Activities of Ignasi GUARDANS CAMBÓ related to 2007/2145(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The situation of fundamental rights in the European Union (2004-2008) - European area of freedom, security and justice (debate)
Amendments (34)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to continue its work with a view to submitting a proposal for a legislative package including the proposal, deferred to date, to extend the scope of Directive 2000/43/EC to all other forms of discrimination, thus implementing Article 21 of the Charter, which provides greater leeway than Article 13 of the Treaty establishing the European Community in that it makes reference to further forms of discrimination: colour, social origin, genetic features, language, political or other opinions, membership of a minority, property and birth; stresses once more that the effect of granting preferential treatment in legislation to particular forms of discrimination is to introduce a kind of hierarchy between them, which should not be the case;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 - forth indent
Paragraph 43 - forth indent
- discrimination by the police, in particular (deliberate) shootings, arson, assault or other violent acts, which are not impartially investigated and prosecutions are not brought; the police’s racial profiling – inter alia by taking fingerprints or other forms of data collection – and wide discretionary powers, which give rise to abuses with no disciplinary consequences; training and awareness-raising programmes on non- discrimination by the police, which are largely non-existent;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Stresses that the violence endured by women because of their sex, particularly domestic violence, must be recognised and combated at European and national level, given that it is a common and often underestimated violation of women’s rights, and calls on the Member States in consequence to take appropriate, effective measures to ensure that women are guaranteed a life free from all violence, taking due account of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women;1 calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal designed to combat v1; Or. en United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against wWomen, and to protect the victims of such violence; 1dopted 20 December 1993.
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
Paragraph 64
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
Paragraph 65
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce realistic, long- term migration policies and more flexible rules governing asylum seekers, rather than focusing all their efforts on preventing illegal immigration, deploying to that end a growing range of frontier checks which lack the mechanisms needed to identify potential asylum seekers at Europe’s borders, a shortcoming which leads to violations of the principle of non-refoulement, as enshrined in the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Calls for the harmonisation at European level of the criteria on the basis of which refugee status is granted, with the aim of equalising rates of recognition of that status across the Member States; notes that under the current system is creating an ‘asylum lottery’ as demonstrated by the way in which rates of recognition of refugee status for similar groups of asylum seekers differ radically from one Member State to another; emphasises that these criteria must reflect high standards, not lowest common denominators, since the ability to receive and protect asylum seekers is an identifying feature of our European societies;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
Paragraph 80
80. Asks that particular attention be paid to the situation of refugee, asylum seeker and migrant children, and to the children of parents who are asylum seekers, refugees or undocumented, so that every child can fully exercise its rights, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the right to non-discrimination, with the interests of the child being given the highest possible priority in all actions taken; condemns the development in some Member States of a two-tier education system and different care and assistance arrangements for children of nationals and non-nationals; condemns situations in which higher priority is given to the application of immigration laws than to arrangements designed to protect the child;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85
Paragraph 85
85. Considers that the most urgent need of minorities of immigrant origin is to integrate as soon as possible into the society of the country in which they are resident, while ensuring that this takes place in a spirit of reciprocity; considers that it is equally important to recognise the right of each person who is born and lives in a Member State to have access to civil rights concerning citizenship, even in instances where an individual is unable or unwilling to become naturalised;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
Paragraph 87
87. Expresses serious concern at the ever more precarious situation of asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected in Europe as a result of administrative inefficiency, at lengthy asylum procedures, at premature return procedures or returns to unsafe countries, at the increasingly widespread use of detention prior to return, at inappropriate return procedures involving vulnerable individuals, at the withdrawal of welfare assistance in an effort to force applicants to return and at inadequate return procedures;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88
88. Stresses that individuals should not be repatriated until after fair and comprehensive consideration of their application; takes the view that, where return would be impossible or inhumane because of a critical situation with regard to compliance with human rights in the country of origin, individuals should receive a residence permit allowing them to remain in the country of residence without being in breach of the regulations;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 89
Paragraph 89
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 91
Paragraph 91
91. Is concerned at the fact that, since 2002, readmission clauses have been included in most bilateral agreements concluded by the EU with third countries, including trade agreements, thus resulting in increasing externalisation of the European Union’s migration policy, which is characterised by insufficient parliamentary oversight, at both European and national level; calls therefore on the Commission and Council to put a stop to this practice and, where such clauses are nonetheless inserted, to involve the European Parliament at an early stage in negotiations on such agreements and to report to it regularly on the number of individuals expelled from the EU on the basis of those clauses;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106
Paragraph 106
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 112
Paragraph 112
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 118
Paragraph 118
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 122
Paragraph 122
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 123
Paragraph 123
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125
Paragraph 125
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 126
Paragraph 126
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 127
Paragraph 127
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 129
Paragraph 129
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 130
Paragraph 130
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 133
Paragraph 133
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 138
Paragraph 138
138. Stresses that the first task of employment inspectors is to protect workers, and not to apply immigration laws, and calls in consequenceCalls on the Member States to:
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 138 − indent 1
Paragraph 138 − indent 1
– separate issues of immigrants’ status from workplace inspections and ensure that undocumented workers can safely file a complaint against an exploitative employer without being threatened with expulsion;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 139
Paragraph 139
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 140
Paragraph 140
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 141
Paragraph 141
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 144
Paragraph 144