Activities of Tokia SAÏFI related to 2012/2145(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Annual report on human rights and democracy in the world 2011 and the European Union's policy on the matter - EU's human rights strategy (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the VP/HR, the EEAS, the Council and the Commission, for the sake of efficiency, to ensure coherence between the various existing or planned EU benchmarking, monitoring and evaluation activities and methodologies regarding human rights and democracy situations in third countries, including, inter alia: the human rights and democracy sections in the enlargement and neighbourhood policy progress reports; the assessment of the ‘more for more’ human rights and democracy principles set out for the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Southern Mediterranean; the planned inclusion of human rights in impact assessments carried out for legislative and non-legislative proposals and for trade agreements, including human rights monitoring mechanisms in Partnership, partnership and association and Ccooperation Aagreements and Association Agreements, both regional and bilateral; the Commission plan to introduce human rights assessment in the deployment of EU aid modalities (in particular regarding budget support); the strengthened implementation of the monitoring mechanism to scrutinise implementation ofrespect for human rights conventions in the GSP+ countries; the aim of systematising the follow-up use of EU Election Observation Mission reports; and the EU Council’s emphasis on benchmarking as well as on continued and systematic consideration of aspects relating to human rights, gender and children affected by armed conflict in the lessons- learned documents of the CSDP missions;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Commends, in this context, the actions of the European Union and several Member States which took the lead in preventing further violence against civilians in Libya during the course of 2011, but regrets the lack of a concerted response at EU level; ; welcomes the efforts made by the European Union and the international community to this effect in Syria in 2011 and regrets that those efforts did not translate into an improvement in the situation on the ground;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Welcomes the strengthened consultative role of the European Parliament’s Election Coordination Group (ECG), exercised for the first time in 2011, in the identification and planning of EU Election Observation Missions; expects Parliament’s democracy support activities to be further enhanced by the creation of an administrative directorate for democracy support under the political supervision of an creation of the Democracy Support Directorate within the European Parliament and the broadening of the mandate of its Election Coordination Group (ECG), which has now become the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DSECG); expects Parliament’s democracy support activities to be further enhanced, not least via its Office for the Promotion of Parliamenltargedy Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DSECG)and its Election Observation Unit;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Is concerned by reports of certain EU companies cooperating with authoritarian regimes in providing them with free unlimited access to their networks and databases under the excuse of following the local law, as was the case with Swedish-Finnish company TeliaSonera in several former Soviet countries; is convinced that the protection of human rights should never compromised in European companies’ efforts to expand their markets abroadEuropean companies and their subsidiaries and subcontractors play a key role in the promotion and dissemination of social standards worldwide, and they should therefore act in accordance with European values and basic international social and environmental standards;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Emphasises the development of a strong and vibrant civil society as a key factor allowing for democratic progress and improved protection of human rights; notstresses that civil society was instrumental in bringing aboutthe mobilisation of civil society was at the root of the historic changes of the Arab Spring;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Acknowledges EU efforts to step up support to civil society organisations; values particularly the ability of the European Union to engage directly with civil society through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), the Civil Society Facility and the European Endowment for Democracy (EED); regrets, however, that EU does not have a stronger systematic policy to persuade partner countries to abolish undue legal and administrative restrictions that limit the universal rights of assembly and association; calls for such policy guidelines be developed;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77 a (new)
Paragraph 77 a (new)
77a. Emphasises the crucial role played by women in the political life of the Southern Neighbourhood; welcomes election results that have resulted in a considerable increase in the number of women in political fora;