5 Amendments of Ulrike LUNACEK related to 2014/2216(INI)
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
66. Points out that 78 countries still criminalise homosexuality, including seven which provide for the death penalty, and 20 countries still criminalise transgender identities; firmly condemns the recent increase in discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, worldwide, and most notably in Nigeria and Uganda; encourages close monitoring of the situation in Nigeria, Uganda, India and Russia, where new laws or recent legal developments seriously threaten the freedom of sexual minorities; reaffirms its support for the continuing work of the High Commissioner on Human Rights to combat these discriminatory laws and practices and for the work of the UN more generally on this issue;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
Paragraph 67
67. Welcomes the adoption in 2013 of the EU Guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons; calls on the EEAS and the Commission to raise the issue of LGBTI rights in political and human rights dialogues with third countries and multilateral forums; emphasises the importance of the Commission and the EEAS continuing to raise the issue of LGBTI rights in political and human rights dialogues and of using the EIDHR to support organisations defending LGBTI rights by empowering them to challenge homo- and transphobic laws and discrimination against LGBTI people, raising awareness among the general public of the discrimination and violence experienced by persons of different sexual orientations and gender identities, and ensuring the provision of emergency assistance (from psychosocial and medical help to mediation and reintegration assistance) to those in need of such support;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)
Paragraph 68 a (new)
68a. Calls upon the European Commission and the World Health Organisation to withdraw gender identity disorders from the list of mental and behavioural disorders; calls on the Commission to reinforce its efforts towards ending the pathologisation of trans identities; encourages states to ensure quick, accessible and transparent gender recognition procedures respecting the right to self-determination;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 b (new)
Paragraph 68 b (new)
68b. Welcomes the growing political support to outlaw sterilisation as a requirement for legal gender recognition, as expressed by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and supports the view that such requirements should be treated and persecuted as a breach of the right to bodily integrity and sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Welcomes the annulment in October 2013 of the Moldovan law prohibiting the ‘propagation of any other relations than those related to marriage or family’, and calls on Lithuania and Russia to follow the Moldovan example; regrets the outcome of the Croatian referendum of December 2013, which endorsed a constitutional ban on equal marriage; highlights that such a referendum will take place in Slovakia in February 2015; regrets that in Macedonia, a bill constitutionally banning same-sex marriage is currently considered in Parliament; stresses that such referendumdevelopments contribute to a climate of homophobia and discrimination; stresses that there is a strong need for improved protection of basic rights and freedoms for LGBTI people, including by legislating on hate crimes and anti- discrimination legislation, and asks the national authorities to denounce hatred and violence on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression; considers that LGBTI persons’ fundamental rights are more likely to be safeguarded if they have access to legal institutions such as cohabitation, registered partnership or marriage;