16 Amendments of Baroness Sarah LUDFORD related to 2010/2202(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5a (new)
Citation 5a (new)
- having regard to the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the activities of the Special Representatives of the UN Secretary General on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders as well as the EU guidelines on Human Rights Defenders,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ea (new)
Recital Ea (new)
Ea (new). whereas justice, democracy and the rule of law are the pillars of sustainable peace, by guaranteeing fundamental freedoms and human rights, and whereas sustainable peace cannot be achieved through protecting those responsible for systematic human rights abuses and violations of international criminal law,
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU Member States to sign up to, and ratify, all core UN and Council of Europe human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto, in particular to ratify the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; insists that the Optional Protocol to the Convention should be regarded as an integral part thereof, and calls for simultaneous accession to the latter (Convention and Protocol);
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15b (new)
Paragraph 15b (new)
15b (new). Stresses the importance of strengthening the rationalization and if possible coordination of international bodies with jurisdiction over human rights and of their procedures, with the goal of always better granting an effective promotion and defense of the fundamental rights as contained in the related international instruments;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Council and the Commission to continue their efforts to promote universal ratification of the Rome Statute and the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court and national implementing legislation, in accordance with Council Common Position 2003/444/CFSP of 16 June 2003 on the International Criminal Court and the 2004 Action Plan to follow up on the Common Position; welcomes the fact that the ratifications of the Rome Statute by the Czech Republic and Chile in the reporting period brought the total number of States Parties to 110 by December 2009; calls on all EU member States that have not done so to enact ICC implementing legislation, covering substantive crimes and cooperation with the ICC, to do so as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17a (new)
Paragraph 17a (new)
17a (new). Underscores the need to strengthen the international criminal justice system in general and in this respect notes with concern that Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić remain at large and have not been brought before the ICTY; in this regard, calls on the Serbian authorities to ensure full cooperation with the ICTY, which should lead to the arrest and transfer of all remaining indictees, in order to open the way to the ratification of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement; notes the need for ongoing support, including financial support, for the Special Court for Sierra Leone to complete ongoing trials, including through to end of any appeals process; also notes progress in multilateral cooperation for the supply of expertise and assistance where the identification, collection and preservation of information would assist a wide range of international and transitional justice options, in particular through the Justice Rapid Response (JRR), in which more than half of the EU member States are participants, and encourages ongoing and increased support for the JRR;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for enhanced cooperation between the Council of Europe and the European Union in the field of promoting minority rights and, protecting regional and minority languages and promoting the rights of LGBTI individuals and defenders of LGBTI rights, and ensuring that victims of discrimination are aware of and have access to effective legal remedies before a national authority to combat discrimination, using the legal tools of non-discrimination to advocate diversity and tolerance;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20a (new)
Paragraph 20a (new)
20a (new). Welcomes the European Union’s support to initiatives encouraging the decriminalisation of homosexuality at the United Nations and in other international fora; calls for the European Union’s continued support in favour of initiatives condemning human rights breaches in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity in all international fora, in coordination with like-minded states;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38a (new)
Paragraph 38a (new)
38a (new). Expresses grave concern about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 currently under consideration by Uganda’s parliament, which punishes support to lesbian, gay or bisexual people with fines and imprisonment, and punishes consensual homosexual acts with fines, imprisonment and the death penalty; calls on the Ugandan parliament to reject this and any similar legislation; condemns the criminalisation of homosexuality worldwide;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Notes that the programme of the Trio Presidency of France, the Czech Republic and Sweden (July 2008 - December 2009) gave priority to the question of violence against women and girls, and asks for coherence on principles and policies both outside and inside the EU, including with respect to supporting a ban on female genital mutilation as a human rights violation; notes the recent adoption of a new set of guidelines on the matter and expects the Commission to present the results of its implementation to Parliament;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40a (new)
Paragraph 40a (new)
40a (new). calls on the Commission, the Council, the Member States to activate all political and institutional means in order to support initiatives aiming at the adoption as soon as possible of a resolution by the UNGA calling on a worldwide moratorium on female genital mutilation;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Supports the right of expression and peaceful assembly in Russia as guaranteed by Article 31 of the Russian Constitution; expresses solidarity with the organisers and participants of Strategy-31, the series of civic protests in support of this right which started on 31 July 2009 and take place on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow on the 31st of every month with 31 days; regrets that so far all of Strategy-31 demonstrations have been refused permission by the authorities on the grounds that other activities had been scheduled to take place in Triumfalnaya Square at the same time; is deeply concerned that on 31 December 2009, among dozens of other peaceful protesters, Russian police detained the Chairperson of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who had been awarded Parliament’s Sakharov Prize only a few weeks before her detention; expresses concern about attempts to intimidate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights defenders by Russian authorities, including through state- sponsored abductions, illegal arrests and intimidation;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Notes that measures to fight terrorism have resulted in violations of basic human rights in a number of countries around the world, in the form of the application of excessive surveillance measures, illegal detentions and the use of torture as a means of extracting information from suspected terrorists; condemns these violations of human rights, underlines the EU's position that the fight against terrorism must be conducted with full respect for fundamental rights and the rule of law and is convinced that civil liberties should not be compromised in the fight against terrorism, as the disruption of normal democratic life in Western societies is precisely what the terrorists are seeking;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. Recalls the decision of US President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in January 2009; expresses its regret that this decision has not been fully implemented; recalls its resolution of 13 June 2006 on the situation of prisoners at Guantanamo which insists that every prisoner be treated in accordance with international humanitarian law and, if charged, tried without delay in a fair and public hearing; urges the US Government to live up fully to its commitments; welcomes the constructive engagement of a number of EU Member States in their efforts to assist with reception of certain former Guantanamo detainees and with finding accommodation for some of the people cleared for release from the detention camp;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74a (new)
Paragraph 74a (new)
74a (new). Recalls the EU-US Joint Statement of 15 June 2009 on the Closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility and Future Counter-Terrorism Cooperation which welcomed the determination of the US to eliminate secret detention facilities; is concerned about the ongoing detention without trial of detainees by the US, for example, at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan; insists that the US allow 'habeas corpus' and due process for all prisoners it is detaining anywhere under assumed executive powers; and calls on the Council to deepen its dialogue with the US on this and other questions raised by the fight against terrorism;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82a (new)
Paragraph 82a (new)
82a (new). Continues to be concerned that the human rights dialogue with Iran has been interrupted since 2004 due to a lack of cooperation from Iran and considers that time has come for the international community to act in support of Iranian civil society at this crucial juncture in the history of the country’s democratic movement; calls on the Council, the Commission as well the Member States to support and strengthen – through peaceful and non-violent means – those processes that can provide support to democratic reforms, ensure their sustainability and consolidate the involvement of Iranian human rights defenders and civil society representatives within policy-making processes, reinforcing the role of civil society within the general political discourse;