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2016/2009(INI) Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2015
Lead committee dossier: LIBE/8/05511
Legal Basis RoP 052
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| Opinion | AFCO | PREDA Cristian Dan (EPP) | |
| Opinion | FEMM | SEBASTIÀ Jordi (Verts/ALE) | |
| Lead | LIBE | NAGY József (EPP) | NIEDERMÜLLER Péter (S&D), ŠKRIPEK Branislav (ECR), MLINAR Angelika (ALDE), CHRYSOGONOS Kostas (GUE/NGL), TERRICABRAS Josep-Maria (Verts/ALE), FERRARA Laura (EFD) |
| Opinion | PETI | KIRTON-DARLING Jude (S&D) |
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2016/12/13
Vote in plenary scheduled
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2016/12/12
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2016/11/24
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the own-initiative report by József NAGY (EPP, SK) on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2015. The report noted that whilst the Charter of Fundamental Rights became a fully-fledged component of the Treaties, fundamental rights violations do occur in the EU and its Member States, as pointed out in reports by the Commission, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), the Council of Europe and the UN, and by NGOs. Rule of Law: noting that the rule of law is the backbone of European liberal democracy and a prerequisite for the protection of the fundamental rights, Members reiterated their call for the establishment of a Union Pact on Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights, which should consist of an annual report with country-specific recommendations, and replace the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism for Romania and Bulgaria. They also placed some emphasis on freedom of expression, information and the media and called for consideration of the possibility of setting up a whistle-blower protection scheme and providing safeguards for journalists´ sources. They also expressed concern regarding prison conditions, the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, and systemic corruption. Migration, integration and social inclusion: Members considered that the social inclusion and integration of migrants and refugees is part of a dynamic and multi-dimensional process (involving rights and obligations) where respect for the values upon which the EU is built must be an integral part, as must respect for the fundamental rights of those concerned; this represents a challenge and an opportunity that requires efforts and an assumption of responsibilities by all parties. In this policy area, Member States were asked to: apply integration policies as swiftly as possible and with adequate dedicated resources; respect international and EU law, as well as the Charter of Fundamental Rights, when carrying out border guard actions and asylum proceedings; devote sufficient resources to create safe and legal routes for asylum seekers in order to undermine the business model of trafficking networks and smugglers; guarantee reception conditions that do not deprive people of their fundamental rights to a dignified standard of living and to physical and mental health; refrain from inciting fear and hatred among their citizens towards migrants and asylum-seekers for political gain; develop positive campaigns aimed at helping citizens approach integration in a better way; The report also raised the following issues: any system of indiscriminate mass surveillance constitutes a serious interference with the fundamental rights of citizens, and any legislative proposal in the Member States related to surveillance capabilities of intelligence bodies should always comply with the Charter. The Commission was asked closely to monitor the compliance of such legislative developments with the Treaties; the Commission should support the Member States in their efforts to prevent radicalisation and violent extremism, which must centre on promoting European values, tolerance and community, without stigmatization; EU law enforcement agencies should step up their efforts to target criminal trafficking networks and facilitators, paying special attention to crimes against children. In addition, the EU Strategy should strengthen measures to prevent the consumption of goods produced, and services provided, by victims of trafficking in human beings; the Commission and the Member States should intensify work on exchanging best practices, and strengthen their cooperation in combating racism and xenophobia in the form of Afrophobia, anti-Gypsyism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant sentiment, as well as homophobia, transphobia and other forms of intolerance, with full inclusion of civil society; many improvements are still needed to combat violence against women and girls, and the Commission and Member States should review existing legislation, and fully implement Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order; child poverty rates remain high in the EU, and the number of minors living in poverty is increasing; Member States should step up their efforts to tackle child poverty and social exclusion through effective implementation of the Commission’s Recommendation ‘Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage’, and through integrated strategies supporting access to adequate resources; on minority rights, the Commission should establish a policy standard for the protection of minorities, as protection of these groups is part of the Copenhagen criteria. Member States should ensure that their legal systems guarantee that persons belonging to a minority are not discriminated against, and implement targeted protection measures based on relevant international norms; the EU and its Member States should take measures to ensure that all persons with disabilities may exercise all the rights enshrined in treaties and EU legislation. A human rights-based approach to disability is not yet fully endorsed, resulting in discrimination against those with disabilities in the EU. Members urged Member States to align their legal frameworks with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) requirements; the EU should be actively involved in the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing, and to step up their efforts to protect the rights of older people; discrimination of Roma in the areas of labour, housing, education, health, access to justice or any other domain is unacceptable and harmful to EU society; Member States and regional and local authorities should, in the light of the Commission’s Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies 2015, implement fully their own national Roma strategies, and to put in place specific measures to fight racial discrimination against Roma; the Commission should monitor proper transposition and implementation of EU legislation relevant to LGBTI. The committee went on to note the rise in Euroscepticism, and in the expression of violent political views, with great concern. It urged the EU and its Member States to strengthen the participation of citizens – especially young people and civil society organisations – in EU matters, so that Europeans can voice their concerns and express their opinions through democratic channels. Lastly, on digital rights, Members considered it essential to familiarise the public, in particular children, with the importance of personal data protection, including in cyberspace, and the potential risks to which they are exposed, especially in the light of rapid technology developments and increasing cyber-attacks.
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2016/11/17
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2016/01/21
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0345/2016
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2016/2009(INI)
2016/07/19
FEMM
182 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 a (new) - having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) of 18 December 1979,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas gender itself does not inherently create vulnerability, and there are many contributing factors to create a situation of vulnerability, including poverty, social exclusion and multiple discrimination;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls for further action to push for the harmonisation of criminal law across the EU in order to c
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence, and specifically those directed against LGBTI people; calls for further action to push for the harmonisation of criminal law across the EU in order to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls for further action to push for the harmonisation of criminal and antidiscrimination laws across the EU in order to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls for
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Is concerned by the increase of cyber violence against women and girls, as well as the use of ICT and Internet for trafficking in women and children, especially for sexual, reproductive and labour exploitation; calls for the Commission and the Member States to adopt measures to prevent and address the use of new technologies as a tool of recruiting particularly women and girls victims of trafficking in human beings, cyber-harassment and cyber stalking;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Acknowledges the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s report on the fundamental rights of intersex people and the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner on human rights’ issue paper on human rights and intersex people; calls on the European Commission to encourage Member States to take measures to protect and respect the fundamental rights of intersex people;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that children and young people can enjoy their right to seek, receive and impart information related to sexuality, including sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, in an age- appropriate and gender sensitive manner;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas the latest available estimates from Eurostat show that women in the EU earn on average 16 % less than men;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Reiterates that access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe and legal abortion should be guaranteed to Every Woman in the EU;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Deplores the high level of impunity and lack of justice for victims of sexual harassment in public places;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Member States to introduce gender-sensitive educational programmes as well as actions on girl´s and women’s rights, gender equality, gender identities and gender relations at all levels of educational systems; calls also for the necessity of peace, anti- discrimination and anti-racism education for both girls and boys in schools at an early stage;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Welcomes all the efforts made to fully implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; reminds that women and girls with disabilities are particularly exposed to discrimination, which prevents them from enjoying their fundamental rights on an equal basis with others;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the European Parliament to look into the issue and propose an own- initiative report regarding the protection of human rights of intersex people in the EU;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Acknowledges the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s report on the fundamental rights of intersex people and the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner on human rights’ issue paper on human rights and intersex people; calls on the EU and Member States to take measures to protect and respect the fundamental rights of intersex people;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Encourages the responsible committees within the European Parliament to look into the issue and propose an own-initiative report regarding the protection of human rights of intersex people in the EU;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include measures to protect women and LGBTI people against harassment in the workplace;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Calls on the Member States to monitor the media and advertising industry and impose sanctions on those companies that promote sexualisation of women; calls on the Commission to take legal action in case of violation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive by a Member State and to promote good practices in enterprises through incentives;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital A f (new) Af. whereas violence against women is a violation of fundamental rights which affects all levels of society, regardless of age, education, income, social position and country of origin or residence, and represents a major barrier to equality between women and men;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and access to
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortions, which is the competency of Member States;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women and girls migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, separate sanitary facilities, legal counselling and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortions;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital A g (new) Ag. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are grounded in basic human rights and are essential elements of human dignity1a ; __________________ 1aICPD Programme of Action § 7.2 and 7.3
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States, in cooperation with the Commission, to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortions;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Points out that women and girls represent the biggest group and a particularly vulnerable group within the migratory flows that requires specific and careful assessment of their needs within the asylum and reception procedures; reiterates in this regard that specific approaches, programmes and measures have to be provided for them;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Condemns all forms of forced prostitution, forced marriage, female circumcision, breast ironing and other perverse and inhumane rites, and calls on the Commission and Member States to take decisive action to combat them worldwide and in the EU;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises the urgent need to open immediate legal, safe asylum routes, in order to avoid trafficking networks as well as to enable women, children, elderly and persons with disabilities to seek refuge without risking their lives;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Urges the Commission not consider a safe country of origin any country that does not have gender equality as an established legal principle or where gender based violence against women and LGBTI people is a wide spread reality;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Reiterates the fundamental right of all women to access to public health care systems, in particular to primary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Member States to organise aware raising campaigns to combat sexual harassment of women in cities and to stimulate mutual gender respect within a multicultural framework;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Points out that women are particularly more vulnerable to certain forms of forced labour, also due to increased economic uncertainty and the higher risk of unemployment and poverty; calls on the Member States to address also the demand side of trafficking and exploitation of human beings in their national strategies and action plans;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Stresses the need for family reunification procedures to afford individual rights for women and girls joining their families in the EU, in order not to have to depend on a possibly abusive relationship with the male family member for access to health, education or work;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Stresses that undocumented migrant women and girls should have full access to their basic fundamental rights and channels for legal migration should be developed;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital A h (new) Ah. whereas the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children are a clear violation of human rights, human dignity and the fundamental principles of law and democracy;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Condemns any form of surrogate motherhood, which disregards the rights of all women;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Recalls that women and children may be compelled to exchange sex for protection, in order to survive, in order to advance along their migratory route, and for basic sustenance; underlines that survival sex is frequently a direct consequence of gaps in assistance, failures of registration systems, family separations, and absence of safe and legal entry ways into the EU and that women and children engaging in survival sex are not considered trafficking victims, and thus cannot receive the required assistance;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Points out that domestic workers are predominantly women and calls on the Member States to speed up the process of ratifying and implementing the ILO Domestic Workers Convention after Council Decision 2014/51/EU as a key instrument in ensuring decent work conditions;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Firmly opposes the use of detention of refugees, including pregnant women, children and breastfeeding mothers;
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Notes that according to Europol's last report on the situation of trafficking in human beings, 70% of the identified victims in the EU are EU nationals, and that most reported victims are female EU nationals from Central and Eastern Europe;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Calls for the strengthening of the rights to family reunification across the EU, as well as for improving the implementation, with swifter and less costly processes;
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Expresses concern about the lack of data regarding Romani women and children at risk of being trafficked for forced labour or services, which include begging; calls on the Commission to provide data regarding Romani women and children recognised as trafficking victims, how many have received victim assistance and in which countries;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to introduce gender mainstreaming in all areas of policy making and in all proposed legislation, including systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights compliance assessment and as an integrated criterion in dialogue with, inter alia, countries which are candidates for accession; stresses once again the need for strong and comprehensive protection of EU citizens against discrimination and reiterates its position on the anti-discrimination directive, which is blocked within the Council;
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to introduce gender mainstreaming in all areas of policy making in European strategies for more effective promotion of gender equality and in all proposed legislation, including systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights compliance assessment;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to introduce gender mainstreaming in all areas of policy making and in all proposed legislation, including systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights and social rights compliance assessment;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to introduce
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Underlines that the gender pay gap, which currently is at 16% in average in the EU, embodies an inadmissible discrimination and runs counter to the EU Treaties (Article 157 TFEU); urges the Member States to ensure that the principle of equal pay for equal work is applied in all segments of the labour market;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to implement gender budgeting as a tool for ensuring budgetary decisions take into account the gender dimension and address differentiated impacts;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Considers it important that Member States, using every available means on all appropriate occasions, should support a process of sociocultural change informed by the principles of equal opportunities, gender equality education, and prevention of violence;
Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the European Commission to set up programs to efficiently promote gender equality in schools;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 166 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to introduce a
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to introduce a gender equality pillar into the Europe 2020 strategy and for greater inclusion of the gender mainstreaming perspective in the European Semester by introducing a gender dimension in the annual growth survey and in the formulation process of the CSRs; recognises that austerity policies and an excessive focus on fiscal consolidation have exacerbated poverty and social exclusion across Europe, and have had a disproportionate impact on women, and that these impacts must be taken into account in economic CSRs;
Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Regrets that levels of gender discrimination remain high, including in areas other than employment;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached in many areas; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination and social exclusion as exemplified by their low representation in the decision- making process, both in the private
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the European Commission to combat the unfair treatment of women and image of gender inequality in the media industry by exchanging best practices for media companies to better apply a gender equal approach in broadcasting and publicity;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Recognises that upholding women and girls’ fundamental rights can only truly be guaranteed through further economic, political, and social empowerment, representation, and inclusion;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Highlights the need for targeted policies to guarantee the fundamental rights of vulnerable women in specific groups, such as refugees and asylum seekers, Roma women, women from ethnic minorities, elderly women, or women with disabilities;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 Amendment 174 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 Amendment 175 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the EU institutions to introduce specific indicators on
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the EU institutions to
Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the EU institutions to introduce specific indicators on gender equality, including the Gender Equality Index of EIGE, in the monitoring system of the future EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the EU institutions to introduce specific indicators on gender equality, including the Gender Equality Index of EIGE, in the monitoring and safeguarding system of the future EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights.
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls both on the EU institutions and on all Member States to work actively with gender mainstreaming, wage mapping and the fair division of parental leave; notes that social vulnerability and weak social inclusion stem from the fact that fewer women than men are in employment, and more women than men work part-time.
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Expresses serious concern for the situation of migrants and asylum seekers who are smuggled to the EU, they are at risk of becoming victims of exploitation or abuse with women and children facing heightened risks of sexual and gender- based violence;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls for the EU to adopt an approach where human, labour, consumer and environmental rights should guide transnational and national trade and investment, not the other way around;
Amendment 182 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Calls on EU institutions and Member States for a concerted action to increase awareness of the already existing protection and to ensure better practical implementation and application of the Equality Directives;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached in many areas; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas family reunification, although a basic human right, is systematically delayed and even violated, and whereas women and children are the first victims of this right being denied or delayed;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached, that, in many areas, no improvements are being made, and that women’s fundamental rights continue to be breached; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in the decision- making process, both in the private and the public sectors, and by the persisting gender pay gap;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that, in the EU Member States, gender equality has not yet been reached in many areas; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in the decision-making process, both in the private and the public sectors, and by the persisting gender pay and pensions gap;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached in many areas; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in the decision-making process, both in the private and the public sectors, and by the persisting gender pay gap; Notes that discrimination and lack of representation lead to the perpetuation of gender stereotypes, social and economic exclusion, and violence against women and girls;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Underlines the need to combat anti-Roma racism at every level and by every means, and stresses that this phenomenon is an especially persistent, violent, recurrent and commonplace form of racism; calls on the Member States to further strengthen the fight against anti- Roma racism and support the empowerment of Roma women as part of their National Roma Integration Strategies promoting best practices;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that the gender pay gap and gender pension gap chiefly affect mothers who have cared for their children themselves, and who have consequently had to accept career gaps, loss of career opportunities and lower pay - without receiving any corresponding financial compensation for the work they have performed in raising their children;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls for statistics and indicators on multiple discrimination, which is often hidden under ‘mainstream’ discrimination, such as poverty and race. If there is a risk of discrimination, there is even greater risk that it is gendered. Calls for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) to issue a report on this subject.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Is concerned that in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States; stresses that these movements challenge existing achievements in the area of gender equality and aim at blocking laws and policies protecting LGBTI people against hate crime and discrimination;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Regrets that women still suffer from discriminatory working conditions including non-standard forms of employment; emphasises that women working in retail service are particularly exposed to extended working hours and denied of their worker’s right for a weekly day of rest;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that Article 67 TEU states that the Union shall constitute an area of freedom, security and justice with respect for fundamental rights and the different legal systems and traditions of the Member States;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Is concerned that in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States; these movements challenge existing achievements in the area of women´s rights and gender equality, and aim at blocking laws and policies protecting LGBTI people against hate crime and discrimination;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Regrets in this context that no EU gender equality strategy 2016-2020 was adopted and, echoing the Council Conclusions on Gender Equality of the 16th of June 2016, calls on the Commission to enhance the status of its Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 by adopting it as a Communication;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Recalls that public policies aiming at social engineering (such as gender mainstreaming) promoted by the EU institutions must respect the cultural diversity and national traditions of the Member States according to Art. 4(2) TEU;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Calls on the Commission to step up efforts to increase the representation of women in decision-making in the political and economic sphere by pursuing a dual approach that combines gender mainstreaming and targeted measures;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Takes the position that home caregivers (both men and women) remain discriminated against in terms of the failure to count their years of work towards pensions and entitlements;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Recalls that inequalities affects men: - on average women live longer than men, - women have greater levels of disposable income (often because they outlive their husbands), - women have ‘women only hospitals’ - men don’t have such facilities, - women receive a more lenient sentence than men for the same crime, - men cannot take their babies into prison with them - women can, - men have no say in whether their child is aborted or not, - in divorce situations, men will most likely be worse off financially than the woman, -in divorce, men will rarely be the resident parent, having the children live with him, - the educational system in most developed countries is designed for a woman’s learning style - disadvantaging men, - in a spirit of positive discrimination, with equally qualified candidates applying for a job the woman has to be preferred, - men are portrayed as weaker characters in films, literature, marketing campaigns etc., - men are prejudged to be a sexual threat to women and children, - men have more hazardous occupations than women, - common misconception assumes that all domestic violence is committed by men against women, when about 40% is women abusing men, - men are more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, etc., - more boys than girls die in childhood;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Calls on the Commission to improve the collection, the analysis and the dissemination of comprehensive, comparable and reliable and regularly updated data on women’s participation in decision-making;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Reiterates the condemnation of the practice of surrogacy expressed in § 115 of its resolution of 17 December 2015 on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2014 and the European Union’s policy on the matter (2015/2229(INI)): ‘The EU Parliament condemns the practice of surrogacy, which undermines the human dignity of the woman since her body and its reproductive functions are used as a commodity; considers that the practice of gestational surrogacy which involves reproductive exploitation and use of the human body for financial or other gain, in particular in the case of vulnerable women in developing countries, shall be prohibited and treated as a matter of urgency in human rights instruments’;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Calls on EU institutions to encourage women’s participation in the European electoral process by including gender balanced lists in the next revision of the European Electoral Law;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Reiterates its position that - in line with the EU Leitmotif ‘United in Diversity’ and article 67 TFEU which states that the Union shall respect the different legal systems and traditions of the Member States - cross border civil status issues are uniquely related to Member States’ family laws, which reflect Member States’ values; recognises that public policy exemptions safeguard the right of Member States to protect their fundamental values as expressed in their substantive family laws and they shield against the import of foreign legal concepts that do not exist or may even be illegal into the domestic Member State’s legal order, which would result in the parallel co-existence of EU and national legal orders (spill over effect and reverse discrimination);
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Regrets that the 2012 proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures is still blocked and calls on the Council to finally adopt a common position on this proposal;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 g (new) 1g. Reiterates its call on the Commission to revise the existing legislation in order to close the pay and pension gap between men and women; notes that measures to increase wage transparency are fundamental to close the gender pay gap; calls on the Member States to implement Commission’s recommendation on wage transparency;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 h (new) 1h. Considers it urgent to develop an EU level definition of work of equal value, taking into account ECJ case law, to ensure that factors such as the working conditions, the responsibility conferred on the workers and the physical or mental requirements of the work are taken into consideration;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 i (new) 1i. Calls for full implementation of Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation, and for it to be revised with a compulsory requirement for companies to draw up measures or plans on gender equality;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 j (new) 1j. Notes that women are disproportionately and often involuntarily concentrated in precarious work including high levels of part-time work, low-paid, fixed term and zero-hour contracts; notes that working part-time contributes to the risk of poverty; recalls in this context that equality between men and women can only be achieved through a fair redistribution of paid and unpaid work as well as of work, family and care responsibilities;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 k (new) 1k. Stresses the high proportion of self-employed workers in rural areas with a lack of appropriate social protection and the high proportion of ‘invisible’ work that affects women in particular; calls therefore on the Member States and regions with legislative powers to improve the legislation regarding gender equality in the labour market, in particular regarding wages, ownership rights and decision making, as well as to ensure social security for both, men and women, working in rural areas;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 l (new) 1l. Deplores the adoption of austerity measures and a deregulation agenda by the EU and its Member States which were introduced as a response to the economic crisis as they are the main cause of the increasing rate of people at risk of poverty in the EU, especially in the case of women and other groups experiencing social disadvantage;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 m (new) 1m. Underlines the crucial role of free, high quality public services to combat poverty, especially female poverty, as women are more dependent on such services;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 n (new) 1n. Calls on the Commission to undertake a comprehensive and global legislative action to meet the needs of mothers and fathers concerning the types of leave, namely maternity, paternity, parental and carers’ leave, in particular in order to help men play an active role as fathers, to enable a fairer distribution of family responsibilities and thus give women equal opportunities to participate in the labour market;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 o (new) 1o. Deplores the Commission decision to withdraw the Maternity Leave Directive; calls on the Commission to put forward a new proposal and to respect Parliament’s position to increase the current minimum guaranteed maternity leave from 14 to 20 weeks fully paid and for the mandatory right to paid paternity leave;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas Roma women are often exposed to multiple and intersectional discrimination on grounds of gender and ethnic origin, and have limited access to employment, education, health, social services and decision-making; whereas discrimination can occur within mainstream society in a context of growing anti-Roma racism, but also within the women’s communities by reason of their sex;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 p (new) 1p. Underlines the fact that only a small proportion of men use their right to parental leave; calls therefore for concrete action to be taken in order to move towards parental leave rights that are as individual and non-transferable as possible;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 q (new) 1q. Welcomes the proposal to introduce carers’ leave as foreseen in the Commission Roadmap on a new start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families; calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal to include this provision;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention and calls for the EU and the Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible to protect, prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and domestic violence; reminds Member States that the EU accession does not exonerate them to sign, ratify and enforce the Istanbul Convention and urges them to do so;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention and calls for the EU and the Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence and calls for the EU and the Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas gender inequality, gender-based stereotypes and poverty, raise the risk of violence and other forms of exploitation, including trafficking in women and prostitution, and hinder the full participation of women in all areas of life;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention and calls for the EU
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Takes note that 14 Member States haven’t ratified the Istanbul Convention (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia and the United Kingdom) and that the Istanbul Convention is not entered in force in 50% of the EU Member States; urges the Commission to refrain from adhering to the Istanbul Convention as long as not all EU Member States have ratified this instrument in internal law;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Considers that violence against women, such as honour killing, forced marriage, trafficking, female genital mutilation, domestic violence are serious violations of human rights that should be criminalised and punished and never be justified by religious or cultural tradition.
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to recognise the fundamental right to universal access to health, in particular the full range of sexual and reproductive health services including safe and legal abortion, and to decriminalise abortion and the performing of abortion care;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Underlines that the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all women and girls must be respected, including their right to their bodies and sexuality and to be free of coercion, discrimination and violence;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Considers that all those living in Europe, regardless of their original culture and tradition, should respect the law and women’s rights and dignity;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Stresses that the Istanbul Convention sets a blatantly misandric double standard by stating that the violence against men is not gender-based violence;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Strongly condemns the frequent acts of harassment and rape in public places in Europe and considers that every women and girl should feel safe from any form of sexual harassment in any public place in Europe; calls on Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure that these acts are properly sanctioned, that the perpetrators are brought to justice and that appropriate protection is provided to victims;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Stresses that the Istanbul Convention characterises gender as a ‘social construct’ even if the words ‘social construct’ are not further defined, and article 3 (c) states moreover: “‘Gender’ shall mean the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men.”;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Urges the EU and the Member States to mobilise the necessary means and tools to fight trafficking and sexual exploitation and to reduce prostitution markets as they fuel exploitation, which violates women’s and girls’ fundamental rights;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas women still face many forms of discrimination in the EU and are still underrepresented in all areas of decision-making;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention as it provides in article 4.2 as grounds of non- discrimination: ‘sex, gender,... sexual orientation, gender identity....’; recalls that such a list does not exist in any legally binding treaty within the United Nations System or the EU acquis communautaire; recalls that - together with the social construct definition of ‘gender’, ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ - such weak definitions would solidify a greater ideological platform to declare subjective attractions as universal human rights, which has not been accepted by UN Member States and the EU acquis communautaire; recalls that the terms ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ have not been defined in a legally binding UN document or within the EU acquis communautaire;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Stresses that in order to effectively combat gender-based violence, a change of attitude towards women and girls is necessary; they are too often represented in subordinate roles and violence against them is too often tolerated or undermined; calls on Member States to do more to combat gender based stereotypes and discrimination against women and girls;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Calls on the Member States to acknowledge the problems of surrogacy which constitutes an exploitation of the female body and her reproductive organs, and emphasises that women’s bodies are regarded as commodities on the international reproductive market, and that the surrogacy industry exploits vulnerable women, primarily from the global south;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 e (new) 2e. Takes note that the Istanbul Convention remains silent on sex- selective abortion of the female foetus or violence against the unborn child, especially girls, and do not condemn surrogacy;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 f (new) 2f. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention because it has an extremely broad approach that goes well beyond stopping violence, because the comprehensive nature of the treaty is undoubtedly intended to be used as a tool or mechanism for social engineering of values and norms on all matters pertaining to ‘gender ideology’, and because the EU as a whole (including the Member States) is then exposed to a more aggressive attempt to bring changes to culture, traditions and religions as well as to civil and criminal laws, through the Convention text and the monitoring committee;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 g (new) 2g. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention as the EU would then be obliged to ‘promote changes in the social and cultural patterns of behaviour of women and men with a view to eradicating prejudices, customs and traditions.’ (Art 12.5); challenges the legitimacy of the social engineering of values and norms by supranational political institutions and its conformity with the respect of cultural diversity and national traditions of the Member States according to Art 4.2 TEU;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 h (new) 2h. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention because, according to article 14, State Parties shall insert non-stereotyped gender roles into the formal and informal education settings at all levels of education whilst no mention is made of the prior rights of parents to educate their child according to their moral and religious conventions as stated in all International Human Rights Instruments; stresses that the EU has no competency to fulfil this request on ‘formal and informal education settings at all levels of education’;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas trafficking in human beings is a gross violation of fundamental rights, whereas trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is still the most widespread form; whereas 76 % of registered victims in the EU are women;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and to present a comprehensive strategy
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and to present a comprehensive strategy on violence against women and girls and gender-based violence including ensuring access to justice for those have experienced violence;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and gender-based violence and to present a comprehensive strategy on violence against women and girls and gender-based violence;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and gender-based violence and to present a comprehensive strategy on violence against women and girls and gender-based violence;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and to present a comprehensive strategy on measures to combat violence against women and girls and gender-based violence;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and to present a comprehensive strategy on
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Welcomes the growing momentum across the EU in the movement to eradicate FGM; Notes that Member States are gradually making positive changes in their legal systems to criminalise both the act of carrying out FGM and the act of taking a child or a young woman out of the EU, to a third country, for the purpose of FGM; Urges the Member States who have not already done so, to ensure that their criminal legislation protects girls and women from FGM;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Member States to fully implement Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings as well as well Directive 2011/92/EU on combating child sexual abuse and exploitation in order to prevent women and girls from trafficking, violence and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas the EU LGBT Survey finds that lesbian, bisexual and transgender face a disproportionate risk of discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recognises that the average age of entering into prostitution is between 13-14 years old, and that prostitution and sexual exploitation are highly gendered issues and a form of gender-based violence, contrary to human rights principles, among which gender equality is a core principle;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Takes the position that sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation of women, the use of women for surrogacy, and sex selected abortion must be considered as unjustifiable under any political, social, religious or cultural grounds;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Underlines the important role of parents within an educational framework to promote gender equality;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on the Member States to implement laws and policies that target perpetrators directly to reduce demand for sexual exploitation while decriminalising individuals in prostitution and providing them with support services, including high quality social, legal and psychological assistance for those who wish to exit prostitution;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on the Member States to fully implement Directive 2012/29/EU on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime and Directive 2011/99/EU on the European order to ensure appropriate protection and assistance to women and girls victims of violence.
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against
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104 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital -A (new) -A. whereas the inclusion of the Charter of Fundamental Rights as a binding core element within the scope of the Lisbon Treaty generated high expectations among EU citizens of a high level of civic and social protection;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas Article 34 of the Charter establishes the fundamental right to social security and assistance; whereas universal public health coverage of quality is an essential pillar of social security; whereas social housing for a decent existence falls within the scope of this article; whereas access to affordable energy supply is an essential part of life dignity;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Encourages the Commission to
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Recalls that under Article 46 (1) of the European Convention on Human Rights, high contracting parties have without qualification undertaken a solemn and binding obligation under the Rule of Law to ‘abide by the final judgement of the court in any case’ to which they are a party; deplores the delays in implementation and the lack of political will in certain circumstances to implement certain judgments of the Court; encourages to take stronger measures in case of dilatory or continuous non-execution of judgments;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the institutions and bodies of the Union and Member States when they are implementing Union law to ensure a high-level of environmental protection and to adhere to the principle of sustainable development; regrets the over-development that is taking place in parts of the EU, which is having negative effects on the environment and the lives of European citizens and residents living in the areas affected.
