Activities of Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN related to 2017/2125(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2016 PDF (333 KB) DOC (70 KB)
Amendments (22)
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the basis for European integration ishould be the upholding and promotion of human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the values and principles enshrined in the European treaties and international human rights instruments;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the influx of migrants and asylum seekers into Europe is continuing; whereas many of these migrants place their lives in the hands of traffickers and criminalthere are no safe and legal ways to reach the EU and this forces migrants and asylum seekers to risk their lives taking extremely dangerous routes; whereas , according to UNHCR data, 27% of the migrants arriving in Europe via the Mediterranean are children; whereas , according to the IOM, 23% of these children stated that they had never been to school;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the ongoing wave of terrorist attacks across the EU has fuelled widespread mistrust of Muslim migrantEuropean Muslims, as well as Muslim migrants and refugees, as well as other people who may be perceived as Muslims, and whereas certain political parties and institutions are employing the rhetoric of cultural isolationism and hatred of those who are different, promoting xenophobic violence and hate speech;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas hate speech includes all forms of expression which propagate, encourage, promote or justify racial on gender-based hatred, xenophobia, anti-SemitismIslamophobia anti-Semitism, LGBTiphobia or other forms of hatred based on intolerance; whereas the development of new kinds of media is making it easier to engage in online hate speech;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas there is a risk that the increased levels of hatred, xenoracial or gender -based hatred, xenophobia, LGBTiphobia and Afrophobia, whether expressed in the form of hate crimes, anonymous messages spread on social networks, protests or political propaganda, will come to be seen as normal in the Member States;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas modern societies cannot function and develop without a free, independent and professional press based on principles such as fact-checking, the willingness to reflect a range of informed opinions, the protection of the confidentiality of media sources and the safety of journalists; whereas the role of the public media is essential to guarantee the media’s independence from economic powers and the influence of corporations; whereas Member States have put this role at stake through privatization and political manipulation of the public media;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the EU needs a common approach to governance, which does not yet exist, and which must be developedmocratically developed and decided on by pooling experiences of European governance;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Migration and integration
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the flow of migration towards the EU is continuing and that it mostly consists of people from Africa who have not left a country which is at war or where their lives are at risk, but who have come to Europe in search of a better lifedue to the EU and it’s Member State’s foreign policy, the ongoing armed conflicts often fuelled by the EU’s interest and arms trade, as well as the EU’s trade policy that eases the exploitation of human and natural resources in third countries;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes the view, therefore, that a clear distinction should be drawn between migrants who can legitimately claim refugee stsafe and legal ways to the access the European Union must be immediately opened to avoid further deatuhs and those who cannot; calls for migrants to be identified and for their requests for violations of human rights in third countries with which the EU has signed agreementrys into the EU to be processed before they comefield of migration, asylum and border control;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Strongly condemns the upsurge in the trafficking of human beings in Africa and towards Europe, the perpetrators of which – including official and governmental players – should be made to feel the full force of the law, recalling that this is a direct consequence of the lack of ways to access the European Union in a safe and legal way;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Takes the view that legal channels should be available for migration, including from Africa, but not for all the men and women hoping to come to Europe; takes the view that the best way to protect the rights of persons who cannot legally enter Europe would be to bring about the rapid and robust development of Africa, which Europe could promote by stepping up its involvement based on providing tools for the empowerment of the people and not conditioned to the imposition of migration, the African continentrade or economic policies;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the imperative need for persons of Islamic faith and culture, including those who have already been living here for a long time, to be integrated as effectively as possible into European society; stresses that integration of this kind will be the best way to tackle Islamic radicalisation in Europneed to tackle discrimination against Muslims and people socially perceived as Muslims in all areas of European societies, including, but not limited to, housing, employment, or access to public services; stresses that hate crimes, including hate speech and physical violence, against Muslims must be tackled as part of the raise of the far- right in the European Union, and measures to de-radicalize xenophobes must be put in place;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need for measures to be taken as a matter of priority in all the Member States to give immigrant children access to education, language learning, healthcare, good living conditions and the opportunity to be reunited with their family; stresses the need to end detention for underage migrants or asylum seekers;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that integration is best achieved through schooling for young people and education in European citizenship for older people, that the EU should therefore promote a policy reception and integration in all the Member States, and that it is uneducation is a right and must be therefore public, free and acceptassible that certain Member States should claim that the migration phenomenon is not their concerfor all those living within the European Union;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Points out that social networks and the anonymity guaranteed by many different media platforms encourage many forms of expression of hatred, from jihadist preaching to anti-Islam speech, and calls for this phenomenon to be curbed through closer monitoring and the identification and prosecution of the authors of statements or words incompatible with European culture and lawlaw, without putting at stake freedom of speech and the right to privacy;
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Expresses outrage at the misuse by governments of countries outside Europe of structures and mechanisms for police cooperation in order to intimidate EU citizens, expresses the outrage at the massive surveillance of EU citizens by foreign countries and by private companies; and calls on the Member States to be much more severe in their diplomacy with the countries concerned, in particular when those countries pose a threat to the freedom and physical integrity of EU citizens, as well as to protect the right to privacy of their citizens;
Amendment 506 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses the importance of upholding democratic and political rights throughout the European Union, including, but not limited to, freedom of speech or the right to assembly; condemns the incarceration of activists involved in protests and still held in prison and calls for their immediate release;
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Stress the importance of upholding the rights of speakers of languages which are not official on an EU level, condemning repeated breach of these rights in the educations or judiciary system, amongst others, in violation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; calls for the recognition of the languages covered by the Charter as official languages of the European Union;
Amendment 508 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Stresses the importance of tackling LGBTiphobia on an EU level, granting equal rights for all EU citizens in all the Member States; emphasizes the need to tackle against Lesbofobia, including hate speech and violence against lesbian and bisexual women, who suffer a double discrimination as women; calls to end the pathologization of trans-sexuality, ending discriminatory practices like forced sterilization of trans people;
Amendment 509 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)
Paragraph 17 d (new)
17d. Stresses the need to end discrimination against people with disabilities, granting equal social and political rights, including the right to vote, as stated in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
Amendment 514 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses the importance of maintaining and stepping up efforts in the areas of data protection, safeguards for children, the protection of victims of criminal acts, , including xenophobic, LGBTiphobic and gender-based hate crimes, as well as Roma people, violence against women, freedom of religion and belief, public health, the recognition of marital status in the EU, gender equality, the rights of persons with a disability and the rights of elderly persons; stresses the need to unlock the Anti-Discrimination Directive in the Council to fight against different kinds of discrimination on an EU-level;