Activities of Therese COMODINI CACHIA related to 2015/2051(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Preparing for the World Humanitarian Summit: Challenges and opportunities for humanitarian assistance (A8-0332/2015 - Enrique Guerrero Salom)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas dealing with humanitarian crisis needs to strike a balance between "efficiency gains" and "preserving values";
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
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3. Highlights the central role that women play in the survival and resilience of communities in humanitarian crises, including in conflict and post-conflict situations; emphasises the need to address the specific needs and to ensure the rights of women and children, who constitute the majority of those affected, and are more severely affected, by humanitarian crises; calls on the World Humanitarian Summit to makefully reflect the gender perspective a central element in the future design of the humanitarian system that emerges from this consultation process;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls for serious attention aimed at effectively ensuring the right to education in protracted humanitarian crises, the lack of which threatens to endanger the future of children; highlights the importance of continuous education in safeguarding shared values such as human dignity, freedom of expression, democracy, equality and the rule of law; in this regard calls for sufficient financial and human resources to be set aside;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
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5. Draws attention to the fact that displacement due to conflicts, natural disasters or environmental degradation leaves certain populations particularly vulnerable; stresses that refugees, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking and other migrants caught in crisis must be afforded the same protection of their human rights as all other affected groups; expresses its deep concern regarding the unprecedentedly high number of refugees in the world today, and calls on the global community to use the World Humanitarian Summit to mobilise the necessary financial and operational resources to meet this challenge; calls on the EU and its Member States to prioritise the global refugee crisis in its policies and positions regarding the Summit by specifically focusing on its root causes; highlights the importance of interreligious and intercultural dialogues in tackling massive refugee flows; calls on the EU and its Member States to prioritise the global refugee crisis in its policies and positions regarding the Summit; with this in view, urges the World Humanitarian Summit to call for more efficient ways to combat human trafficking, clamp down on recruitment and funding for terrorist groups by preventing and suppressing recruiting, organizing, transporting, and equipping of terrorist fighters, and the financing of their travel and activities;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
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6. Urges the EU to show leadership in the World Humanitarian Summit by calling for more flexible methods for delivering humanitarian aid, as well as for proactivecoherent tools to prevent crises; urges the EU and other donors to stay true to their financial commitments and to develop ways to reduce the time it takes to convert financial commitments into actions on the ground; points out, in addition, the importance of human rights reporting as an early warning mechanism for crises, and encourages the World Humanitarian Summit to take this into account when moving from a culture of reaction to a culture of prevention;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
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7. Encourages all the EU institutions, and in particular the Commission’s DG ECHO, as well as the Member States, to study the experience acquired in integrating human rights concerns into the core of humanitarian aid efforts within the UN system, and calls on the EU to take on a stronger role in advancing and improving this process; stresses the importance of ensuring policy coherence and coordination between EU humanitarian aid and development aid, in the new situation in which the EU has adopted a rights-based approach to development cooperation; deeply regrets, in this sense, that the Commission’s toolkit for a rights-based approach to development cooperation explicitly excludes EU humanitarian action; calls on the Commission, therefore, to commit to developing and adopting, as part of its engagement with the World Humanitarian Summit, a rights-based approach to EU humanitarian action.