38 Amendments of Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ related to 2016/2219(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 d (new)
Citation 5 d (new)
- having regard to the Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy1a, __________________ 1a https://europa.eu/globalstrategy/en/global -strategy-foreign-and-security-policy- european-union
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)
Citation 28 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 12 March 2015 on the Annual Report from the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to the European Parliament1a, __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0075.
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 b (new)
Citation 28 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 12 March 2015 on the EU's priorities for the UN Human Rights Council in 20151a, __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0079.
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas millions of children around the world continue to suffer from all forms of violence, including the consequences and burden of war and its atrocities, discrimination and, poverty and malnutrition;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q e (new)
Recital Q e (new)
Qe. whereas according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child authorities must respect the rights of the child who is separated from one or both parents; whereas 800 000 children in Europe and many more worldwide suffer from the violation of their right to the protection of family relationships when one or both parents are imprisoned;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U b (new)
Recital U b (new)
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the EU and the VP/HR in particular to denounce, systematically and unequivocally, the persecution and killings of human rights defenders, and to step up its public diplomacy in open and clear support of human rights defenders, also when it comes to their testimony in multilateral fora;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the adoption of the second EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2015-2019), and urges all EU actors to make full use of the Action Plan’s tools and flexibility to respond effectively to emerging and shifting challenges to the protection of human rights and to strengthen democracy support;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Draws attention that the Action Plan does not include a separate objective on fostering democratic standards in partner countries; stresses that a single democracy support approach is highly needed and underlines that it has to be mainstreamed through all EU financial instruments in the same way as human rights support; calls on the Commission to develop EU guidelines for democracy support;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Urges the Commission to take necessary actions during the mid-term implementation review of the Action Plan in 2017 in order to guarantee the coherence between EU approaches towards protection of humans rights and democracy support;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls the importance of the stronger and more flexible mandate of the EUSR in enhancing the EU’'s effectiveness in advancing human rights and democratic principles around the world; reiterates its call for this mandate to become a permanent one; urges the EUSR to further deepen the democracy support component within this mandate;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EUSR to consult systematically with civil society, including local civil society organisations, ahead of his visits to third countries; stresses that the work of the EUSR must have clear and transparent follow-up lines;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates its support for dedicated Human Rights Dialogues as a tool of the EU’'s human rights policy; acknowledges that they can be an efficient tool for bilateral engagement and cooperation, provided they allow counterparts to engage on issues of substance and send meaningful political messages, are result-oriented and with consistent follow up rather than merely exchanging information on best practices and challenges;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 10
Subheading 10
Migrants, refugees and, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons (IDPs)
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Highlights the dramatic situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs), especially of the enormous number of IDPs in Iraq and Syria; is deeply concerned about the growing number of IDPs in Ukraine which reached 1.4 million in 2015; stresses that programmes on refugees in a region needs to acknowledge and incorporate the potential fate of IDPs as well; calls on the Commission, the Member States and the international community to take steps to improve their situation on the ground;
Amendment 519 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 13 a (new)
Subheading 13 a (new)
Right to health
Amendment 520 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 b (new)
Paragraph 53 b (new)
53b. Stresses that the fulfilment of the right to access health services including quality antimicrobial medicines continues to be denied to thousands of people worldwide and in particular in developing countries thus establishing that AMR is a consequence of both overuse and underuse of antibiotics;
Amendment 521 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 c (new)
Paragraph 53 c (new)
53c. Is deeply concerned that the rapidly growing AMR threat is expected to become the world's largest cause of death particularly victimising the vulnerable and the weak in developing countries; calls on the Commission to develop without delay a truly effective public health strategy that includes the following: – identification of causes of diseases, diagnostics and ways of distribution of resistant bacteria through tourism and trade, – identification of optimal international, national and regional emergency response actions following an 'outbreak' of unstoppable bacteria, and the integrated and coordinated preparation of such actions, – development of the toughest volume- oriented regulations on the use of antibiotics in all world regions combined with adequate and effective enforcement measures; – development and implementation of the largest ever information program on the threat of AMR using all resources and in particular social media;
Amendment 558 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62 a (new)
Paragraph 62 a (new)
62a. Calls on the Commission to develop policies and promote in international fora the protection of children of imprisoned parents in order to overcome their discrimination and stigmatisation;
Amendment 561 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62 d (new)
Paragraph 62 d (new)
62d. Stresses that almost 159 million children continued to suffer from malnutrition in 2015, about 45 per cent of under-fives die each year and that stunted children suffer irreversible, long-term consequences such as impaired physical cognitive development preventing them from growing up to live productive lives; is deeply concerned that the conflict in eastern Ukraine puts under malnutrition and stunting threat internally displaced children; calls on the Commission and the international community to introduce innovative ways to effectively address malnutrition, particularly among children through the fullest use of entire food chain and thus including Public Private People Partnerships, as well as all other available resources, particularly social media;
Amendment 631 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70 a (new)
Paragraph 70 a (new)
70a. Calls on the Iranian authorities to assess atrocities of the 1988 massacre of more than 33,000 political prisoners and to bring those responsible to justice in light of the revealed evidence; calls on the EU, the UN and all relevant international organisations to deploy all of their political and legal resources to investigate this case which is described by human rights organisations as a crime against humanity;
Amendment 646 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 h (new)
Paragraph 72 h (new)
72h. Calls on the EU and Member States to work for the urgent establishment of a dedicated UN mechanism that would monitor and publicly report on attacks on hospitals, medical workers and ambulances; suggests that this mechanism could be built on the experience of the existing mechanism for Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC);
