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Activities of Marian HARKIN related to 2015/2258(INI)

Plenary speeches (3)

Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2258(INI)
Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2258(INI)
Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (A8-0203/2016 - Helga Stevens)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2258(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, with special regard to the Concluding Observations of the UN CRPD Committee PDF (1 MB) DOC (391 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: EMPL
Dossiers: 2015/2258(INI)
Documents: PDF(1 MB) DOC(391 KB)

Amendments (32)

Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the CRPD is the first international human rights treaty ratified by the EU, which has also been signed by all 28 EU Member States and ratified by 25 Member States excluding Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the case law of the Court of Justice reinforces that the CRPD is binding on the EU and in its Member States when implementing EU law, as the CRPD is an ‘integral part of the European Union legal order’ that has ‘primacy over instruments of secondary law’;1a __________________ 1aCJEU, Joined Cases C-335/11 and C- 337/11 HK Danmark, 11 April 2013, paras. 29-30; CJEU, Case C-363/12 Z, 18 March 2014, para. 73; CJEU, Case C- 356/12 Glatzel, 22 May 2014, para. 68.
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas children with disabilities have the rights to live in (their) families or family environment in line with their best interest;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas children with disabilities are 17 times more likely to live in an institution than their peers without disabilities, where their risk of violence, neglect and abuse is much higher than when living at home;1a __________________ 1aFRA Report: Violence against children with disabilities: legislation, policies and programmes in the EU, http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_ uploads/fra-2015-violence-against- children-with-disabilities_en.pdf
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas women with disabilities are more likely to suffer domestic violence and sexual assault which lasts reportedly longer and is more intense than for women without disabilities;1a __________________ 1aFRA Report, Violence against women: an EU-wide survey. Main results report: http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra- 2014-vaw-survey-main-results- apr14_en.pdf
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F d (new)
Fd. whereas disability is a cause and consequence of poverty and approximately 30% of the homeless population have a disability and are at risk to be overlooked;1a __________________ 1aVan Straaten et al (2015). Self-reported care needs of Dutch homeless people with and without a suspected intellectual disability: a 1.5-year follow-up study, In: Health Soc Care Community 2015 Oct 1. Epub 2015 Oct 1.
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F e (new)
Fe. whereas an estimated 80% of persons with disabilities live in developing countries;1a __________________ 1a World Report on Disability, 2011.
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F f (new)
Ff. whereas the EU supports the promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities at the international level, and is the world’s biggest donor of Official Development Assistance (ODA);
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas disability can be caused by a gradual and sometimes invisible degradation of the state of health of an individual, as is the case for people with neurodegenerative or rare diseases; 2Or. en
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas the EU, as a party to the CRPD, has the duty to ensure the close involvement and active participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in the development and implementation of legislation and policies to implement the Convention and in all decision making processes concerning issues that relate to persons with disabilities;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Urges a comprehensive and cross- cutting review of EU legislation and funding programmes, including future programming periods, with a view to complying fully with the CRPD by constructively involving disability organisations and the members of the EU Framework for the CRPD (hereinafter the ‘EU Framework’);
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Asks the Commission to proposevide a list of legislation with a view to proposing an update of the declaration of competence in light of the Concluding Observations, to be repeated periodically with the formal involvement of disability organisations and the European Parliament;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to set up a structured dialogue with disabilityconsolidate and make a proposal for a structured dialogue between the EU and disability organisations including appropriate funding to ensure full and equal participation by persons with disabilities and their representative organisations;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to use the review of the European Disability Strategy and to develop a comprehensive EU CRPD strategy with a clear implementation timeframe, benchmarks and indicators;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take steps to combat all forms of discrimination, including multiple and intersectional discrimination based on disability, with special regard to women and children with disabilities, older persons and individuals who have complex support needs, including those with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities and to those whose disabilities change over time;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the European institutions and Member States to ensure that boys and girls with disabilities and their representative organisations be consulted in all matters affecting them – with appropriate assistance provided, according to their disability and age;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Regrets the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; reiterates its call on the Council to do so as soon as possible;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to work with Parliament to deliver a strongclear and effective directive on the accessibility of public sector bodies’ websites, with a broad scope and a robust enforcement mechanism in line with the proposed European Accessibility Act;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned about the lack of accessibility of the EU-wide 112 emergency number, which is at national level and when roaming, causing unnecessary deaths and injuries; highlights the need for implementing measures at national level ensuring inter alia compatibility across Member States, including accessible national emergency points;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Is concerned that the Employment Eq2uality Directive does not explicitly make the denial of reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities a form of discrimination; asks the Commission to provide a state of play on the kinds of complaints received;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to adopt quality frameworks for traineeships with a view to ensuring reasonable accommodation and accessibility for persons with disabilities and to ensure that all EU programmes such as the Youth Guarantee are fully accessible to persons with disabilities;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Is concerned that the European Structural and Investment Funds are being misused to foster institutionalisation, and calls on the Member States and the Commission to strengthen their monitoring in line with the CRPD and in consultation with disability organisations and recommends to suspend, withdraw and recover payments from Member States if the obligation to respect fundamental rights is breached;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes the ex-ante conditionalities on social inclusion and its investment priority on the ‘transition from institutional to community based services’ in Regulation 1303/2013 on the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF); calls on the Member States to use the funds for deinstitutionalisation and as a tool to implement the CRPD;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the development of human rights-based indicators and calls on the Member States to provide comparable disaggregated disability data;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the development of human rights-based indicators and comparable disaggregated disability data; underlines the need to disaggregate data on the basis of various factors including by gender, age and disability;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to fund research and data collection on violence, abuse and exploitation of all persons with all types of disabilities in the community and in institutions;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commissionbudget authorities to allocate adequate resources to enable the EU Framework to perform its functions independently;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Highlights that the CRPD network needs to be strengthened to appropriately coordinate CRPD implementation internally but also interinstitutionally, while actively involving and closely consulting with persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in its activities and meetings;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the institutions to review allensure existing staff regulations, internal rules and implementing provisions for CRPD compatibility are fully implemented in line with the CRPD and internal rules and implementing provisions are developed fully applying CRPD provisions, as part of an open and disability-inclusive process, in order to address the Concluding Observations;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for the provision of adequate needs-based and CRPD-compatible reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities – or with dependent family members with disabilities – who are in the service of the European institutions, paying particular attention to the needs of disabled parents;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Urges the EU institutions to make their internet-based content and apps, including their intranets and all documents and audiovisual content, accessible while equally ensuring physical accessibility of their buildings;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Calls for the EU to revise the rules of the Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme, the pension system and disability-related social security and social protection measures in order to ensure non- discrimination and equality of opportunities for persons with disabilities, inter alia by recognising disability-related health needs as being distinct from an illness;
2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL