14 Amendments of Tatjana ŽDANOKA related to 2007/2145(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that if the constitutional traditions common to the Member States and the Charter of Fundamental Rights can be drawn on by the Court of Justice as a source of inspiration in the framing of its judicial doctrine on fundamental rights, the Member States cannot use the argument that the Charter would provide a lower level of protection of certain rights than the guarantees offered under their own constitutions as a pretext for watering down those guarantees;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Takes the view that, although the European Union is never a party as such, if all its Member States have acceded to conventions or other international legal instruments in the area of the protection of fundamental rights this imposes on the Union an obligation to abide by their provisions and, where appropriate, the recommendations which the bodies they set up issue, provided that Union law does not offer an equivalent or higher level of protection; calls on the Court of Justice to endorse that approach through its rulings;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Expresses concern at the fact that international cooperation in the fight against terrorism has often served to diminish the level of protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and takes the view that the EU should act with greater resolve at international level to promote a genuine strategy based on full compliance with international standards and obligations in the area of human rights and of protection of privacy, in particular, personal data; takes the view that a strategy such as this must take account of the need for effective judicial control of the intelligence services so as to avoid use of information obtained by torture, ill- treatment or other methods not meeting international human rights standards as evidence in judicial procedures, including at the investigative stage;
Amendment 48 #
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; , welcomes therefore the Commission's proposal for an horizontal antidiscrimination Directive that includes all grounds of discrimination mentioned in Art 13;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. SConsiders that implementation of minority rights sometimes requires positive measures and specific rights for persons belonging to minorities, in particular, in the field of education and language use; calls on all Member States that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, as well as withdraw reservations and restrictive declarations made earlier; stresses that there is no common criterion for national minorities’ rights in Community policy and that there is no common EU definition either of membership of a national minority; recommends that such a definition be laid down at European level on the basis of Council of Europe Recommendation 1201 (1998);
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Considers that stateless persons permanently resident in Member States are in a unique position in the European Union, given that some Member States impose unwarranted demands on them or demands which are not strictly necessary, thus discriminating against them by comparison with citizens belonging to the majority community; calls therefore on all Member States concerned to ratify the United Nations Convention as relating to the status of stateless persons and on the reduction of statelessness (1954, 1961); calls on the Member States which gained or regained a new sovereignty in the 1990s to treat all persons previously resident in their territory in the same way as the majority communitieswithout any discrimination, and calls on them to systematically bring about just solutions, based on the recommendations of international organisations, to the problems encountered by all victims of discriminatory practices;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Presses the Council and Commission, and the various levels of local, regional and national government in the Member States, to coordinate their measures to combat anti-Semitism and attacks against minority groups, including the Roma and third- country nationals in Member States, so as to enforce the principles of tolerance and non-discrimination and to foster social, economic and political integration; calls on all Member States that have not yet done so to declare the competence of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to receive and consider individual communications under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
Paragraph 62
62. Calls on the social partners to make a substantial effort to eliminate discrimination on grounds of disability or age and to radically improve access for the elderly and disabled to the labour market and to training programmes; calls on all Member States that have not yet done so to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce realistic, long- term legal migration policies, such policies should include a more open visa policy and effective access to the EU territory and more flexible rules governing asylum seekers, including a genuine access to the procedure 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 164 #
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; believes that the right of long-term residents to participate in European and local elections would promote the social and political integration;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 100
Paragraph 100
100. Stresses the need to ensure that all policies, at both EU and national level, take account of eliminating child labour in all its forms; takes the view that full-time education is the best way of solving the problem, both in terms of preventing such abuse and of breaking the vicious circle of illiteracy and poverty in the future; believes that at least secondary education free of charge must be guaranteed by all Member States;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 117
Paragraph 117
117. Stresses that there is a set of indivisible, interdependent fundamental rights which all human beings must be guaranteed; calls upon elaboration of common EU standards in the field of social rights;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 118
Paragraph 118
118. Calls on those Member States which have not yet ratified the European Social Charter as revised by the Council of Europe to do so without delay and to consider themselves bound by a maximum number of articles and numbered paragraphs thereof;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 139
Paragraph 139
139. Notes that housing is increasingly becoming a marketable commodity in Europe, causing constant, disproportionate price rises and thus excluding many people from the property market and violating their right to decent housing; reminds that restitution of property rights to confiscated houses in some Member States created a great number of social problems, some of which have not been resolved as yet;