Amendment 649 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 k (new)
Paragraph 72 k (new)
72k. Reiterates its call on the EU and its Member States to join international efforts to prevent attacks against and the military use of schools by armed actors through endorsing the Safe Schools Declaration which is designed to help end widespread military attacks on schools during armed conflict; furthermore calls on Member States to take concrete measures to deter such use of schools by armed forces and armed groups;
Amendment 651 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 m (new)
Paragraph 72 m (new)
72m. Requests the VP/HR to present on an annual basis a public list of alleged perpetrators with regards to attacks on schools and hospitals for the purpose of defining appropriate EU action to halt such attacks;
Amendment 658 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Condemns, in keeping with Article 10 TFEU, all acts of vi all acts of violence and persecution, intolerance and discrimination on the basis of ideology, religion or belief; expresses its serious concern over the continued reports of violence and persecution, intolerance and discrimination against religious minorities around the world;
Amendment 670 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. Stresses that the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief is a fundamental human right, interrelated with other human rights and fundamental freedoms and encompassing the right to believe or not to believe, the right to manifest or not to manifest any religion or belief, and the right to adopt, change and abandon or return to a belief of one’s choice, as enshrined in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including, as enshrined in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, freedom to have or not have a religion, to change one's religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest one's religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance;
Amendment 679 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
75. Calls on the EU and its Member States to ensure that religious minorities are respected worldwide, including in the Middle East, where Yazidis, Christians and Muslim minorities are being persecuted by ISIS and other terrorist groupsapply and enforce all the instruments available to them, as well as the EU Guidelines on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the UN Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, to ensure that religious minorities are respected and protected worldwide, both in cases where the State violates this freedom and where the violator is an international terrorist organization ignoring country borders, financed by foreign entities, such as the so-called Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Boko-Haram, Al-Shabaab and more;
Amendment 688 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75 b (new)
Paragraph 75 b (new)
75b. Calls on the EU to reinforce its existing instruments and adopt any other within its mandate to ensure that the protection of religious minorities is effective worldwide;
Amendment 691 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76
Paragraph 76
76. Encourages the international community and the EU to provide protection for minorities, to install safe zones, and to build a coalition, with a view to preventing abductions and preserving the diversity of ethnic, cultural and religious identities; calls for the recognition, self-administration and right to self-defence of ethnic and religious minorities living in areas where they have historically had a strong presence and lived peacefully alongside each other – particular in the Sinjahus preserving the multicultural aspect of society, wherever they are discriminated or persecuted, this includes promoting measures to allow them to rightful citizenship , to remain or return safely to their land; stresses that any international crime and act of genocide against specific religious groups should be identified as such and acted upon, including cases of: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mouentains (Yazidis), the Nineveh plains (Chaldean- Syriac-Assyrian peoples) and other parts of Northern Iraq – and for instruments of reconstruction to be established in order to guarantee the safe return of displaced persons and refugeesl harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group;
Amendment 697 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
Paragraph 77
77. Calls for special assistance from the EU and its Member States in order to preserve mass graves in areas of current or recent conflicts, with the aim of exhuming and forensically analysing the human remains therein, in order to seurgently set up a group of experts seeking to collect all evidences of any on-going international crime, including genocide, against religious minorities, wherever they may happen, including the preservation of mass graves in areas of curre evidence and enable the investignt or recent conflicts, with the aim of preparing internation andal prosecution of suspected crimes against humanity, andthose responsible and also in order to allow for decent burial of the victims’' remains;
Amendment 701 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. Expresses the need for international assistance in efforts to search for and liberate women and children who still remain in the captivity of ISIS, and in promoting speprevent and remedy criminal and genocidal programmes for treatment within the European Union of former captives; expresses concern over the recruitment of children by terrorist groups and their participation in terrorist activities; stresses the need to establish policies to guide the search for, and the liberation, rehabilitation and reintegration of these childreacts especially those against children, women and the elderly who are targeted because of their religion;
Amendment 731 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 22
Subheading 22
Freedom of expression online and through audiovisual and other media sources
Amendment 734 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83
Paragraph 83
83. Calls for increased support in the areas of promoting media freedom, protecting independent journalists and bloggers, reducing the digital divide and facilitating unrestricted access to information and communication, and uncensored access to the internet (digital freedom)vided it does not incite hatred and discrimination and does not contradict to the imperative to safeguard national security and public health;
Amendment 739 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83 b (new)
Paragraph 83 b (new)
83b. Urges the EU and the international community to protect independent journalists and bloggers, reduce the digital divide and facilitate unrestricted access to information and communication, and uncensored access to the internet (digital freedom);
Amendment 741 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84 a (new)
Paragraph 84 a (new)
84a. Notes that the development of the internet and mobile technologies have created wide opportunities for children to communicate and get access to information, as well as exposes them to significant risks and dangers; calls on the Commission and Member States to cooperate closely with all stakeholders in order to adopt clear policy objectives and measures for the protection of children's rights online; stresses that policies to protect children online should be balanced vis-à-vis children's right to access information and freedom of expression;
Amendment 746 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
Paragraph 87
87. Condemns all restrictions on digital communication, including the closing down of websites and the blocking of personal accounts as a means to silence opposition and suppress civil society;
Amendment 761 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 a (new)
Paragraph 88 a (new)
Amendment 784 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 94
Paragraph 94
94. Is deeply concerned about the reinstatement of executions in some countries in recent years; expresses its grave concern at the reported rise in the number of death sentences handed down worldwide in 2015, in particular in China, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia; stresses with deep concern that Iran accounted for almost 60% of all the registered executions in 2015; reminds the authorities of these countries that they are state parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which strictly prohibits the death penalty for crimes committed by anyone below the age of 18;