10 Amendments of Ana GOMES related to 2008/2203(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Indent 9 a (new)
Indent 9 a (new)
- having regard to the Council Checklist for the Integration of the Protection of Children affected by Armed Conflict into European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) Operations of May 2006,
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the European Union’s external strategy on children’s rights should be based on the values and principles defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular articles 3, 16, 18, 23, 25, 26 and 29, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that all action for children’s rights should respect the priority role of the child’s parents and immediate family as well as primary caretakers and guardians;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Condemns all forms of violence towards children: physical, psychological, sexual and structural violence, sex-selective birth control, slavery, trafficking or sale of children or of their organs, child pornography, child prostitution, and paedophilia as well as extreme poverty, famine and armed conflict;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that in order to put the child rights-based approach into practice, the EU must undertake a thorough analysis of children's rights, ideally when Country, Regional and Thematic Strategy Papers are adopted or reviewed, on the basis of which actions and programmes targeting children’s issues can be selected; in this respect, calls on the Commission to provide to Parliament, as early as possible or during mid-term reviews of development programmes, an overview of child-related actions and financial allocations;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Condemns in particular specific violations of girls’ and women’s rights, such as so-called ‘honour’ crimes, forced marriages, and genital mutilation and other harmful traditional practices, which can never be justified and must not be tolerated in any context;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on States giving and receiving development aid to include systematically in all exchanges a health clause to protect children, who are victims of extreme poverty and malnutrition and are affected by, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria, which are the main causes of death among children in developing countries; calls on the EC to step up financial support to child-related health priorities in development cooperation programmes;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the EU to firmly pursue the elimination of all forms of discrimination against girls (since conception) and commit adequate resources to overcome the subsequent asymmetries;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Urges the European Union to prioritise the right to education, especially for girl children, in aid programmes and policy dialogue with partner countries; stresses the need to fight persistent discrimination in poor families that cannot afford school fees for all their children and opt to send boys to school at the expense of girls;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses that Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programmes supported by European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) missions should take into consideration specific child needs;