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Activities of Andi CRISTEA related to 2014/2216(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2014/2216(INI)

Amendments (17)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. - Points out that all EU external actions should combine a political dimension which supports pluralism, democracy and respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, and a development dimension which focuses on socio-economic progress, including eradication of poverty, the fight against inequality and the basic need for food; underlines the necessity that EU development aid programmes should include concrete reforms to ensure respect for human rights, transparency, gender equality and the fight against corruption in beneficiary countries; notes that stricter conditionality and suspension of aid should be applied in beneficiary countries which manifestly disregard on basic human rights and freedoms and which fail to enact legislation that fulfils international obligations;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Considers that the performance- driven 'more for more' approach should lead the relations of the EU with all third countries, that the EU should only grant partner countries advanced status if clear human rights and democracy requirements are met, and that it should not hesitate to freeze this status if these requirements are no longer fulfilled;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)

35a. Calls on the EU to continue using cooperation and diplomacy towards the abolition of the death penalty in all possible forums worldwide, in line with the EU Guidelines on the Death Penalty, and also to ensure that the right to a fair trial is fully respected for each and every person facing execution, without the use of torture and other ill-treatment used to extract confessions;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)

38a. Stresses the importance for the EU to continue monitoring the conditions under which executions are carried out in those countries that still retain the death penalty, and to support legal and constitutional reform towards full and total abolition;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)

40a. Underlines that the EU and its Member States should ensure that their own internal practices are in line with their recommendations for third countries, in accordance with the wider EU and Member States' engagement on ensuring greater internal-external coherence on human rights;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 b (new)

40b. Calls on the EU to continue to fully support the work of relevant NGOs to combat torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment and maintain a continuous dialogue with them;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 c (new)

40c. Encourages the EU to continue to fund projects undertaken to improve training of personnel and conditions in places of detention and to carry on its support for rehabilitation centres for victims of torture across the world;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 d (new)

40d. Underlines the necessity for the EU to strengthen its laws to allow Member States to ban the trade in new devices and technologies that have no practical use other than to torture, apply ill-treatments or execute individuals;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)

43a. Notes that globalisation, along with its many advantages, has also brought increased insecurity, uncertainty, and outsourcing of jobs and the possibility of working across borders under different laws in each environment; calls for ensuring that workers are protected and treated fairly, having recognition and an effective implementation of international labour standards on freedom of association, equality, and forced and child labour; stresses the necessity to ensure that workers' rights should become a guidance point for global industry and good governance by preventing competitive social dumping and ensuring equal treatment, responsibility and respect for labour laws;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51 a (new)

51a. Stresses that EU contacts with civil society should be built on a real partnership, including systematic and regular dialogue, which should guarantee the active participation of civil society actors in the process of good governance; underlines the necessity to improve information sharing between the different actors involved in the defence of human rights across the world, in order to allow them to gain a better understanding of the activities and actions carried out, particularly with regard to specific cases, as well as the difficulties encountered; stresses that a civil society monitoring mechanism should be set up to ensure that civil society is systematically involved in the implementation of agreements and programmes;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)

56a. Calls on the Council to include the issue of "gender-selected" abortion in the EU guidelines on violence against women and girls; encourages the Commission and the Council to develop data-gathering methods and indicators on this phenomena, and encourages the EEAS to include this issue in the development and implementation of the human rights country strategies;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 a (new)

72a. Notes that the Convention on the Rights of the Child calls for legislative, administrative, social and educational measures on child labour, recognizing the need for a multi-dimensional approach; calls for the necessity that, for effective application, laws should be accompanied by policy interventions that provide alternatives in the form of education and vocational training, as well as social protection measures that benefit children and families;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 b (new)

72b. Calls on the EU to continue to promote an enabling environment to prevent and eliminate child labour, a social dialogue as well as concerted action between the public and private sectors around the eradication of child labour; stresses the need to provide support to and build capacities in conflict and post conflict countries to combat child labour;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 a (new)

76a. Urges the EU to undertake additional efforts, mainstream more effectively human rights and democracy in the framework of the development cooperation and ensure that EU development programmes contribute to the fulfilment by partner countries of their international human rights obligations; calls for human rights and democracy to be integrated into programmes linking relief, rehabilitation and development, because of their importance in the process of transition from humanitarian emergency to development;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 b (new)

76b. Encourages the EU to continue to focus its development assistance on strengthening institution-building and civil society development of recipient countries, these elements being crucial for good governance; calls for a strengthening of the human rights and conditionality clauses in EU supported programmes; calls on the European External Action Service and the Commission to further improve and seek new ways to ensure better linkages between dialogues on human rights with partner countries and development cooperation;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 c (new)

76c. Emphasises the interdependence between extreme poverty and the lack of human rights, and highlights the need to develop a set of principles on the application of standards and criteria relating to human rights in the fight against extreme poverty;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 d (new)

76d. Notes that around 70% of the world's poor live in rural areas and depend directly on biological diversity for their livelihoods; calls on the EU to defend access for populations to the natural and vital resources of their countries, access to land, water and food security as a fundamental right; deplores the fact that a significant number of people do not have basic commodities such as water; draws attention to the rights set out in the UN Social Responsibility Pact, such as the rights to appropriate nutrition, minimum social standards, education, health care, fair and favourable working conditions and participation in cultural life, which should all be treated equally;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET