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2012/2136(INI) Impact of the financial and economic crisis on human rights
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Lead committee dossier: AFET/7/09955
Legal Basis RoP 048
Next event: Deadline Amendments 2012/12/12 more...
- Prev Adopt in Cte 2013/01/31
- Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2013/04/16
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Opinion | DEVE | TAYLOR Keith (Verts/ALE) |
Legal Basis RoP 048
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2012/2136(INI)
2012/11/09
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the crisis has shown that social protection spending increases poor people’s resilience to shocks and reduces the social costs of the crisis; highlights as
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion 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 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Emphasizes that social tensions have led to increasing discrimination and xenophobia towards minorities and migrant workers who belong to the most vulnerable groups affected by the crisis and whose needs have to be taken into account responding to the crisis;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Recognises that austerity measures as a way out of the economic and financial crisis will have a particularly damaging impact on women and their human rights, as women dominate the public sector both as employees and as beneficiaries of services;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses that gender equality is a tool for fighting poverty amongst women, as it has a positive impact on productivity and sustainable societies and leads to greater participation of women in the labour market, which in turn has many social, economic and ecological benefits;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses that governments must make not only an economic, but also a social response to the crisis; states that, in order to support developing countries’ efforts, subsequent partnership agreements must place greater emphasis on promotion of better governance;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the economic and financial crisis has had detrimental effects on access to food, health care
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Deplores that, in times of crisis, the rights of women and the rights of minorities are severely breached and insists that increased attention is given during these times to the fight against discrimination on the basis of sex, religion or belief, racial or ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses that combating illicit financial flows, tax havens and speculation on commodities are necessary steps for the achievement of human rights, especially in low-income countries;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion 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) 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;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Recalls that fulfilling human rights imply, inter alia, a universal social protection floor to safeguard against extreme poverty, minimum wages and full application of international labour standards;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Notes that about 5.1 billion people, 75% of the world population, are not covered by adequate social security, 2.6 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation and 884 million people lack access to adequate source of drinking water, 873 million suffer from chronic hunger, nearly 9 million children under the age of five die every year from largely preventable diseases and that 100 million people are pushed below the poverty line when compelled to pay for health care;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Points out that Sub-Saharan countries are particularly vulnerable to external shocks because of the limited diversification of their economies and exports and the dominance of primary commodities; stresses equally that illicit financial flows are a major development challenge to Africa, which hampers fulfilment of human rights; encourages African countries to initiate systematic audits of national debts to establish legitimacy or illegitimacy of each debt covenant, similar to Ecuador's experience; urges once more the EU to make the fight against tax havens and corruption one of its top priorities and to strongly encourage international finance and development institution to do the same;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that human rights are genuinely protected in the remit of any trade and investment agreements concluded; stresses therefore that Member States shall not allow themselves to be locked into deals that impair their ability to comply with their human rights commitments for the sake of securing access to export markets or attracting investors; insists that the Commission conducts systematic human rights impact assessments of trade and investment agreements to help ensure effective enforcement of human rights;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that human rights are genuinely protected in the remit of any trade and investment agreements concluded or revised, through binding and non-negotiable human rights clauses; insists that the Commission conducts systematic human rights impact assessments of trade and investment agreements to help ensure effective enforcement of human rights;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that the economic and financial crisis 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 to ensure respect for economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights and to provide protection against abuses by, for example, corporate and other private actors; through the implementation of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes with concern that the global economic crisis is jeopardising Official Development Aid spending by EU Member States; recalls that the costs of the global economic crisis are being borne disproportionately by poor countries, despite having originated in the richer countries; urges, therefore, the EU and its Member States to maintain and deliver on their existing bilateral and multilateral ODA commitments and on the targets identified in
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Reasserts that rich countries should be subject to binding obligations to realise ESC rights beyond their borders, while decisions within the remit of international institutions, such as IMF, the World Bank or WTO shall be compatible with the full range of human rights obligations enshrined in international human rights treaties.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Observes that the financial crisis has spread across the world through varying transmission channels, interacted with other crisis (such as food and fuel crisis) at different speeds and intensities; notes with concern that owing to the crisis, the World Bank and the UN estimate that between 55 and 103 million more people have to live in poverty, thereby jeopardising further achievement of human rights;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Notes with concern that, according to World Bank and IMF estimates, the rate at which poverty is being reduced in sub- Saharan Africa has slowed; that approximately 30,000-50,000 more children died in SSA in 2009 as a consequence of the global financial crisis;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Notes with concern that owing to the crisis, women's rights have deteriorated through, for example, additional unpaid work and increased violence; reasserts accordingly that the development of public services and effective social protection systems are essential in ensuring respect of women's economic and social rights;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Recalls that the principle of non- discrimination requires, especially in a context of crisis, positive remedial steps to counter disproportionate impacts on women, indigenous people and other systematically disadvantaged sectors of the population, while ensuring that these anti-crisis measures benefit the most disadvantaged and vulnerable communities;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the crisis has shown that social protection spending increases poor people’s resilience to shocks; highlights as well that countries with effective systems of domestic taxation reduce their vulnerability to sudden losses of trade taxes or foreign capital inflows; urges, therefore, the EU to help developing countries set up progressive and effective taxation systems to mitigate the impact of the crisis on public revenues in order to help guarantee the funds needed for social protection programmes and to ensure equitable redistribution of existing resources;
source: PE-500.469
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