7 Amendments of Charles GOERENS 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 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7a (new)
Paragraph 7a (new)
7a (new). Recognises that non- governmental organisations are essential to the development and success of democratic societies, the promotion of mutual understanding and tolerance as well as initiating and sustaining actionable policy priorities and shared solutions to the challenges to democratic development;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15a (new)
Paragraph 15a (new)
15a (new). Underlines the fact that the definitions of human rights adopted by the international community from the end the Second World War have proven sufficiently flexible to include new developments of human progress, but stresses the need to codify new rights to respond to new threats to freedom, such as those relating to freedom of science, conscience and knowledge, gender identity or sexual orientation and all the rights relating to the digital domain, starting from universal access to the Internet;
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 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20a (new)
Paragraph 20a (new)
20a (new).Regrets the weakening of the EU's policy and conduct towards the Burmese junta, underlines that the current attitude is not helpful in fighting against the tragic political, social and human situation in which the Burmese people are forced to live since the beginning of the military rule and risks to appear a sort of appeasement with the dictatorship;
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 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;