6 Amendments of Charles GOERENS related to 2012/2137(INI)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas China emphasises social human rights (e.g., food, clothes, economic development), while the EU stresses individual human rights (e.g., freedom of speech, religion, association)and attaches no particular importance to first-generation human rights;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas China is a country that is passionate about the internet has experienced tremendous growthe internet, with more than 500 million user China, but is subject to extremely strict controls;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas nowhere in the world is China’'s explosive growth more visible than in Africa, as illustrated by the impressive rise of China’s mutual trade volume by 80 % to USD 166.3 billion between 2009 and 2011, according to Chinese statisticspresence in Africa is increasingly intrusive;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Admires the courage and the social responsibility of numerous Chinese citizens for defending precious social rights in their country, but denounces the tragic state of affairs whereby several of them are being officially persecuted and punished for their efforts to correct well-known social dangers/criminal acts such as corruption, abuse of office, environmental damage, AIDS infection, food poisoning, construction fraud concerning schools, illegal land and property expropriation, often committed by local party authorities; urges the Chinese leadership to encourage civil responsibility for observing social human rights and to rehabilitate officially persecuted and punished defenders of these rights; also expects a responsiblreminds the Chinese leadership to comply strictly with individual human rights;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that the Chinese Government is tightening its surveillance of the internet by way of a new law that forbids betrayal of state secrets, harming of national pride, endangering the ethnic unity of the country or making calls for ‘illegal protests’ or ‘mass meetings’; criticises the factnotes that thesre prohibitions are rather obscurely formulated and thus clear the way for unbridledis therefore no longer any real limit to censorship;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Is concerned about the entry into force of the new provisions relating to control of the internet legalizing the closure of blogs, but also providing stiff penalties for bloggers, journalists and lawyers who defend them;