021-2030 as a tool to improve the situation of persons with disabilities, particularly concerning poverty and discrimination, but also problems with access to education, healthcare and employment, and participation in political life;
Amendment 172 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Reiterates its condemnation of all forms of racism, intolerance, xenophobia and discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, disability, caste, religion, belief, age, sex or sexual orientation or gender identity; condemns the growing international threat of hate speech, including online; reiterates the crucial role of education and dialogue in promoting tolerance, understanding and diversity; calls for the EU and its Member States to lead the global fight against all forms of extremism and welcomes the adoption of an EU strategy to this end;
Amendment 175 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Reiterates its principled opposition to the death penalty, which is incompatible with the right to life and a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment that is irreversible; stresses that the EU must be relentless in its pursuit of the universal abolition of the death penalty as a major objective of its human rights foreign policy; notes that despite the trend in some non-EU countries to take steps towards abolishing the death penalty, significant challenges in this regard still exist; deplores the fact that in other non-EU countries the number of death sentences that have been carried out has reached its highest level in the last five years; reiterates its call for all countries to completely abolish the death penalty or establish an immediate moratorium as a first step towards its abolition; denounces the double-standard approach applied by the EU regarding the policies to the death penalty and the abortion ;
Amendment 185 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Notes with concern that so-called “wokeism” and the resultant cancel culture widen divisions within society, lead to a reductive view of history and culture, encourage censorship and historical revisionism, and inevitably reduce freedom of expression; denounces the hate speech, intimidation and threats faced by certain people - including many feminists - who campaign against transactivist ideology and assert that men and women are defined by their biological sex; these verbal and sometimes physical attacks constitute serious violations of freedom of expression;
Amendment 19 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the recommendations following the Ombudsman’s own-initiative inquiry into the time the Commission takes to deal with requests for public access to documents, which call on the Commission to deal with its systemic delays as a matter of urgency and to respect the deadlines set out in Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents; is worried by the inquiry’s finding that the Commission’s systemic and significant delays in dealing with document access requests amount to maladministration; deplores the fact that the most important contracts with the pharmaceutical industries concluded by the President of the Commission without any transparency and in violation of all European public procurement rules have still not been made public;
Amendment 27 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Council to engage in constructive negotiations with Parliament and the Commission on the revision of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, in order to turn these three key EU institutions, including their presidency, into role models of transparency and public accountability for the whole of the EU;
Amendment 33 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Endorses the conclusions of the Ombudsman’s special report4 to the European Parliament concerning the time the European Commission takes to deal with requests for public access to documents and is worried about the Ombudsman’s assessment that these systemic and significant delays in the Commission’s processing of requests for public access to documents amount to maladministration; underlines how important it is that the Commission dedicate more resources to dealing with confirmatory requests under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and calls on the Commission to correct this situation as a matter of priority and to improve its practice of handling confirmatory requests; acknowledges the importance of the timely treatment of access to documents requests by all institutions; reminds the Commission of Parliament’s right to bring action against it before the Court of Justice of the European Union on the grounds of infringement of the Treaties and expects a clear and unequivocal commitment by the new College of Commissioners and the Commission President to remedy this situation; _________________ 4 Special Report of the European Ombudsman in her strategic inquiry concerning the time the European Commission takes to deal with requests for public access to documents (OI/2/2022/OAM).