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Believes that individuals should have a direct and easily accessible way of challenging violations of the EU law and of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU provisions by Member States before EU courts, without leaving any margin of discretion to national courts or European institutions;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Highlights the fundamental right to good administration; calls on Member States to lead by example by ensuring, amongst others, that their administrative processes are open, accountable, fair, transparent and proportionate.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. having regard to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR),
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas there is still a gap in the extent to which women fully enjoy their fundamental rights in comparison to men, particularly when it comes to the effective implementation of the provisions within the Equality and Solidarity titles of the Charter in their daily lives;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas Article 24 of the Charter sets up the fundamental right of children; whereas hundreds of petitions were received in 2015 concerning children custody matters, in most of the cases with cross-border implications; whereas a specific working group was created to more effectively deal with the core of these matters;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas the report of the Committee on Petitions on the European Ombudsman’s own-initiative inquiry concerning Frontex established that Frontex has a duty to uphold the EU’s standards on the fundamental rights of asylum seekers in its day-to-day operations; whereas the European Ombudsman might more usefully have instituted inquiries into the numerous violations of fundamental rights committed by migrants against citizens of the European Union; whereas furthermore the main remit of Frontex should be to combat clandestine immigration and not to facilitate the entrance of clandestine immigrants into the territory of Member States;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas the joint-report of the Committee on Petitions
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas the joint-report of the Committee on Petitions
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas the report of the Committee on Petitions on the European Ombudsman’s own-initiative inquiry concerning Frontex established that Frontex has a
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital D a (new) Da. whereas the current narrow interpretation of Article 51 of the Charter on its scope of application represent a real obstacle for the effectiveness of its previous provisions, which can fall short of the expectations and eventually lead to an increasing disaffection in citizens; whereas the Petitions committee recently organised a specific hearing to debate about the need of broadening the scope of the Charter;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital D b (new) Db. whereas the Union cannot afford cases of suppression or undermining of fundamental civil rights such as freedom of information, nor tolerate abuse of power and institutional racism and xenophobia within its borders, as depicted by some petitions;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas petitions to Parliament serve as an important instrument for citizens to report breaches of fundamental rights they may have experienced in Member States where they reside;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Considers that citizens’ expectations regarding the protection of their fundamental rights under the Charter are often disappointed, which may aggravate their disenchantment with the European project; notes that the general public has a limited grasp of the field of application of the Charter; believes that the European Commission and the Member States could do more to promote knowledge of the Charter, in particular the effect of its Article 51, and of the procedure for obtaining legal redress when citizens’ fundamental rights are violated; calls on the European Commission to be vigilant regarding Member States’ failure to transpose EU legislation or their poor transposition;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Considers that citizens
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Considers that citizens’ expectations regarding the protection of their fundamental rights under the Charter are often disappointed, which may aggravate their disenchantment with the European project; notes that the general public has a limited grasp of the field of
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Considers that citizens’ expectations regarding the protection of their fundamental rights under the Charter are often disappointed, which
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Considers that citizens’
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Considers that citizens’ expectations regarding the protection of their fundamental rights under the Charter are often disappointed, which
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Considers that citizens’ expectations regarding the protection of their fundamental rights under the Charter are very often disappointed, which
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Considers that citizens’ expectations regarding the protection of their fundamental rights under the Charter are often disappointed, which may aggravate their disenchantment with the European project;
Amendment 28 #
Considers that a genuine reform of the European Citizens’ Initiative and effective operation of the institution could do much to improve the Union’s image;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Is deeply convinced that austerity measures led to the continuous deterioration of fundamental rights protection in the EU causing, amongst others, alarming youth unemployment rates, a huge increase of poor workers and higher levels of poverty and social marginalisation; calls for an immediate stop of all austerity measures and urges both the EU and the Member States to deliver targeted policies aimed at securing high quality and decent jobs and social protection measures, primarily focusing on citizens that are facing poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas petitions to Parliament serve as an important instrument for
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes the increase in the number of petitions owing to the economic and social crisis in Europe, which has resulted many infringements of fundamental rights;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that all Union institutions, including each one of its agencies and bodies; agencies and Member States are bound by the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Recalls that the portability of social security benefits, pensions, health care and recognition of professional qualifications and civil status documents is a guaranteed fundamental right conferred on citizens in the Internal Market; notes that many citizens still encounter problems in asserting these rights; calls on the Member States to act, in accordance with the Charter, to ensure that citizens receive universal access to quality healthcare, justice, social services and education;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Recalls that the
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Recalls that the portability of social security benefits, pensions, health care and recognition of professional qualifications and civil status documents is a guaranteed fundamental right conferred on citizens in the Internal Market; notes that many citizens still encounter problems in asserting these rights, having to resort to costly legal proceedings;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Recalls that the portability of social security benefits, pensions, health care and recognition of professional qualifications and civil status documents is a guaranteed fundamental right conferred on citizens in the Internal Market; notes that many citizens still encounter problems in asserting these rights due to the negligence of some Member States;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the need to guarantee the fundamental rights of women in all areas of public life, particularly with regard to social and political participation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement policies to actively uphold these rights, in line with the UN Resolution 66/130 of 19 December 2011 on women and political participation;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the rights of people with disabilities
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the rights of people with disabilities, who strive to live a life as close to normal as possible; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that these rights are properly respected and applied, notably the rights resulting from the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; calls on the European Commission and the Member States to enhance transparency of the monitoring mechanisms of measures aimed at social inclusion of people with disabilities, as set out in Article 26 of the Charter;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital Α Α. whereas petitions to Parliament serve as an important instrument provided to/intended for citizens to report breaches of fundamental rights;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the rights of people with disabilities, who strive to live a life as close to normal as possible; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that these rights are properly respected and applied, notably the rights resulting from the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the rights of people with disabilities, who strive to live a life as close to normal as possible; calls on the Commission
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the rights of people with disabilities and people with special needs who strive to live a life as close to normal as possible; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that these rights are properly respected and applied, notably the rights resulting from the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the rights of people with disabilities, who strive to live a life
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the EU to ratify the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and to conduct, as soon as possible, an effective cross-cutting and comprehensive review of the EU legislation in order to ensure its full harmonisation with the provisions enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, triggering a truly democratic and participatory process aimed at guaranteeing a direct and full involvement of representative organisations of persons with disabilities;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Highlights that the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in its Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union, has critically observed that austerity measures adopted by the EU and its Member States have worsened the standard of living of persons with disabilities, deteriorating the enjoyment of fundamental rights;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to act, in accordance with the Charter, to ensure that citizens receive universal access to quality healthcare, justice, social services and education; underlines that asylum seekers who come into contact with Frontex should have their fundamental rights respected and should be offered full recourse to uphold those rights via an established complaints mechanism; welcomes the inclusion of an independent complaints mechanism within the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Border and Coast Guard, as one mechanism to monitor and ensure the respect for fundamental rights in all the activities of the Agency;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to act, in accordance with the Charter, to ensure that citizens receive universal access to quality healthcare, justice, social services and education;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to act, in accordance with the Charter, to ensure that citizens receive universal access to all quality public healthcare, justice, social
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas almost a hundred petitions received by Parliament in 2015 directly concerned alleged breaches of fundamental rights referred to in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; whereas during the treatment of petitions further problems of effective protection by the Charter may also emerge;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to act, in accordance with the Charter, to ensure that citizens receive universal access to quality healthcare, justice, social services and education;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to act, in accordance with the Charter, to ensure that citizens receive universal access to quality healthcare -including medicines and treatments for their diseases, such as hepatitis C-, justice, social services and education, as well as decent housing conditions; underlines that asylum seekers who come into contact with Frontex should have their fundamental rights respected and should be offered full recourse to uphold those rights via an established complaints mechanism;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to act, in accordance with the Charter, to ensure that citizens receive universal access to quality healthcare, justice, social services and education;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States and the local and regional authorities to act, in accordance with the Charter, to ensure that citizens receive universal access to quality healthcare, justice, social services and education; underlines that asylum seekers who come into contact with Frontex should have their fundamental rights respected and should be offered full recourse, legal and otherwise, to uphold those rights via an established complaints mechanism;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses that the existence of Frontex and a militarised border policy is placing at risk the fundamental rights of migrants;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Welcomes the European Ombudsman’s investigation which led to establishing this mechanism and her ongoing work of ensuring that EU institutions respect fundamental rights. Welcomes her inquiry into whether the Charter of Fundamental Rights is being respected when Member States spend money using the EU Cohesion Fund on projects that institutionalise people with disabilities rather than integrating them into society;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses the importance of protection by the European Union and the Member States of indigenous ethnic, national, linguistic and religious communities and endangered languages;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores instances of discrimination against minorities, immigrants and asylum seekers
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores instances of discrimination against minorities, immigrants and asylum seekers, as well as restrictions on the freedom of the media regularly reflected in petitions; calls on the Member States to pay particular attention to these issues;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores instances of discrimination against minorities,
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores all instances of discrimination
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores instances of discrimination against minorities, immigrants and asylum seekers, as well as restrictions on the freedom of the media regularly reflected in petitions; calls on the Member States to pay particular attention to these issues; welcomes the unblocking of the anti-discrimination directive in the European Council and calls for it to be adopted and implemented;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores instances of discrimination against indigenous and other minorities, immigrants and asylum seekers, as well as restrictions on the freedom of the media regularly reflected in petitions; calls on the Member States to pay particular attention to these issues; welcomes the unblocking of the anti- discrimination directive in the European Council;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores individual instances of discrimination against minorities, immigrants and asylum seekers, as well as restrictions on the freedom of the media regularly reflected in petitions; calls on the Member States to pay particular attention to these issues; welcomes the unblocking of the anti-discrimination directive in the European Council;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores instances of discrimination against
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens from non-EU countries, particularly asylum seekers, living in an EU country as laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights; expresses its concern at the constant infringement of fundamental rights in centres for the detention and internment of foreign nationals;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas some breaches of fundamental rights do not take place only directly, but are also contextually created by environmental degradation; whereas Article 37 of the Charter provides for the right to environmental protection; whereas a relevant proportion of petitions received deal with undergone or potential environmental aggressions;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens from non-EU countries, particularly asylum seekers, living in an EU country as laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, while stressing that such guarantees must not jeopardise the properly understood interests and security of citizens of the European Union ;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens from non-EU countries, particularly asylum seekers, living in an EU country as laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, including labour market and social integration;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States and local and regional authorities to guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens from non-EU countries, particularly asylum seekers, living in an EU country as laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 73 #
6. Calls on the Member States to guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens from non-EU countries, particularly asylum seekers, living legally in an EU country as laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to guarantee the fundamental rights of all citizens from non-EU countries, particularly asylum seekers, living in an EU country as laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens from non-EU countries
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Highlights that, in certain Member States, the current management and financing mechanisms used by reception centres for migrants could give rise to major legal infringements, corruption, abuses and fundamental rights violations; deplores that organised crime has infiltrated the bodies responsible for managing funds for the reception of migrants; calls on the EU and Member States to take coordination, control and enforcement measures with the view to effectively address these issues and to put in place the necessary actions aimed at improving the fight against trafficking in human beings, which is mostly conducted by criminal groups;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Asks the Commission to act without hesitation and making full use of its powers and prerogatives, sanctioning Member States failing to live up to the fundamental rights of freedom expression and information, of assembly and association, or which enact forms of power abuse or institutional racism and xenophobia, among others;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Believes that the EU and the Member States must consistently respect the principle of solidarity and make the necessary efforts to share responsibilities in order to ensure a full protection to the lives of migrants and refugees and to combat cross-border crime, in full compliance with the principle of non- refoulement and fundamental rights;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital C Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes the frequent recurrence of petitions about problems encountered by legally resident third-country spouses of EU citizens and non-EU-national permanent residents, particularly stateless persons, in exercising their rights;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Considers that the introduction of national legislation undermining the investment climate on renewables, does not only constitute in some cases an attack to legal security as presented by some petitions received, but they can be considered also a breach of the Charter if they fail to transpose or implement legislation related to the Union’s energy and climate strategy;
Amendment 82 #
7a. Highlights the problems arising from non-recognition of official documents in different Member States, especially marriage and adoption certificates, making it impossible to guarantee the ‘best interests of the child’;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls for special attention to the rights of children, in particular in the context of cross-border custody disputes and parental visitation rights; considers that existing disparities within the Union regarding custody and parental responsibility make it impossible to guarantee ‘the best interests of the child’ and their right to contact with both parents; calls on the Commission to provide clear guidance on the concept of ‘best interests of the child’ in the context of the revision of the Brussels IIA Regulation;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls for special attention to the rights of children, in particular in the context of cross-border custody disputes and parental visitation rights, as outlined also in the opinion of the Committee on Petitions concerning the cross-border aspects of adoptions; calls on the Commission to provide clear guidance on the concept of ‘best interests of the child’ in the context of the revision of the Brussels IIA Regulation;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls for special attention to the rights of children, in particular in the context of cross-border custody disputes, a
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls for special attention to the rights of children, in particular in the
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Urges the adoption of new legislation aimed at combating energy poverty and welcomes previous initiatives at any administrative level in the direction of guaranteeing universal access to energy; considers that taking specific measures to ensure affordable energy for every household falls within the scope of social security and social assistance provided for in Article 34 of the Charter; criticises decisions made that might prevent the safeguard of this right based on mere competence disputes between authorities;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Regrets that child poverty remains at a very high level and children continue to be at higher risk of poverty than adults; calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen their actions adopting a holistic strategy aimed at successfully address all root causes of child poverty;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the need to strengthen the role of the Committee on Petitions in upholding fundamental rights protected by the Charter;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital Γ C. whereas the right to vote and stand as a candidate in municipal, regional and European Parliament elections in the state of residence is recognised in Articles 39 and 40 of the Charter; whereas exercising the right of free movement should not hamper this right;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the advances made in LGTB rights in 2015; remains concerned about ongoing discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and limits to the freedom of speech of LGTB people; notes that the problem of discrimination against LGTBI families must be addressed immediately and urges Member States to recognize their legal status, thereby ensuring their freedom of movement throughout the EU;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the advances made in LGTB rights in 2015; remains concerned about ongoing discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and limits to the freedom of speech, assembly and association of LGTB people;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the advances made in LGTBI rights in 2015; remains concerned
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the advances made in LG
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the advances made in LG
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses that a large number of stateless persons is disenfranchised from European Parliament elections while seats are allocated at their expense; calls on the Commission to investigate the issue;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Notes the infringement of the fundamental rights of intersex people in the European Union, who enjoy only limited entitlement to even their own identity;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Encourages the Commission to take up strongly the issue of national voting rights, particularly in cases where citizens are disenfranchised in national elections when they exercise their right to free movement as well as in cases where non- citizens are disenfranchised from local elections or are banned from political party membership.
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2016/09/21
LIBE
662 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 — having regard to the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 d (new) - having regard to the European Union guidelines on Human Rights Defenders,
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 d (new) - having regard to the Commission's staff working document ‘The Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016- 2019’,
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 e (new) - having regard to the Commission’s 2015 report on equality between women and men in the European Union (SWD(2016)0054),
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 f (new) - having regard to ‘EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity’ adopted on 4 February 201422a , __________________ 22a A7-0009/0062
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 g (new) - having regard to the ‘Trade for All’ Strategy adopted by the Commission in October 2015,
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 h (new) - having regard to the conclusions of the 2015 Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights, which debated ‘Tolerance and respect: preventing and combating Antisemitic and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe’,
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 i (new) - having regard to the results to public consultation - 2016 Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights on ‘Media Pluralism and Democracy’,
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 j (new) - having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality23a , __________________ 23a PE 585.437v02-00
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 k (new) - having regard to the hearing on Fundamental Rights of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, held on 16 June 2016,
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 48 a (new) - having regard to the European Court of Justice conclusion on the case CHEZ Razpredelenie Bulgaria AD v Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia, of 16 July 2015, case C-83/14,
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 48 a (new) - having regard to the Report of the International Labour Office ‘The World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2016’,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 48 b (new) - having regard to the Commission's EU Anti-corruption Report (COM(2014)0038),
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 48 c (new) - having regard on the report SOER 2015 - European environment — state and outlook 2015,
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas pursuant to Article 2 TEU, the EU is founded on respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights, values which are common to the Member States and which must be respected by the EU and by each individual Member State, in all the measures they take; whereas, in accordance with Article 17 TEU, the Commission must ensure the application of the Treaties;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas, under Article 2 TEU, the EU is founded on respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities, values which are shared by all the Member States and which must be upheld by the EU, and by each individual Member State, in everything they do;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas the European Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. The EU and Member States should uphold and enforce these values in every action they take;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas the European Union is a community of values, based on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, enshrined in its core principles and objectives in the first articles of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), and in the criteria for Union membership;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas, the rule of law is the backbone of European liberal democracy, and is one of the founding principles of the European Union stemming from the common constitutional traditions of all Member States;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas respect for and promotion of human rights must be upheld by the EU and each individual Member State in everything they do;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A a (new) -Aa. whereas the importance of social fundamental rights is acknowledged in Articles 8, 9, 10, 19 and 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, as it is in the case law of the CJEU, thus underscoring the fact that those rights, and in particular trade union rights, the right to strike, right of association and right of assembly, must be given the same safeguards as the other fundamental rights acknowledged by the Charter;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A a (new) -Aa. whereas respecting the rule of law is a prerequisite for the protection of fundamental rights and is of particular importance within the EU since it is also a prerequisite for upholding all rights and obligations deriving from the Treaties and from international law;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 a (new) - having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings,
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A a (new) -Aa. whereas Member States cannot reduce the level of guarantees offered in their own constitutions in respect of certain rights on the pretext that the Charter of Fundamental Rights provides for a lower level of protection;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A a (new) -Aa. whereas, in accordance with Article 2, Article 3(1) and Article 7 TEU, the Union avails itself of the possibility to act in order to protect its ‘constitutional core’, reflected by the common values it shares with its Member States;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A b (new) -Ab. whereas the accession of the Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Freedom is a Treaty obligation under Article 6(2) TEU;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A b (new) -Ab. whereas, under Article 6 TEU, the EU has a responsibility to uphold and enforce fundamental rights in any action it takes, regardless of its powers in the area concerned;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A c (new) -Ac. whereas the way the rule of law is implemented at national level plays a key role in ensuring mutual trust among Member States and their legal systems, hence it is of vital importance to establish an area of freedom, security and justice as described in Title V of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU);
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A d (new) -Ad. whereas many fundamental rights violations still occur in the EU and in Member States, as pointed out in reports by the Commission, the FRA, NGOs, the Council of Europe and the UN; such as the violations of the right to freedom of assembly and expression of civil society organisations, freedom of media, the institutional discrimination of LGBTI persons through marriage bans and anti- propaganda legislation, and the remaining high-levels of discrimination and hate crime and hate speech motivated by racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, or by bias against a person's disability, sexual orientation or gender identity;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A e (new) -Ae. whereas it is essential that in all measures undertaken by the Member States and the EU in the fight against terrorism and radicalisation fundamental rights and civil liberties are respected, namely the right to private life, the right to security, the right to data protection, the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair trial and due process, freedom of expression and freedom of religion; whereas the security of European citizens must preserve their rights and liberties; whereas, indeed, these two principles are two sides of the same coin;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A f (new) -Af. whereas the elimination of the death penalty is a direct manifestation of the common values shared by the European Union Member States;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A g (new) -Ag. whereas facing today's challenges it is vital to uphold the EU's common values of democracy, fundamental rights and the rule of law;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 11 a (new) - having regard to the Commission proposal regarding EU accession to the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention3a , __________________ 3a COM(2016) 111 final, COM(2016) 109
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas migration is
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas migration
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas internal and external migration is an unavoidable part of the EU’s future and one of the biggest challenges of our times, as it appeals to the EU’s international humanitarian responsibilities and forms a key element for demographic reasons;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas migration is an unavoidable part of the EU’s present and future and one of the biggest challenges of our times, as it appeals to the EU’s international humanitarian responsibilities and forms a key element for demographic reasons;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas migration is
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas migration is an unavoidable
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas migration is an unavoidable part of the EU’s future and one of the biggest challenges of our times, as it appeals to the EU’s international humanitarian responsibilities
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 11 b (new) – having regard to the Commission roadmap on possible EU accession to the Istanbul Convention in October 2015,
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the EU is undergoing a period of economic and financial crisis and the austerity policies of the EU and the Member States have seriously compromised the well-being of citizens and their fundamental rights;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas ensuring the right to a fair trial is an integral part of the Asylum Procedures Directive, including the right to an effective remedy;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the wording of Article 51 is too restrictive and does not provide sufficient guarantees as to the full respect of fundamental rights in the EU in action taken by individual Member States; whereas the CJEU has interpreted this provision more flexibly, while the Commission continues to interpret it as restrictively as possible;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the right to interpretation and translation laid down in Directive 2010/64/EU is a right for all, including asylum-seekers;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas many fundamental rights violations still occur in the EU and in Member States, as pointed out in reports by the Commission, the FRA, NGOs, the Council of Europe and the UN;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union became a fully-fledged component of the Treaties when the Treaty of Lisbon came into force, and is therefore now legally binding on the institutions, agencies and other bodies of the EU and on the Member States when EU legislation is applied; whereas a genuine fundamental rights culture must be developed, fostered and strengthened in the EU and its Member States;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond properly to such violations; whereas measures taken to ensure the safety of citizens must under no circumstances jeopardise fundamental rights;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond properly to such violations, while fully respecting the principles of the rule of law and fundamental rights;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Β Β. whereas acts of terrorism constitute a serious threat to social cohesion and one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond properly to such violations;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 15 April 2015 on the occasion of International Roma Day – anti-Gypsyism in Europe and EU recognition of the memorial day of the Roma genocide during World War II 14,
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Β Β. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place, as well as a political and ideological response, to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond properly to such violations;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms; whereas it is necessary to have adequate tools in place to protect EU citizens and residents and to respond properly and to combat
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the murder of eight journalists at the offices of the satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ on 7 January 2015 represented an attempt to strike against media freedom and freedom of the arts in the EU;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas family reunification, although a basic human right, is systematically delayed and even violated, and whereas women and children are the first victims of this right being denied or delayed;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas security and respect for fundamental rights are not conflicting aims, but complementary policy objectives;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 15 April 2015 on the occasion of International Roma Day - anti-Gypsyism - in Europe and EU recognition of the memorial day of the Roma genocide during World War II 14,
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas freedom of the press and freedom of opinion are fundamental freedoms and whereas diverse and independent media have a crucial function in shaping opinion and popular will in democratic societies, as they enable everyone to exercise their right to information;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas it is essential to protect the fundamental rights to privacy and protection of personal data;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas legislation giving public authorities general access to the content of electronic communications is compromising the fundamental right to respect for private life;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B d (new) Bd. whereas EU and Member State responses to extremism must not lead to the stigmatisation of any group or community, including religious communities, but rather draw on common European values of tolerance, diversity and mutual respect;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B e (new) Be. whereas the best way to address root causes of extremism is through education, youth participation, interfaith and intercultural dialogue, and employment and social inclusion;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas, following recent terrorist attacks on EU territory, certain anti- terrorism policies and measures are likely to compromise fundamental rights and freedoms in the EU; whereas it is essential to ensure that a balance is maintained between safeguarding fundamental freedoms and rights and strengthening security; whereas the EU and its Member States have the duty to protect European citizens, while ensuring respect for their fundamental rights and freedoms in the design and operation of security policies; whereas necessity and proportionality must be the overriding principles in this area so as to prevent policy actions from infringing civil liberties;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas trafficking in human beings is a serious crime often committed within the framework of organised crime, constitutes a gross violation of fundamental rights
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas trafficking in human beings is a serious crime, often committed within the framework of organised crime,
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas trafficking in human
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 a (new) – having regard to Council Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments and probation decisions,
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas trafficking in human beings is a serious crime often committed within the framework of organised crime, constitutes a gross violation of fundamental rights, disproportionately affects women and girls and is explicitly prohibited by the Charter;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas trafficking in human beings is a serious crime
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas trafficking in human beings is a serious international crime often committed within the framework of organised crime, constitutes a gross violation of fundamental rights and is explicitly prohibited by the Charter;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas trafficking in human beings harms human dignity and physical and psychological integrity; whereas it first and foremost affects the victims of trafficking, but it also has a vast impact on society overall;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas the right to asylum is guaranteed under the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees (Geneva Convention) and the protocol of 31 January 1967;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas most of the unsolved disappearances that occur in the EU each year are related to trafficking in human beings,
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) Db. whereas differences between the legislation of Member States greatly facilitate the activities of organised crime groups involved in trafficking in human beings24a ; __________________ 24a2016 EUROPOL situation report on Trafficking in human beings in the EU
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) Db. whereas the legal, social and personal problems that a disappearance causes have a specific impact on those involved that must be recognised and addressed,
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D c (new) Dc. whereas 70% of the identified victims and suspects of human trafficking in the EU are EU nationals25a ; __________________ 25a2016 EUROPOL situation report on Trafficking in human beings in the EU
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D d (new) Dd. whereas women and girls make up 80% of registered victims of trafficking in human beings, and this can be attributed partly to structural violence and discrimination against women and girls26a; __________________ 26aEurostat report, ‘Trafficking in human beings’, 2015 edition
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 17 a (new) – having regard to the report of 22 July 2014 of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non- recurrence,
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D e (new) De. whereas minority groups, such as Roma people, make up a disproportionate number of victims of trafficking in human beings as a result of being socially and economically marginalised;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D f (new) Df. whereas victims of human trafficking often lack information about their rights and how to effectively exercise them;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D g (new) Dg. whereas media pluralism, including media independence, media regulation and journalistic freedom are essential parts of freedom of speech;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D h (new) Dh. whereas the Commission's public consultation between July and September 2015 regarding the EU'S Audiovisual Media Services Directive has identified a number of issues relating to fundamental rights, including the prohibition of hate speech and discrimination and strengthening media freedom and pluralism, access to information and accessibility to content for people with disabilities;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D i (new) Di. whereas 50% of Europeans believe discrimination based on religion or beliefs is wide-spread;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D j (new) Dj. whereas Muslims suffer from the lowest levels of social acceptance among religious groups26a ; __________________ Eurobarometer ’Discrimination in the 26a EU in 2015’
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D k (new) Dk. whereas the FRA's survey on discrimination and hate crime against Jews shows rising anti-Semitism in Europe27a ; __________________ 27aEU Fundamental Rights Agency survey ‘Antisemitism - Overview of data available in the European Union 2004- 2015
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D l (new) Dl. whereas Jewish communities are the target of terrorist and anti-Semitic attacks, leading to an increasing perception of insecurity and fear within those communities in Europe;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas discrimination, racism, xenophobia, hate speech and hate crime motivated by racism, xenophobia, or bias against a person's religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity threaten the values of the EU and its Member States; whereas there is an increase in hate speech among political forces and increasing xenophobia and other bias in important sectors of the population; whereas fighting discrimination, racism and xenophobia is crucial to respect European values of tolerance, diversity and mutual respect;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 17 a (new) – having regard to the report of 22 July 2014 of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non- recurrence,
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas racism, xenophobia and hate crime threaten the values of the EU and its Member States; whereas there is an increase in hate speech among political forces and increasing xenophobia and other bias in important sectors of the population, including via Internet;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas freedom of expression cannot be misused to protect racism, xenophobia and
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas racism, xenophobia and hate crime at every level threaten the values of the EU and its Member States; whereas there is an increase in hate speech among political forces and increasing xenophobia and other bias in important sectors of the population;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas racism, xenophobia and hate crime threaten the core values of the EU and its Member States; whereas there is an increase in hate speech among political forces and increasing xenophobia and other bias in important sectors of the population;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the prevention and combating of racism and xenophobia is primarily a local endeavour and requires full ownership both of the communities concerned and of society at large;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas inequalities between women and men violate fundamental rights;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the European Union, and Articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibit any discrimination on grounds of sex and require equality between men and women to be ensured in all areas;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E c (new) Ec. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are grounded in basic human rights; whereas the denial of life- saving sexual and reproductive health services, among which safe abortion amounts to a serious breach of human rights;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas, according to FRA ‘violence against women’ survey data, one in three women in the EU has experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15, while one in ten has been the victim of some form of sexual violence and one in twenty has been raped since that age;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 4 a (new) - having regard to the 1951 United Nations Convention, and the 1967 Protocol thereto, relating to the Status of Refugees,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 17 a (new) - having regard to the package of directives on Procedural Defence Rights in the EU,
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas violence against women is not only a serious violation of fundamental rights but also a brutal form of discrimination which is both cause and consequence of gender inequalities; whereas gender-based violence, which is rarely reported to the police or to victim support services, harms victims’ health and welfare and can also restrict their access to employment and restrict their independence; whereas this unacceptable phenomenon affects the whole European Union, is still ‘silently’ tolerated in many places and a zero tolerance approach to it is necessary;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas further discrimination against women is taking place in Europe, under the guise of religion, and whereas violence against women is still ‘silently’ tolerated in many places and a zero tolerance approach is necessary;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas violence against women is still ‘silently’ tolerated in many places and a zero tolerance approach is necessary; whereas violence against men must be highlighted as well;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas violence against women is still ‘silently’ tolerated in many places to avoid the social stigma and a zero tolerance approach is necessary;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas gender-based violence and violence against women is still ‘silently’ tolerated in many places and a zero tolerance approach is necessary;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas violence against women and gender-based violence is still ‘silently’ tolerated in many places and a zero tolerance approach is necessary;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas today an informal system of quotas, as firstly mentioned in the Parliament's report of 3 February 2012 on women in political decision-making, is de facto still in play, where men are privileged over women and where men choose men for decision-making positions, which is not a formalised system but nevertheless a systematic and very real deep-rooted culture of preferential treatment of men;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas under-reporting gender- based violence is excessive due to the lack of trust of victims in the authorities to appropriately handle their cases and diligently prosecute the perpetrators;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) Gb. whereas secondary and repeat victimisation and intimidation during court proceedings is common for victims of gender-based violence;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G c (new) Gc. whereas LGBTI rights are basic human rights: according to international human rights standards, every nation is obliged to protect all lesbian, gay, bi- sexual, trans and intersex people (LGBTI) from torture, discrimination and violence;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas children are the future of our society and we are responsible for their present; whereas education
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas children are the future of our society and
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Η Η. whereas children are the future of
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas children are the future of our society and we are responsible for their present; whereas education is one of the best ways to impart values such as peace, tolerance, coexistence, equality, justice and respect for human dignity via formal, non- formal and informal education methods;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas children are the future of our society and we are responsible for their present; whereas education is one of the best ways to impart values such as peace,
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas child helplines, information services and similar tools are useful as awareness-raising, referral and reporting mechanisms for cases related to the violation of children’s rights;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas live-streaming of child sexual abuse is no longer an emerging new trend, but an established reality; whereas children are at risk of harm through online grooming and solicitation for sexual purposes, which in the most serious cases can turn into sexual coercion; whereas judicial cooperation between Member States needs to be established, to combat paedophile networks which are often of a transnational nature;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas live-streaming of child sexual abuse is no longer an emerging new trend, but an established reality; whereas children are at risk of harm through online grooming and solicitation for sexual purposes, which in the most serious cases can turn into sexual coercion and not enough is done to prevent child sexual abuse trough sexuality education programmes;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 a (new) - having regard to the Data Protection Package adopted in December 2015,
