Activities of Leonidas DONSKIS related to 2013/2074(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on corruption in the public and private sectors: the impact on human rights in third countries PDF (254 KB) DOC (147 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas whistleblowers are vital in exposing corruption, fraud, mismanagement and human rights abuses, despite high personal risk, and whereas lack of protection against retaliation, controls on information, libel and defamation laws, and inadequate investigation of whistleblowers' claims can allboth deter people from speaking out, and often compromise their personal safety, as well as the safety of their families;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas grand corruption in developing, but also in certain developed, countries occurs mostly with the complicity and even the assistance of certain businesspeople, lawyers, financial institutions and public officials in developed countries, including in EU Member States, and whereas, in blatant disregard for anti-money laundering regulation at EU and international level, these institutions and corporations have provided the channels to launder the proceeds of corruption in developed and developing countries, to create opaque structures and to hide assets in the ‘secrecy jurisdictions’;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Fully supports the EU's commitment to embracinge and mainstreaming throughout its development policies the concept of democratic ownership, that is, the effective and full participation of people in the design, implementation and monitoring of development strategies and policies of donors and partner governments; is of the opinion that such policy fosters involvement of programme beneficiaries and therefore contributes to greater monitoring and accountability in the fight against corruption; requests that the Commission continue to foster high levels of aid transparency in machine-readable formats and using a common standard to ensure comparability both with other donors, and also, more particularly, in line with the needs of recipient governments;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Points out, on the other hand, that the EU should not foster ‘advanced partnerships’ with kleptocratic regimes which do not show the political will to genuinely implement the above-mentioned principles, unless dialogue, pressure and cooperation from the EU towards the need for reform is visible and transparent, and without integrating adequate and ambitious monitoring mechanisms with clearly-defined human rights clauses which would allow any partnership agreement to be suspended in the face of gross human rights violations; takes the view that the EU should publicly condemn the enactment of laws which restrict the freedom of the media and the activities of civil society as cornerstones of accountability and that it should draw up strategies to adapt relations with those countries so as to foster reform in a visible way;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Points out, however, that EU Member States should exercise cautious judgement when providing information to third countries on individuals accused of corruption, embezzlement or tax evasion, so as to not unjustly implicate human rights defenders, as was the case with Ales Bialiatski who was arrested in Belarus in 2011 following information provided to Belarusian authorities by Ministries of two EU Member States and imprisoned on false charges of tax evasion;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Is concerned by reports of cooperation of certain EU companies with authoritarian regimes in the field of information technologies and communications leading to human rights abuses such as censorship of information, mass surveillance, monitoring, tracing and tracking of citizens and their activities on (mobile) telephone networks and the internet; is convinced that European companies and their subsidiaries and subcontractors should play a key role in the promotion and dissemination of human rights standards worldwide and never compromise these values in their efforts to expand their markets abroad;