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18 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2008/2336(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Reiterates its conviction that, in order to effect an improvement in the promotion of human rights~~, the EU's common foreign and security policy (CFSP) needs to be strengthened, and that~~ it is necessary to ensure that the promotion of human rights as a main objective of the CFSP, as outlined in Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union, is strictly implemented;

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Council and Commission to make greater efforts to disseminate their annual report on human rights and ensure it reaches as large a public as possible; ~~also calls for information campaigns aimed at raising the EU's profile in this field;~~

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

~~12. Stresses that immigration policy represents a challenge for the credibility of the EU's external action in the field of human rights, in the eyes of large segments of public opinion worldwide,~~deleted

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Considers that a quantitative and qualitative improvement of the Council's human rights secretariat would enable the European Union to further raise its profile in promoting and ensuring respect for human rights in its external policy; expects that a future appointment of a High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who would also be a Vice-President of the Commission, would considerably enhance the coherence and effectiveness of the EU if the Lisbon Treaty were to enter into force;deleted

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Welcomes the fact that the ratifications of the Rome Statute by Madagascar, Cook Islands and Suriname in 2008 brought the 1 As of 18 July 2008, 85 states had not yet ratified the Rome Statute: Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Brunei, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Libya,, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe. total number of States Parties to 108 in July 2008; demands that the Czech Republic, as the only remaining European Union Member State not to have ratified the Rome Statute, finally do so without further delay1; urges Romania to rescind its Bilateral Immunity Agreement with the United Statestotal number of States Parties to 108 in July 2008;

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Notes with regret that, despite the fact that the Commission has recommended ratification of ILO Convention 169 on several occasions, at the present time, almost twenty years after its entry into force, only three Member States – Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain – have ratified it; ~~encourages, therefore, initiatives to increase awareness of this important legislative instrument and to enhance its effectiveness worldwide by ensuring that it is ratified by all the Member States;~~

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. Considers that, despite the delay in final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the preparations for the creation of the new European External Action Service should be used proactively to harmonise the approaches of the missions of Member States and the Commission abroad in the area of human rights, by sharing structures and staff so as to create genuine "European Union embassies";deleted

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. Welcomes the new priority status given by the French presidency in the second half of 2008 to women's issues in the context of the EU's action in the field of human rights; stresses, in particular, the need to tackle the tragic phenomena of violence against women ~~and feminicide~~(including the practice of female circumcision) and feminicide (including the practice of gender-selective abortion);

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44

44. Calls for a reform of the language used by the EU so as to remove all sexist connotations; in particular, calls for expressions of the type 'rights of man' to be replaced by 'human rights' in those Union languages where, for historical reasons, such a distinction persists;deleted

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47

~~47.~~ Welcomes the revised and updated version of the EU Guidelines on the Death Penalty; reiterates that the EU is opposed to the death penalty ~~in all circumstances~~, and emphasises once again that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity and the progressive development of human rights;

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48

48. Calls on the Presidency to encourage Italy, Latvia, Poland and Spain, which have signed but not yet ratified Protocol No 13 to the ECHR concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances, to do so; rRecognises in that regard that the Guidelines on the Death Penalty could be implemented more coherently if Member States were to sign up to and ratify such protocols and conventions;

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49

49. Welcomes the fact that death penalty is in retreat, having been abolished for all crimes in 2008 by Rwanda and Uzbekistan; welcomes the draft penal code in Iran, which prohibits stoning sentences, and urges the Iranian parliament to conclude the penal code so as to provide for the absolute prohibition of stoning; condemns the fact that the Iranian regime still sentences to death, and executes, defendants under the age of 18 (particularly those whose only ‘crime’ under sharia law is having committed acts of homosexuality); once again condemns the Iranian regime's increasing use of death penalty, which places Iran in second position, just after China, in the league table of countries having highest number of executions; notes that there has not been any death sentence passed in Guatemala; however, expresses its disquiet at the possibility that the death penalty might once again start to be enforced; urges the Guatemalan Government, on the contrary, to genuinely commit itself to the universal moratorium on the death penalty; however, welcomes the decisions taken by President Colom in March 2008 which may lead to the abolition of the death penalty in Guatemala; expresses its concern at the retention of the death penalty in domestic legislation in Peru; notes that since 2007 all death penalty cases in China have been reviewed by the Supreme Court; however, remains concerned that China still carries out the greatest number of executions worldwide; condemns the practice of the death penalty in Belarus, which runs counter to European values;

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106

106. Underlines ~~that economic, social and cultural rights are just as important as civil and political rights; underlines~~ the EU's commitment to supporting the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals, as set out in the conclusions of the European Councils held in December 2007 and June 2008;

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 107

107. Calls on the EU to mainstream protection of ESC rights into its external relations with third countries, regularly placing them on the agenda of human rights dialogues and consultations with third countries and pressing for implementation of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, especially with a view to the effective functioning of its individual complaint procedure;deleted

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 108

108. Calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure the coherence of ESC rights in the EU's development, external trade and human rights policies, and, to that end, to set up an inter-service working group on ESC rights;deleted

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109

109. Stresses that human rights also include rights to food, to adequate housing, to education, to water~~, to l~~ and, to ~~decent work, to social security and to form a trade un~~land, and the right to free association, and that it is especially important to ensure that those rights are enjoyed by extremely vulnerable groups such as people in least-developed, post- conflict or emerging countries, indigenous peoples, climate change refugees, migrants, etc.;

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas human rights and the protection of those rights rely on recognition of the dignity of the human person; recalls in this connection the opening words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, namely: “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world",

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)

-Aa. whereas justice, freedom, democracy and the rule of law arise out of an authentic recognition of the dignity of the human person, and whereas such recognition is the foundation of all human rights,

2009/02/10
Committee: AFET