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas live-streaming of child sexual abuse is no longer an emerging new trend, but an established reality; whereas children are at risk of harm through online grooming and solicitation for sexual purposes, which in the most serious cases can turn into sexual coercion, as well as of harassment and bullying from peers;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas live-streaming of child sexual abuse is no longer an emerging new trend, but an established reality; whereas children are at risk of harm through online grooming and solicitation for sexual purposes, which in the most serious cases can turn into sexual coercion and other forms of abuse;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas, in application of Article 37 of the Convention on Children’s Rights and the principle of the best interests of the child, unaccompanied or separated children should not, as a general rule, be detained but they should be placed in a safe environment providing all the necessary protection, healthcare and education;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas, in application of Article 37 of the Convention on Children’s Rights
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas, in application of Article 37 of the Convention on Children’s Rights and the principle of the best interests of the child, unaccompanied or separated children should not
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas Articles 37 and 38 of the Charter recognise the right to a high level of environmental protection intrinsically linked to the deployment of the policies of the Union;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K b (new) Kb. whereas being unemployed, poor or socially marginalised has a major impact as regards gaining access to and exercising fundamental rights;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU institutions
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU institutions have already started politically and ideologically motivated procedures to overcome the so- called ‘Copenhagen dilemma’, not only for those countries applying for EU membership but also in Member States where the enforcement of fundamental rights values should be monitored and observed in all circumstances; whereas Article 67 TEU states that the Union shall respect the different legal systems and traditions of the Member States and only the ECJ is the recognised institution to pass judgment of treaty violations by Member States;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU institutions have already started procedures to overcome the so-called ‘Copenhagen dilemma’, not only for those countries applying for EU membership but also in Member States where the enforcement of fundamental rights values should be monitored and observed on a country by country basis in all circumstances;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 b (new) - having regard to the Regulation establishing a European Border and Coast Guard6a , __________________ 6a 2015/0310 (COD)
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU institutions have already started procedures to overcome the so-called ‘Copenhagen dilemma’
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU institutions have already started procedures to overcome the so-called ‘Copenhagen dilemma’, not only for those countries applying for EU membership but also in Member States where the enforcement of fundamental human rights values should be monitored and observed in all circumstances;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas a new mechanism should aim at offering a single, coherent framework, building on and incorporating existing instruments and mechanisms, and closing any remaining gaps; whereas this mechanism should be evidence based, objective, non-discriminatory and assessing on an equal footing, applying to both Member States and institutions of the Union, and based on a graduated approach, including both a preventative and corrective arm;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas the 2005 EP resolution on the protection of minorities and anti- discrimination policies in an enlarged Europe (Moraes report) already called for a greater attention to the minority issues at the Union level, in order to strengthen the measures taken by Member States; whereas in spite of numerous calls on the Commission, no real step has been taken in order to ensure an effective protection of minorities;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas the rule of law is one of the fundamental principles of the EU, functioning on the basis of the presumption of mutual trust that Member States conform with democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, as enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M M. whereas the m
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M M. whereas
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M M. whereas
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M M. whereas the migration crisis has triggered mistrust, intolerance, and rising hatred towards national minority communities in Europe, which also affects the position of traditional national minorities;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 c (new) - having regard to the Asylum Procedures Directive,
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M M. whereas the migration crisis has
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. whereas research has shown that not only did European countries collectively fail to address the urgent humanitarian and medical needs of refugees and migrants arriving at external or internal EU borders, but the European Union's deterrence and security-centred policies – developed over the last 15 years and further strengthened in 2015 – have increased the demand for migrant smuggling networks and pushed people towards ever more dangerous routes which jeopardise their health, dignity and lives;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. whereas equal treatment of all citizens is a basic right, not a privilege, pointing out that fundamental freedoms, human rights and equal opportunities should be guaranteed for all citizens of the European Union; whereas minority rights are an integral part of basic human rights; considers it necessary to draw a clear distinction between autochthonous minorities, migrants and asylum seekers;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. whereas people with disabilities continue to be excluded and discriminated against in the enjoyment of their fundamental rights and face barriers that prevent them from participating in the society on an equal basis with others;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M b (new) Mb. whereas the protection of autochthonous minorities and regional and minority languages in an enlarged EU is still not properly addressed, which cannot be resolved simply by combating xenophobia and discrimination, but by adopting specific measures and standards addressing all aspect of their minority status guaranteeing and protecting their cultural and linguistic diversity;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M c (new) Mc. whereas there is a difference between the protection of autochthonous minorities and anti-discrimination policies; whereas recalls that autochthonous minorities contribute to the richness and diversity of Europe;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N N. whereas the FRA’s 2016 Fundamental Rights report found that increasing discrimination and anti- Gypsyism
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N N. whereas the FRA
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 d (new) Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O O. whereas many persons of Roma origin in Europe face prejudice, intolerance, discrimination and social exclusion in their daily lives; whereas segregation of Roma children in schooling
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O O. whereas
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O O. whereas many persons of Roma origin in Europe face prejudice, intolerance, hostility, discrimination and social exclusion in their daily lives; whereas segregation of Roma children in schooling remains a persistent problem in some Member States;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O O. whereas many persons of Roma origin in Europe face prejudice, racism, intolerance, discrimination and social exclusion in their daily lives; whereas segregation of Roma children in schooling remains a persistent problem in some Member States;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas the EU is undergoing a period of serious economic and financial crisis, the impact of which, in combination with certain measures, including drastic budget cuts, implemented to address it in some Member States, is negatively affecting fundamental social rights, as well as the living conditions of EU citizens – increasing unemployment, poverty levels, inequalities and precarious working conditions, limiting access to quality of services (especially access to healthcare services), demographic recession and criminality – and hence the wellbeing of citizens;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas in 2015 the number of violent attacks targeting Jews in Europe has raised serious security concerns among Jewish communities; whereas Muslim communities have been disproportionately targeted by counter- terrorism legislation, policies and practices which can have a discriminatory bias when not grounded in reasonable suspicion or are not legitimate and proportionate; whereas people of African descent are particularly victims of discrimination and racism, in particular police violence and hate crime;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas the rapid development of the modern digital society means that the right to be forgotten needs to be guaranteed, in order to remove any content which might be prejudicial to the dignity of individuals; whereas the right to privacy and to the protection of digital reputation is particularly important when it comes to children, who represent the most defenceless part of society;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas freedom to operate for civil society groups are central to democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights; whereas this freedom has been jeopardised by the adoption of laws or by direct intervention by the authorities in a number of Member States;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas based on Commission proposals, the Justice and Home Affairs Council adopted in September 2015 two Decisions to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece, to assist them in dealing with the pressures of the refugee crisis;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas the right to be forgotten, in the field of privacy rights, represents a fundamental right that each person has not to see published on the internet contents about himself/herself, in the case these are cause of prejudice;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 e (new) - having regard to Directive on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings8a , __________________ 8a 2010/64/EU
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas only 27% of Europeans are familiar with the single European emergency telephone number 112, and not everyone has access to it yet;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas in 2015 the number of violent attacks targeting Jews in Europe has raised serious security concerns among Jewish communities;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O a (new) Oa. whereas in 2015 the number of violent attacks targeting Jews in Europe has raised serious security concerns among Jewish communities;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O b (new) Ob. whereas Muslim communities have been disproportionately targeted by counter-terrorism legislation, policies and practices which can have a discriminatory bias when not grounded in reasonable suspicion or are not legitimate and proportionate;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O b (new) Ob. whereas in the European Union the respect of Fundamental Rights is guaranteed both at national level by Member´s State constitutional democratic systems and at the EU level by the Charter;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O b (new) Ob. whereas Articles 37 and 38 of the Charter recognise the right to a high level of environmental protection intrinsically linked to the deployment of the policies of the Union;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O b (new) Ob. whereas according to the 'Trade for All' strategy adopted by the Commission in October 2015, fundamental rights should be respected in the EU and non-EU countries;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O b (new) Ob. whereas Muslim communities have been disproportionately targeted by counter-terrorism legislation, policies and practices which can have a discriminatory bias;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O c (new) Oc. whereas according to a research by the European Network Against Racism people of African descent are particularly victims of discrimination and racism, in particular police violence and hate crime;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O c (new) Oc. whereas according to a research by the European Network Against Racism, people of African descent are particularly victims of discrimination and racism, especially police violence and hate crime;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 f (new) - having regard to the Commission Communication "A new EU Framework to Strengthen the Rule of Law"9a , __________________ 9a COM(2014)158 final
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O c (new) Oc. whereas the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system is contaminated in many cases to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O c (new) Oc. whereas the European Commission stated that in some Member States main issues which threaten the rule of law have not been resolved;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O d (new) Od. whereas the European Court of Justice in its ruling on 6 October 2015 declared the old Safe Harbour framework invalid; whereas the Court stressed in this regard the right, guaranteed by the Charter, to the protection of personal data and the task with which the national supervisory authorities are entrusted under the Charter;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O d (new) Od. whereas corruption crime represents a serious fundamental rights violation and a threat to democracy and the rule of law;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O e (new) Oe. whereas according to FRA's field work research with public officials and professionals prevailing negative social attitudes and stereotypes represent a major barrier to tackling discrimination and hate crime against LGBT persons;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O f (new) Of. whereas recent reports show an increase in fear and insecurity amongst the Jewish and Muslim communities in the EU; http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2015- paper-01-2015-post-paris-attacks-fundamental-rights- considerations-0_en.pdf;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O g (new) Og. whereas according to a research by the European Network Against Racism, people of African descent are particularly victims of discrimination and racism, in particular police violence and hate crime;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O h (new) Oh. whereas in 2015 more than one million human beings, mostly girls, were denied their fundamental right to life as laid out in article 2 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, being terminated by induced abortions;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 1 Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 1 Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 g (new) - having regard to the Commission Recommendation of 27 July 2016 regarding the rule of law in Poland11a , __________________ 11a C(2016) 5703 final
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph -1 (new) -1. Calls for an urgent review of gendercide practices, whereby sex selective abortions are carried out allowing fewer female children to be born than male;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph -1 (new) -1. Recalls, in line with international law, that human rights are universal and indivisible; this means that the human rights of one group cannot be used to undermine the rights of others. Human rights are always complementary, and a fair balance must be struck between the rights of all in a rich and diverse society;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that human dignity is the inviolable
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that human life and dignity is inviolable and must be respected and protected; calls for information and awareness-raising amongst EU citizens on the inherent dignity, security and wellbeing of all persons in order to achieve a more sensitive
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that human dignity is inviolable and must be respected and protected as the basis of all fundamental rights; calls for awareness-raising amongst EU citizens on the inherent dignity of all persons in order to achieve a more sensitive and inclusive society;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that human dignity is
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that human dignity is inviolable and must be respected and protected; calls for awareness-raising amongst EU citizens on the inherent dignity of all persons in order to achieve a more sensitive and inclusive society;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that human dignity is inviolable and must be respected and protected
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Reiterates the condemnation of the practice of surrogacy expressed in § 115 of its resolution of 17 December 2015 on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2014 and the European Union's policy on the matter (2015/2229(INI)): "The EU Parliament condemns the practice of surrogacy, which undermines the human dignity of the woman since her body and its reproductive functions are used as a commodity; considers that the practice of gestational surrogacy which involves reproductive exploitation and use of the human body for financial or other gain, in particular in the case of vulnerable women in developing countries, shall be prohibited and treated as a matter of urgency in human rights instruments.";
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 a (new) - having regard to the Council conclusions of 15 June 2011 on early childhood education and care: providing all our children with the best start for the world of tomorrow12a, __________________ 12a OJ C 175, 15.6.2011, p. 8.
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the importance of ensuring that the principles set out in Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights are fully implemented, in both EU and national laws; expresses regret and concern about the Commission's reluctance to initiate infringement proceedings with regard to the violations of the Charter;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls therefore on the EU and the Member States to recognise the fundamental right to universal access to health, as healthcare and protection is an integral prerequisite of human dignity; calls on the Member States to recognise environmental protection as being a key factor in guaranteeing the fundamental right to health;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that in its relations with the wider world, the Union shall contribute to the protection of human rights; in that respect, calls upon the EU institutions to ensure a high level of the protection of human rights in external relations, as well as in internal policies having external consequences;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recognises that secularism, in terms of the strict separation of church and State, and the neutrality of the State is essential for protecting freedom of religion or belief, guaranteeing equal treatment of all religions and beliefs and fighting discrimination on grounds of religion or belief;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Reiterates that the reintroduction of the death penalty is contrary to the EU’s fundamental values;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Reiterates that Member States shall respect and protect the human dignity of all migrants, including in relation to border management and asylum procedures; calls on the Commission and Member States to reinforce cooperation and resources to save lives of migrants at sea in accordance with the respect of the right to life; welcomes the fact that the recently adopted European Border and Coast Guard proposal foresees a specific mandate for the Agency to support search and rescue operations; recalls that rules related to asylum seekers’ and refugees’ reception conditions must not deprive them of their fundamental rights to a dignified standard of living and to physical and mental health;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Recalls the ruling C-34/10 of the European Court of Justice that any human ovum after fertilisation constitute a ‘human embryo’; congratulates the European Citizen Initiative "One of Us" (ECI(2012)000005) for the collection of 1.721.626 signatures in support of the juridical protection of the dignity, the right to life and of the integrity of every human being from conception in the areas of EU competence in which such protection is of particular importance; regrets that the Commission refused to implement this successful European Citizen Initiative as well as the ECI "Right to water";
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Notes that Article 6 TEU requires the EU to accede to the ECHR; calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure that the aforementioned obligation is met as quickly as possible, on the basis of full transparency and with the aim of enhancing the protection of individuals and making the European institutions more accountable for their actions or failings regarding fundamental rights;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence in the EU against all human beings, as that constitutes a direct violation of the human dignity; underlines that the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all human beings must be respected, including their right to their bodies and sexuality and to be free of coercion, discrimination and violence;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 a (new) Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 a (new) - having regard to the European Union Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders,
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Expresses its concerns over the application of blasphemy and religious insult laws in the European Union, which can have a serious chilling effect on freedom of expression; urges the Member States to abolish such laws;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Reiterates its call for respect for dignity at the end of life, notably by ensuring that decisions expressed in living wills are recognised and respected;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Recalls that in implementing the specific Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) prohibition on coercion or compulsion in sexual and reproductive health matters and with regard to the international legally binding human rights instruments, the EU community acquis as well as the policy competencies in this matter, Union funding should not be provided to any legal entity which promotes, supports or participates in the management of any action which involves such human rights abuses as coercive abortion, forced sterilisation of women and men, determining foetal sex resulting in pre natal sex selection or infanticide, especially where such actions apply their priorities though psychological, social, economic or legal pressure. The Commission should present a report on the implementation of the Union’s external assistance covering family planning programmes;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Notes with concern that there are still huge efforts needed to achieve the Europe 2020 strategy’s targets on poverty and social exclusion, while poverty and social exclusion inherently prevent individuals to live their lives in dignity; calls on Member States to find the right mix of policies, including employment activation and training and adequate systems of income support, as well as access to high quality services and to education;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take account of demographic developments and changes in the size and composition of households when designing their policies; urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that their social and employment policies do not discriminate on the basis of size and composition of households;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Calls on the Commission to broaden the scope of the EU Justice Scoreboard to cover the assessment of criminal justice systems and of efforts to uphold fundamental rights and the rule of law;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Calls on the Commission to strongly condemn the practice of surrogacy in all its forms, as a violation of art. 1 (human dignity) and art. 3 (integrity of the person) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, proposing a concrete roadmap in order to prohibit surrogacy and treat it as a matter of urgency in human rights instruments, as requested by European Parliament resolution of 17 December 2015 on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2014 and the European Union’s policy on the matter (P8 TA-PROV(2015)0470);
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the FRA, to submit annual reports on the situation regarding fundamental rights in the EU and in individual Member States; reiterates the importance of preventing infringements of fundamental rights rather than reacting afterwards, when the infringements are repeated; calls on the Commission to propose a revision of the FRA Regulation so that it can be given broader responsibilities and powers;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Points out that the right of access to justice is vital for the protection of all fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law; calls for direct, easily accessible instruments to be made available to individuals to combat infringements of their fundamental rights by Member States, without giving any discretionary powers to the national courts or the EU institutions;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to look into the impact on fundamental rights of austerity measures, be they proposed or implemented, taking into account the disproportionate impact these measures have had on employment and growth in Europe; calls for a guarantee that sufficient resources will be made available to safeguard respect for fundamental rights and to ensure minimum essential levels for the enjoyment of civil, economic, cultural and social rights, with a special focus on the most vulnerable and socially disadvantaged groups; calls on the EU institutions to take remedial action immediately where austerity measures have had a negative impact on the economic, social and cultural rights of EU citizens;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 b (new) - having regard to the Council conclusions of 19 June 2015 on equal income opportunities for women and men: Closing the gender gap in pensions,
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 1 a (new) Rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Notes that it is essential to guarantee that the common European values listed in Article 2 TEU are upheld in full in both European and national legislation, public policies and their implementation;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Calls on the Commission to make provisions for an annual policy cycle that monitors its application, taking account of the results of annual and specific reports from the institutions of the European Union, like the Commission and FRA, the Council of Europe, the United Nations and civil society organisations, and contribute towards improving coordination between those involved and the drafting of policies on the basis of greater transparency and dialogue;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 g (new) 1g. Urges the Commission to systematically prepare specific fundamental rights impact assessments for its upcoming proposals; reiterates that the full range of sources for fundamental rights should be taken into consideration, as fundamental rights provisions are not limited to the Charter;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 h (new) 1h. Urges the Commission to provide clear indicators in order to assess the enforcement and respect of fundamental rights, and to trigger alert mechanisms in the case of violations. Such indicators could take the form of a fundamental rights scoreboard, possibly as an extension of the scope of the EU Justice Scoreboard, which should also cover the assessment of criminal justice systems; indicators should include clear data collection mechanisms, including equality data collection disaggregated according to the different discrimination grounds;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 i (new) 1i. Urges the Commission and Member States to find a way to make better use of the expertise of the Council of Europe and set up a formal channel of cooperation in matters relating to the rule of law and fundamental rights and create stronger synergies between the institutions;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 j (new) 1j. Welcomes the fact that the Council holds regular debates on the rule of law; considers, however, that such debates are not the most effective ways to resolve any non-compliance with the fundamental values of the European Union; regrets the fact that the Commission and the Council initiatives on Rule of Law are disconnected from each other; regrets the fact that Parliament is neither informed nor involved into the organisation of these debates; calls on the Council to base its debates on the results of annual and specific reports of the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Fundamental Rights Agency, civil society, the Council of Europe and its Venice Commission and other parties involved, institutional and otherwise;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 k (new) 1k. Calls on the EU institutions and Member States to find common ground on the precise content of the principles and standards stemming from the rule of law that vary at national level and to consider the already existing definition of the rule of law of the European Court of Justice as a starting point for debate; recalls that this definition includes legality, which implies a transparent, accountable, democratic and pluralistic process for enacting laws; legal certainty; prohibition of arbitrariness of the executive powers; independent and impartial courts; effective judicial review including respect for fundamental rights; and equality before the law;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 l (new) 1l. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all Member State actions, which are funded under the EU cohesion policy, respect fundamental rights’ principles; reiterates that the Commission should not allow itself to finance, with EU money, actions which are not in line with the highest values of the Union, that is to say, the rights, freedoms and principles recognised by the Charter;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 m (new) 1m. Stresses that corruption represents a serious fundamental rights violation; notes that in certain Member States it affects the highest levels of government and can be deemed as an institutionalised form of corruption; calls on the Member States and institutions to devise effective instruments for combating and sanctioning corruption and to monitor regularly the use of public funds, be they European or national;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 c (new) - having regard to the European Pact for gender equality for the period 2011-2020 adopted by the Council conclusions of 7 March 2011,
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 n (new) 1n. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that any new initiatives, as well as the European Semester fully integrates fundamental rights aspects;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 2 Migra
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 o (new) 1o. Calls on all Member States, EU Institutions and Agencies to fully respect the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol during the border guard actions and asylum proceedings; urges the Commission as the guardian of the Treaties to closely monitor and effectively respond to any abuse of these laws;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 2 a (new) Underlines the fundamental right to seek asylum and urges the EU and the Member States to facilitate the creation of new safe and legal channels for asylum seekers to enter the EU in order to reduce the risks arising from attempts at illegal entry and combat human traffickers;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 g (new) 1g. Encourages the EU and the Member States to open up new legal channels for entering the European Union, so as to reduce the risks inherent in attempting to enter illegally and the loss of migrant lives at sea, to combat human trafficking and exploitation and the risk of forced return;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 p (new) 1p. Reiterates the importance of effective and early identification of, safeguards and adequate assistance to vulnerable groups of asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors, victims of trauma or torture, gender or sexual orientation related persecution, serious human right violations and victims of trafficking in the reception, asylum and integration processes; urges Member States, EU Institutions and Agencies to develop effective measures to protect these vulnerable groups; urges Member States to provide them with prompt access to adapted reception conditions and the provision of procedural guarantees; calls on the Commission to monitor closely the implementation of Directive 2013/32/EU on Asylum Qualification, with particular attention to those asylum seekers with special needs;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Points out that people in need of protection have only a limited number of options for entering the EU legally, restricting the right to asylum and encouraging the use of unsafe routes; calls for the establishment of humanitarian corridors, which would be legal and safe pathways into the EU for people in need of protection;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 h (new) 1h. Calls on the Commission to put respect for the rights of migrants at the centre of any bilateral or multilateral cooperation agreement with non-EU countries in relation to migration, including the new Migration Partnership Frameworks and readmission agreements;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Points out that fundamental rights must apply not only within EU territory, but also during European Border and Coast Guard and national border protection agency operations; calls for operational personnel to pay particular attention to compliance with the principle of non-refoulement and the ban on collective expulsion;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 d (new) - having regard to the EU Presidency Trio declaration on gender equality of 7 December 2015 by the Netherlands, Slovakia and Malta having regard to the Commission communication entitled 'Commission Work Programme 2016: No time for business as usual'13a , __________________ 13a COM(2015)0610
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 q (new) 1q. Reiterates the need to ensure that irregular migrants are granted the right to an effective remedy in the event of violations of their rights;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 r (new) 1r. Welcomes the fundamental rights safeguards built in the European Border and Coast Guard Agency proposal, including the establishment of the fundamental rights officer position, the complaint mechanism and the Agency’s enhanced role in search and rescue operations at sea;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 s (new) 1s. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take the necessary measures to provide information and ensure transparency concerning the detention of migrants and asylum seekers in numerous Member States;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 t (new) 1t. Calls on the Member States to ensure that women victims of gender- based persecution or harm, torture, rape, or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence have genuine access to international protection and to provide them with appropriate treatment and support, in line with internal rules and international obligations applicable to victims of violence such as the UN Convention against torture and the Istanbul Convention; calls on the Member States to follow the Commission guidelines for the implementation of Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification, including the immediate issue of a residence permit valid in its own right to family members who have entered for reasons of family reunification when there are particularly difficult circumstances, such as domestic violence;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 u (new) 1u. Recalls that the right to a fair trial is an integral part of the Asylum Procedures Directive, including the right to an effective remedy; calls on Member States to observe this right and provide for all procedural guarantees and access to justice for asylum-seekers; recalls that the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings is regulated by the Directive on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings (Directive 2010/64/EU)); calls on Member States to respect procedural guarantees also in case of asylum-seekers;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 v (new) 1v. Calls on Member States to their legal obligation to recognise sexual orientation and gender identity as valid grounds for fear and provide adequate training for asylum professionals (such as interviewers and interpreters) in order to identify grounds for asylum that are specific to LGBTI persons;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 w (new) 1w. Urges Member States to make sure that they are capable of recognising the need of special procedural and reception guarantees based on applicants' personal characteristics;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 x (new) 1x. Urges Member States to ensure that the complexity of LGBTI-related claims are properly taken into account in procedures based on the concept of safe third country, the concept of safe country of origin, the concept of first country of asylum or the notion of subsequent applications, including a thorough assessment taking into account the general situation of LGBTI persons in the third countries concerned;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and cultural integration of refugees in the host society is a dynamic, two-dimensional process (involving rights and duties), representing a challenge and an opportunity that requires responsibilities and efforts both by the refugees and by the Member States, their local and regional administrations and host communities, which means that those levels of government must play a part in a bottom- up process of decision-making in this area;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 e (new) - having regard to the Presidency conclusions of the Barcelona European Council of 15 and 16 March 2002,
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and cultural integration of refugees in the host society is a dynamic, two-dimensional process (involving rights and duties), ) where respect for the values upon which the EU is built must be an integral part, representing a challenge and an opportunity that requires responsibilities and efforts both by the refugees and by the Member States, their local and regional administrations and host communities;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and cultural integration of refugees in the host society is a dynamic, two-dimensional process (involving rights and duties), representing a challenge and an opportunity that requires responsibilities and efforts both by the refugees and by the Member States
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and cultural integration of all migrants and refugees in the host society is a dynamic, two-dimensional process (involving rights and duties), representing a challenge and an opportunity that requires responsibilities and efforts both by the refugees and by the Member States, their local and regional administrations and host communities;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and cultural integration of refugees and migrants in the host society is a dynamic, two-dimensional process (involving rights and duties), representing a challenge and an opportunity that requires responsibilities and efforts both by the refugees and by the Member States, their local and regional administrations and host communities;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and cultural integration of refugees in the host society is a dynamic, two-dimensional process (involving rights and duties), representing a challenge and an opportunity that requires responsibilities and efforts
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Considers that the social inclusion and cultural integration of refugees in the host society is a dynamic,
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls for an official investigation into the reported use of violence by Member State officials and civil militia pushing back asylum seekers at the EU's land border, and into the reported situation at the EU border where asylum seekers are kept in transit zones without proper reception conditions; calls upon the Member States to respect basic human rights and to not send back asylum seekers without duly processing asylum applications according to European asylum legislation;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 f (new) - having regard to the Council conclusions on LGBTI equality, adopted in on 16 June 2016,
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Urges Member States to guarantee decent reception conditions in compliance with existing fundamental rights and asylum legislation, with special attention paid to vulnerable people and to reducing the risk of social exclusion of asylum seekers; calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), and in particular of Directive 2013/32/EU, with specific attention to asylum seekers in need of special procedural guarantees;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Points out to the urgent need of facilitating family reunification; condemns in this respect all changes in national legislations that have led to restricting the right to family life of persons fleeing persecutions and its dramatic consequences for families being separated and at risk of death or starvation in countries of origin and transit, and at risk of segregation and abandonment in detention centres located in EU member countries;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Deplores that between September and December 2015 the Commission adopted 49 infringement decisions against Member States for inadequate implementation of legislation making up the Common European Asylum system;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Expresses its concern that implementation of the EU-Turkey declaration may, in practice, result in migrants being subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Member States, in the spirit of solidarity, to participate fully in the resettlement programmes;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Whereas the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe in the issue paper "the right to leave a country" states that EU Member States have adopted a panoply of measures which have the effect of preventing people from leaving the country , including mandatory visa requirements which only prevent some people from leaving the state of origin and transit, to readmission agreements which have the effect of enabling EU Member States to send back anyone, citizen or foreigner, who is found irregularly present in the state of entry (and who has passed through or is a citizen of the state of origin and transit);
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Urges Member States to ensure that arrivals are treated with respect in line with existing legislation regarding fundamental rights and asylum, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable and seeking to minimise the risk of asylum seekers suffering social exclusion;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Deplores that many Member Sates didn't respect their commitments under the temporary emergency relocation schemes and the European resettlement scheme;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Underlines the fundamental right to seek asylum; encourages the EU and the Member States to open up and devote sufficient resources to create new safe and legal possibilities and channels for asylum seekers to enter the European Union, so as to reduce the risks inherent in attempting to enter illegally and to combat human trafficking and smuggling networks that profit from endangering the lives of migrants and from their sexual and labour exploitation;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Whereas the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe expressed in the issue paper "the right to leave a country" that the right to leave a State belongs not only to citizens of a particular state but also to foreigners; whereas States are not entitled to place obstacles in the way of foreigners leaving their countries irrespective of where the foreigners seek to go;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 g (new) - having regard to the Council conclusions on the Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2015 - 2019, Foreign Affairs Council, 20 July 2015,
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Urges the Commission to propose a revision of Regulation 862/2007 so that it will include gender-differentiated statistical data on the operation of detention facilities; this revision should also require collection of gender- disaggregated data at registration sites and in first-line and long-term reception facilities, as well as data on vulnerable groups including but not limited to LGBTI persons or with disabilities, in order to improve understanding of and response to the specific needs of refugees, and asylum-seekers;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Urges Member States to guarantee reception conditions in compliance with existing fundamental rights and asylum legislation, with special attention paid to vulnerable people and to reducing the risk of social exclusion of asylum seekers; calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), and in particular of Directive 2013/32/EU, with specific attention to asylum seekers in need of special procedural guarantees;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 e (new) 2e. Highlights the double discrimination that migrant women face, as both migrants and as women, and the special circumstances that they may face in detention or reception centres, such as physical safety and harassment concerns, and their need for access to feminine hygiene supplies, privacy, and reproductive healthcare;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 e (new) 2e. Calls on Member States to refrain from inciting fear and hatred in their citizens towards migrants and asylum- seekers for political gains, therefore, calls on Member States to put an end to their strongly biased xenophobic communication strategies (such as anti- refugee billboard campaigns);
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to apply
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to apply cultural, political and social inclusion policies as swiftly as possible and with
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to apply cultural, political and social inclusion policies as swiftly as possible and with adequate dedicated resources; recalls that
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to apply cultural, political and social inclusion policies as swiftly as possible and with adequate dedicated resources; recalls that social inclusion policies must engage local, regional and national institutions
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to apply cultural, political and social in
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 22 a (new) - having regard to the Commission Communication 'Towards the elimination of female genital mutilation',
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to apply
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on Member States to apply cultural, political and social inclusion policies as swiftly as possible and with adequate dedicated resources; recalls that social inclusion policies must engage local, regional and national institutions and should focus on both individuals
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Deplores the way in which the financial and economic crisis and the measures taken to deal with it have had an impact – in some cases a drastic one – on economic, social and cultural rights, resulting in poverty, exclusion and isolation; calls on the EU institutions and Member States, when adopting and implementing budget cuts, to guarantee that sufficient resources are still made available to guarantee fundamental rights, including economic and social rights;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Highlights the fact that the principles of equal treatment, non- discrimination and equal opportunities should always be ensured when designing and implementing social inclusion and integration policy and measures;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to propose a non-exhaustive of "humanitarian grounds" for the release of humanitarian visas to offer Member States a standardised solution to providing humanitarian visas;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Considers that offering the possibility of an education is one of the foundations for the social and cultural integration of refugees; calls on the Commission to draw up a framework and proposals for better integration through education;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Is concerned about the conditions of detention of unaccompanied minors and calls on the Member States to take the necessary measures to effectively protect this vulnerable category;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Highlights the fact that the principles of equal treatment, non- discrimination and equal opportunities should always be ensured when designing and implementing social inclusion and integration policy and measures; stresses that multiple discrimination should be addressed holistically throughout all migration and integration policies; calls on Member States to refrain from inciting fear and hatred in their citizens towards migrants and asylum-seekers for political gains, therefore, calls on Member States to put an end to their strongly biased xenophobic communication strategies (such as anti-refugee billboard campaigns);
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Recalls that both international law and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights require Member States to examine alternatives to detention, as an application of the principles of necessity and proportionality in order to avoid arbitrary deprivation of liberty; Alternatives to detention include but are not limited to such as regular reporting to the authorities, the deposit of a financial guarantee, or an obligation to stay at an assigned place;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Stresses that multiple discrimination should be addressed holistically throughout all migration and integration policies;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 22 a (new) - having regard to the European Commission´s Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality, 2016-2019,
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Recalls that Article 3 of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child provides that all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. Calls therefore on Member States to the abolish of all forms of detention of minors;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Calls on Member States to refrain from inciting fear and hatred in their citizens towards migrants and asylum- seekers for political gains, therefore, calls on Member States to put an end to their strongly biased xenophobic communication strategies (such as anti- refugee billboard campaigns);
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Calls for the revision of Article 1.2 of Council Directive 2002/90/EC to provide for a mandatory exemption from criminalisation for 'humanitarian assistance' in cases of entry, transit and residence of third country nationals;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 e (new) 3e. Calls on EU Member States to review their border and immigration control laws, policies and practices so that they do not interfere with the right of every individual to leave their country of origin, residence or transit;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 f (new) 3f. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take the necessary measures to provide information and ensure transparency concerning the detention of migrants and asylum-seekers in numerous Member States, including access to NGOs and journalists;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 g (new) 3g. Beneficiaries of international protection should be allowed to extend their right to travel up to three months in other EU Member States to find employment if a local sponsor (individuals, companies, other entities) expresses his or her willingness to take care of the asylum seeker (i.e. through accommodation, facilitation of integration process and search for job) and give a financial guarantee and other evidence of credibility;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 h (new) 3h. Likewise, persons who have not been granted international protection in the Union but have received an offer of scholarship, employment or have regularly worked in a Member State while their protection claim was being processed should be able to avail themselves of a resident permit for third country nationals instead; urges the Commission to address this issue by providing innovative proposals in this direction;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 i (new) Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious tolerance needs to be promoted via constant efforts and extensive dialogue
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious tolerance needs to be
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 24 a (new) - having regard to Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA10 a , __________________ 10 a OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, p. 57.