Amendment 41 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is particularly worried that the Ombudsman found maladministration in the Commission’s refusal to provide access, as with all the contracts concluded since 2020 with the pharmaceutical industries, to documents concerning the greenhouse gas emissions of the ceramics industry reported under the EU Emissions Trading System; calls on the Commission to pay particular attention to the overriding public interest and to be more mindful of it when assessing the possibility of disclosing documents concerning emissions into the environment;
Amendment 64 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Appreciates the Ombudsman’s commitment to upholding fundamental rights in the EU institutions’ border management activities by launching inquiries into the actions of Frontex and the Commission in this area; notes thatcalls on the Ombudsman to asked for further clarification from the Commission as to how it intends to guarantee respect for humanthe rights in the context of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding, in an effort to ensure that the EU complies wiof European states to better control their borders in an effort to combat uncontrolled migration flows, the scale of which is undermining the its human rights obligatiodentity, security and prosperity of the EU’s Member States and their citizens;
Amendment 66 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. In this context, calls on the Ombudsman also to take into account the human rights and interests of local European citizens. Local residents of the Greek, Spanish, Italian, etc. islands with reception centres are suffering serious safety, health and economic damage due to mass migration. It is also part of the Ombudsman’s mission to protect the interests and human rights of European citizens;
Amendment 73 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. WelcomNotes the Commission’s decision to work with local authorities to draw up a fundamental rights impact assessment of EU-funded migration management facilities in Greece, following an own- initiative inquiry by the Ombudsman into how the Commission ensures respect for fundamental rights in these facilities; stresses that local residents also have rights;
Amendment 81 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Strongly supports the Ombudsman’s conclusions that the EU’s ethical and anticorruption rules need to be respected and strengthened by the EU institutions and that Parliament’s implementation of reforms in this area must be properly monitored and enforced at all levels, beginning with that of their presidency; urges the Ombudsman to pay close attention to direct and indirect lobbying practices in Parliament that might increase the risk of potential conflicts of interest; invites the Ombudsman, in this context, to suggest improvements to the current Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament regarding integrity and transparency;
Amendment 93 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the Commission’s changes to its internal guidance on public procurement, positively assessed by the Ombudsman’s inquiry, which strengthen its handling of potential professional conflicts of interest in calls for tender; regrets, however, that no serious clarification has yet been provided as regards the conditions for the award of more than EUR 70 billion worth of public contracts concluded with the pharmaceutical industries since 2020, which will have a long-term financial impact on the finances of the Union and its Member States;
Amendment 94 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Encourages the Commission to step up its efforts to increase transparency with regard to the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and supports the Ombudsman’s call on the Commission to improve its handling of requests for public access to RRF-related documents and to continue publishing preliminary assessments of Member States’ payment requests; strongly recommends that the Ombudsman investigate the activities of the Commission in the area of border protection; instead of criticising the Member States and border protection agencies, the Commission should support Member States that are defending their borders and not threaten them or punish them with withdrawal of funding and with fines. The activities of the European Ombudsman should take into account the interests of European citizens;
Amendment 101 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Is worried that the Ombudsman identified several transparency concerns in the Commission’s interactions with the tobacco industry, as is still the case with the pharmaceutical industries; notes, however, that the Commission committed to further assessing the exposure of its departments to lobbying by the tobacco industry; reminds the Commission that the EU and all its Member States are signatories to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and that they are therefore obliged, in setting and implementing their public health policies with respect to tobacco control, to take action to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry;
Amendment 107 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Stresses that, although progress has been made within the EU institutions in the implementation of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the achievement of many accessibility targets is still delayed and insufficiently effective; recommends that the next Ombudsman intervene to examine and accelerate accessibility measures in the European institutions and to examine whether people with disabilities are proportionally represented in the institutions;
Amendment 108 #
2024/2056(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Ombudsman to open an inquiry into the case of the European Schools and to examine how children with disabilities could be integrated into that institution, so that their parents can participate in the work of the institutions under equal opportunities;
Amendment 42 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 1 (new)
(1) Strongly opposes the diversion of resources and attention from critical economic and social objectives by earmarking funds specifically for a gender perspective; acknowledges that this approach has proven ineffective, as significant progress in areas such as reducing violence against women or achieving gender equality has not been realised despite the allocation of resources;
Amendment 43 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 2 (new)
(2) Affirms that these funds have been exploited for purely ideological purposes, resulting in the imposition of a forced social change that undermines national sovereignty and the rights of families;
Amendment 44 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 3 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 3 (new)
(3) Advocates for project funding to be objective, effective, and neutral, free from partisan influence, and designed to benefit society as a whole, prioritizing the genuine needs of EU citizens, irrespective of gender;
Amendment 55 #
2024/2019(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 1 (new)
(1) Strongly opposes the diversion of resources and attention from critical economic and social objectives by earmarking funds specifically for a gender perspective; acknowledges that this approach has proven ineffective, as significant progress in areas such as reducing violence against women or achieving gender equality has not been realised despite the allocation of resources;
Amendment 56 #
2024/2019(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 2 (new)
(2) Affirms that these funds have been exploited for purely ideological purposes, resulting in the imposition of a forced social change that undermines national sovereignty and the rights of families;
Amendment 57 #
2024/2019(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 3 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 3 (new)
(3) Advocates for project funding to be objective, effective, and neutral, free from partisan influence, and designed to benefit society as a whole, prioritizing the genuine needs of EU citizens, irrespective of gender;