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Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas ~~labour rights and trade union rights are under serious attack around the world, while~~ the ways in which companies operate have a profound impact on the rights of workers, communities, and consumers ~~within and outside Europe~~; whereas international human rights law imposes on states the duty to protect human rights, to ensure that the activities of corporations under their jurisdiction do not violate human rights, and to ensure that effective forms of remedy are available to victims;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. Whereas the business community has a great role to play in promoting human rights and whereas such efforts are deeply desirable and should be supported by public institutions worldwide; whereas the promotion of human rights should be considered as a platform of cooperation between government and private sectors;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas the effects of climate change, such as increasing temperatures, rising sea levels and more extreme weather conditions, will intensify the challenges of global instability and, consequently, the threat of serious human rights violations; whereas the term ‘climate refugee’, intended to describe people who are forced to flee their homes and seek refuge abroad as a consequence of climate change, is not yet recognised in international law or in any legally binding international agreementEU should consider making the dual policies of climate change mitigation and coping strategies for those most at risk a centrepiece of its foreign, development and environmental policies;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Warns, however, for the unintended consequences of continuously expanding the list of human rights and including ideologically or politically controversial issues, as this could ultimately reduce general support for the very idea of universality and indivisibility of human rights;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Notes the revived discussion in the United States on the arbitrariness and error-prone nature of capital punishment, the campaign to stop the flow of substances used for execution from Europe to the United States, and the abolition of the death penalty in 2013 by the state of Maryland; encourages the VP/HR, the EUSR and the EEAS to engage with the US federal government and state governments in order to accelerate the demise of the death penalty in the United States, where all 80 death sentences in 2013 originated in only 2 % of the counties in the entire country, and all 39 executions took place in about 1 % of all counties;deleted

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46

46. Calls on the EU to support the emerging initiatives aimed at concluding a legally binding international instrument on business and human rights within the UN system and to engage from early on in the debate on this issue;deleted

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57

57. Calls on the EU to actively participate in the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, and to continue to fight against all attempts to undermine the UN Beijing Platform for Action concerning, among other elements, access to education and health as basic human ~~rights, and sexual and reproductive~~ rights;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64

64. Calls on the Commission to develop innovative financial mechanisms to implement fiscal reforms and strengthen the fight against corruption, illicit financial flows and tax evasion; encourages, in this context, consideration of public-private partnerships, the blending of grants and loans, and helping developing countries to better mobilise their domestic resources; calls for an international tax on financial transactions that could act as an additional source of funding for development, and reminds the Member States that they have already agreed to introduce a financial transaction tax domestically and undertaken to set aside a share of the funds raised to finance global public assets, including development;deleted

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68

68. Welcomes the legalisation of same-sex marriage or same-sex civil unions in an increasing number of countries, seventeen at the moment, around the world; encourages the EU institutions and the Member States to further contribute to the recognition of same-sex marriage or same-sex civil union as a political, social and human and civil rights issue;deleted

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69

69. Welcomes the annulment in October 2013 of the Moldovan law prohibiting the ‘propagation of any other relations than those related to marriage or family’, and calls on Lithuania and Russia to follow the Moldovan example; regrets the outcome of the Croatian referendum of December 2013, which endorsed a constitutional ban on equal marriage; stresses that such referendums contribute to a climate of homophobia and discrimination; considers that LGBTI persons’ fundamental rights are more likely to be safeguarded if they have access to legal institutions such as cohabitation, registered partnership or marriage;deleted

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74

74. Stresses the urgent need to develop stronger policies at Union level to address the pressing issues related to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in a manner consistent with international human rights law and fundamental human dignity, and calls on the EU to guarantee effective common standards for reception procedures throughout the Union in order to protect the most vulnerable; invites the VP/HR, the Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs and the EEAS to promote a true spirit of cooperation and equitable burden-sharing among Member States in order to tackle the multiple challenges that persist in this regard; recalls the commitment of the Commission to developing adequate legal migration channels, and, to this end, calls for a revision of the Dublin Regulation, which places disproportionate responsibility on Member States for the Union’s external borders and hinders migrants’ ability to seek and obtain asylum;deleted

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74 a (new)

74a. Is extremely concerned about reports of mass deaths and human rights abuses of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to the EU; calls on the Union and the Member States to cooperate with the UN, regional mechanisms, governments and NGOs to tackle these issues;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

Hans-Olaf HENKEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75

75. Requests that the Commission and the EEAS participate actively in the debate on the term ‘climate refugee’, including its possible legal definition in international law or in any legally binding international agreement;deleted

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

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