28 Amendments of Fiorello PROVERA related to 2010/2202(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
Citation 16
- having regard to the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and to Parliament’s resolution of 16 June 2010, 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 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16a (new)
Citation 16a (new)
- having regard to the United Nations Declaration on the elimination of all forms of intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including freedom of religious belief and the rights of persons belonging to minorities,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas economic, social and cultural rights must receive the same attention and be treated at the same level of importance as civil and political rights,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma (new). whereas freedom of religion and belief is under growing threat, notably by authoritarian governments targeting religious minorities or by government failing to prevent attacks, harassment, or other harmful acts against certain individuals or religious groups,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. WelcomesTakes note of the HR/VP’s commitment to building up an active role for the EU on the world stage with a view to improving human rights and democracy globally;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that a consistent EU foreign policy must give absolute priority to promoting democracy, given that democratic society is the basis for upholding human rights; believes that the new institutional structure of the EU, and particularly the EEAS, might offers an opportunity to enhance the EU’s coherence and effectiveness in this area;
Amendment 75 #
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 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the importance of the EU Annual Report on Human Rights in analysing and evaluating the EU’s human rights policy, notably with a view to raising the visibility of human rights issues in general; calls for public information campaigns aimed at raising the EU’s profile in this field;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Council and Commission to make greater efforts to disseminate the EU annual report on human rights and democracy and to ensure that it reaches as wide a readership as possiblethose involved in promoting human rights and democracy all over the world; recognises that in the current edition an improvement has been made in terms of clearer presentation, although the longer reporting period makes it difficult to use;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights the future accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights as an opportunity to prove its commitment to defending human rights inside and outside its borders; calls on the EU Member States to support this and commit the EU’s citizens to it;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU Member States to sign up to, and ratify, all core UN and Council of Europe human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto, in particular to ratify the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; insists that the Optional Protocol to the Convention should be regarded as an integral part thereof, and calls for simultaneous accession to the latter (Convention and Protocol)1;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. WelcomesTakes note of the work of the UNHRC and stresses its crucial role within the overall UN architecture and its potential to develop a valuable framework for the European Union’s multilateral human rights efforts; notes with concern that this new body has to keep working in order to gain more credibility; regrets the fact that the newly established UNHRC has not improved the United Nation's human rights record;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Welcomes the special sessions of the HRC on the human rights situation in the east of the DRC, on the impact of the global economic and financial crises on the universal realisation and effective enjoyment of human rights, on the situation of human rights in Sri Lanka, and on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and East Jerusalem; regrets that in the context of the special session on the OPT the majority of members applied a one-sided interpretation of the Goldstone report;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Notes that the programme of the Trio Presidency of France, the Czech Republic and Sweden (July 2008 - December 2009) gave priority to the question of violence against women and girls, and asks for coherence on principles and policies both outside and inside the EU, including with respect to supporting a ban on female genital mutilation as a human rights violation; notes the recent adoption of a new set of guidelines on the matter and expects the Commission to present the results of its implementation to Parliament;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42a (new subheading)
Paragraph 42a (new subheading)
Female genital mutilation and other harmful traditional practices
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42b (new)
Paragraph 42b (new)
42b (new). Emphasises that efforts to eliminate all forms of female genital mutilation should be intensified both at the grass-roots level and within the policy- making process, so as to highlight the fact that such mutilation is both a gender issue and a human rights violation relating to physical integrity;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42c (new)
Paragraph 42c (new)
42c (new). Insists that women's rights be explicitly addressed in all human rights dialogues, and in particular the combating and elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, including, most prominently, gender-selected abortion, all forms of harmful traditional or customary practices, for example female genital mutilation and early or forced marriage, all forms of trafficking in human beings, domestic violence and femicide, exploitation at work and economic exploitation, and that the invocation by States of any custom, tradition, or religious consideration of any kind, in order to evade their duty to eliminate such brutality, be rejected;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42d (new)
Paragraph 42d (new)
42d (new). Calls on the Council, the Commission and Member States to use the human rights clause to make combating all forms of female genital mutilation a priority issue in relations with non-Member States, particularly those States that have preferential relations with the European Union within the framework of the Cotonou Agreement (now under the European Partnership Agreements), and to put pressure on them to adopt the necessary legislative, administrative, judicial and preventive measures to put an end to these practices;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42e (new)
Paragraph 42e (new)
42e (new). Recalls the Millennium Development Goals, and stresses that access to education and health are basic human rights; believes that health programmes, including sexual and reproductive health, promotion of gender equality, empowerment of women and rights of the child should be prominent in the EU´s development and human rights policy, in particular where gender-based violence is pervasive and women and children are put at risk of HIV/AIDS, or denied access to information, prevention and/or treatment; calls on the Commission to integrate core labour rights and the decent work agenda in its development policy, in particular in trade- related assistance programmes;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42f (new)
Paragraph 42f (new)
42f (new). Calls on the Council, the Commission and Member States to promote in particular the ratification and implementation by African Union Member States of the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42g (new)
Paragraph 42g (new)
42g (new). Calls on the Council, the Commission and Member States to enhance the EIDHR and to ensure the allocation of funds for activities addressing the elimination of all forms of female genital mutilation;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68
Paragraph 68
68. Remains deeply concerned that discrimination based on religion or belief still exists in all regions of the world, and that persons belonging to particular religious communities, including religious minorities, continue to be denied their human rights in many countries; condemns the Chinese authorities for the persecution of individuals who practise their religion outside officially sanctioned channels, including Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Falun Gong practitioners; urges the Chinese authorities to refrain from their oppressive policy in Tibet, which might eventually lead to the annihilation of the Tibetan religion and culture; expresses its concern for the situation of the Montagnards Christian minority living in the Central Highlands of Vietnam; reminds Vietnamese authorities that the rights of minorities include freedom to practice the religions without restriction, freedom of association and expression, the right of peaceful assembly, the equal right to own and use land and the right to participate fully and effectively in decision- making regarding issues that affect them, including with respect to economic development projects and re- settlement issues;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. NReminds that terrorism itself is a violation of human rights; notes that measures to fight terrorism have resulted in violations of basic human rights in a number of countries around the world, in the form of the application of excessive surveillance measures, illegal detentions and the use of torture as a means of extracting information from suspected terrorists; condemns these violations of human rights and is convinced that civil liberties should not be compromised in the fight against terrorism, as the disruption of normal democratic life in Western societies is precisely what the terrorists are seeking;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76
Paragraph 76
76. Expresses its disappointment at the lack of progress achieved by the human rights dialogues and consultations; deplornotes the fact that the involvement of civil society in these dialogues and consultations is not systematically guaranteed and is sometimes subject to constraints imposed by the non-EU parties;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82a (new)
Paragraph 82a (new)
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82b (new)
Paragraph 82b (new)
82b (new). Takes note of the worrying authoritarian trend noticed in Cambodia, underlined by a long-standing impunity for human rights violations and the narrowing of political space and freedom of expression for people belonging to the opposition political parties and other political activists; calls on the Commission to take action for the reactivation of the 1991 Paris Agreement on Cambodia;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 91
Paragraph 91
91. Stresses the importance of using the EIDHR as a way of reacting to human rights threats and a way of providing increasing support to human rights defenders and victims of human rights abuses; supports a network of 11 EIDHR- funded organisations focusing on protecting human rights defenders and responding rapidly in emergency situations;