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious tolerance needs to be promoted via constant efforts and extensive dialogue
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious tolerance needs to be promoted via constant efforts and extensive dialogue by all concerned, particularly the refugees, and that the crisis arising from the waves of migration cannot be tackled without the involvement of all relevant state and non-state actors, including churches and religious organisations;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious tolerance needs to be promoted via constant efforts and extensive dialogue and that the crisis arising from the waves of migration cannot be tackled without the involvement of all relevant state and non-state actors, including churches and religious organisations recognised by the Member States;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural dialogue and inter-religious
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious tolerance needs to be promoted via constant efforts and extensive dialogue and that the crisis arising from the waves of migration cannot be tackled without the involvement of all relevant state and non-state actors, including churches
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious tolerance needs to be promoted via constant efforts and extensive dialogue and that
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that intercultural and inter-religious
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Is deeply concerned about ongoing serious violations of migrants' fundamental rights at the external borders of the European Union and reiterates that all people are entitled to enjoy their human rights, without discrimination, including on the basis of residence status, nationality and religion; and in this context reiterates that respect and promotion of fundamental rights are unconditional and integral components of border and migration management; calls on Member States to comply strictly with the provisions of the EU and international law, in particular with the principle of non-refoulement; stresses that any external cooperation in the field of migration is possible only with countries having equivalent level of fundamental rights protection in law and practice;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) - having regard to the UN Convention of 1949 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation or the Prostitution of Others,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 26 a (new) - having regard to the Commission Communication of 19 March 2014 on a new EU framework to strengthen the rule of law (COM(2014)0158),
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to develop comprehensive policies to end all forms of violence against women and girls, and specific measures to ensure that women and girls refugees and asylum seekers are protected and get access to justice and to ensure that asylum policies and procedures are gender sensitive to help women and girls to escape or denounce male violence;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Member States and the EU to put in place a suitable and reliable system for the harmonised collection of data (name, age, nationality, gender, accompanied or unaccompanied, point of entry) for the identification, registration and recording of refugee children arriving in Europe at each stage of their journey;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Points out that solutions adopted for the initial reception of refugees and migrants must comply with standards of dignity and the guarantees worthy of a state governed by the rule of law, and must rule out practices incompatible with EU rules on asylum, such as so-called ‘hot returns’;
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Strongly condemns Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn for calling Hungary to be suspended or even expelled from the EU because of Hungary's correct implementation of the EU Schengen Codex which allows Member States to take control of the national border management to ensure the security of their citizens;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Expresses concern at migrant reception fund management being infiltrated by organised crime and calls on the Commission to monitor closely the use of these funds and ensure that any irregularities are investigated and those responsible prosecuted;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Reiterates that corruption is a serious threat to democracy, the rule of law and fair treatment for all citizens; stresses that, by diverting public funds from their intended public use, corruption detracts from the level and quality of public services and hence undermines our fundamental rights; calls on the Member States and institutions to devise effective ways of combating corruption, regularly monitoring the use made of both European and national public funds;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Reiterates the need of a definition of environmental refugees and a multilateral legal instrument to address the needs of environmental refugees in order to protect people fleeing events triggered by climate change, natural catastrophes and land - or water - grabbing;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasises the urgent need to open immediate legal, safe asylum routes, in order to avoid trafficking networks as well as to enable women, children, elderly and persons with disabilities to seek refuge without risking their lives;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Deplores increasing Islamophobia and some political parties’ exploitation of terrorist acts and migration flows in order to arouse hatred of the Muslim community; deplores similarly the fresh upsurge in anti-Semitic acts and the renewed sense of insecurity that is causing within the Jewish community; calls on Member States to take a zero- tolerance approach and to impose appropriate and deterrent penalties for any act of hatred or discrimination against religious communities, and to promote religious tolerance through, in particular, intercultural dialogue involving all relevant stakeholders and awareness-raising campaigns in schools;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 26 a (new) - having regard to the European Court of Justice decision C-528/13 in the 'Leger case',
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Recalls that rules related to asylum seekers' and refugees' reception conditions must not deprive them of their fundamental rights to a dignified standard of living and to physical and mental health; reiterates that the use of detention for immigration purposes is restricted by international and EU law, and should thus only be used as a measure of last resort in the absence of adequate alternative measures, and that children should never be detained for immigration purposes; urges that safeguards in the Return Directive and guidance on their implementation included in the Return Handbook be fully implemented in the current context where returns are being politically prioritised;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses that undocumented migrant women and girls should have full access to their basic fundamental rights, such as health care including sexual and reproductive health care;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Calls on Member States to ensure the effective and early identification of asylum seekers with special needs, their prompt access to adapted reception conditions and the provision of procedural guarantees, also in cases of high influx; encourages Member States to establish or reinforce the required legal, social and medical services to that end;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Firmly opposes the use of detention of all migrants;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Stresses that, while the development of a coherent EU-level approach to migration is long overdue, the establishment of a framework for cooperation on migration with third- countries based on sanctioning states that do not cooperate on readmission, return or prevention of irregular migration, in exchange for conditional development and trade cooperation, would be a serious abdication of responsibilities by the EU;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls for the strengthening of the rights to family reunification across the EU, as well as for improving the implementation, with swifter and less costly processes;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Recalls its resolutions of 14 September 2011 on homelessness and of 16 January 2014 on an EU homelessness strategy and in particular paragraph 10 and 11 thereof; deplores that the Commission has still failed to follow-up to this resolution; emphasises that the grounds for an EU homelessness strategy are still valid;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Urges the European Commission to adopt an anti-corruption strategy backed up by effective instruments; calls on all Member States and the EU to join the Open Government Partnership and to devise concrete strategies to promote transparency, empower citizens and combat corruption; calls on the Member States to follow up the recommendations contained in the Commission’s anti- corruption report and Parliament’s resolution of 23 October 2013 on organised crime, corruption and money laundering: recommendations on action and initiatives to be taken; urges them to step up police and judicial cooperation in combating corruption;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 27 a (new) - having regard to the European Agenda on Migration14a, __________________ 14a COM 2015 240
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission initiatives and main actions to strengthen security cooperation between Member States and setting out an effective EU response to terrorism and security threats in the European Union; and fully supports all proposed measures to pave the way towards an effective Security Union, in particular the directive on combatting terrorism
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission initiatives to strengthen security cooperation between Member States
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission initiatives to strengthen security cooperation between Member States
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission initiatives to strengthen security cooperation and the exchange of information between Member States and fully supports all proposed measures to pave the way towards an effective Security Union, in particular the directive on combatting terrorism, with all due regard for the rule of law and fundamental rights;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission initiatives to strengthen security cooperation between Member States
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission initiatives to strengthen security cooperation between Member States
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 27 b (new) Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission initiatives to strengthen security cooperation between Member States and fully supports all proposed measures to pave the way towards an effective Security Union, in particular the directive on combatting terrorism and extremist attacks;
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Commission initiatives to strengthen security
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls for all law-enforcement agencies and authorities, including those at local and regional levels, working to prevent radicalisation and terrorism to be involved in these efforts, by integrating information they collect and process into European databases and ensuring that they receive the training and information necessary for their work. It should not be forgotten that the persons guilty of committing the most serious terrorist attacks on European soil resided in such local communities, and that local and regional authorities are best placed to know what goes on in these communities each day;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Deplores France's and Germany's call on the European Union to adopt a law that would require app companies to make encrypted messages available to law enforcement, as part of Europe's ongoing efforts to thwart terrorist attacks. Believes this limitation is more likely to have a bad impact on the privacy and the security of the users - by making them more vulnerable to hacking - rather than weakening terrorism, since terrorists or other criminals will still benefit from a wide range of open-source services available for download online;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Takes the view that respect for fundamental rights and guaranteed collective safety are compatible goals and should always be given equal weight, even when responding to emergency situations; stresses that the former should not be sacrificed to the dictates of the latter, especially when acting in response to the terrorist threat;
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Expresses its concern about the adoption of national legislation by Member States allowing for blanket mass surveillance, and reiterates the need for security instruments that are targeted, strictly necessary and proportionate in a democratic society;
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Points to the need to highlight measures to combat terrorism inspired by Islamic fundamentalism, which is not dealt with in the text, focusing on this terrible threat that has cost too many human lives in Europe and the world;
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls for a thorough evaluation of all existing measures to combat terrorism; recalls that such an evaluation is required for legislation to fulfil the criteria of necessity and proportionality in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Recalls that freedom of expression, information and the media is fundamental to ensuring democracy and the rule of law; strongly condemns violence, pressure and threats against journalists and the media, including in relation to the disclosure of their sources and information about breaches of fundamental rights by governments and states; calls on Member States to refrain from any measures that constrain freedom of the media, communication and information; calls on the Commission to focus to a greater extent, during the accession negotiations process, on compliance with those fundamental rights;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls for a common legislation to protect whistle-blowers, witnesses and persons who cooperate with the judicial process, including the establishment of a specific fund aimed at giving protection to the person lodging the complaint, in order to support legal fees, medical bills, psycho-social counselling as a resettlement programme; considers that whistleblowing and filing of complaints generally cause the loss of employment or deeply worsen the working conditions of the person;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 27 c (new) - having regard to the 'Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non- discrimination through education' (Paris Declaration),
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Is deeply concerned by the failure of the European Commission to conduct impact assessments prior to publishing legislative proposals, notably in the case of the directive on combatting terrorism;
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Calls for the implementation of Directive 2008/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on the protection of the environment through criminal law. Invites the Member States to fully implement this directive, punishing with effective, proportionate and dissuasive criminal penalties any kind of unlawful behaviour having negative impacts on human health or the environment included: discharge, emission or introduction into air, soil or water of dangerous materials; burning of waste; illegal trade, collection and transport of hazardous waste; construction of public and private buildings with poor quality construction materials which are inappropriate to deal with possible damages caused by earthquakes and avalanches . Invites Member States to consider waste combustion as a criminal offense punishable with criminal penalties, in the same way as those included in directive 2008/99/CE. Invites, the EU Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL), to inform periodically the European Parliament about the actions of Member States in the implementation of directive 2008/99/CE;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Is concerned at the growing hostility towards journalists and media outlets, particularly when journalists become hate figures for political, religious and/or terrorist movements; calls on Member States to provide journalists and media outlets with appropriate protection and to take the necessary action, unambivalently and with the legal means at their disposal, against attacks on journalists by political and religious groups;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Reiterates its call on the EU and its Member States to set up a whistleblower protection scheme and to provide statutory safeguards for journalists’ sources;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that appropriate treatment of victims, including victims of terrorism, is
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses th
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Emphasises the need to uphold the values of the Union, the principles of the rule of law, and EU legislation in devising and implementing criminal-law measures to punish terrorist offences. Rejects any ‘right to opt out’ and condemns the failure of certain states to comply with framework decisions such as that on the mutual recognition of judgments, so as to enable the unfair prolongation of criminal convictions that have expired, in accordance with EU law;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Calls for a common European narrative to be built to combat extremism, radicalisation and discourse encouraging people to organise and perpetrate terrorist attacks on European soil. Such attacks are directed against the system of freedoms and the area of peace and prosperity on which the Union is founded. Many states have already fallen victim to such attacks, which deserve an interpretation which goes beyond a merely national perspective. They strike at our way of life and our democratic principles, and warrant a policy response, as well as prevention and crack-downs at European level;
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Believes that radicalisation of individuals can first and foremost be prevented by integration measures and by realising an open and inclusive society for all, not solely by law enforcement measures; believes that a European early warning and responsive system should be set up to identify groups that are at high risk of radicalisation; calls on the EU and the Member States to make greater efforts to prevent radicalisation via the Internet and social media, in particular among young people,
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Believes that
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 27 d (new) - having regard to the Europe 2020 strategy, specifically its targets on poverty and social exclusion,
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Believes that a European early warning and responsive system should be set up to identify groups that are at high risk of radicalisation; calls on the EU and the Member States to make greater efforts to prevent radicalisation via the Internet and social media, in particular among young people, and to assist the families of those who are at risk; encourages Member States to foster cyber activism and creativity with a view to combating the ideas and activities of radical groups, and to incorporate this dimension into lessons on online risk prevention in schools. Calls for the exchange of best practices and
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Believes that a European early warning and responsive system should be set up to identify
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Believes that a European early warning and responsive system should be set up to identify groups that are at high risk of radicalisation; calls on the EU and the Member States to make greater efforts to prevent radicalisation via the Internet and social media, in particular among young people, and to assist the families of those who are at risk; encourages Member
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Believes that a European early warning and responsive system should be set up to identify groups that are at high risk of radicalisation; calls on the EU and the Member States to make greater efforts to prevent radicalisation via the Internet and social media, in particular among young people, and to assist the families of those who are at risk, and considers that attention needs to be focused in particular on organised groups and non- governmental organisations which advocate violence and other forms of intolerance; encourages Member States to exchange best practices and to use intelligence-sharing mechanisms in order to fight terrorist networks efficiently;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Believes that a European early warning and responsive system should be set up to identify groups that are at high risk of radicalisation in respect of democracy, human rights and the Rule of Law; calls on the EU and the Member States to make greater efforts to prevent radicalisation via the Internet and social media, in particular among young people, and to assist the families of those who are at risk; encourages Member States to exchange best practices and to use intelligence-sharing mechanisms in order to fight terrorist networks efficiently;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Believes that a European early warning and responsive system should be set up to identify groups that are at high risk of radicalisation; calls on the EU and the Member States to make greater efforts to prevent radicalisation via the Internet and social media,
Amendment 457 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Recalls that exclusion and discrimination against religious communities in the European Union creates a fertile ground for individuals in vulnerable situations to join extremist organisations that can be violent; considers a consistent application of anti- discrimination legislation as a crucial element of strategies to prevent radicalisation or enable deradicalisation of those belonging to extremist organisations; Recommends that security approaches be complemented by long-term policies to prevent radicalisation and recruitment of citizens of the Union by extremist organisations; calls for strategies on social inclusion, education, employment and housing and policies to tackle discrimination and exclusion to stop vulnerable individuals joining violent extremist organisations as well as educating the general population about other cultures and traditions; Recommends that Member States' counter-radicalisation and counter- terrorism criminal or administrative measures ensure that responses are proportionate and that any restriction to the enjoyment of human rights are subject to judicial review and/or independent oversight; encourages Member States to ensure that such policies do not create 'suspect categories' broadly based on religious affiliations or practices, nor cultivate environments of stereotyping and religious hatred;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Is concerned that citizens are not fully aware of their right to data protection and privacy and of the channels of legal redress available to them; underlines in this respect the role of the national data protection authorities in upholding these rights and raising awareness of them; considers it essential to familiarise the public, in particular children, with the importance of personal data protection, including in cyberspace, and the dangers to which they are exposed; calls on Member States to expand their efforts as regards new-media literacy and to make that an integral component of school curricula so that children, at an early age, can handle both content and their personal data independently and critically; stresses that, in the light of rapid technology developments and increasing cyber- attacks, special attention needs to be given to the protection of personal data on the internet, with a strong focus on the security of processing and storing;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Believes that a comprehensive policy to prevent the radicalisation and recruitment of citizens of the Union by terrorist organisations can only be successful if accompanied by long-term proactive de-radicalisation processes in the judicial sphere; stresses the need to develop strategies on social inclusion, education, employment and housing and policies tackling discrimination and exclusion in order to prevent vulnerable individuals from joining violent extremist organisations;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 27 e (new) - having regard to the Council guidelines adopted in Luxembourg on 24 June 2013 to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by LGBTI persons in relations with third countries,
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Recalls that exclusion and discrimination against religious communities in the European Union create a fertile ground for individuals in vulnerable situations to join extremist organisations that can be violent; considers a consistent application of anti- discrimination legislation as a crucial element of strategies to prevent radicalisation or to enable deradicalisation of those belonging to extremist organisations;
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Recalls that exclusion and discrimination against religious communities in the European Union creates a fertile ground for individuals in vulnerable situations to join extremist organisations that can be violent; considers a consistent application of anti- discrimination legislation as a crucial element of strategies to prevent radicalisation or enable deradicalisation of those belonging to extremist organisations;
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Urges the Commission and Member States to ensure that all measures undertaken in the fight against terrorism and radicalisation are in full respect of the principles of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, especially the right to a legal defence, the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair trial, and the right to respect for privacy and protection of personal data;
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Reiterates its call to ensure accountability for massive violations of fundamental rights, in particular in the context of transportation and illegal detention of prisoners in European countries by the CIA, by means of open and transparent investigations;
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls for the respect of fundamental rights, legal aid, right to a fair trial and due legal process, in the case of the prosecution of people suspected of terrorist activity;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Recommends that security approaches be complemented by long- term policies to prevent radicalisation and recruitment of citizens of the Union by extremist organisations; calls for strategies on social inclusion, education, employment and housing and policies to tackle discrimination and exclusion in order to stop vulnerable individuals from joining violent extremist organisations as well as educating the general population about other cultures and traditions;
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Recommends that security approaches be complemented by long- term policies to prevent radicalisation and recruitment of citizens of the Union by extremist organisations; calls for strategies on social inclusion, education, employment and housing and policies to tackle discrimination and exclusion to stop vulnerable individuals joining violent extremist organisations as well as educating the general population about other cultures and traditions;
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Reiterates its resolve to ensure accountability for massive violations of fundamental rights, in particular, in the context of transportation and illegal detention of prisoners in European countries by the CIA, by means of open and transparent investigations; calls for a protection of those revealing such violations, such as journalists and whistleblowers;
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Recalls that Member States must ensure that their intelligence services operate in a lawful manner and in full compliance with the Treaties and the Charter;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Recommends that Member States' counter-radicalisation and counter- terrorism criminal or administrative measures ensure that responses are proportionate and that any restriction to the enjoyment of human rights are subject to judicial review and/or independent oversight; encourages Member States to ensure that such policies do not create 'suspect categories' broadly based on religious affiliations or practices, nor cultivate environments of stereotyping and religious hatred;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 27 f (new) - having regard to the European Commission's "List of Actions to advance LGBTI Equality" adopted in December 2015,
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Recommends that Member States' counter-radicalisation and counter- terrorism criminal or administrative measures ensure that responses are proportionate and that any restriction to the enjoyment of human rights are subject to judicial review and/or independent oversight; encourages Member States to ensure that such policies do not create 'suspect categories' broadly based on religious affiliations or practices, nor cultivate environments of stereotyping and religious hatred;
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Deplores the conditions in the prisons of numerous Member States; calls on the Commission to propose through legislative action minimum and enforceable standards which guarantee that the recommendations of the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment (CPT) and the judgments of the ECtHR are implemented both in the context of pre-trial detention and criminal punishment;
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Deplores the pressure placed on private companies by both public and private bodies to hand over internet users' data;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 d (new) 7d. Expresses its concern at legislative developments in several Member States extending surveillance capabilities of intelligence bodies, including, in France, the new intelligence law of 24th July 2015 and the law on international surveillance of 30th September 2015, several provisions of which, according to the Commission, raise important legal questions, in the UK, the adoption of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 and the subsequent 2015 court decision that certain articles were unlawful and to be disapplied, and, in the Netherlands, the proposals for new legislation to update the Intelligence and Security Act of 2002; reiterates its call on all Member States to ensure that their current and future legislative frameworks and oversight mechanisms governing the activities of intelligence agencies are in line with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights and all relevant Union legislation; asks the Commission to launch without delay an assessment of all provisions of the French intelligence laws and to determine its compliance with European primary and secondary law;
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 d (new) 7d. Reiterates the recommendations to the Commission made in its resolution of 27 February 2014 on the review of the European Arrest Warrant, notably as regards the introduction of a proportionality test and fundamental rights exception in the European Arrest Warrant or mutual recognition measures more generally;
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 e (new) 7e. Reiterates that under Article 15(1) of Directive 2000/31/EC Member States shall not impose a general obligation on providers of transmission, storage and hosting services to monitor the information which they transmit or store, nor a general obligation actively to seek facts or circumstances indicating illegal activity; recalls in particular that the CJEU, in its Judgments C-360/10 and C- 70/10, rejected measures for the 'active monitoring' of almost all users of the services concerned (internet access providers in one case, a social network in the other) and specified that any injunction requiring a hosting services provider to undertake general monitoring shall be precluded;
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 f (new) 7f. Insists that where it is apparent that national legislation is such as to obstruct the exercise of one or more fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Treaty, it may benefit from the exceptions provided for by EU law in order to justify that fact only in so far as that complies with the fundamental rights enforced by the Court; Recalls in this regard that the use by a Member State of exceptions provided for by EU law in order to justify an obstruction of a fundamental freedom guaranteed by the Treaty must be regarded as 'implementing Union law' within the meaning of Article 51(1) of the Charter;
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 g (new) 7g. Calls on the European Commission to assess the compatibility with EU primary and secondary law of emergency measures and other exceptional legal exemption regimes put in place by Member States to combat terrorism; takes the view that the broadening and prolongation of such exemption regimes constitute a serious and disproportionate interference with fundamental rights, in particular when it comes to the massive and prolonged use of administrative searches, the seizure and wholesale copying of personal data outside any procedural framework, the recourse to house arrest and bans on meetings without a prior judicial decision; reiterates that the prohibition of arbitrary action by the executive power and the existence of effective judicial controls and remedies are essential elements of the rule of law which should be guaranteed and enshrined in all counter-terrorism policies; expresses in this regards its concerns at the extension and prolongation of the state of emergency in France;
Amendment 478 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Points up the fact that migrants and refugees making use of irregular migration channels to come to Europe are especially at risk of being trafficked and that unaccompanied minors are being particularly targeted by criminal networks; points out that establishing legal migration channels is a key factor in combating irregular migration, smuggler and trafficker networks, and the violations of fundamental rights with which they are inextricably bound up; calls therefore on the EU and Member States to step up their efforts to establish legal migration channels and, in particular, to bring about an ambitious European resettlement programme;
Amendment 479 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes that Commission’s report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings shows that the Internet and new technologies enable organised crime groups to access a large pool of potential victims on a much larger scale than ever before, as many victims of trafficking, especially for sexual and labour exploitation, are recruited online; calls on EU law enforcement agencies to step up their efforts in targeting criminal trafficking networks and facilitators, paying special attention to crimes against children; stresses the need to provide training for services that come into contact with victims or potential victims of trafficking, so as to help them identify the persons concerned more effectively and give them appropriate support, with training to focus on compliance with fundamental rights and on the needs of persons in particularly vulnerable situations, especially children, women and LGBTI people;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 29 a (new) - having regard to the Guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons, adopted by the Foreign Affairs Council on 24 June 2013,
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes that Commission’s report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings shows that the Internet and new technologies enable organised crime groups to access a large pool of potential victims on a much larger scale than ever before, as many victims of trafficking, especially for sexual and labour exploitation, are recruited online; calls on EU law enforcement agencies to step up their efforts and cooperate more intensively with one another in targeting criminal trafficking networks and facilitators, paying special attention to crimes against children;
Amendment 481 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes that Commission’s report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings shows that the Internet and new technologies enable
Amendment 482 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes that Commission
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes that Commission’s report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings shows that
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls for the EU and the Member States to increase cooperation with third countries in order to investigate all stages of trafficking in human beings, to improve the exchange of information, and to launch proactive operations;
Amendment 485 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes following UNHCR's guidelines on international protection, that the statuses of victims of THB and of refugees are closely linked. Trafficking generally takes place in dangerous and degrading conditions and involves a range of human rights violations and abuses and severe exploitation such as abduction, incarceration, rape, sexual enslavement, enforced prostitution, forced labour, removal of organs, physical beatings, starvation, deprivation of medical treatment. Since such acts constitute serious violations of human rights which generally amount to persecution, these victims of trafficking should benefit from the same guarantees provided by the Qualifications Directive (2011/95/EU);
Amendment 486 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Points out that human trafficking and migrant smuggling are two very distinct phenomena, but, in some cases, there may be a link between them; stresses that measures taken against human trafficking must not undermine the fundamental rights of victims of trafficking, migrants, refugees and persons in need of international protection; calls for a ban on the administrative detention of victims of trafficking and unaccompanied minors;
Amendment 487 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the need to strengthen measures to prevent and avoid the consumption of goods produced and services provided by victims of people- trafficking; such measures should be incorporated into the European strategy to combat this scourge, in which companies should also be involved;
Amendment 488 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Draws attention to the link between people-trafficking and the problem of missing persons in Europe; stresses the need for a comprehensive strategy to address the particular suffering of relatives of missing persons, given the particular legal, social and emotional nature of such cases; takes the view that this strategy should be launched with a Commission communication on this issue;
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 c (new) 8c. Considers that this strategy should focus on stepping up judicial and police cooperation, particularly during the initial phase following the reporting of disappearance suspected of being connected to a criminal offence, particularly in cross-border areas. Adds that training for the relevant staff should be promoted – with a special emphasis on caring for those affected by events – with the strong support of, and cooperation with, civil society organisations working in this field;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Highlights that women are trafficked at a much higher rate than men and that women living in poverty or with low socio-economic opportunities are more vulnerable to traffickers; a priority should be made to empower women with employment opportunities, economic security, and stronger legal protection against loss of assets or property so that they are less susceptible to be lured in by traffickers;
Amendment 491 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Stresses that the vulnerability of children makes them a preferred target for traffickers and that identifying and checking the identity of children who are victims of trafficking is a growing problem; calls therefore for tools which help to keep track of these children and for proper and targeted measures to accompany the children in the process, with the involvement of all European, national and regional services;
Amendment 492 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses that we are assisting to a rise in the disappearances of unaccompanied minors between the age of 15 and 17; who become potential victims of exploitation and trade of human beings, due to the worsening of the migration crisis;
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on Member States and regional and local authorities to strengthen guardianship systems for children deprived of parental care and unaccompanied children; notes that, while implementing the system, a special focus is needed on accompanying persons and, in light of the best interests of the child, on not separating the child from family or from non-formal accompaniment;
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Notes that data collection on child trafficking should be based on a common definition of this crime phenomenon; recalls that some Member States consider child trafficking a separate form of exploitation and others include child victims with adults hindering the possibility of creating a comprehensive intelligence picture and of defining the best investigative responses at the EU level;
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Notes that appointing guardians to unaccompanied children is an important safeguard to ensure their best interests; calls on the Member States to establish these systems in line with the FRA and COM 2015 Handbook Guardianship for children deprived of parental care;
