4 Amendments of Baroness Sarah LUDFORD related to 2013/2169(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas torture can be both physical and psychological; whereas there has been a growing number of cases where psychiatry is used as a tool for coercion of human rights defenders and dissidents, who are placed in psychiatric institutions in order to prevent them from carrying out their political and community activities;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reiterates the vital importance of rehabilitation centres for torture victims both inside and outside the EU in addressing not only physical, but also long-term psychological problems experienced by torture victims; is convinced that funding for such centres in third countries provided by the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) should not be cut even in the face of the financial and economic crisis since national healthcare systems of these countries are often not in a position to adequately address the specific problems of torture victims;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Is particularly concerned by torture of human rights defenders, including community activists, journalists, human rights lawyers and bloggers in prisons; recognises that it is often the people who are most involved in the fight for human rights and democracy who suffer the most through unlawful detention, intimidation, torture and exposure to danger of their families; insists that both EU missions on the ground and high-level EU officials systematically and consistently raise this issue in meetings with their third-country counterparts, including mentioning specific names of human rights defenders in prisons;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the EEAS and the Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) to make sure that Human Rights Country Strategies (HRCSs) contain country- specific objectives and benchmarks related to the fight against torture, including the identification of groups requiring special protection, such as children, women, displaced persons, refugees and migrants, and those facing discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, caste, religious or other beliefs, sexual orientation or gender identity;