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RoP 144Events
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on child labour in mines in Madagascar.
The text adopted in plenary had been tabled as a joint resolution by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, ECR and GUE/NGL groups.
Parliament condemned the unacceptable use of child labour in all its forms, pointing out that some 152 million girls and boys aged between 5 and 17 worldwide are forced to work, most of them in the least developed countries, especially in Africa (72.1 million) and the Asia-Pacific region (62.1 million).
Members expressed concern about the large number of children working in Malagasy mines and the violations of their rights. They reminded the country's authorities of their responsibility to ensure respect for children's rights and guarantee their safety and integrity. In 2018, 47% of Malagasy children between the ages of 5 and 17 were forced to work, 86 000 of them in mines, with mining being the sector with the highest child mortality rate, with 32 deaths per 100 000 children aged 5 to 17.
Parliament welcomed the fact that the eradication of child labour is one of the priorities of the new Commission and asked it to elaborate on how it intends to tackle child labour through EU policy, legislation and funding, including new initiatives. It welcomed the new Commission's commitment to present a new comprehensive strategy on child rights and called on the EU to consider respect for human rights, including the fight against child labour and exploitation, as an essential element of its political dialogue with Madagascar.
Members called on the EU to work with Madagascar to support the adoption and implementation of legislation and action programmes that would contribute to the full realisation of all the rights of every child, as well as to the improvement of working conditions for all those involved in the mining sector. They also invited the EU Delegation in Madagascar to continue to closely monitor the situation of children's rights in the country.
Parliament called on the EU, as the world's leading human rights actor, to take the lead in eradicating child labour and to take immediate and effective action to end child labour in all its forms by 2025 at the latest. It recommended that the Commission put children's rights at the heart of the post-Cotonou agreement.
The Commission was invited to develop a comprehensive implementation strategy for the sustainable development agenda up to 2030 and to make the eradication of child labour a core objective. Parliament stressed the need, to this end, to include the fight against forced and child labour in all the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements by means of binding and enforceable sustainable development chapters.
Lastly, Members called on the Commission and Member States to work closely with the various sectors to ensure effective monitoring of the various supply chains and prevent products and services related to child labour from entering EU markets.
Documents
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0101/2020
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0037/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0102/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0103/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0105/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0107/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0109/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0112/2020
- Joint motion for resolution: RC-B9-0102/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0102/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0103/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0105/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0107/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0109/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0112/2020
- Joint motion for resolution: RC-B9-0102/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0101/2020
Activities
- Dita CHARANZOVÁ
- Helmut SCHOLZ
- Caroline ROOSE
- Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA
Institutional Motions (2)
- Dominique BILDE
- Fabio Massimo CASTALDO
Institutional Motions (2)
- Lefteris CHRISTOFOROU
Institutional Motions (2)
- Deirdre CLUNE
Institutional Motions (2)
- Ryszard CZARNECKI
- Heidi HAUTALA
- Karol KARSKI
- Stelios KOULOGLOU
Institutional Motions (2)
- Nuno MELO
Plenary Speeches (2)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar (B9-0101/2020, RC-B9-0102/2020, B9-0102/2020, B9-0103/2020, B9-0105/2020, B9-0107/2020, B9-0109/2020, B9-0112/2020) (vote)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar (B9-0101/2020, RC-B9-0102/2020, B9-0102/2020, B9-0103/2020, B9-0105/2020, B9-0107/2020, B9-0109/2020, B9-0112/2020) (vote)
- Ulrike MÜLLER
Institutional Motions (2)
- Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS
Institutional Motions (2)
- Kati PIRI
Institutional Motions (2)
- Stanislav POLČÁK
Institutional Motions (2)
- Jiří POSPÍŠIL
Institutional Motions (2)
- Frédérique RIES
Institutional Motions (2)
- Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ
Institutional Motions (2)
- Ivan ŠTEFANEC
Institutional Motions (2)
- Ruža TOMAŠIĆ
- Carlos ZORRINHO
Institutional Motions (2)
- Peter POLLÁK
Institutional Motions (2)
- Valter FLEGO
Institutional Motions (2)
- Vladimír BILČÍK
Institutional Motions (2)
- Manuel BOMPARD
Institutional Motions (2)
- Klemen GROŠELJ
Institutional Motions (2)
- Pierre KARLESKIND
Institutional Motions (2)
- Marcel KOLAJA
Plenary Speeches (2)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar (B9-0101/2020, RC-B9-0102/2020, B9-0102/2020, B9-0103/2020, B9-0105/2020, B9-0107/2020, B9-0109/2020, B9-0112/2020) (vote)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar (B9-0101/2020, RC-B9-0102/2020, B9-0102/2020, B9-0103/2020, B9-0105/2020, B9-0107/2020, B9-0109/2020, B9-0112/2020) (vote)
- Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS
Institutional Motions (2)
- David LEGA
Institutional Motions (2)
- Dragoş PÎSLARU
Institutional Motions (2)
- Michal ŠIMEČKA
Institutional Motions (2)
- Ramona STRUGARIU
Institutional Motions (2)
- Irène TOLLERET
Institutional Motions (2)
- Stéphane BIJOUX
Institutional Motions (2)
- Sylvie BRUNET
Institutional Motions (2)
- Jérémy DECERLE
Institutional Motions (2)
- Joanna KOPCIŃSKA
- Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU
Institutional Motions (2)
- Alexis GEORGOULIS
Institutional Motions (2)
- Frances FITZGERALD
Institutional Motions (2)
- Radka MAXOVÁ
Institutional Motions (2)
- Liudas MAŽYLIS
Institutional Motions (2)
- Ilana CICUREL
Institutional Motions (2)
- Maria ARENA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar
- Angel DZHAMBAZKI
Institutional Motions (1)
- Raffaele FITTO
Institutional Motions (1)
- Anna FOTYGA
Institutional Motions (1)
- Javier NART
Institutional Motions (1)
- Ljudmila NOVAK
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar
- Michèle RIVASI
Institutional Motions (1)
- Bronis ROPĖ
Institutional Motions (1)
- Viktor USPASKICH
Institutional Motions (1)
- Ernest URTASUN
Institutional Motions (1)
- Miguel URBÁN CRESPO
Institutional Motions (1)
- Jan ZAHRADIL
Institutional Motions (1)
- Clare DALY
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar
- Henrike HAHN
Institutional Motions (1)
- Niyazi KIZILYÜREK
Institutional Motions (1)
- Anne-Sophie PELLETIER
Institutional Motions (1)
- Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP
Institutional Motions (1)
- Ivan Vilibor SINČIĆ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar
- Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ
Institutional Motions (1)
- Nikolaj VILLUMSEN
Institutional Motions (1)
- Petros KOKKALIS
Institutional Motions (1)
- Bettina VOLLATH
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar
- Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar
- Elżbieta RAFALSKA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar
- Maxette PIRBAKAS
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2020/02/13 Child labour in mines in Madagascar
- Elżbieta KRUK
Institutional Motions (1)
Votes
RC-B9-0102/2020 - Am 1=7= #
RC-B9-0102/2020 - Am 3 #
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