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on Member States to make equal efforts to identify, protect and assist victims of all forms of exploitation, and to guarantee the mutual recognition of victim protection orders in the EU; calls on Member States to implement the EU Anti-trafficking Directive fully and correctly, in particular Article 8 thereof, which calls for victims not to be criminalised, and encourages the Member States, EU institutions and agencies to convene meetings within the framework the EU Network of National Rapporteurs or equivalent mechanisms on trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on Member States to make equal efforts to identify, protect and assist victims of all forms of exploitation; calls on Member States to implement the EU Anti-trafficking Directive fully and correctly and encourages the Member States, EU institutions and agencies to co
Amendment 499 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on Member States to make equal efforts to identify, protect and assist victims of all forms of exploitation; calls on Member States to implement the EU Anti-trafficking Directive fully and correctly and encourages the Member States, EU institutions and agencies to co
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) - having regard to the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on Member States to make
Amendment 501 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Member States to recognise the longer time needed to recover from the harm of trafficking for purposes of sexual exploitation, as compared with the time needed to recover from other forms of trafficking, when deciding on limits to victim support; calls for protection measures offered to victims trafficked for sexual exploitation to be extended, in order to minimise harm, prevent re-trafficking and secondary victimisation and cater in every case for individual needs; underlines the importance for all Member States to recognise systematically the right to access to safe abortion services for female victims of trafficking in human beings whose pregnancy is a result of their exploitation; calls on the Member States to create easy-to-access healthcare services and after care for victims of trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on Member States in which the exploitation of victims of trafficking in human beings has taken place to offer adequate and necessary gender-sensitive medical treatment based on individual needs, paying special attention to victims of trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation;
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Emphasises the urgent need to open immediate legal, safe asylum routes, in order to avoid smuggling networks as well as to enable persons in need of international protection to seek refuge without risking their lives;
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Emphasises that the EU's legal and political framework recognises that trafficking is a gender-specific phenomenon, and calls on Member States to adopt gender-specific measures; recalls that Article 1 of the Directive stresses the need to adopt a gender-sensitive approach to trafficking in human beings; highlights that women and men, girls and boys are vulnerable in different ways, and are often trafficked for different purposes, and that prevention, assistance and support measures must therefore be gender-specific; points out, further, that the EU strategy identifies violence against women and gender inequalities as being among the root causes of trafficking, and lays down a series of measures to address the gender dimension of trafficking;
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to recognise human trafficking for ransom with torture practices as a form of human trafficking; considers that the severely traumatised survivors should be recognised as victims of a form of prosecutable human trafficking and receive protection, care and support [1] . [1] This new type of trafficking has already been introduced by the EP "resolution of 10 March 2016 on the situation in Eritrea", Paragraph T
Amendment 506 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 c (new) 11c. Stresses that the gender dimension must be consistently monitored in the implementation of EU anti-trafficking legislation, and urges the Commission to continue to monitor this in its assessment of Member States' compliance and implementation of the Directive 2011/36/EU; stresses that the cumulative effect of different types of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity makes LGBTI persons particularly vulnerable to trafficking in human beings; calls on the Member States to address the unique needs of LGBTI persons; calls on the Commission to promote the exchange of best practices in this regard;
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 d (new) 11d. Regrets that Europol's capabilities are not fully utilised among Member State law enforcement authorities in order to increase information sharing with Europol so that links can be made between investigations in different Member States and a broader intelligence picture on the most threatening organised crime networks active in the EU can be drawn;
Amendment 508 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 e (new) 11e. Calls for greater priority and resources to be given by Europol and national police forces to the prosecution of those facilitating human trafficking, paying special attention to raising awareness among police forces and the general public alike about new forms of human trafficking;
Amendment 509 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 f (new) 11f. Calls on the Member States to actively include social partners, the private sector, trade unions and civil society, particularly NGOs working to combat trafficking and provide assistance to victims, in their initiatives to prevent trafficking in human beings, particularly in the field of labour exploitation, including as regards the identification of victims and awareness-raising activities;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls on the EU and all Member States to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings;
Amendment 511 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Highlights that education is an effective tool in
Amendment 512 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Highlights that education is an effective tool in crime prevention and calls on Member States and regional and local authorities to implement prevention education programmes into national curriculums and to promote and mainstream prevention programmes;
Amendment 513 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Highlights that education is an effective tool in crime prevention and/or deterrence and calls on Member States to implement prevention education programmes into national curriculums and to promote and mainstream prevention programmes;
Amendment 514 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 – subparagraph 1 (new) Digital fundamental rights
Amendment 515 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement measures to enable every citizen to obtain more rapidly the removal of content potentially harmful to his/her dignity or reputation; points out that, in the absence of a specific public interest, everyone has the right to decide which data may be made available, the right to remove data and the right to be forgotten;
Amendment 516 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Emphasises the right of all persons to determine how their personal data are handled, in particular their exclusive right to determine the use and dissemination of their personal data;
Amendment 517 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Notes that all persons have the right to make their data publicly accessible or not to do so; states that all persons have the right to privacy, including decisions as to what data should be accessible, and the right to delete data;
Amendment 518 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 c (new) 12c. Stresses that no-one may be disadvantaged for not using digital services;
Amendment 519 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 d (new) 12d. Points out that all persons have the right to express and disseminate their opinions freely on the Internet, provided that, in the process, they abide by third- party privacy rights;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 Amendment 520 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 4 a (new) Freedom of expression, conscience and religion
Amendment 521 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Condemns violence and threats against journalists that still occur in several Member States; calls on Member States to diligently prosecute any threats to the freedom of media;
Amendment 522 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Calls on the Commission to follow up on the conclusions of the public consultation on the EU's Audiovisual Services and review the Directive if necessary, especially as regards the issues identified relating to fundamental rights;
Amendment 523 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Highlights that many minority groups continue to face discrimination in employment, housing, education, health, access to goods, services and information in Member States;
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 c (new) 12c. Recognises freedom of thought, conscience, religion, belief and non- belief, and freedom to practise the religion of one's choice and to change religion and freedom to manifest one's religion or belief, individually or in community with others, in public or private, through worship, observance, practice and teaching; condemns any form of discrimination on the grounds of religion or beliefs; calls on the Member States to protect freedom of religion or belief, including the freedom of those without a religion not to suffer discrimination as a result of excessive exemptions for religions from laws on equality and non- discrimination;
Amendment 525 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 c (new) 12c. Condemns incidents of hate crime and hate speech motivated by racism, xenophobia or religious intolerance or by bias against a person's disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, which occur in the EU on a daily basis; calls for the adoption of the proposed 2008 Equal Treatment Directive which is still pending for approval by the Council; considers it a condition to secure a consolidated and coherent EU law framework against discrimination, also protecting from discrimination on the grounds of religion and belief, disability, age and sexual orientation outside of employment;
Amendment 526 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 d (new) 12d. Deplores recent instances of anti- Semitic and anti-Muslim discrimination and violence; calls on the Member States, including regional authorities to protect with all available tools freedom of religion or belief and to promote tolerance and intercultural dialogue through effective policy making, enhancing anti- discrimination policies where needed;
Amendment 527 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 5 Amendment 528 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 5 Hate crime, hate speech and xenophobia on the rise
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 — having regard to its resolution of 4 February 2014 on the EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds
Amendment 530 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 5 Amendment 531 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 5 Amendment 532 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) Amendment 533 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Is concerned by increasing racism and xenophobia in the form of Afrophobia, anti-Gypsyism, Anti- Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant sentiment; condemns incidents of hate crime and speech motivated by racism, xenophobia or religious intolerance or by bias against a person's disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, which occur in the EU on a daily basis; welcomes the annual EU Colloquium on Fundamental Rights and the appointment of Coordinators on anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred; encourages the Commission to appoint Coordinators on Afrophobia and anti-Gypsyism and recommends adoption of European frameworks for national strategies to combat Afrophobia, anti-Gypsyism, anti- Semitism and Islamophobia;
Amendment 534 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Is concerned by increasing racism and xenophobia in the form of Afrophobia, anti-Gypsyism, Anti- Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant sentiments;
Amendment 535 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 e (new) 12e. Welcomes the Commission's intention to develop policy guidelines on anti-racism and diversity; urges the Commission for concrete progress in the EU anti-discrimination agenda;
Amendment 536 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 f (new) 12f. Strongly deplores that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the European Commission; and reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 537 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 g (new) 12g. Calls on the Commission to review of European legislation against hate speech and hate crime expanding it to the grounds of religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity; in order to fully cover all forms of hate crimes and crimes committed with a bias or discriminatory motive related to the victims' personal characteristics, and to clearly define consistent investigation and prosecution standards;
Amendment 538 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 h (new) 12h. Deplores the increase in incidents of discrimination, hate crime and hate speech motivated by racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, or by bias against a person's disability, sexual orientation or gender identity against minority groups such as refugees, migrants, including EU citizens exercising their right for freedom of movement, Roma, LGBTI people; warns that these acts occur in the EU on a daily basis; urges Member States to investigate the cases and persecute the perpetrators to restore confidence that minorities should have in authorities and provide equal access to the justice system for all;
Amendment 539 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 d (new) 12d. Welcomes the annual EU Colloquium on Fundamental Rights and the appointment of Coordinators on anti- Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred; encourages the Commission to appoint EU Coordinators on Afrophobia and anti- Gypsyism, to be responsible for improving coordination and coherence among EU institutions, EU agencies, Member States and international actors and will develop existing and new EU policies to address Afrophobia and anti-Gypsyism, and recommends the adoption of European frameworks for national strategies to combat Afrophobia, anti-Gypsyism, anti- Semitism and Islamophobia;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 15 April 2015 on the occasion of International Roma Day – anti-Gypsyism in Europe and EU recognition of the memorial day of the Roma genocide during World War II 14, 14. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0095.
Amendment 540 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 e (new) 12e. Notes the intersectionality between gender and other grounds of discrimination and the disproportionate impact of multiple discrimination on women; encourages Member States to work with regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies, national equality bodies and civil society organisations to increase monitoring of the intersectionality between different grounds of discrimination and gender;
Amendment 541 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 i (new) 12i. Calls on Member States to protect freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and to promote tolerance, as well as to ban any form of discrimination and exception from the law on grounds of individuals' personal choice of thought, conscience, religion or belief;
Amendment 542 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 j (new) 12j. Calls on the Commission and Member States to intensify work on exchanging best practices and strengthen their cooperation to combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of intolerance, with full inclusion of civil society and community representative input, as well as guidance provided by the Fundamental Rights Agency and the relevant international organisations;
Amendment 543 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 f (new) 12f. Is concerned at the growing presence of hate speech on the internet; recommends Member States to put in place a simple procedure enabling members of the public to report the presence of hate content on the internet;
Amendment 544 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 k (new) 12k. Calls on the EU and Member States to address internal human rights challenges, including discrimination against LGBTI people, and ensure that any discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is prohibited, not only in the field of employment but also in all sectors of civil rights such as education, social security, health care, access to goods and services (including finance), housing, public procurement, business support, access to culture; calls on the Commission to start a dialogue with those Member States whose legislation does not cover homophobic and transphobic hate motives, aimed at filling the remaining legislative gaps;
Amendment 545 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 g (new) 12g. Deplores increasing levels of hate speech from within certain institutions, political parties, individuals and media; calls on the EU to set the example of opposing hate speech within the institutions; recommends the need for strengthened procedures sanctioning hate speech by officials and parliamentarians within the EU;
Amendment 546 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 h (new) 12h. Expresses its concern at the lack of reporting of hate crimes by victims due to inadequate safeguards and failure of authorities to properly investigate and bring convictions for hate crimes in Member States;
Amendment 547 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 l (new) 12l. Encourages the Commission, the Fundamental Rights Agency and CEPOL to deepen their work regarding the fight against homophobic and transphobic hate crime and hate speech;
Amendment 548 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 i (new) 12i. Expresses its concern that several Member States have not correctly transposed the provisions of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA; calls on Member States to implement the Framework Decision on Combatting Racism and Xenophobia and the new Victims of Crime Directive and for the Commission to monitor the transposition of these instruments and to launch infringement procedures against those Member States that fail to transpose them;
Amendment 549 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 m (new) 12m. Urges the EU and the Member States to mainstream social inclusion and non-discrimination measures in future internal security strategies;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 33 Amendment 550 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 j (new) 12j. Calls on the Commission to propose a review of the Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law to include other forms of bias-motivated crime, including on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression;
Amendment 551 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 n (new) 12n. Urges the EU and Member States to include multiple discrimination within equality policies;
Amendment 552 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 553 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Welcomes the Commission
Amendment 554 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 555 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 556 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Welcomes the Commission
Amendment 557 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Welcomes the Commission’s announcement of the Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online and encourage adherence to and application of it;
Amendment 558 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Appeals that it is a part of the European legacy to restore justice in the aftermath of extreme hate crimes (such as Holocaust, genocides, ethnic cleansing, mass killing) through restitution, reconciliation and remembrance. Restitution is an inevitable part of restorative justice, as any extreme hate crimes aim not just in mass murder, but also in mass theft and destruction of cultural heritage of victims. Therefore, it is critical to ensure restoration of justice through recovering looted property and affiliated actions to restore victims' cultural heritage, as well as through reconciliation programs and commemoration of victims. Restorative justice enhances tolerance in the society, where the extreme hate crimes took place and helps to prevent them from being repeated. Restorative justice helps to face and accept responsibility for the past and is an important step in moving forward as a cohesive and integrated Europe.
Amendment 559 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Expresses its concern that several Member States have insufficiently transposed provisions of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA and calls on the Member States to fully transpose and implement EU standards and to ensure the enforcement of national legislation punishing all forms of hate crime, incitement to hatred and harassment, and systematically triggering the prosecution of those criminal offences; calls on the Commission to monitor the full transposition of the Framework Decision and to launch infringement procedures against those Member States that fail to transpose it;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 33 — having regard to its resolutions on
Amendment 560 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to start immediately the work to coordinate and strengthen policy responses to address anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hatred, including the immediate implementation of the key actions identified by the first colloquium on the state of play of fundamental rights 'Tolerance and respect: preventing and combating anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe';
Amendment 561 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Deplores increasing levels of hate speech from within certain institutions, political parties, individuals and media; calls on the EU to set the example of opposing hate speech within the institutions; recommends the need for strengthened procedures sanctioning hate speech by officials and parliamentarians;
Amendment 562 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Is concerned by increasing racism and xenophobia in the form of Afrophobia, anti-Gypsyism, Anti- Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant sentiment;
Amendment 563 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Condemns incidents of hate crime and speech motivated by racism, xenophobia or religious intolerance or by bias against a person's disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, which occur in the EU on a daily basis; calls for the adoption of the proposed 2008 Equal Treatment Directive which is still pending for approval by the Council; considers it a condition to secure a consolidated and coherent EU law framework against discrimination, also protecting from discrimination on the grounds of religion and belief, disability, age and sexual orientation outside of employment;
Amendment 564 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Welcomes the fact that some EU Member States have extended the protection granted to victims of discrimination based on other grounds, such as sexual orientation or gender identity, when implementing the Framework Decision; calls on the Commission to start a dialogue with those Member States whose legislation does not cover homophobic and transphobic hate motives, aimed at filling the remaining legislative gap;
Amendment 565 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Warns that the anti-Semitism is still a dangerous phenomenon in many Member States in both open and concealed forms; calls on Member States and EU institutions to monitor, publicise, condemn and penalise any anti-Semitic incidents, and develop effective measures on prevention;
Amendment 566 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 c (new) 13c. Condemns any discrimination, stigmatisation and administrative harassment of Muslim communities and individuals; calls on Members States and EU institutions and agencies to develop a system to monitor this type of incidents and strictly enforce the related European and international human rights obligations on anti-discrimination;
Amendment 567 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 c (new) 13c. Deplores increasing levels of hate speech from within certain institutions, political parties, individuals and media;
Amendment 568 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 d (new) 13d. Expresses its concern at the lack of reporting of hate crimes by victims due to inadequate safeguards and failure of authorities to properly investigate and bring convictions for hate crimes in Member States;
Amendment 569 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 d (new) 13d. Deplores that ethnic minorities continue to face widespread discrimination in law enforcement and judicial system as well as over-policing practices such as ethnic profiling and unequal treatment;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 33 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 25 February 2014 with recommendations to the Commission on combating Violence Against Women (2013/2004(INL)),
Amendment 570 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 e (new) 13e. Expresses its concern that several Member States have not correctly transposed the provisions of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA; calls on Member States to implement the Framework Decision on Combatting Racism and Xenophobia and the new Victims of Crime Directive and for the Commission to monitor the transposition of these instruments and to launch infringement procedures against those Member States that fail to transpose them;
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 f (new) 13f. Calls on the Commission to propose a review of the Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law to include other forms of bias-motivated crime, including on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression;
Amendment 572 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14.
Amendment 573 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on Member States to develop and disseminate tools and mechanisms for reporting hate crime and hate speech and to ensure that any case of alleged hate crime or hate speech is effectively investigated, prosecuted and tried in accordance with national law and, where relevant, in compliance with the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia, European and international human rights obligations, as well as relevant ECtHR case law whilst ensuring the respect for the fundamental rights as set out in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in particular the right to freedom of expression and information, as well as privacy and data protection;
Amendment 574 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on Member States to develop and disseminate tools and mechanisms for reporting hate crime and
Amendment 575 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on Member States to develop and disseminate tools and mechanisms for reporting hate crime and hate speech and to ensure that any case of alleged hate crime or hate speech is effectively investigated, prosecuted and tried in accordance with national law and, where relevant, in compliance with the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia, European and international human rights obligations, as well as relevant ECtHR case law, particularly in cases where jihadism is being instigated by European citizens;
Amendment 576 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on Member States and regional and local authorities to develop and disseminate tools and mechanisms for reporting hate crime and hate speech and to ensure that any case of alleged hate crime or hate speech is effectively investigated, prosecuted and tried in accordance with national law and, where relevant, in compliance with the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia, European and
Amendment 577 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on Member States to develop and disseminate tools and mechanisms for reporting hate crime and hate speech and to ensure that any case of alleged hate crime or hate speech is effectively investigated, prosecuted and tried
Amendment 578 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Deems it crucial that all EU Member States cooperate with national or international judicial investigations attempting to clarify responsibilities and endeavouring to ascertain the truth and secure justice and redress for the victims of crimes against humanity committed in the Union by totalitarian regimes. Calls on the Member States to provide the necessary training for legal practitioners in this area; urges the European Commission to conduct an objective assessment of the state of play in such processes to foster democratic remembrance in all Member States; Warns that failing to comply with international recommendations on democratic remembrance and the principles of universal jurisdiction is a breach of the basic principles of the rule of law;
Amendment 579 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 33 a (new) - having regard to its resolution on poverty with a gender perspective14a, __________________ 14a P8_TA(2016)0235
Amendment 580 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission to support training programmes for law enforcement and judicial authorities, and for the relevant EU agencies, in preventing and tackling discriminatory practices and hate crime; calls on the Member States to provide the authorities responsible for investigation and prosecution with practical tools and skills to enable them to identify and deal with the offences covered by the Framework Decision, and to interact and communicate with victims;
Amendment 581 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 582 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Welcomes the annual EU Colloquium on Fundamental Rights and the appointment of Coordinators on anti- Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred; encourages the Commission to appoint Coordinators on Afrophobia and anti- Gypsyism and recommends adoption of European frameworks for national strategies to combat Afrophobia, anti- Gypsyism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia;
Amendment 583 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on Member States to prevent, with all means, cases of hate crime and hate speech carried out by public security police forces and by all authorities linked to Public Safety organisations;
Amendment 584 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Calls on the Commission to support training programmes for law enforcement and judicial authorities, and for the relevant EU agencies, in preventing and tackling discriminatory practices and hate crime; calls on the Member States to provide the authorities responsible for investigation and prosecution with practical tools and skills to enable them to identify and deal with the offences covered by the Framework Decision, and to interact and communicate with victims;
Amendment 585 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Notes the intersectionality between gender and other grounds of discrimination and the disproportionate impact of multiple discrimination on women; encourages Member States to work with regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies, national equality bodies and civil society organisations to increase monitoring of the intersectionality between different grounds of discrimination and gender;
Amendment 586 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 c (new) 14c. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and intersex people (LGBTI), as fostered by laws and policies that restrict the fundamental rights of LGBTI people; calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt laws and policies to combat homophobia and transphobia; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to issue an action plan or strategy for equality on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, as repeatedly called for by the Parliament and as promised by Commissioner Jourova in the process of the Commission hearings;
Amendment 587 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 d (new) 14d. Recognises that the full extent of inequality in the EU remains unacknowledged in the absence of comparable and disaggregated equality data collected by Member States; considers the collection of such data by Member States essential for meaningful policies implementing EU equality law; calls on the Commission and the Council to acknowledge the need for reliable and comparable equality data to measure discrimination, disaggregated according to discrimination grounds, in order to inform policy-making; calls on both institutions to define consistent equality data collection principles, based on self- identification, EU data protection standards and the consultation of the relevant communities;
Amendment 588 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism and related intolerance, and calls for greater rights awareness; considers that a complete human rights education must also adequately include education on past human rights injustices and institutional racisms such as the Roma holocaust, and the importance of memory for formerly oppressed groups such as the victims of slavery;
Amendment 589 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism and
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 33 b (new) - having regard to its resolution of 9 June 2015 on the EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015,
Amendment 590 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights and democracy education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism and related intolerance, and calls for greater rights awareness; considers that a complete human rights education must also adequately include education on past human rights injustices and institutional racisms, and the importance of memory for formerly oppressed groups such as the victims of slavery;
Amendment 591 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism and related
Amendment 592 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism and related intolerance, and calls for
Amendment 593 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU
Amendment 594 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the
Amendment 595 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism, homophobia and related intolerance, and calls for greater rights awareness;
Amendment 596 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism and
Amendment 597 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism
Amendment 598 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 599 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) - having regard to the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their families,
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 35 — having regard to its resolutions on fundamental rights and human rights,
Amendment 600 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 – subparagraph 1 (new) Gender Equality and LGBTI Rights
Amendment 601 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) Amendment 602 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Notes with concern that FRA's findings show that many public officials and professionals, including healthcare professionals, perceive homosexuality as a pathological condition or disease. This can undermine efforts to protect and promote the fundamental rights of LGBTI persons;
Amendment 603 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15c. Calls on EU Member States to pursue efforts to effectively implement relevant legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in employment. This includes ensuring that LGBTI people, in particular, are fully informed of their rights, that discrimination victims are encouraged to lodge formal complaints, and that they are supported in doing so;
Amendment 604 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 d (new) 15d. Notes that discrimination based on sexual orientation is still widely underreported, hampering assessments of the effi-ciency of national laws implementing Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (Employment Equality Directive) in this field;
Amendment 605 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 e (new) 15e. Notes the intersectionality between gender and other grounds of discrimination and the disproportionate impact of multiple discrimination on women; encourages Member States to work with regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies, national equality bodies and civil society organisations to increase monitoring of the intersectionality between different grounds of discrimination and gender;
Amendment 606 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the EU institutions and on the Member States to recognise that long-term investment in social inclusion is beneficial as it tackles the high cost of discrimination and inequality; calls on EU institutions and the Member States to ensure that access to justice and redressing discrimination are not put in danger by drastic funding cuts in equality bodies budgets; calls on EU and national institutions not to threaten social inclusion by budgetary measures threatening the survival of community- based organisations working for equality;
Amendment 607 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Is concerned that in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States; these movements challenge existing achievements in the area of women´s rights and gender equality, and aim at blocking laws and policies protecting LGBTI people against hate crime and discrimination; notes that these movements are often overlapping with racist and xenophobic movements;
Amendment 608 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Freedom of expression and information (title) Stresses that freedom of expression, information and the media are fundamental to ensuring democracy and the rule of law;
Amendment 609 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Encourages the European Commission and the Member States to strengthen their cooperation with the private sector and the civil society in combating hate speech online;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 35 a (new) Amendment 610 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to collect reliable and comparable equality data according to current data protection standards, in consultation with minority representatives, in order to measure inequalities and discrimination, disaggregated according to discrimination grounds, to monitor the impact of EU and Member States policies on them and to devise better policies to overcome those inequalities; calls on both institutions to define consistent equality data collection principles, based on self-identification, EU data protection standards and the consultation of the relevant communities;
Amendment 611 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15c. Calls on the Commission to address a recommendation to the Member States in order to support equality data collection in the EU;
Amendment 612 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 d (new) 15d. Calls on the Commission to support training programmes for law enforcement and judicial authorities, and for the relevant EU agencies, in preventing and tackling discriminatory practices and hate crime; calls on the Member States to provide the authorities responsible for investigation and prosecution with practical tools and skills to enable them to identify and deal with the offences covered by the Framework Decision, and to interact and communicate with victims;
Amendment 613 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 e (new) 15e. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all Member State actions, which are funded under the EU cohesion policy, respect fundamental rights' principles;
Amendment 614 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 f (new) 15f. Calls on the Commission to monitor systemic complaints more thoroughly, and if necessary to conduct regular field visits to verify the reality of the reported information;
Amendment 615 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 g (new) 15g. Highlights that discrimination on the basis of age is often combined with other forms of discrimination, such as discrimination on grounds of race and ethnicity, religion, disability, health or socio-economic conditions;
Amendment 616 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Condemns all verbal and physical attacks against UK residents of migrant heritage; rejects and condemns all forms and manifestations of racism and xenophobia which are incompatible with the values and principles upon which the EU is founded;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 36 a (new) - having regard to its resolutions on the use of torture by the CIA, in particular the latest dated 8 June 2016,
Amendment 622 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 h (new) 15h. Urges the EU and the Member States to combat and prosecute all forms of violence and discrimination against women; calls on the Member States in particular to deal effectively with the effects of domestic violence and sexual exploitation in all its forms, including that of refugees and migrant children, and early or forced marriage; calls on Member States to exchange best practices among each other and to provide regular trainings for police and judicial staff on new forms of violence against women, such as stalking, cyber-harassment or revenge porn;
Amendment 623 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 i (new) 15i. Expresses concern about the extent and forms of violence against women in the EU, as documented by the FRA's EU-wide survey which showed that one in three women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15, and that an estimated 3,7 million women in the EU experience sexual violence over the period of one year;
Amendment 624 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Highlights that equality is one of the fundamental values on which the Union is founded. The Union is bound to strive for equality between women and men in all its activities;
Amendment 625 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Urges Member States to respect sexual and reproductive rights of women, as well as guarantee their access to healthcare.
