6 Amendments of Vincent PEILLON related to 2010/2202(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the Treaty provides the EU with a single legal personality, which will allow it to accessde to the European Convention on Human Rights and enable the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg to verify compliance by EU acts with the Convention,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas economic, social and cultural rights must receive the same attention and be treated at the same level of importance as civil and political rights, from which they are inseparable,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas new forms of human rights abuses are occurring in the world, notably in the area of the new information technologies, one of them being internet censorship and the other being infringement of privacy through the use of personal data,
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU Member States to sign up to, and ratify, all core UN and Council of Europe human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto, in particular to ratify the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Additional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; insists that the Optional Protocol to the Convention should be regarded as an integral part thereof, and calls for simultaneous accession to the latter (Convention and Protocol);
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Urges the Iranian leadecountries which still have recourse to enact a law unequivocally banning stoning as a legaldeath by stoning to abolish legislation providing for this inhuman punishment; condemns the fact that the Iranian regimemany countries still sentences to death and executes juvenile offenders; condemns the Iranian regime’s use of the death penalty, which places Iran in second position, just after China, in the league table of countries with the highest number of executions; strongly condemns the increased number of executions following the peaceful demonstrations after presidential elections in Iran in June 2009; is concerned that China still carries out the greatest number of executions worldwide; welcomes the positive action of the Belarusian authorities in setting up a Working Group to draft proposals on imposing a moratorium on the death penalty; remains concerned that executions are still carried out in Belarus, which is the only country in Europe that continues to use the death penalty;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. Recalls the decision of US President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in January 2009; expresses its regret that this decision has not been fully implemented; urges the US Government to live up fully to its commitments; welcomes the constructive engagement of a number of EU Member States in their efforts to assist with reception of certain former Guantanamo detainees and with finding accommodation for some of the people cleared for release from the detention camp; advocates cooperation between the European Union and the United States on these questions;