Activities of Martine ROURE 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 (20)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
- having regard to its reports on visits to detention centres for immigrants in an irregular situation,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Parliament, as the directly elected representative of the citizens of the Union and guarantor of their rights, believes it has a clear responsibility to uphold these principles, in particular as the Treaties in their current form greatly restrict the individual’s right to bring actions before the Community courts,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that if the constitutional traditions common to the Member States 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 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union constitutes a common basis of minimum rights, and that 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 35 #
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 protection of personal data and privacy in accordance with Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter; 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 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. CWelcomes the Commission’s proposal for a horizontal directive based on Article 13 of the EC Treaty, but 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 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Council to ado its utmost to reach agreement onpt as soon as possible the Commission proposal for a Council framework decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law further to the political agreement of December 2007; points to its opinion of 29 November 2007, which endorsed the proposal; calls on the Commission, after consulting the Agency, to propose similar legislation to combat homophobia;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Is concerned at the poor level of knowledge of anti-discrimination legislation in the Member States and notes that, in order to exercise their rights, citizens of the Union have to have recourse to European legislation in this area; calls on the Commission and Member States to redouble their efforts to raise that level; stresses the fact, at the same time, that legislation is effective only if citizens have easy access to the courts, since the protection regime laid down by the anti- discrimination directives hinges on initiatives taken by victims;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Takes the view that the social marginalisation of, and discrimination against, Roma communities is an established fact in spite of the legal, political and financial instruments introduced at European level to combat this; notes that the Union’s and Member States’ piecemeal and uncoordinated efforts have not succeeded, to date, in making structural and lasting improvements to the situation of the Roma, in particular in crucial areas such as access to education, health, housing and employment, a failure which is now publicly acknowledged;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Stresses the need for a global, human rights based approach to non- discrimination reflecting the European dimension of discrimination against the Roma; takes the view that a European Union framework strategy for Roma inclusion should seek to tackle the following problems: - segregation of the Roma as regards access to housing and education, and their exclusion from employment and public education, - frequent denial of their rights by public authorities and their political under representation, - the very inadequate guarantees against racial discrimination at local level and too few appropriate integration programmes; blatant discrimination in health care, including forced sterilisation and a lack of appropriate information on family planning and access to contraception, - 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; - the particularly vulnerable situation of Roma women, who are subject to multiple forms of discrimination;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Calls on Member States and the EU to combat multiple discrimination. Many women face multiple discrimination, on the grounds of sex and at the same time on another ground, for example ethnic, religious or sexual identity;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 b (new)
Paragraph 44 b (new)
44b. Stresses the need for Member States to take measures to eliminate discrimination against women in all matters relating to marriage, partnership and other family relations;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47a. Calls on Member States to guarantee to all women sexual and reproductive health and rights. Women must be given the right to choose freely if and when to have children. All women must have the right and access to well developed and confidential counselling and health care in relation to maternity, regardless of residence status. All women must have free of charge access to safe contraception methods and abortion;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57 a (new)
Paragraph 57 a (new)
57a. Calls on those Member States who have adopted legislation on same-sex partnerships to recognise provisions with similar effects adopted by other Member States; calls on the Commission to draw up guidelines for mutual recognition of existing legislation between Member States in order to guarantee that the right of free movement within the European Union for same-sex couples applies under conditions equal to those applicable to heterosexual couples;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Title between paragraphs 67 and 68
Title between paragraphs 67 and 68
Access to protecinternational protection and legal immigration
Amendment 141 #
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 governingto guarantee genuine access to their territory and to a procedure for 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 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Calls on the Council to clarify the respective roles of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX) and the Member States where there is a lack of clarity and transparency regarding the exact extent of FRONTEX’s coordination function and the way in which these operations are conducted, with a view to ensuring that border checks are carried out in a manner consistent with respect for human rights; takes the view that there is an urgent need to amend FRONTEX’s remit to incorporate rescue at sea; calls for democratic oversight by the European Parliament of the conclusion by Frontex of agreements with third countries, particularly as regards joint organisation of returns;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Calls for the harmonisation at European level via the adoption of a common European asylum system 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 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 ldowest common denominatorsnward harmonisation, since the ability to receive and protect asylum seekers is an identifying feature of our European societies;
Amendment 155 #
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 higher 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 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 89
Paragraph 89
89. Stresses that it is the responsibility of Member States to monitor the living and integration conditions of individuals repatriated to their country of origin and to take measures to provide those individuals with appropriate assistance; calls on the Member States to study the possibility of providing financial assistance for returnees which would allow repatriated persons to create new lives for themselves in their country of origin; regards it as all the more urgent to introduce arrangements to monitor the situation of migrants who have returned to transit countries;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 130
Paragraph 130
130. Recognises that some Member States do not have national legislation laying down a minimum wage and that the minimum wage is very low or beneath subsistence level in many Member States, and therefore hopes that a methodology for setting the national minimum wage will be put in place at European level in order to guarantee that all workers in the EU are paid a wage that covers their basic needs;