Amendment 626 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women, and calls on the Member States and the EU to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention following the launch of the procedure by the Commission in March 2016; stresses that victims of gender-based harm, torture, rape, or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence should receive appropriate treatment and support, in line with internal rules and international obligations applicable to victims of violence such as the UN Convention against Torture and the Istanbul Convention; reiterates the request to the Commission made in its resolution of 25 February 2014 with recommendations to the Commission on combating Violence Against Women to submit a proposal for an act establishing measures to promote and support the action of Member States in the field of prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG);
Amendment 627 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 628 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women
Amendment 629 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 37 a (new) Amendment 630 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 631 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women, and calls on the Member States and the EU to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention following the launch of the procedure by the Commission in March 2016; reminds Member States that the EU accession to the Istanbul Convention does not exonerate them to sign, ratify and enforce the Istanbul Convention and urges them to do so;
Amendment 632 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women
Amendment 633 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women, and calls on the Member States
Amendment 634 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women and gender-based violence, and calls on the Member States and the EU to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention following the launch of the procedure by the Commission in March 2016;
Amendment 635 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women and girls, and calls on the Member States and the EU to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention following the launch of the procedure by the Commission in March 2016;
Amendment 636 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights that many improvements are
Amendment 637 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Member States to introduce and monitor the effectiveness of both reactive and proactive measures to prevent interpersonal violence, with a special focus on the violence against women and children; and urges Member States to give visibility to the situation of disabled women as victims of domestic violence, who often cannot escape from the abusive relationship;
Amendment 638 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Recognises that sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental rights and an essential element of human dignity, gender equality and self-determination; urges the European Commission to include SRHR, as basic human rights, in its next EU Health Strategy to ensure coherence between EU's internal and external fundamental rights policy;
Amendment 639 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses that the Istanbul Convention characterises gender as a "social construct" even if the words "social construct" are not further defined, and article 3 (c) states moreover: "'Gender' shall mean the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men.";
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 37 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 11 September 2013 on endangered European languages and linguistic diversity in the European Union,
Amendment 640 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Considers that violence against women, such as honour killing, forced marriage, trafficking, female genital mutilation, domestic violence are serious violations of human rights that should be criminalised and punished and never be justified by religious or cultural tradition;
Amendment 641 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention as it provides in article 4.2 as grounds of non- discrimination: "sex, gender,... sexual orientation, gender identity...."; recalls that such a list does not exist in any legally binding treaty within the United Nations System or the EU acquis communautaire; recalls that - together with the social construct definition of "gender", "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" - such weak definitions would solidify a greater ideological platform to declare subjective attractions as universal human rights, which has not been accepted by UN Members States and the EU acquis communautaire;
Amendment 642 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Strongly condemns the frequent acts of harassment and rape in public places in Europe and considers that every women and girl should feel safe from any form of sexual harassment in any public place in Europe; calls on Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure that these acts are properly sanctioned, that the perpetrators are brought to justice and that appropriate protection is provided to victims;
Amendment 643 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Recognises that sexual and reproductive rights are grounded in basic human rights and that the denial of life- saving sexual and reproductive health services, among which abortion, amounts to a serious breach of human rights;
Amendment 644 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 c (new) 16c. Takes note that the Istanbul Convention remains silent on sex- selective abortion of the female foetus or violence against the unborn child, especially girls, and do not condemn surrogacy;
Amendment 645 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 d (new) 16d. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention because it has an extremely broad approach that goes well beyond stopping violence, because the comprehensive nature of the treaty is undoubtedly intended to be used as a tool or mechanism for social engineering of values and norms on all matters pertaining to "gender ideology", and because the EU as a whole (including the Member States) is then exposed to a more aggressive attempt to bring changes to culture, traditions and religions as well as to civil and criminal laws, through the Convention text and the monitoring committee;
Amendment 646 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 e (new) 16e. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention because, according to article 14, State Parties shall insert non-stereotyped gender roles into the formal and informal education settings whilst no mention is made of the prior rights of parents to educate their child according to their moral and religious conventions as stated in all International Human Rights Instruments; stresses that the EU has no competency to fulfil this request on "formal and informal education settings";
Amendment 647 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 f (new) 16f. Reiterates the fundamental right of all women to access to public health care systems, in particular to primary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation;
Amendment 648 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Urges Member States to lead more targeted awareness-raising campaigns, to prevent and protect victims of violence and to protect their rights without delay in line with the Victims’ Rights Directive; calls on the Member states to fully implement Directive 2011/99/EU on the European order to ensure appropriate protection and assistance to women and girls victims of violence, as well as Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings in order to prevent women and girls from trafficking, violence and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 649 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Urges Member States to lead more targeted awareness-raising campaigns, to prevent
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 39 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 12 May 2016 on implementation of the Directive 2011/36/EU of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims from a gender perspective15a, __________________ 15a P8_TA(2016)0227
Amendment 650 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Urges Member States to lead more targeted awareness-raising campaigns, to prevent and protect all victims of sexist violence, including LGBTI and transgender people, and to protect their rights without delay in line with the Victims’ Rights Directive;
Amendment 651 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Urges Member States and regional and local authorities to lead more targeted awareness-raising campaigns, to prevent and protect victims of violence and to protect their rights without delay in line with the Victims’ Rights Directive;
Amendment 652 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Urges Member States to lead more
Amendment 653 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Urges Member States to provide victims of gender-based violence with an adequate number of shelters and targeted and integrated support services, including trauma support and counselling; urges the Commission and the Member States to support the civil society organisations working with victims of gender-based violence in any way possible, including by regular financial support;
Amendment 654 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Stresses that in order to effectively combat gender-based violence, a change of attitude towards women and girls is necessary; they are too often represented in subordinate roles and violence against them is too often tolerated or undermined; calls on Member States to do more to combat gender based stereotypes and discrimination against women and girls;
Amendment 655 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the Commission to assess the implementation of the Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order with regards to violence against women;
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the Commission to share Member States' best practices for addressing gender stereotypes at school.
Amendment 657 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Calls on Member States to provide the necessary sensitivity and other specialised trainings for police, judicial staff and judges to enable them to adequately deal with the issue of gender- based violence in order to avoid further trauma and re-victimisation during criminal proceedings;
Amendment 658 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 c (new) 17c. Calls on Member States to assist authorities in effectively identifying vulnerabilities and provide special protection services where necessary to victims of gender-based violence in line with the Victims' Rights Directive;
Amendment 659 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 39 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 21 May 2013 on the EU Charter: standard settings for media freedom across the EU,
Amendment 660 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 Amendment 661 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 Amendment 662 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that no cultural, religious, national or ethnic background can justify any form of gender-based violence and that EU and national authorities should strengthen their cooperation, in particular through stepped-up exchanges of good practices and improved gathering and comparability of data on all forms of violence against women;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 39 b (new) - having regard to its resolution of 3 February 2016 on the new Strategy for Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Europe post-201516a , __________________ 16a P8_TA(2015)0218
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 39 c (new) - having regard to its resolution of 13 September 2016 on creating labour market conditions favourable for work- life balance,
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 39 d (new) - having regard to its resolutions on the situation in Hungary and Poland,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 b (new) - having regard to the OHCHR Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 40 a (new) - having regard to judgement on case C-34/10 (Brüstle v Greenpeace) delivered by the CJEU (18/10/11) regarding the definition of a human embryo as being any human ovum after fertilisation,
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 40 a (new) - having regard to the draft report with recommendations to the Commission on Establishment of an EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights17a, __________________ 17a PE 576.988v01-00
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 41 a (new) - having regard to Fundamental Rights Agency's EU LGBT Survey (2013), its report "Being Trans in the EU - Comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data" (2014), to its focus paper on the Fundamental Rights Situation of Intersex people (2015) and to its report "Professionally speaking: challenges to achieving equality for LGBT people" (2016),
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 41 a (new) - having regard to the report of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights entitled ‘Violence against women: an EU-wide survey’ published in March 2014,
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 a (new) - having regard to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' survey 'Antisemitism - Overview of data available in the European Union 2004- 2015,
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 a (new) - having regard to the Fundamental Rights Agency Report on Violence against children with disabilities: legislation, policies and programs in the EU (2015),
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 b (new) Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 b (new) - having regard to the Fundamental Rights Agency Study on Child-friendly justice – Perspectives and experiences of professionals on children's participation in civil and criminal judicial proceedings in 10 EU Member States (2015),
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 c (new) Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 d (new) - having regard to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' report "Being Trans in the EU Comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data" (2014), to its report on the Fundamental Rights Situation of Intersex people (2015) and to its report "Professionally speaking: challenges to achieving equality for LGBT people" (2016),
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 b (new) - having regard to the OHCHR Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders,
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 e (new) - having regard to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' report 'Violence against women: An EU- wide survey',
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 f (new) - having regard to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' EU-MIDIS surveys and survey on Roma,
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 g (new) - having regard to the European Institute for Gender Equality's 2015 Gender Equality Index and its 2015 report entitled 'Reconciliation of work, family and private life in the European Union: Policy review,
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 h (new) - having regard to the European Institute for Gender Equality's 'Study to identify and map existing data and resources on sexual violence against women in the EU',
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 i (new) - having regard to the 2016 EUROPOL situation report on Trafficking in human beings in the EU20a , __________________ 20a https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/tra fficking-human-beings-eu
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 j (new) - having regard to the Eurobarometer survey entitled 'Discrimination in the EU in 2015',
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 k (new) - having regard to the Eurostat report 'Trafficking in human beings', 2015 edition,
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 l (new) - having regard to the studies of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) entitled ‘Working time and work-life balance in a life course perspective’ (2013), ‘Caring for children and dependants: Effect on careers of young workers’ (2013), and ‘Working and caring: Reconciliation measures in times of demographic change’ (2015) and to the Sixth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) (2016),
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 m (new) - having regard to the Decision of the European Ombudsman closing her own-initiative inquiry OI/8/2014/AN concerning the European Commission,
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 n (new) - having regard to the European Parliamentary Research Service study of May 2015 entitled ‘Gender equality in employment and occupation – Directive 2006/54/EC, European Implementation Assessment,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 c (new) - having regard to its resolutions on the use of torture by the CIA, in particular the latest dated 8 June 2016,
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 o (new) - having regard to the study by Parliament's Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union entitled ‘Discrimination Generated by the Intersection of Gender and Disability’,
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 42 p (new) - having regard to the European Parliament Research Service study 'Poverty in the European Union - The crisis and its aftermath'21a , __________________ 21a http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/e tudes/IDAN/2016/579099/EPRS_IDA%28 2016%29579099_EN.pdf
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 43 a (new) - having regard to the Concluding Observations adopted in October 2015 of the UNCRPD Committee,
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 43 b (new) - having regard to the Agreed Conclusions of 24 March 2016 of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 60th session, in particular (e)– (g),
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 44 a (new) – having regard to the procedure set out in the EU framework to strengthen the rule of law adopted by the Commission on 11 March 2014,
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 44 a (new) – having regard to the procedure set out in the EU framework to strengthen the rule of law adopted by the Commission on 11 March 2014,
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 a (new) - having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘Towards Social Investment for Growth and Cohesion – including implementing the European Social Fund 2014-2020’ and its Recommendation on ‘Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage’ of 20 February 2013,
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 a (new) - having regard to the List of actions by the European Commission to advance LGBTI Equality, presented at the EPSCO Council on 7 December 2015,
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 b (new) - having regard to the Commission communication on a new EU Framework to strengthen the Rule of Law (COM(2014)0158) and the Council conclusions of 16 December 2014 entitled ‘Ensuring respect for the Rule of Law’,
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 46 c (new) - having regard to the Commission progress report on the Barcelona objectives of 29 May 2013 entitled ‘The development of childcare facilities for young children in Europe with a view to sustainable and inclusive growth’ (COM(2013)0322),
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Amendment 663 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that no cultural, religious, national or ethnic background can justify any form of gender-based violence and that EU and national authorities should strengthen their cooperation; considers that all those living in Europe, regardless of their original culture and tradition, should respect the law and women's rights and dignity;
Amendment 664 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that no political, ideological, cultural, religious, national or ethnic background can justify any form of
Amendment 665 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that no cultural, religious, national or ethnic background can justify any form of gender-based violence and that EU and national authorities should strengthen their cooperation and exchange best practice;
Amendment 666 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that
Amendment 667 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that no cultural, religious, national or ethnic background or migration status can justify any form of gender-based violence and that EU and national authorities should strengthen their
Amendment 668 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that
Amendment 669 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that no cultural, religious, national or ethnic background can justify any form of
Amendment 670 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) Amendment 671 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18 a. Calls on Member States to ensure respect for and safeguarding of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights; insists on the role of the Union in awareness-raising and promoting best practices on this issue, given that health is a fundamental human right essential to the exercise of other human rights; urges the Commission to include sexual and reproductive health and rights, as basic human rights, in its EU Health Strategy in order to ensure coherence between the EU's internal and external fundamental rights policy as called for by Parliament on 10 March 2015;
Amendment 672 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Stresses that female genital mutilation is an extremely serious form of violence against women; calls on the Member States to raise the awareness of all those concerned by focusing their anti- FGM measures on prevention; further urges Member States to cooperate fully with one another so as to improve data collection and understanding of the phenomenon, in order to optimise the results of their action to protect women and girls from such mutilation;
Amendment 673 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18 a. Highlights the dangerous potential for the internet, social media, and other types of technology to be used to control, threaten, and humiliate women such as instances of stalking, harassment, posting of sexual or nude photos without consent, which are also forms of violence against women that may fall under the definition of violence against women and gender- based violence against women in the Istanbul convention under Art. 3a and 3d;
Amendment 674 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18α. Expresses serious concern about continuing genital mutilation practices, which are a serious form of violence against women and girls and constitute an unacceptable violation of their right to physical integrity; urges the Member States to take the necessary measures to end this barbarous practice as soon as possible;
Amendment 675 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18 a. Deplores the Commission decision to withdraw the Maternity Leave Directive; calls on the Commission to put forward a new proposal and to respect Parliament's position to increase the current minimum guaranteed maternity leave from 14 to 20 weeks fully paid and for the mandatory right to paid paternity leave;
Amendment 676 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Emphasises the need for coordinated action to be taken to combat stereotypes that reproduce and reinforce gender roles in the key areas in which those stereotypes are perpetuated; points out that such action should be planned with a particular focus on educational material, advertising and sexist language;
Amendment 677 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to step up their efforts to protect women refugees and asylum seekers, who are particularly vulnerable to violence while on the move;
Amendment 678 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Stresses the importance of teaching European values regarding fundamental rights and respect for the dignity of women as part of the inclusion and integration process for refugees and asylum seekers;
Amendment 679 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18 a. Underlines that the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all women and girls must be respected, including their right to their bodies and sexuality and to be free of coercion, discrimination and violence;
Amendment 680 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18 a. Calls on Member States to ensure gender equality, including equal treatment at the workplace and equal pay for equal work;
Amendment 681 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18 b. Calls on the EU and the Member States to recognise the fundamental right to universal access to health, in particular the full range of sexual and reproductive health services including safe and legal abortion, and to decriminalise abortion and the performing of abortion care;
Amendment 682 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18 b. takes the position that sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation of women, the use of women for surrogacy, and sex selected abortion must be considered as unjustifiable under any political, social, religious or cultural grounds;
Amendment 683 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18 b. Recognises that the denial of a life-saving abortion amounts to a serious breach of fundamental rights;
Amendment 684 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18 c. Calls on the Member States to implement laws and policies that target perpetrators directly to reduce demand for sexual exploitation while decriminalising individuals in prostitution and providing them with support services, including high quality social, legal and psychological assistance for those who wish to exit prostitution;
Amendment 685 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18 c. Calls on the Member States, in liaison with the Commission, to recognise the right to access safe and modern contraceptives and sexuality education in schools; urges the Commission to complement national policies to improve public health, while keeping the European Parliament fully informed;
Amendment 686 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 d (new) 18 d. Is deeply concerned with the decision of local authorities in France to ban certain types of swimwear mostly worn by Muslim women and the comments made by politicians in other Member States in this regard; condemns institutionalising racial profiling and anti-Muslim sentiments in such way; calls on Member States and local governments to respect women's choices in terms of their attire and overturn such bans; calls on Member States to foster inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogues that are inclusive to hear the voices of all women in decisions impacting them;
Amendment 687 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 e (new) 18 e. Recalls that poverty in old age is especially concerning in the case of women, due to the continued gender pay gap resulting in the gender pension gap; calls on Member States to draw up appropriate policies to support elderly women and to eliminate the structural causes of gender differences in compensation;
Amendment 688 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 f (new) 18 f. Calls on the Commission to share Member States' best practices for addressing gender stereotypes at school;
Amendment 689 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 g (new) 18 g. Regrets that LGBTI persons experience widespread bullying and harassment that starts already at school, and suffer discrimination at work, housing, social services and access to other goods and services;
Amendment 690 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 h (new) 18 h. Welcomes the Commission's launch of a broad communication campaign to fight stereotypes and improve the social acceptance of LGBTI in its List of Actions to advance LGBTI, also as a means to further promote initiatives in the Member States; calls on Member States to put special focus on homophobia in sports, young LGBTI and bullying at school;
Amendment 691 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 i (new) 18 i. Calls on the European Commission to come up with an ambitious EU legislative agenda that ensures equal rights and opportunities for all citizens and a proper transposition and implementation of EU legislation relevant for LGBTI rights;
Amendment 692 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 j (new) 18 j. Calls on the Commission to issue an action plan or strategy for equality on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, as repeatedly called for by Parliament and as was promised in the process of the Commission hearings, including legislative measures to fully implement ¬the Council of Europe Recommendation to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity ; urges the Commission to work in close cooperation with civil society organisations working for the rights of LGBTI persons;
Amendment 693 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 k (new) 18 k. Calls on the Commission to review the Council Framework Decision on combatting certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia so that hate crimes and violence against LGBTI persons are also covered by this rule; urges the Commission to carefully monitor and enforce LGBTI-relevant legislative provisions, such as the Directive on Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation and the Directives on Gender Equality in access to goods and services and employment, which also protect trans-gender people from discrimination (based on the EUCJ extension of the sex/gender characteristics), but also the Victims Right Directive; calls on the Commission to provide interpretation guidelines in order to make clear for national authorities that sexual identity is fully covered by the said legislation; calls on the Commission to use the tools available, including infringement procedures to enforce legislation relevant to LGBTI persons;
Amendment 694 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 l (new) 18 l. Considers that the fundamental rights of LGBTI persons are more likely to be safeguarded if they have access to legal institutions such as cohabitation, registered partnership or marriage; welcomes the fact that 18 Member States currently offer these options, and calls on other Member States to consider doing so;
Amendment 695 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 m (new) 18 m. Recalls that the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights states that same sex-couples living in stable relationships are to be considered as "family" and cannot be excluded from rights granted to de facto cohabitants, including in cases of adoption;
Amendment 696 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 n (new) 18 n. Deplores the fact that transgender people are still considered mentally ill in the majority of Member States and calls on respective states to review national mental health catalogues and to develop alternative stigma-free access models, ensuring that medically necessary treatment remains available for all trans people; deplores that today 13 Member States still impose requirements on transgender people such as medical intervention in order to have the changed gender recognized (including in passports and official identity documents) and forced sterilization as a condition for gender reassignment; notes that such requirements are clearly human rights violations; calls on the Commission to provide guidance to Member States on best models of legal gender recognition laws in Europe; calls on Member States to recognise the change of gender and provide access to quick, accessible and transparent legal gender recognition procedures without medical requirements, such as surgery or sterilization or psychiatric consent;
Amendment 697 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 o (new) 18 o. Welcomes the initiative shown by the Commission in pushing for depathologisation of transgender identities in the review of the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases (ICD); calls on the Commission to intensify efforts to prevent gender variance in childhood from becoming a new ICD diagnosis;
Amendment 698 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 p (new) 18 p. Calls on the Commission to collect data on human rights violations faced by intersex people in all areas of life and provide guidance to Member States on best practices to protect the fundamental rights of intersex people;
Amendment 699 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 q (new) 18 q. Regrets that genital 'normalisation' surgery for intersex children is still in practice in 21 Member States of the European Union despite not being medically necessary, even though medical procedures on children cause long-term psychological trauma for them; regrets that with this practice the majority of intersex persons cannot make decisions about their own lives; regrets that intersex persons still lack effective access to healthcare and have to live their lives under a strong social stigma; welcomes the fact that a few Member States have already adopted measures contributing to better protect the human rights of intersex people and calls on the Commission to encourage the exchange of good practices amongst member states in protecting intersex human rights;
Amendment 700 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 r (new) 18 r. Calls on Member States to prohibit medical treatments without consent on intersex persons, including the genital normalising surgery on children; calls on Member States to conduct themselves in line with the self-determination principle when it comes to intersex persons;
Amendment 701 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 s (new) 18 s. Calls on the Council to finally de- block the negotiations and adopt the proposed Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (Equal Treatment Directive);
Amendment 702 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 t (new) 18 t. Calls on the Commission to bring forward a proposal for the full mutual recognition of the effects and free circulation of all civil status documents of all individuals, couples and families (including established through marriage and registered partnerships, legal sex changes and adoption and birth certificates) across the EU, including legal gender recognition, marriages and registered partnerships, in order to reduce discriminatory legal and administrative barriers for citizens who exercise their right to free movement;
Amendment 706 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 u (new) 18 u. Welcomes the adoption by the Council of Europe of its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021) and in particular its focus on the need to counter discrimination against children with disabilities, children affected by migration, Roma children and LGBT and intersex children;
Amendment 707 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Notes with concern that child poverty rates remain high in the EU; encourages Member States and the EU to launch programmes specifically targeting the well-being and healthy development of children; calls on Member States to step up their efforts on tackling child poverty and social exclusion through effective implementation of the European Commission Recommendation 'Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage' through integrated strategies supporting access to adequate resources, enabling access to affordable quality services and promoting children's participation in decision making that affects them; calls on the Commission to take further measures for monitoring the implementation of the Recommendation;
Amendment 708 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Notes with concern that child poverty rates remain high in the EU;
Amendment 709 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Notes with concern that child poverty rates remain high in the EU, especially in countries where austerity policies have been imposed; encourages Member States and the EU to launch programmes specifically targeting the well- being and healthy development of children;
Amendment 710 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Notes with concern that child poverty rates remain high in the EU;
Amendment 711 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Notes with concern that child poverty rates remain high in the EU;
Amendment 712 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19 a. Condemns any forms of discrimination against children and calls on the Commission and Member States to make a united action to eradicate discrimination against children; In particular, calls on the Member States and the Commission to explicitly consider children as a priority when programming and implementing regional and cohesion policies, such as the European disability strategy, the EU framework for national Roma integration strategies and the EU's equality and non-discrimination policy; reiterates the importance of protecting and promoting equal access to health care, dignified accommodation and education for Roma children;
Amendment 713 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19 a. Calls on Member States to step up their efforts on tackling child poverty and social exclusion through effective implementation of the European Commission Recommendation 'Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage' through integrated strategies supporting access to adequate resources, enabling access to affordable quality services and promoting children's participation in decision making that affects them; calls on the Commission to take further measures for monitoring the implementation of the Recommendation;
Amendment 714 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19 a. Welcomes the adoption by the Council of Europe of its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021) and in particular its focus on the need to counter discrimination against children with disabilities, children affected by migration, Roma children and LGBT and intersex children;
Amendment 715 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19 a. recalls that the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth;1a __________________ 1aGeneral Assembly Resolution 1386/XIV of 20 November 1959
Amendment 716 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 b (new) 19 b. Calls on the Commission to consider launching a Child Guarantee to combat child poverty and social exclusion; supports the inclusion of free access to healthcare, education, childcare facilities, adequate housing and quality nutrition in the Child Guarantee;
Amendment 717 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. C
Amendment 718 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for a focus on violence against children at all levels, from homes to schools, public places and detention centres for migrants; encourages the European Commission to strengthen peer-learning between Member States on how to best address school bullying, in particular when it affects specific groups such as children with disabilities, LGBTI children or children from ethnic minority background;
Amendment 719 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for a focus on violence against children at all levels, from homes to schools, public places and detention centres for migrants; encourages the European Commission to strengthen peer-learning between Member States on how to best address school bullying, in particular when it affects specific groups such as children with disabilities, LGBTI children or children from minority ethnic background;
Amendment 720 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for a focus on violence against children at all levels, from homes to schools, public places and detention centres for migrants; encourages the European Commission to strengthen peer-learning between Member States on how to best address school bullying, in particular when it affects specific groups such as children with disabilities, LGBTI children or children from minority ethnic background;
Amendment 721 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for a focus on violence against children at all levels, from homes to schools, public places and, in particular, detention centres for migrants, where very many cases of violence against women and children are being reported;
Amendment 722 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for a focus on violence against children at all levels, from homes to schools, public places, juvenile detention centres and detention centres for migrants;
Amendment 723 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for
Amendment 724 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for a focus on violence against children at all levels, from homes to schools, public places and to end detention
Amendment 725 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20 a. Calls on the Member States to uphold their obligations and combat any form of violence against children, such as physical and sexual abuse, forced marriages, child labour, sexual exploitation, honour killing, FGM and child soldiers; stresses on the importance of including formal provisions to prohibit and sanction corporal punishment against children;
Amendment 726 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20 a. Highlights that violent punishment is the most common form of violence against children and that putting an end to it is fundamental for creating peaceful, non-violent and rights-respecting societies; Welcomes the European commission's efforts towards elimination of corporal punishment of children;
Amendment 727 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls
Amendment 728 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for a multi-stage system in child protection based on the best interests of the child, which should not be designed to punish parents and care-givers, but to send a clear message that all forms of physical and emotional violence against children are unacceptable, and in which the separation of the child from the family would be the very last
Amendment 729 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for a multi-stage system in child protection based on the best interests of the child,
Amendment 730 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for a multi-stage system in child protection based on the best interests of the child
Amendment 731 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21.
Amendment 732 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for a multi-stage system in child protection based on the best interests of the child and the family, which should not be designed to punish parents and care- givers, but to send a clear message that all forms of physical and emotional violence against children are unacceptable, and in which the separation of the child from the family would be the very last step;
Amendment 733 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for a multi-stage system in child protection based on the best interests of the child, which should not be designed to punish parents and care-givers, but to send a clear message that all forms of physical and emotional violence against children are unacceptable, and
Amendment 734 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure coordination within its different services with a view to effectively mainstreaming children's rights in all EU legislative proposals, policies and financial decisions; reiterates its call on the Commission to present a new European Strategy for the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 735 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21 a. Calls Member States to implement Article 4 of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child which underlines their obligation to guarantee children's rights as set out in the text of the Convention;
Amendment 736 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Calls for child-friendly juvenile justice systems in which children understand their rights and their role when
Amendment 737 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Calls for child-friendly juvenile justice systems in which children understand their rights and their role when they are involved as victims, witnesses or alleged offenders; calls for the adoption of special measures in both criminal and civil proceedings to protect children from unnecessary stress, intimidation and repeated victimisation, including in the case of asylum-seeking children;
Amendment 738 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls for the 116 emergency hotline
Amendment 739 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 740 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 741 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 742 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 743 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24.
Amendment 744 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights that child protection should be enhanced in the digital world in light of the increased instances of sexual violation, grooming and forced prostitution where the perpetrators used the internet to make contact, and calls for further cooperation between the private and public sectors; encourages those involved to follow good examples of prevention and complaint mechanisms in online social media and to implement these EU-wide; calls on Member States to take measures to address cyber-bullying;
Amendment 745 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights that child protection should be enhanced in the digital world and calls for further cooperation between the private and public sectors; encourages those involved to follow good examples of prevention and complaint mechanisms in online social media and to implement these EU-wide; calls on Member States to take measures to address cyber-bullying, and in particular, when it affects specific groups such as children with disabilities, LGBTI children or children from ethnic minority background;
Amendment 746 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights that child protection should be enhanced in the digital world and calls for further cooperation between the private and public sectors; encourages those involved to follow good examples of prevention and complaint mechanisms in online social media and to implement these EU-wide; further takes the view that children should, as a matter of course, be properly informed about the dangers of the internet, for example by means of awareness raising campaigns and school programmes;
Amendment 747 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights that child protection should be enhanced in the digital world and calls for further cooperation between the private and public sectors; encourages those involved to follow good examples of prevention and complaint mechanisms in online social media and to implement these EU-wide; supports an ambitious and effective outcome of the reform of the Directive on Audiovisual Media Services, with particular reference to protecting children in the digital environment;
Amendment 748 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights that child protection should be enhanced in the digital world and calls for further cooperation between the private and public sectors; encourages those involved to follow good examples of prevention and complaint mechanisms in
Amendment 749 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights that child protection should be enhanced in the digital world
Amendment 750 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25 a. Considers that children's personal data online must be duly protected and that children need to be informed in a child-friendly manner about the risks and consequences of using their personal data online; stresses that online profiling of children should be prohibited; calls on the industry to take their shared responsibility and refrain from addressing misleading and aggressive advertising towards children;
Amendment 751 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls for a code of conduct on protecting children’s rights online and offline in cyber space, and recalls that in the fight against cybercrime by law enforcement authorities special attention needs to be paid to crimes against children; stresses in this connection the role of Europol and the importance of Member States cooperating with one another and with Europol to combat this type of crime, and in particular to combat the online sexual exploitation of children;
Amendment 752 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls for a code of conduct on protecting children’s rights online and offline in cyber space, and recalls that in the fight against cybercrime by law enforcement authorities special attention needs to be paid to crimes against children; highlights the necessity of strengthening cooperation among Member States and with Europol and its European Cybercrime Center (EC3) in this area;
Amendment 753 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls for a code of conduct on protecting children’s rights online and offline in cyber space,
Amendment 754 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls for a
Amendment 755 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls for a code of conduct on protecting children’s rights online and offline in cyber space, and recalls that in the fight against
Amendment 756 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26 a. Calls on Member States to fully implement Directive 2011/93/EU on combating sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography; calls on the law- enforcement authorities, both at national and EU-level to invest in new technologies to fight crimes in the dark web and deep web; stresses that Eurojust and Europol must be given appropriate resources to improve the identification of victims, to fight organized networks of sexual abusers and to accelerate the detection, analysis and referral of child abuse material on- and offline;
Amendment 757 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Believes that inclusion policies should have a strong focus on children as children are the bridges of common understanding between cultures and societies and are the future of the Member States;
Amendment 758 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Believes that inclusion policies should have a strong focus on children a
Amendment 759 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27 a. Recognises and deplores the impact of the current situation at the external borders of the European Union on children, and reiterates the right of every child to be treated as a child first and foremost without any discrimination; calls for the EU and Member States to ensure that all migration and asylum policies and actions include appropriate child rights impact assessments, best interests of the child determination procedures and decision-making and corrective processes to ensure compliance with children's rights;
Amendment 760 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Highlights that the
Amendment 761 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28.
