25 Amendments of Elly SCHLEIN related to 2014/2254(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
– having regard to its Resolution of 4 February 2014 on the EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 b (new)
Citation 12 b (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 of 24 June 2013,
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. 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 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. 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 establishing an area of freedom, security and justice as described in Title V of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) requires the EU and each Member State to uphold fundamental rights in full;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas corruption perpetuates and aggravates unequal, unjust and discriminatory outcomes with regard to the equal enjoyment of fundamental rights, be these civil, political and economic or social and cultural rights; whereas corruption affects disproportionately the most disadvantaged and marginalised groups in society, namely by barring them from equal access to political participation, public services, justice, safety, land, jobs, education, health and housing; whereas corruption distorts the size and composition of government expenditure, seriously harming the state's capacity to harness to a maximum its available resources in order fully to realise economic, social and cultural rights, and whereas corruption diverts large amounts of funding from investment in the economy, hindering the recovery of Member States in economic hardship; whereas corruption fuels human rights violations of the whistleblowers and victims to cover up the implicit crimes and criminals;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. 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 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas specific human rights guidelines have been developed in external policies of the EU, this has not been the case in its internal policies, which could lead to allegations of double standards;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Deplores recent instancecidents of anti- Semitic and anti-Islamophobic discrimination and violence; 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 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Deplores incidents of hate speech and hate crime motivated by racism, xenophobia, 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 on Member States to protect fundamental rights and to promote tolerance;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the European 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, evaluate the implementation of EU anti- discrimination legislation, and better enforce it; 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 514 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence on EU territory against lesbian, gay, transsexualgender, bisexual and intersex people (LGBTI), as fostered by laws and policies that restrict the fundamental rights of these persons; calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt laws and policies to combat homophobia and transphobia; calls on the Commission to issue an action plan or strategy against homophobia and for equality on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity by the end of this year, as repeatedly called for by Parliament and as promised by Commissioner Jourova in the process of the Commission hearings;
Amendment 523 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to bring forward a proposal for the full mutual recognition of the effects of all civil status documents 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 525 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Considers that LGBTI people's fundamental rights 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 530 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Recalls its resolution of 4 February 2014 on the EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity and calls upon the European Commission to put forward an EU LGBTI Strategy, comparable to the LGBTI Guidelines adopted by the Foreign Affairs Council of 24 June 2013;
Amendment 683 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on EU institutions to put solidarity and a human rights based approach at the heart of the EU migration policies. Calls on the EU institutions to guarantee that sufficient resources are made available to implement a search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean and promote legal and safe routes for people fleeing wars and seeking for international protection;
Amendment 716 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Condemns the particularly serious state of dilapidation of many of the centres housing asylum seekers and the high level of social exclusion that women, men and children have to face;
Amendment 718 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. 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 751 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. 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;isolation and exclusion especially in light of the fact that social exclusion determines marginalisation of individuals and makes them vulnerable to a parallel criminal or terrorist system which offers power, money and sense of belonging.
Amendment 832 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that corruption represents a serious fundamental rights violation; calls on the Member States and institutions to devise effective instruments for combating corruption and to monitor regularly the use of public funds, be they European or natganized criminal groups, included mafia-style ones, are systems of exploitation based on privileges and on the deprivation of basic rights; these groups are fuelled by unemployment, by under-development, by corruption and also and especially, by social exclusional;
Amendment 838 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that corruption represents a seriousin the public and private sectors may lead to serious violations of fundamental rights violation; calls on theall Member States and institutions to devise effective instruments for combating corruption and to monitor regularly the use of public funds, be they European or nathe EU to join the Open Government Partnership, and devise concrete strategies to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption; calls on Member States to follow up on the recommendations of the European Commission’s Anti-Corruption Report and strengthen police and judicial cooperation in fighting corruptional;
Amendment 846 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Ascertains that criminal organizations see their power increase through usury and money laundering which are two phenomena endorsed also by a liquidity and solvency crisis, ‘credit crunch’, social fragmentation and loss of trust in institutions which means that the more poverty increases, the more social inequity develops, the more criminal organizations, included mafia- style ones, are strengthened and the more corruption flourishes;
Amendment 850 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls on the Member States and institutions to devise effective instruments for combating corruption and to monitor regularly the use of public funds, be they European or national;
Amendment 853 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Recognises that adequate social welfare provisions (such as minimum income) are one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty, to guarantee a standard of life which respects human dignity and to promote social integration which, in turn, determine freedom of choice and make individuals less liable to be blackmailed thus making these economic measures a fundamental tool in the fight to overcome organized crime and corruption;
Amendment 855 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Realises that continued efforts need to be made in order to implement and maintain the above mentioned measures in all Member States;
Amendment 867 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Deplores the conditions in the prisons of numerous Member States and the overuse of detention, in particular of pre- trial detention; regards it as essential that the EU should adopt an instrument which guarantees 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; and adopts an instrument that addresses the use of detention and the detention conditions;