5 Amendments of Cristian Dan PREDA related to 2012/2136(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the economic and financial crisis is a threat to human rights as a whole, including civil and political rights, and has had detrimental effects on access to food, health care and education for the most vulnerable groups in society, in both urban and rural areas; recalls that governments have a duty toshould ensure respect for economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights and to provide protection against abuses by, for example, corporate and other private actorpoints to the EU’s responsibility to propose partnership arrangements and ways and means of creating growth and employment, including minimum social standards;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that, while the people in developed countries are feeling the impacts of the economical and financial crisis, people in the developing world are bearing the brunt of the crisis, with few safety nets to protect them; cals for higher involvement from the EU to help mitigate these effects in the developing countries;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the global crisis has clearly demonstrated that – in a context where deregulation, liberalisation and privatisation have entrenched global poverty and exacerbated inequalities between and within countries – a rethink is urgently needed of the role of the state in economic policy; believUnderscores that the fulfilment of social and economic rights depends on, inter alia, the capacity of the state to regulate the financial market and to allocate resources in an equitable manner through, for example, an effective, transparent, and progressive taxation system;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the financial and economic crisis is also having a disproportionate effect on the rights of specific groups of people, particularly the poorest and marginalized;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Underscores that, while the impact of the crisis on civil and political rights has yet to be fully evaluated, it is clear that the crisis has magnified social unrest, leading sometimes to violent repression, and has multiplied the failures to respect basic rights such as, for instance, freedom of expression and the right to information;