Amendment 762 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Highlights that the announcement by Europol that at least 10 000 unaccompanied children went missing in
Amendment 763 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Highlights that the
Amendment 764 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Highlights that the announcement by Europol that at least 10 000 unaccompanied children went missing in the EU in 2015 has clearly shown that Member States and European agencies have to step up their efforts urgently in terms of cross-border cooperation, information exchanges and joint investigations and operations in order to fight trafficking in human beings and transnational organised crime; notes that appointing guardians to unaccompanied children is an important safeguard to ensure their best interests; calls for registration and the use of convenient and dependable identification tools for children of all ages until they enter the inclusion process in order to prevent their disappearance;
Amendment 765 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Supports EU initiatives aimed at ensuring to each child a stable family environment fostering his/her harmonious growth and development; highlights the primary role of guidance of the mother and the father for their children and with regard to the identification of the best interests of the child;
Amendment 766 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Calls on the Member States to introduce gender-sensitive educational programmes as well as actions on girl´s and women's rights, gender equality, gender identities and gender relations at all levels of educational systems; calls also for the necessity of peace, anti- discrimination and anti-racism education for both girls and boys in schools at an early stage;
Amendment 767 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Calls on the Member States to fully implement the asylum package and register children upon their arrival in order to ensure their inclusion in child protection systems; calls on the Member States to increase information sharing in order to better protect migrant children in Europe;
Amendment 768 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Calls on Member States to protect freedom of religion or belief, including the freedom of those without a religion not to suffer discrimination as a result of excessive exemptions for religions from laws on equality and non-discrimination;
Amendment 769 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. recalls that the best interests of the child should be the guiding principle of those responsible for his education and guidance, and that responsibility lies in the first place with his parents;
Amendment 770 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Highlights that According to the Commission Report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings (2016) at least 15 % of the registered victims were children;
Amendment 771 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28a. Encourages the Member States to pay particular attention to programmes that focus on preventing young people from leaving school early and to test and share best practices in this area;
Amendment 772 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Calls on Member States to prohibit unnecessary medical treatments on intersex children when they can be deferred, until the child can provide fully informed consent;
Amendment 773 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 b (new) 28 b. Recalls that the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe in cooperation with the German Federal Office for Health Education (BZgA), in its "Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe", calls for early childhood masturbation for children age 0-4 which is inappropriate;
Amendment 776 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28 a. Points out the inconsistency of policy toward minorities - while protection of minorities is a part of the Copenhagen criteria, there is still no common EU standard for minority rights;
Amendment 777 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights th
Amendment 778 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights that
Amendment 779 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights that
Amendment 780 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights th
Amendment 781 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights that traditional national minorities who have been living together with or alongside traditional majority cultures for centuries in Europe are facing the negative consequences of the migration crisis,
Amendment 782 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights that
Amendment 783 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights that traditional national minorities who have been living together with or alongside traditional majority cultures for centuries in Europe are facing the negative consequences of the migration crisis, i.e. mistrust towards non-majority autochthonous minorities; believes that the solution to this problem lies in the establishment of minimum standards on protecting the rights of traditional minorities, as preserving European heritage gives added value to diversity; emphasizes that it is necessary to draw clear distinction between national minorities, economic migrants and asylum seekers;
Amendment 784 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights that
Amendment 785 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights that traditional national minorities who have been living together with or alongside traditional majority cultures for centuries in Europe are facing the negative consequences of the migration crisis, i.e. mistrust towards non-majority autochthonous minorities; believes that the solution to this problem lies in the establishment of minimum standards on protecting the rights of traditional minorities, as well as education about cultural diversity and tolerance as preserving European heritage gives added value to diversity;
Amendment 786 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Highlights that traditional national minorities who have been living together with or alongside traditional majority cultures for centuries in Europe are facing the negative consequences of the migration crisis, i.e. mistrust towards non-majority autochthonous minorities; believes that the solution to this problem lies in
Amendment 787 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29 a. Stresses that in its resolution of 11 September 2013, the European Parliament reminded that the Commission should pay attention to the fact that with their policies, some Member States and regions are endangering the survival of languages inside their borders, even if those languages are not in danger in the European context and called on the Commission to consider the administrative and legislative obstacles posed to projects relating to these languages. Deplores that this is still an ongoing issue and urges the Member States to take all necessary actions in order to take into thorough consideration the minority rights perspective and to ensure the right to use a minority language and protect linguistic diversity within the Union.
Amendment 788 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29 a. Stresses that it is essential that the fundamental rights and freedoms of persons belonging to national, ethnic or linguistic minorities are respected and promoted; expresses its concern at the fact that, in everyday life, people belonging to these minority communities cannot fully enjoy their fundamental rights as they encounter obstacles in access to justice, and other public services, education, health and social services, as well as their cultural rights might be curtailed;
Amendment 789 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29 a. Emphasises that traditional minority communities have specific needs and that their full equality should be promoted in all areas of economic, social, political and cultural life;
Amendment 790 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 b (new) 29 b. Notes that autochthonous minority communities have specific needs different from other minority groups, which should be adequately recognized and addressed at national and European level. Emphasizes that positive measures implemented for the purpose of protecting minority persons and groups, ensuring that they are granted equal rights and treatment in the administrative, political, economic, social and cultural fields and in other spheres, shall not be considered as discrimination;
Amendment 791 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 c (new) 29 c. Urges the Commission to establish a policy standard for the protection of autochthonous minorities, bearing in mind that they comprise more than 10 % of the total population of the EU, in order to avoid applying double standards that differentiate between candidate countries and Member States; repeatedly calls for a comprehensive EU protection system for autochthonous minorities, regional linguistic groups and constitutional regions accompanied by a functioning monitoring mechanism;
Amendment 792 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 d (new) 29 d. Calls on the Member States to ensure that their legal systems guarantee that persons belonging to an autochthonous minority are not discriminated against, and to take and implement targeted protection measures, based on the relevant international norms and good practices, so that these persons can fully enjoy their fundamental freedoms and rights;
Amendment 793 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 e (new) 29 e. Reiterates its call on the Commission and the FRA to take targeted actions to monitor the situation of autochthonous minorities in the EU by systematic collection of specified data and reporting on direct and indirect discrimination;
Amendment 794 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 Amendment 795 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30a. Calls for the European conception of multilingualism also to include minoritised languages and for knowledge of those languages, especially those which are legally co-official languages in the Member States, to enjoy the same recognition and treatment as that which is afforded to other official languages in EU competitions and programmes;
Amendment 796 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30 a. Calls on the governments of the Member States to condemn practices which, by means of linguistic discrimination or enforced or concealed assimilation, have in the past been – or are now – directed against the identity and language use of endangered linguistic communities or their cultural institutions;
Amendment 797 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30 a. Calls on the governments of the Member States to condemn practices which, by means of linguistic discrimination or enforced or concealed assimilation, have in the past been – or are now – directed against the identity and language use of endangered linguistic communities or their cultural institutions;
Amendment 798 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30 a. Calls on those Member States who have not yet done so to ratify and effectively implement the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages;
Amendment 799 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30a. points out that Member States’ legislation on the mother-tongue education of national minorities is in many cases selectively applied, and that the minorities’ established rights enshrined in law are thus not upheld;
Amendment 800 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30a. Points to the important role that regional and local authorities in the EU can play in protecting traditional national minorities;
Amendment 801 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 b (new) 30 b. In the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) adopted by Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 1994, calls on the European Commission to elaborate a European level Directive in order to tackle language discrimination, as there are Directives on how to tackle racism and xenophobia;
Amendment 802 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 b (new) 30 b. In the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) adopted by Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 1994, calls on the European Commission to elaborate a European level Directive in order to tackle language discrimination, as there are Directives on how to tackle racism and xenophobia;
Amendment 803 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 b (new) 30 b. Considers that the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages should serve as a guidance in elaborating an effective common European answer to the issue of minority protection;
Amendment 804 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 b (new) 30b. Stresses that, similarly, the linguistic rights laid down by law are not upheld, and that the public authorities use administrative and financial means to obstruct the application in practice of written and spoken multilingualism;
Amendment 805 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 c (new) 30c. Notes that the use of national minorities’ symbols still encounters harassment from the authorities, and that in the absence of a stable legal environment court proceedings are being brought to allow the use of community emblems;
Amendment 806 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 c (new) 30 c. Calls on the European Commission to strengthen its plan to promote the teaching and use of regional languages, as a potential way to tackle language discrimination in the EU;
Amendment 807 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 c (new) 30 c. Calls on the European Commission to strengthen its plan to promote the teaching and use of regional languages, as a potential way to tackle language discrimination in the EU;
Amendment 808 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 d (new) 30d. Highlights the risk that administrative reorganisation will lead to the neglect of international commitments under which restructuring must not have an adverse effect on the proportion of a national minority within an administrative unit; notes that the planning process totally disregards the regions’ specific historical, cultural and social features, and indeed it seems as if one of the aims of restructuring might be to tear apart regions that are organically interconnected;
Amendment 809 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 e (new) 30e. Notes that to this day some public authorities treat the articulation, by representatives of national minorities, of political objectives such as the better enforcement of the principle of self- determination or the speeding up of decentralisation, as a risk to national security;
Amendment 810 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 f (new) 30f. Notes with concern that the restoration of ecclesiastical, communal and private assets confiscated by the Communist authorities has ceased in spite of commitments made by the state, and that in some Member States signs may even be seen of the process being reversed;
Amendment 811 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 g (new) 30g. Notes with regret that various state bodies, disregarding the basic principles of the rule of law, are intimidating and harassing national minorities by imposing administrative fines;
Amendment 812 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 h (new) 30h. Considers it particularly worrying that provocative statements disparaging national minorities often appear in the media, and that media outlets convey the impression that these are accepted points of view;
Amendment 813 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 i (new) 30i. Calls on the Union and the Member States to consider acceding to the Council of Europe’s documents on the protection of minorities: the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages;
Amendment 814 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 j (new) 30j. Urges the Member States to exchange good practice and apply tried and tested solutions in addressing the problems of national minorities to throughout the European Union;
Amendment 817 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30 a. Calls on the Commission to adopt a new strategy on the rights of persons with disabilities following the EU accession to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD);
Amendment 818 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Welcomes the concluding observations on the EU
Amendment 819 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31.
Amendment 820 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Stresses that persons with disabilities are entitled to enjoy their fundamental rights on an equal basis with others, including the rights to inalienable dignity, independent living, autonomy and full social integration, sexual and reproductive health and rights and family; notes that a human rights-based approach to disability is not yet fully endorsed, and urges the EU and its Member States to intensify efforts to align their legal frameworks with CRPD requirements and to effectively include persons with disabilities in society;
Amendment 821 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Stresses that persons with disabilities are entitled to enjoy their fundamental rights on an equal basis with others, including the rights to inalienable dignity, independent living, autonomy and full social integration; notes that a human rights-based approach to disability is not yet fully endorsed, resulting in discrimination against those with disabilities in the EU and urges the EU and its Member States to intensify efforts to align their legal frameworks with CRPD requirements;
Amendment 822 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Stresses that persons with disabilities (PWD) are entitled to enjoy their fundamental rights on an equal basis with others, including the rights to inalienable dignity, independent living, autonomy and full social integration; notes that a human rights-based approach to disability is not yet fully endorsed, and urges the EU and its Member States to intensify efforts to align their legal frameworks with CRPD requirements;
Amendment 823 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Stresses that persons with
Amendment 824 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 a (new) 32 a. Calls on the Council to urgently adopt the 2008 proposal for a Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation;
Amendment 825 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 b (new) 32 b. Regrets the fact that EU funds earmarked for integration measures for persons living with disabilities are still used to renovate big institutions instead, despite the commitment of the EU and its Member States to de-institutionalisation; calls on the Commission to closely monitor the utilisation of the funds and take action where necessary;
Amendment 826 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 c (new) 32 c. Calls on Member States to adopt strategies to provide effective access to the labour market to persons living with disabilities;
Amendment 827 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Recalls that persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities face particular barriers to the fulfilment of their fundamental rights and calls on Member States and regional and local authorities to strengthen efforts to promote their autonomy and inclusion on
Amendment 828 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Recalls that persons with intellectual, psychosomatic and psychosocial disabilities face particular barriers to the fulfilment of their fundamental rights and calls on Member States to strengthen efforts to promote their autonomy and inclusion on an equal basis with others;
Amendment 829 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Recalls that persons with functional, intellectual and psychosocial di
Amendment 830 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Notes that children with disabilities disproportionately experience a variety of human rights violations, including the denial of access to basic services such as education and healthcare or placement in institutions away from their families and communities, and are at a higher risk of becoming victims of violence, exploitation and other forms of ill-treatment and abuse; highlights the need for comprehensive policy action by the EU
Amendment 831 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Notes that children and women with disabilities disproportionately experience a variety of human rights violations, including the denial of access to basic services such as education and healthcare or placement in institutions away from their families and communities, and are at a higher risk of becoming victims of violence, exploitation and other forms of ill-treatment and abuse; highlights the need for comprehensive and gender sensitive policy action by the EU and the Member States to ensure the thorough implementation of the UN Convention on
Amendment 832 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Notes that children with disabilities disproportionately experience a variety of human rights violations, including the denial of access to basic services such as education and healthcare or placement in institutions away from their families and communities, and are at a higher risk of becoming victims of violence, sexual abuse, exploitation and other forms of ill- treatment and abuse; highlights the need for comprehensive policy action by the EU and the Member States to ensure the thorough implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, in conjunction with the CRPD;
Amendment 833 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Notes that children with
Amendment 834 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new) 34a. Emphasises, furthermore, the double discrimination suffered by women with functional disabilities linked to their status as disabled women and to their gender; emphasises that this should be mainstreamed into equality policies and into policies designed with a view to the full integration of persons with functional disabilities;
Amendment 835 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Urges Member States to ensure that the 112 emergency hotline is fully accessible for disabled persons
Amendment 836 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Urges Member States to ensure that the 112 emergency hotline is fully accessible for
Amendment 837 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 36. Calls on the EU
Amendment 838 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 36. Calls on the EU
Amendment 839 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 36. Calls on the EU and the Member States to
Amendment 840 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 37. Calls on Member States and regional and local authorities to ensure real participation and freedom of expression for persons with disabilities in public life; notes that such efforts should be supported by providing subtitling, sign language interpretation, documents written in Braille and easy-to-read formats;
Amendment 841 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 37. Calls on Member States to ensure real participation and freedom of expression for persons with
Amendment 842 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new) 37 a. Urges Member States to abolish all limitations in the enjoyment of the right to full legal capacity for people with disabilities and to create a system in which persons with disabilities are supported in making decisions, as needed;
Amendment 843 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new) 37 a. Calls on Member States to provide accessible solutions to refugees with disabilities;
Amendment 844 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 b (new) 37 b. Calls on European Union and Member States to take appropriate measures to ensure that all persons with disabilities who have been deprived of their legal capacity can exercise all the rights enshrined in European Union treaties and legislation, such as access to justice, goods and services, including banking, employment and health care, as well as voting and consumer rights, in line with the CRPD and the Charter on Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which explicitly prohibit discrimination on the grounds of disability;
Amendment 845 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 c (new) 37 c. Urges European Union and Member States to develop support services for boys and girls with disabilities and their families in local communities, prevent any new institutionalization, and promote deinstitutionalization, social inclusion and access to mainstream, inclusive, quality education for boys and girls with disabilities;
Amendment 846 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 d (new) 37 d. Stresses the particular risks facing refugees, migrants and asylum seekers with disabilities, who lack access to information and communication in accessible formats and may be detained in conditions which do not provide appropriate support and reasonable accommodation;
Amendment 848 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 Amendment 849 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 38. Notes that active ageing and inter- generational solidarity are important issues with respect to Europe
Amendment 850 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 38. Notes that active ageing and inter- generational solidarity are important issues with respect to Europe’s demographic changes and that incentives must be provided to increase birth rates in the Member States;
Amendment 851 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 38. Notes that active ageing and inter- generational solidarity are important issues with respect to Europe’s demographic changes that can be strengthened through a human rights-based approach;
Amendment 852 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 38. Notes that active ageing and inter- generational solidarity are important issues with respect to Europe
Amendment 853 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 Amendment 854 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Highlights that discrimination on the basis of age is often combined with other forms of discrimination, such as
Amendment 855 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Highlights that discrimination on the basis of age is highly prevalent in today's societies and is often combined with other forms of discrimination, such as discrimination on grounds of race and ethnicity, religion, disability, health or socio-economic conditions;
Amendment 856 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Highlights that discrimination on the basis of age is often combined with other forms of discrimination, such as discrimination on grounds of race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, health or socio- economic conditions;
Amendment 857 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Highlights that discrimination on the basis of age is often combined with other forms of discrimination, such as discrimination on grounds of race and ethnicity, religion, disability, health, sexual orientation and gender identity or socio- economic conditions;
Amendment 858 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39a. Encourages the Member States and the European institutions to work together in developing active policies designed to shift the focus of policies concerning elderly people towards ensuring that they are fully integrated into social life and fostering the empowerment of elderly people and their participation in public life; takes the view that experience is valuable and that tapping its potential gives the European economy a competitive edge when combined, in an appropriate manner, with capabilities for innovation and training in the new skills contributed by new generations; points out that there is therefore a need to incorporate this approach into active ageing policies;
Amendment 859 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39 a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to be actively involved in the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing and step up their efforts to protect the rights of older people, including by considering the elaboration of a new legal instrument;
Amendment 860 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 10 a (new) Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Amendment 861 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to ensure freedom of thought, conscience and religion in every respect (individual and collective, private and public, as well as institutional) and to fully implement Article 10 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 862 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 b (new) 39b. Calls on the Member States to uphold the freedom to change religion or belief without being subject to any form of coercion;
Amendment 863 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 c (new) 39c. Calls on the Member States to ensure full exercise of the right to conscientious objection, both at individual and institutional level, particularly in matters relating to health, pharmaceuticals and education, and to end the harassment of conscientious objectors and other forms of discrimination against them;
Amendment 864 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39α. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights states that the elderly have the right ‘to lead a life of dignity and independence and to participate in social and cultural life’;
Amendment 865 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39 a. Notes that older persons face a number of particular challenges in the enjoyment of their human rights that have not yet been fully addressed;
Amendment 866 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure access to services, healthcare and lifelong learning, to elderly people;
Amendment 867 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 10 a (new) Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Amendment 869 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39 a. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people (LGBTI) in the EU;
Amendment 870 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 b (new) 39 b. Welcomes the List of actions by the European Commission to advance LGBTI Equality, presented at the EPSCO Council on 7 December 2015 as an internal working document following up on the Parliament's resolution of 4 February 2014 on the EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to make specific proposals in the evaluation of the list of actions, on how in the future to ensure coherence between external and internal EU policies, considering that the Foreign Affairs Council adopted the Guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons on 24 June 2013;
Amendment 871 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 d (new) 39 d. Calls on Member States to continue implementing the Employment Equality Directive 2000/78/EC and Gender Recast Directive 2006/54/EC, ensuring non-discrimination in the workplace, including on the basis of sexual orientation and gender reassignment respectively; calls on the Commission to follow CJEU case law and to include the perspective of trans people throughout its gender equality work; encourages EU Member States to support trade unions and employers' organisations in their efforts to adopt diversity and non-discrimination policies with a focus on LGBTI people;
Amendment 872 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 e (new) 39 e. Reiterates that any legal recognition procedure which imposes forced sterilisation on transgender people is violating human rights standards; welcomes the recent adoption by a number of Member States of new legal gender recognition procedures more respectful of the fundamental rights of trans people. Calls on the European Commission to strengthen peer-learning among Member States to ensure their practices are in line with human rights standards;
Amendment 873 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 f (new) 39 f. Deplores the fact that transgender people are still considered mentally ill in the majority of Member States and calls on respective states to review national mental health catalogues, and to develop alternative stigma-free access models ensuring that medically necessary treatment remains available for all trans people;
Amendment 874 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 g (new) 39 g. Welcomes the initiative shown by the Commission in pushing for depathologisation of transgender identities in the review of the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases (ICD); calls on the Commission to intensify efforts to prevent gender variance in childhood from becoming a new ICD diagnosis;
Amendment 875 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 h (new) 39 h. Strongly regrets that genital "normalisation" surgeries of intersex infants are widespread, despite not being medically necessary and being considered as a violation of the right to bodily integrity, by a number of UN bodies as well as the Fundamental Rights Agency; welcomes the fact that a few Member States have already adopted measures contributing to better protect the human rights of intersex people and calls on the European Commission to encourage the exchange of good practices amongst member states in protecting intersex human rights.
Amendment 876 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39 a. Invites the Union and its Member States to fully protect freedom of thought, conscience and religion in all its aspects (individual and collective, private and public, institutional); invites the Member States to ensure the freedom to change one's religion or belief without any coercion;
Amendment 877 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 b (new) 39 b. Calls on the EU and the Member States to be actively involved in the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing and step up their efforts to protect the rights of older people, including by considering the elaboration of a new legal instrument;
Amendment 878 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 b (new) 39 b. Supports an effective protection on the part of the Member States of the right to conscientious objection, both at the individual and institutional level, especially in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and education sectors, as a fundamental right placed at the basis of democracy and the rule of law; invites to put an end to discrimination, including harassment, towards conscientious objectors;
Amendment 879 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 c (new) 39 c. Invites the EU and Member States to come up with a common assessment of the progresses made in the implementation of the Regional Implementation Strategy of the Madrid International Plan of Acting on Ageing in 2017, identifying, in full respect of the principle of subsidiarity, the areas of common EU policy action that are relevant for the implementation of the Strategy;
Amendment 880 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39 a. Notes that people belonging to the Roma minority are disproportionately subjected to forced evictions in many Member States, impeding their freedom of movement; calls on the Member States not to plan resettlement policies based on ethnicity; Calls on Member States, in the light of the Commission's Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies 2015, to put in place specific measures to fight racial discrimination against Roma, and to mainstream non-discrimination policies within other EU policies such as employment and structural funds;
Amendment 881 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39 a. Denounces the persistent and widespread discrimination against Roma in all EU Member States as the root cause of the deprived living conditions and socio-economic exclusion in which many of them still live today; urges the Commission to take action against those Member States that promote or allow institutionalised discrimination and segregation, especially in education and housing; calls on the Commission to mainstream the monitoring of discrimination practices in all areas, especially education, employment, housing and healthcare;
Amendment 882 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 b (new) 39 b. Regrets that Roma people still face antigypsyism, systematic and also institutional racism; calls on Member States to come up with a roadmap to tackle institutional racism among their authorities;
Amendment 883 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 c (new) 39 c. Regrets that in the application of the Racial Equality Directive there are still shortcomings, including in the area of awareness of rights and access to justice;
Amendment 884 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 40.
Amendment 885 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 40. Notes that people belonging to the Roma minority are entitled to freedom of
Amendment 886 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 40. Notes that people belonging to the Roma minority are entitled to freedom of movement, and calls on the Member States and regional and local authorities not to plan resettlement policies based on ethnic reasons;
Amendment 887 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 a (new) 40 a. recalls the European Court of Justice conclusion on the case CHEZ Razpredelenie Bulgaria AD v Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia stating that the principle of equal treatment contained in the Directive "protects not only persons who are themselves a member of a particular race or ethnic group, but also those who are not members of such a group but suffer particular disadvantage or less favourable treatment on one of those grounds";
Amendment 888 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 a (new) 40 a. Believes that for Roma inclusion to be effective, national and local authorities must prioritise policies to fight all forms of discrimination by putting an end to residential and scholastic segregation, banning ethnic profiling and fighting police brutality, addressing statelessness and ending forced evictions as well as ensuring access to justice and legal aid to those in need;
Amendment 889 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 a (new) 40 a. Notes that people belonging to the Roma minority are disproportionately subjected to forced evictions in many Member States, impeding their freedom of movement; calls on the Member States not to plan resettlement policies based on ethnicity;
Amendment 890 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 a (new) 40 a. Recalls that several court cases have proven that unjustified placement of Roma children into special schools or classes is a part of segregation mechanisms, which effects extremely negatively the later life perspectives of those children;
Amendment 891 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 b (new) 40 b. Invites Member States to implement the recommendations of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency according to which Member states shall enhance the active participation and engagement of Roma public authorities, particularly at local level, and take measures to improve community cohesion and trust involving local residents, as well as civil society, through systematic engagement efforts. Believes such measures should contribute to improving the participation of Roma in local level integration processes, especially through identifying their own needs, through formulating responses and through mobilising resources;
Amendment 892 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 b (new) 40 b. calls on Member States, in the light of the Commission's Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies 2015, to put in place specific measures to fight racial discrimination against Roma, and to mainstream non-discrimination policies within other EU policies such as employment and structural funds;
Amendment 893 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41.
