11 Amendments of Carlo CASINI related to 2007/2145(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. 8. Emphasises, as regards the Agency’s limited remit, that human rights issues cannot be artificially divided into areas under the first, second or third pillars, as the Member States chose to define the scope of the European Union’s powers, because fundamental rights are indivisible and interdependent; regards it as essential, therefore, that the Commission and the Council, working with the Agency, should first of all seek to gain an overview of concerns in the area of human rights in the Member States beyond the strict framework of European rules, without confining themselves to topical issues in the European Union or specific legal and political instruments, identifying recurring and current human rights problems in the Member States and considering all existing mechanisms at international and European level;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Reserves the right toStresses the importance of following up the Agency’s work in the European Union and to address human rights issues which fall outside the Agency’s remit, and calls on the Commission to do the same, in keeping with its role as guardian of the Treatie; welcomes the right to request that the Agency publish conclusions and opinions on specific thematic topics;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to continue its work with a view to submitting a proposal for a legislative package including the proposal, deferred to date, to extend the scope of Directive 2000/43/EC to all other forms of discrimination, thus implementingaking account of Article 21 of the Charter, which provides greater leeway than Article 13 of the Treaty establishing the European Community in that it makes reference to further forms of discrimination: colour, social origin, genetic features, language, political or other opinions, membership of a minority, property and birth; stresses once more that the effect of granting preferential treatment in legislation to particular forms of discrimination is to introduce a kind of hierarchy between them, which should not be the case;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission to involveallow the Agency in the Community’s legislative process on anti-discrimination so as to allow it to play a significant role as a regular source of up-to-date and detailed information of relevance for drafting further legislation, consulting it at the preparatory stage in the process of drawing up draft legislation;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Council to do its utmost to reach agreement on the Commission proposal for a Council framework decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law; points to its opinion of 29 November 2007, which endorsed the proposal; calls on the Commission, after consulting the Agency, to propose similar legislation to combat homophobia;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Stresses the need to raise public awareness of the right to reprofor sexual education including educative and sexual health, and calls on the Member States to put in place appropriate sex education, information and confidential advisory services, and to facilitate access to contraception in order to prevent all unwanted pregnancies and illegal and high-risk abortionson in love, the family and respect for life; calls for terminations to be prevented not only through responsible procreation but also, during pregnancy, through the provision of all assistance required in order to enable the pregnancy to come to its natural term;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Takes the view that discriminatory comments against homosexuals by political or religiousextremist political leaders fuel hatred and violence, and calls on the respective governing bodies to condemn them;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. WelcomNotes the publication of the first thematic report by the Agency, drawn up at Parliament’s request, on ‘homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the EU Member States’;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Reminds all Member States that, in line with European Court of Human Rights case law, freedom of assembly may be exercised even if the opinions of those making use of that right go against the majority, and that, accordingly, a discriminatory ban on marches and any failure to meet the requirement to give appropriate protection to those taking part breach the principles guaranteed by the European Court of Human Rights, subject to the limits laid down by law and case law with a view to protecting public policy and accepted principles of morality;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59