6 Amendments of Claire GIBAULT related to 2008/2203(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Deplores all mistreatment of children, including within the family, and points out that, all around the world, children are the first to suffer from many forms of abuse; stresses that the need to take incisive action to combat this evil is now more urgent than ever;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasises the need to step up action to combat child labour in countries where children are forced to work for economic reasons and in order to survive; points out that the difficult, intolerable and dangerous conditions in which this situation places children not only make them more vulnerable vis-à-vis adults but also exacerbate the most harmful effect of this situation, which remains the fact that they are prevented from going to school;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out, nonetheless, that it may be in the interests of a child having problems at home to be separated from his or her family temporarily as a protective measure, particularly where the parents have psychosocial or psychiatric problems or there is evidence of domestic violence, mistreatment or sexual abuse;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2a. Stresses that the overriding interest of the child must take precedence over all other considerations and that, accordingly, the best possible solutions must be sought for abandoned children or orphans and consideration must be given to whether such children, who are in great emotional and psychological distress, should be offered an adoptive family outside their country of origin where no solution can be found within that country;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Condemns all forms of violence towards children: physical, psychological and sexual violence, sex-selective birth controlpresence during armed conflicts, slavery, trafficking or sale of children or of their organs, child pornography, child prostitution and paedophilia, as well as extreme poverty, famine and armed conflictnd violence linked to extreme poverty, which deprive them of essential health care, harm their physical and psychological development and expose them to malnutrition and famine; condemns gender-based eugenic discrimination, which is increasingly common in some countries;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that it is absolutely essential to require that all children, everywhere in the world, be given an identity at birth;