Amendment 894 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Calls on Member States, in the light of the Commission’s Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies 2015, to put in place specific measures to fight
Amendment 895 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Calls on Member States, in
Amendment 896 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Calls on Member States and regional and local authorities, in the light of the Commission’s Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies 2015, to put in place specific measures to fight ethnic discrimination against Roma in line with the Racial Equality Directive provisions, and to combat anti-Gypsyism in line with the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia;
Amendment 897 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Calls on Member States, in the light of the Commission’s Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies 2015, to put in place specific measures to fight
Amendment 898 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new) 41 a. Calls on the Commission to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission at an EU level, and calls on Member States to set up National Truth and Reconciliation Commissions at a national level to acknowledge the persecution, exclusion and disownment of the Roma throughout the centuries, to document this in an official white paper and to make their history become part of the curriculum in schools; calls on Member States to mark 2 August as Roma Holocaust Memorial Day;
Amendment 899 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new) 41 a. Calls on the European Council and the European Commission to strengthen its strategy on Roma and poor communities' inclusion, by scaling it up, widening it to reach 80 million citizens and to strengthen the European Commission Roma Task Force and the National Contact Points, develop regional and local contact points, develop Regional Roma Platforms and with the European Roma Platform develop it into an online policy developing forum;
Amendment 900 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new) 41 a. Condemns the existing practice of segregation of Roma pupils in schools; supports the Commission's efforts to challenge this practices; recalls that several Member States are under infringement procedure because of segregation of Roma children in schools; and calls on Member States to take effective steps to eliminate school segregation and to come up with detailed plans on integration measures for Roma children;
Amendment 901 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new) 41 a. Notes that Roma people should benefit from the EU funds on an equal footing; therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to pay special attention that all programs are implemented in a way that directly and clearly reduces the gaps in the field of education, health, labour and housing between Roma and non-Roma;
Amendment 903 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new) 41 a. Highlights that rule of law is one of the common values on which the EU is founded, and whereas the Commission, together with Parliament and the Council, is responsible under the Treaties for assuring respect for the rule of law as a fundamental value of our Union and guarantee that EU law, values and principles are respected;
Amendment 904 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 b (new) 41 b. Notes that an efficient, independent and impartial judicial system is crucial for the rule of law and guarantee the protection of the fundamental rights and civil liberties of citizens in Europe;
Amendment 905 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 c (new) 41 c. Believes that the EU is committed to respecting media freedom and pluralism as well as the right to information and freedom of expression;
Amendment 906 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 d (new) Amendment 907 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 11 a (new) Upholding procedurals rights, judicial system and the rule of law (new heading)
Amendment 908 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 b (new) 41 b. Believes that to address the rule of law concerns raised about some EU Member States in 2015 and prevent further rule of law crises, all relevant actors at national level, including governments, parliaments and the judiciary, need to step up efforts to uphold and reinforce the rule of law;
Amendment 909 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 c (new) 41 c. Notes that regular exchange with the EU, and among the Member States themselves, based on objective comparative criteria (such as indicators) and contextual assessments, could be an important element to mitigate or prevent any rule of law problems in the future;
Amendment 910 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 11 a (new) Conditions in prisons and other custodial institutions
Amendment 911 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new) 41a. Points out that the fundamental rights of prisoners must be guaranteed by the national authorities; condemns prison conditions in many Member States, characterised as they are by overcrowding and ill-treatment;
Amendment 912 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 b (new) 41b. Calls on the Member States to adopt instruments ensuring the more effective implementation of recommendations by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) and rulings by the European Court of Human Rights regarding prison conditions;
Amendment 913 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 c (new) 41c. Stresses the need for more frequent recourse by the Member States to measures other than incarceration, so as facilitate social reintegration as the ultimate objective of any sentence, a drastic reduction in the number of reoffenders and less overcrowding in prisons; attaches particular importance therefore to the development of training and employment programmes for prison inmates;
Amendment 914 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 d (new) 41d. Agrees that it is necessary to reform the European Arrest Warrant, in particular through the introduction of procedures for verifying the proportionality thereof and a more clearly and explicitly worded exception linked to respect for human rights by the requesting State; welcomes, in this respect, the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in joined cases C-404/15 and C-659/15 PPU, Pál Aranyosi and Robert Căldăraru, which rules that the execution of a European arrest warrant must be postponed if there is a real risk of inhuman or degrading treatment because of detention conditions in the issuing Member State;
Amendment 915 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 e (new) 41e. Calls on the Commission to assess the effect on children of the prison and criminal justice system; notes that an estimated 800 children are separated from a parent serving a prison sentence; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to facilitate an exchange of best practices between the authorities of the different Member States to facilitate a secure relationship between prison inmates and their children, allowing them to be present in important moments of their children’s lives, thus safeguarding the interest of the children in question;
Amendment 916 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 11 a (new) New technologies and fundamental rights
Amendment 917 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new) 41a. Stresses the need to consider the impact which some new technologies – such as drones – can have on fundamental rights and in particular on the right to privacy; also highlights the challenge presented by the implications of widespread internet access for fundamental rights, particularly as regards protecting personal data and combating online harassment and trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 918 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 b (new) 41 b. Calls on the Member States to strengthen the cooperation between local authorities and the poor communities;
Amendment 919 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 Amendment 920 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 42. Notes the rise in euroscepticism, far-right populism and violent political views with great concern, and therefore urges the EU and its Member States to strengthen participation by citizens and civil society organisations in EU matters so that Europeans understand that their voices
Amendment 921 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 42. Notes the rise in euroscepticism and violent political views, which are only to be expected even in a democratic context, and therefore urges the EU and its Member States to strengthen participation by citizens in EU matters so that Europeans understand that their voices are being heard in the EU and that policymakers are responsive to public opinion expressed through democratic channels;
Amendment 922 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 42. Notes the rise in euroscepticism and violent political views, and therefore urges the EU
Amendment 923 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 42. Notes the rise in euroscepticism and violent political views, and therefore urges the EU and its Member States to strengthen participation by citizens, especially young people, in EU matters so that Europeans understand that their voices are being heard in the EU and that policymakers are responsive to public opinion expressed through democratic channels;
Amendment 924 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 42. Notes the rise in euroscepticism and
Amendment 925 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 42. Notes the rise in euroscepticism and violent political views, and therefore urges the EU and its Member States to strengthen participation by citizens
Amendment 926 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 a (new) 42 a. Asks the Commission when dealing with policies in the field of equal opportunities between men and women to focus on the implementation of the existing legislation by the Member States, and emphasises the importance of exchanges of best practice in particular where Member States have exclusive competence, before considering the necessity of submitting new legislative proposals and policy tools in the field of equal opportunities;
Amendment 927 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 a (new) 42a. Stresses the need to inform European citizens and residents, as well as migrants and refugees, of the importance of the values on which the Union is founded and which are set out in Article 2 of the Treaty; takes the view that awareness-raising campaigns should be set up, e.g. as part of school curricula and migrant assistance programmes;
Amendment 928 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 a (new) 42 a. Recalls that freedom of expression, information and the media are fundamental with a view to ensuring democracy and the rule of law; strongly condemns violence, pressure or threats against journalists and the media, including in relation to the disclosure of information about breaches of fundamental rights; calls for a decriminalization of defamation;
Amendment 929 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 b (new) 42 b. Stresses that the right to freedom of movement and residence of European citizens and their families laid down in the Treaties and guaranteed by the Directive on freedom of movement is one of the fundamental rights of European citizens; condemns any attempt to review this acquis, and calls for any breach of the rules to result in action before the Court of Justice, particularly in cases where the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality, ethnic or racial origin or sexual orientation is breached; expresses its concerns about the growing trend of quick expulsions of EU citizens from their countries of residence as a result of the loss of their jobs and income, considers that this is contrary to the spirit of the freedom of mobility;
Amendment 930 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 b (new) 42b. Expresses deep alarm at recent developments in some Member States vis- à-vis respect for the rule of law; stresses that the rule of law is one of the EU’s founding values and is inseparably yoked to respect for human rights; also stresses that it is the responsibility of the Union to ensure that it is fully respected both by accession candidates and by Member States; notes in this connection that every Member State should be continually, officially and objectively monitored as to its respect for the rule of law;
Amendment 931 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 43. Considers it necessary to reduce administrative burdens on participation in public life and to promote e-governance EU-wide, and calls for the effectiveness of mechanisms such as the citizens’ initiative to be strengthened; believes that stateless persons and third country nationals permanently resident in the Member States should have the right to vote in local and European elections;
Amendment 932 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 a (new) 43 a. recalls that the EU should stop funding the global operational costs which can be up to 80% of an NGO's global budget because this controversial funding distorts the principle of equal opportunities between NGOs ; recalls that so-called "operating grants" are not linked to any specific project or activity of the receiving NGO but can be freely used to pay salaries, office rent and telephone costs, travel expenses etc.;
Amendment 933 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 a (new) 43 a. Encourages the development of e- consultations and the use of it as a crowdsourcing mechanism to gather knowledge about citizens expectations for the governments and public administration and as a tool for direct participation of the citizens;
Amendment 934 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 a (new) 43a. Calls for the proposal and sharing of best practices with a focus on eliminating procedural and language barriers that discourage civic participation in the decision-making processes of public institutions at all levels of governance;
Amendment 935 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 b (new) 43b. Takes the view that the criterion of openness, the essence of transparency and participation, should be consolidated as the basis of the processes for citizens’ participation in public life; emphasises the need for transparency to be applied in full not only in the decision-making processes of institutions but also in monitoring the handling of matters relating to services provided by public institutions; emphasises the need to promote the provision of such services via accessible digital media;
Amendment 936 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work; recalls that the principle "He who pays the piper calls the tune" applies also for the EU funding policy for NGOs because the EU funding policy obliges NGOs to advertise and legitimise the Commission's activities as well as to promote and legitimise themselves; recalls that by this procedure the EU Commission creates a "Muppet civil society";
Amendment 937 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work; regrets that in Hungary, Poland and Lithuania there are on-going smear campaigns against NGOs; calls on Member States and EU to provide for adequate public investment in the work of NGOs, including equality bodies;
Amendment 938 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social and civic participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work; calls on Member States and on the EU to uphold the freedom of assembly and of association as part of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Amendment 939 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social and civic participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work; calls on Member Stated and on the EU to uphold the freedom of assembly and association as part of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU;
Amendment 940 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work, without relaxing their vigilance in discouraging criminal activity;
Amendment 941 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social participation and calls on the EU
Amendment 942 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering, religious and youth work, play a key role in social participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work;
Amendment 943 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social and civic participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work;
Amendment 944 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to
Amendment 945 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 a (new) 44 a. Underlines the need to combat environmental crime as a matter of priority; urges the Commission to examine the effective implementation in the EU of the right of access to justice in the context of the right of every person of present and future generations to live in an environment adequate to his or her health and well-being;
Amendment 946 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 a (new) 44 a. invites the competent national authorities to verify if an NGO can keep its legal status as "non-governmental" or "registered association" when its annual budget is mainly established through public funds (i.e. local regional or national authorities, a foreign government, or the EU) ;
Amendment 947 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 45. Believes that civic education improves citizens
Amendment 948 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 45. Believes that civic education improves citizens’ understanding of the importance of social and political participation, while human rights education raises awareness of their own rights and teaches them respect for the rights of others; calls on Member States to draw up national plans of action for fundamental rights education and to implement the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education; calls on regional and local authorities to take an active part in the above activities;
Amendment 949 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 45. Believes that civic education and intercultural dialogue improves citizens’ understanding of the importance of social and political participation, while human rights education raises awareness of their own rights and teaches them respect for the rights of others; calls on Member States to draw up national plans of action for fundamental rights education and to implement the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education;
Amendment 950 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 45. Believes that civic education improves citizens’ understanding of the importance of social and political participation, while human rights and gender equality education raises awareness of their own rights and teaches them respect for the rights of others; calls on Member States to draw up national plans of action for fundamental rights education and to implement the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education;
Amendment 951 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 a (new) 45 a. Notes that some directives (or minimum rules) have been adopted in recent years regarding judicial cooperation in criminal matters. Stresses, however, that there are European rules in the field of justice and home affairs that must be implemented in order to guarantee the fundamental rights of individuals subject to criminal proceedings. Calls, therefore, on the European Commission to safeguard the uniform application in all Member States of rules such as Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA of 27 November 2008, Council Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA of 24 July 2008 and Council Framework Decision 2009/948/JHA of 30 November 2009. Considers it important to maintain the social roots of prisoners and calls for the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU to every person in prison.
Amendment 952 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 a (new) 45 a. Highlights that the current policies on drugs should be reconsidered as a matter of urgency, as they have not achieved their stated objectives, and that the current approach, which is based on criminalisation and imprisonment, leads only to further stigmatisation and marginalisation, as well as to an overload of the justice and prison systems, instead of saving lives and providing drug abusers with specific help; calls, therefore, for the revision – at national, EU and international level – of laws and policies on the basis of a more rational approach based on fundamental rights, medical care and harm reduction;
Amendment 953 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 a (new) 45 a. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a regulation to ensure mutual recognition of civil status documents (including legal gender recognition, marriage and registered partnerships) and their legal effects, in order to reduce discriminatory legal and administrative barriers for citizens who exercise their right to free movement;
Amendment 954 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 a (new) 45 a. Believes that stateless persons and third-country nationals permanently resident in the Member States should have the right to vote in local and European elections;
Amendment 955 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 46.
Amendment 956 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 46 a. reiterates its position that - in line with the EU Leitmotif "United in Diversity" and article 67 TFEU which states that the Union shall respect the different legal systems and traditions of the Member States - cross border civil status issues are uniquely related to Member States' family laws, which reflect Member States' values; recognises that public policy exemptions safeguard the right of Member States to protect their fundamental values as expressed in their substantive family laws and they shield against the import of foreign legal concepts that do not exist or may even be illegal into the domestic Member State's legal order, which would result in the parallel co-existence of EU and national legal orders (spill over effect and reverse discrimination);
Amendment 957 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 46a. Calls on the Commission to be more resolute in its use of the instruments at its disposal under the framework for the prevention of systemic threats to the rule of law in EU countries, by applying the prevention capacities provided for in the phases involving objective assessment and dialogue with the Member State concerned in cases of clear and serious breaches of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, even if those breaches are not strictly related to the implementation of EU law;
Amendment 958 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 46a. Calls on the Commission to be more resolute in its use of the instruments at its disposal under the framework for the prevention of systemic threats to the rule of law in EU countries, by applying the prevention capacities provided for in the phases involving objective assessment and dialogue with the Member State concerned in cases of clear and serious breaches of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, even if those breaches are not strictly related to the implementation of EU law;
Amendment 959 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 46 a. remains deeply concerned about the high number of non-implemented judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the Member States for more than 5 years; deplores the delays in implementation and the lack of political will of certain Member States to implement judgments of the Court; encourages to take stronger measures in case of dilatory or continuous non- execution of judgments;
Amendment 960 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 42a. Reiterates that respect for the rule of law is an essential precondition for the protection of fundamental rights and that it must be inherent in all measures taken by the European Union and its Member States; deplores the fact that violations of the rule of law and fundamental rights take place daily in all Member States of the Union;
Amendment 961 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 46 a. Underlines that any EU initiative or mechanism on the respect for the rule of law in the Member States should have a clear and explicit legal basis and is to be founded on compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, as well as on respect for their national traditions and identities;
Amendment 962 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 46 a. Reiterates the importance of the Charter awareness raising. The 2015 Eurobarometer survey on awareness of the Charter showed that the interest on information about the rights people enjoy under the Charter remains high;
Amendment 963 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 46 a. Reiterates its call to create an effective system of monitoring of respect for democracy, the rule of law and human rights in each Member State;
Amendment 964 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new) 46 a. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence in the EU against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people (LGBTI);
Amendment 965 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 b (new) Amendment 966 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 b (new) 46 b. Welcomes the fact that some EU Member States have extended the protection granted to victims of discrimination based on other grounds, such as sexual orientation or gender identity, when implementing the Framework Decision; calls on the Commission to start a dialogue with those Member States whose legislation does not cover homophobic and transphobic hate motives, aimed at filling the remaining legislative gaps.
Amendment 967 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 b (new) 46 b. Calls on EU Member States to complement their efforts with more proactive policy initiatives. This could include a pronounced emphasis on mainstreaming Charter obligations in EU-relevant legislative files and dedicated policymaking to promote awareness of the Charter rights among target groups;
Amendment 968 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 b (new) 46 b. Emphasises that the comprehensive policy on fundamental rights must respect the competences of the European Union, of its agencies, and of Member States;
Amendment 969 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 c (new) 46 c. Reiterates that any legal recognition procedure which imposes forced sterilisation on transgender people is violating human rights standards; welcomes the recent adoption by a number of Member States of new legal gender recognition procedures more respectful of the fundamental rights of trans people; Calls on the European Commission to strengthen peer-learning among Member States to ensure their practices are in line with human rights standards.
Amendment 970 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 c (new) 46 c. Recalls that the freedom to express and display one's beliefs and opinions in keeping with the principle of pluralism of ideas, and provided that it does not incite to violence, should be respected;
Amendment 971 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 d (new) 46 d. Deplores the fact that transgender people are still considered mentally ill in the majority of Member States and calls on respective states to review national mental health catalogues, while ensuring that medically necessary treatment remains available for all trans people;
Amendment 972 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 a (new) 47 a. Right to be forgotten Calls on the European Union and Member States to safeguard the right to be forgotten, through the urgent adoption of technical and organisational measures which can assure a proper implementation of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
Amendment 974 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 a (new) 47 a. Notes that the financial, economic and sovereign debt crisis, together with the severe budgetary restrictions imposed, has negatively affected economic, civil, social, democratic and cultural rights, often resulting in increasing unemployment (especially youth unemployment), poverty, precarious working and living conditions, as well as exclusion and isolation, increasing suicides, criminality, demographic recession, extended labour migration combined with the phenomenon of braindrain, particularly in the Member States in which economic adjustment programmes have been adopted, and underlines that a recent Eurostat note points out that one European in four is now at risk of poverty and exclusion;
Amendment 975 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 b (new) 47 b. Stresses that the economic crisis and the austerity measures implemented to address it have seriously affected fundamental social and civil rights, among others. the right to access to basic necessities such as education, housing, healthcare and social security, as well as having a negative impact on the overall health condition of the population in some Member States; stresses the need to respect the right to protection against poverty and social exclusion as stated in Article 30 of the European Social Charter; calls on all Member States to introduce support measures, in accordance with national practices, to provide their citizens with decent living conditions and to effectively combat unemployment social exclusion, poverty and insufficient healthcare;
Amendment 976 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 c (new) 47 c. Reiterates that the EU institutions, as well as Member States which implement structural reforms in their social and economic systems, are always under an obligation to observe the Charter and their international obligations, and are therefore accountable for the decisions taken; reiterates its call to align economic adjustment programmes with the EU objectives set out in Article 151 TFEU, including the promotion of employment, health protection and improvement of living and working conditions; reiterates the need to ensure that there is full democratic oversight through the effective involvement of parliaments over the austerity measures taken by the EU institutions and Member States in reaction to the economic and financial crisis;
Amendment 977 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 d (new) 47 d. Recalls on the EU institutions and the Member States to look into the impact on fundamental rights of austerity measures, proposed or implemented, in a gender-sensitive manner, taking into account the disproportionate impact of austerity measures in particular on women and children; calls on the EU institutions to take remedial action immediately where austerity measures have had a negative impact on women's and children's economic, social and cultural rights;
Amendment 978 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 e (new) 47 e. Calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to look into the impact on fundamental rights and freedoms, including social, civil and labour rights, of the measures proposed or implemented to deal with the crisis and to take remedial action if necessary should it emerge that the protection of rights is regressing or that international law, including ILO conventions and recommendations, is being infringed;
Amendment 979 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 f (new) 47 f. Calls therefore on the EU institutions and the Member States, when adopting and implementing corrective measures and budget cuts, to conduct an impact assessment on fundamental rights and to guarantee that sufficient resources are still made available to safeguard respect for fundamental rights and to ensure minimum essential levels of civil economic, cultural and social rights, with special attention to the most vulnerable and socially disadvantaged groups;
Amendment 980 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 g (new) 47 g. Calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to recognise that long- term investment in social inclusion is beneficial, as it tackles the high cost of discrimination and inequality; calls on the Member States for appropriate public investment to sustain education and healthcare and ensure that access to justice and redress in cases of discrimination are not put in danger by drastic funding cuts in equality bodies' budgets; calls on EU and national institutions not to undermine social inclusion by budgetary measures affecting the functioning of community-based organisations working for equality;
Amendment 982 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 i (new) 47 i. Calls on the Commission to provide to tackle environmental crimes, as sustainable environment plays a key role in the healthy development of personality; urges the Commission to examine the effective implementation in the EU of the right of access to justice in the context of the right of every person of present and future generations to live in an environment conducive to his or her health and wellbeing; calls therefore on the EU authorities and the Member States especially - but not limited - for the implementation of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (signed on 25 June 1998 and entered into force on 30 October 2001) and for the implementation of directive 2008/99/CE of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on the protection of the environment through criminal law;
Amendment 984 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 k (new) 47 k. Stresses that corruption by diverting public funds from the public use for which they are intended reduces the level and quality of public services, thereby seriously harming the fair treatment of all citizens; reiterates the need of Member States and European institutions to devise effective instruments for preventing, combating and sanctioning corruption and crime and to properly and regularly monitor the use made of public funds, be they European or national; to that end, calls on the Member States and the institutions to facilitate the rapid establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, thus providing appropriate guarantees of independence and efficiency;
Amendment 985 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 l (new) 47 l. Stresses the irrefutable need of transparency and access to public documents by citizens and journalists as an efficient way to expose and combat corruption; calls on European Union and Member States to establish effective instruments in order to strengthen transparency and to facilitate citizens access to public documents;
Amendment 986 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 m (new) 47 m. Calls on all Member States and the EU to join the Open Government Partnership and to devise concrete strategies to promote transparency, empower citizens and fight corruption; calls on the Member States to follow up on the recommendations of the European Commission's Anti-Corruption Report COM(2014) 38 and to strengthen police and judicial cooperation in fighting corruption;
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that ‘human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities’ are the values on which the EU is founded, as stated in Article 2 TEU; recalls that the principles of representative democracy and of the rule of law laid down in the Treaties and confirmed by the Copenhagen Criteria require the following constitutional conditions to be genuinely and fully met: separation of powers, hierarchy of legislation, institutional stability, equal representation of all citizens, political accountability, power to be intelligible to citizens and constitutional neutrality; regrets that the institutional system of the European Union itself reveals serious shortcomings with regard to each of these criteria, as is consistently highlighted in the case-law of the German Constitutional Court, which serves as a European reference; underlines the utmost importance of ensuring full respect for these values both at Union and Member State level;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that in case of systemic threats to the rule of law, Article 7 and Rule of Law Framework procedures should be launched to provide remedies; considers it important to establish a new consensus between the EU and its Member States regarding respect for democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in order to ensure respect among European citizens and prevent any undermining of these values; any questioning of the rule of law is a red line which a democratic country cannot and must not cross;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that in case of systemic threats to the rule of law, Article 7 and Rule of Law Framework procedures should be launched to provide remedies;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that in case of systemic threats to the rule of law, Article 7 and Rule of Law Framework procedures should be launched to provide remedies; considers it important to establish a new consensus between the EU and its Member States regarding respect for democracy, sovereignty, constitutional identity, the rule of law and fundamental rights;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that in case of systemic threats to the rule of law, Article 7 and Rule of Law Framework procedures should be launched to provide remedies; considers it important to establish, through a partnership dialogue, a new consensus between the EU and its Member States regarding respect for democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that in case of systemic threats to the rule of law, Article 7 and Rule of Law Framework procedures should be launched as soon as possible to provide remedies; considers it important to establish a new consensus between the EU and its Member States regarding respect for democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Recalls that article 23 of regulation 1303/2013 (measures linking effectiveness of ESI Funds to sound economic governance) provides for the suspension of ESI Funds if a Member State fails to take action concerning the violation of the Stability and Growth Pact (Excessive Deficit Procedure); believes a fortiori that the EU should link the payment of all EU funds with the respect of European values, as laid out in the Treaties;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Deplores that the situation with regard to media pluralism and diversity is assessed as unsatisfactory in several member states 1a ; Notes that without genuine freedom of expression and free media, there can be no safeguards against the abuse of power. _________________ 1a https://edoc.coe.int/en/index.php?controll er=get-file&freeid=6926
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Notes, however, that Article 7 is a last resort mechanism that has not been used effectively because of the difficulty to reach a decision with such high thresholds for voting and in a body where political considerations play a prominent role;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of ensuring full respect for the Charter of Fundamental Rights throughout the whole legislative process; welcomes in this regard the Better Regulation Agreement, and draws attention to the significant role of comprehensive impact assessments, as well as of close cooperation between the EU institutions and Member States; reminds that effective and accurate implementation of EU law is primordial to protect the values of the Union, and this protection is essential for the credibility of the EU as a whole;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that ‘human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities’ are the values on which the EU is founded
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of ensuring full respect for the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the national constitutional identity of the Member States throughout the whole legislative process; welcomes in this regard the Better Regulation Agreement, and draws attention to the significant role of comprehensive impact assessments, as well as of close cooperation between the EU institutions;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of ensuring full respect for the Charter of Fundamental Rights throughout the whole legislative process;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Underlines the fact that all legislative proposals, including international agreements and in general all EU policies, should be scrutinised to ensure that they comply with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU; calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that all EU legislation, in particular the economic and financial adjustment programmes which have adversely affected the living conditions and the situation of fundamental rights of many people, is continuously implemented in accordance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the European Social Charter (Article 151 of the TFEU), in particular with regard to the protection of economic and social rights;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Points out that the purpose of security and justice policies is to protect freedom and fundamental rights; stresses therefore that legislation and policy making in this field must be in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Considers that breaches of rights, abuses or inequalities in the Member States undermine democracy and the rule of law, as well as citizens' trust in the European Union institutions; emphasises the role of Parliament as the only directly elected institution in scrutinising the correct implementation of EU legislation to ensure that it complies with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU; calls on the EU legislator to promote the EU's values as required by Article 3 of the TEU and, specifically, inclusion and equality, as required by Article 8, 9 and 10 of the TFEU;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Considers that further efforts should be made towards a consistent and uniform implementation of the Charter, including through awareness-raising measures among practitioners and the general public, always with a view to guaranteeing that the rule of law and the fundamental rights of European citizens are respected, in spite of the disparities in development between Member States;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Considers that further efforts should be made towards a consistent and uniform implementation of the Charter, including through awareness-raising measures among practitioners and the general public and stresses that European institutions must be at the forefront of this effort;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Considers that further efforts should be made towards a consistent and uniform implementation of the Charter, including th
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Considers that further efforts should be made towards a consistent and uniform implementation of the Charter in accordance with national constitutions, including through awareness-raising measures among practitioners and the general public;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Notes the need to strengthen institutional transparency, democratic accountability and openness in the EU; calls therefore on the competent EU institutions and all Member States to: – take appropriate measures, also with a view to revising without delay Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents in order to ensure maximum transparency and simplified procedures for public access to information and documents; – bring forward a revision of the European Citizens' Initiative Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 211/2011) within this parliamentary term in order to improve its functioning, incorporating amendments so as to remove any administrative, organisational and financial obstacles as a result of which not all European citizens can properly exercise their democratic influence through the ECI as provided for in the Treaties; urges the Commission also to include in its proposal the necessary provisions to stop certain groups of citizens, such as those who are blind or living abroad, from being prevented from exercising their right to support citizens' initiatives, as such exclusion limits equality and engagement among citizens; – calls on Member States to enable all their citizens to vote in the European elections, including those living outside the EU, particularly by means of an information campaign carried out in good time;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that ‘human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities’ are the values on which the EU is founded, as stated in Article 2 TEU; underlines the utmost importance of ensuring full respect for these values both at Union and Member State level, which will be fostered by respect for the Member States' own acquis as expressed in their constitutional identity;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Notes that Across the continent, too many national judiciaries suffer from undue political interference, for example. Almost half of member states are failing to guarantee the safety of journalists. Too frequently the freedoms of expression, assembly and association are coming under attack 1a The Commission should ensure the effective follow-up of the Council of Europe's Action Plan on the Independence and Impartiality of the Judiciary; _________________ 1a https://edoc.coe.int/en/index.php?controll er=get-file&freeid=6926
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. The Commission should establish a level playing field to protect judiciary independence in all Member States. The concerns expressed by the Council of Europe on the politization of Spain's judiciary system should in this regard be taken fully into account.
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Takes note of the activation by the Commission for the first time ever of the new Framework to strengthen the Rule of Law; recommends a thorough evaluation of its functioning and results with a view to improving its effectiveness
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Takes note of the activation by the Commission for the first time ever of the new Framework to strengthen the Rule of Law; regrets that this activation cannot take place in a spirit of constructive dialogue which respects in principle and in practice the sovereignty of national parliaments; recommends a thorough evaluation of its functioning and results with a view to improving its effectiveness if necessary;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that rule of law monitoring must strictly comply with the Treaty rules, as highlighted in the Council Legal Service's opinion no 10296/14 of 27.5.2014;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes the first two Rule of Law dialogues, held by the Council; looks forward to the expected evaluation of this mechanism, which should aim at improving its relevance as well as its complementarity with the other EU rule of law instruments; points, however, at the same time to the major obstacles in its implementation, in particular the fact that the formal establishment of the existence of a serious and persistent breach of the fundamental values of the Union in a Member State in accordance with Article 7(2) of the TEU requires unanimity in the Council;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes the first two Rule of Law dialogues, held by the Council; looks forward to the expected evaluation of this mechanism, which should aim at improving its relevance while respecting the constitutional identity and sovereignty of the Member States, as well as its complementarity with the other EU rule of law instruments;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Urges therefore the EU institutions and the Member States to introduce an additional mechanism for the effective monitoring of respect for fundamental rights and the rule of law in Member States; believes that, without prejudice to existing mechanisms already applicable in the event of serious and persistent infringements, the proposed alternative should: (a) widen the mandate of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency to include the monitoring of fundamental rights and the rule of law in all Member States, both within and beyond the application of European Union law, and so as to allow it to disclose publicly information on a breach of fundamental rights by a Member State; (b) enable the Commission, on the basis of the findings of the reports generated by the Fundamental Rights Agency, to initiate infringement procedures for violations of Article 2 of the TEU in order to effectively ensure a high level of protection of fundamental rights in the Member States;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Notes its ongoing report on the Establishment of an EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights and urges the Commission, once adopted, to take into account its conclusions and to propose a EU binding mechanism to respond to breaches of the rule of law and fundamental rights at Member State level;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that ‘human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities’ are the values on which the EU is founded, as stated in Article 2 TEU; underlines the utmost importance of ensuring, strengthening and promoting full respect for these values both at Union and Member State level; reminds that Human Rights are universal and indivisible;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights to be mandated to produce a biennial report on the extent to which Europe's most deprived citizens have access to all fundamental rights, as laid out in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Believes that collaboration and support between Member States and EU agencies needs to be enhanced and the exchange of information has to be more consistent and effective; believes the mandate of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency should be empowered;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Emphasises the key role that an independent and expert body should play in measuring the progress of, and monitoring the compliance with, the shared values of the Union, as enshrined in Article 2 TEU;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6 c. Proposes to widen the mandate of the Fundamental Rights Agency to include the monitoring of fundamental rights and the rule of law in all Member States, both within and beyond the application of EU law;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 d (new) 6 d. Calls on the establishment of an independent Copenhagen Commission that, in light of the assessment of the Fundamental Rights Agency, puts forward recommendations to enforce fundamental rights and the rule of law;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 e (new) 6 e. Proposes to enable the Commission, on the basis of the findings of the reports drafted by the Fundamental Rights Agency and the recommendations of the Copenhagen Commission, to initiate infringement procedures under Article 2 TEU, and, if necessary, the procedure under Article 7 TEU;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Reiterates its call on the Commission, following Opinion 2/13 of the European Court of Justice, to identify the necessary steps forward for the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights, in line with the obligation stated in Article 6(2) TEU.
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Reiterates emphatically its call on the Commission, following Opinion 2/13 of the European Court of Justice, to identify the necessary steps forward for the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights, in line with Article 6(2) TEU.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Urges the competent authorities to unblock the Anti-Discrimination Directive, which seeks to implement the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; underlines the fact that specific needs of the most vulnerable citizens, such as people in poverty or social discriminated people, should be addressed in an appropriate way; calls on the Council and the Commission to act effectively and responsibly to uphold the values of the Union in relation to Member States which fail to fully respect their Treaty obligations on such issues;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that ‘human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, in
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses the importance of extending the mandate of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights to include powers to monitor respect for fundamental rights and the rule of law in all Member States; calls for improved cooperation between the EU institutions and national parliaments and between the Council of Europe and other organisations;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Points out that it is necessary to continue promoting and strengthening the protection and full development of fundamental rights in compliance with the Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and, more specifically, to ensure that the values of the European Union set out in Article 2 and all relevant articles of the EU Treaty are respected and promoted by the EU, its institutions and all Member States; stresses that the European institutions should be at the forefront of this endeavour and underlines that the Member States should be exemplary in the effective implementation of these obligations;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Believes that the conclusions and opinions of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights as well as the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union constitute a good basis for the interpretation of Article 2 TFEU and the scope of the rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Notes the obligation laid down in the Treaties to accede to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR); underlines the fact that the Treaties recognise that fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the ECHR and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, constitute general principles of the Union's law;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
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| procedure |
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