30 Amendments of Kostas CHRYSOGONOS related to 2015/2129(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the adoption by the Council of Europe of its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2017),
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas children, who became victims of sexual abuse or exploitation, suffer from multiple and long-lasting physical and / or psychological traumas that can follow them well into adulthood;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas migrant children - especially girls but also a significant percentage of boys1a - are particularly exposed to child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation at the hands of traffickers and smugglers, smugglers, drug dealers, prostitution rings, as well as other individuals or rings, who exploit their vulnerability, along the way and once they reach Europe; _________________ 1aStudies demonstrate that boys may be especially inhibited from disclosing sexual abuse, including for reasons related to societal assumptions towards males. See for example: PE 598.614, p. 16; J. Schaefer GA/Mundt IA/Ahlers CJ/Bahls C, J Child Sex Abus. 2012, 21(3): 343- 360.
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the sex tourism industry affects significant numbers of children, especially girls; but also a significant percentage of boys;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas systematic review and meta-analysis found that, compared to their non-disabled peers, children with disabilities were around three times more likely to suffer from physical or sexual violence;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that a comprehensive policy response against the new forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse on the internet, such as cyber predation, sex- extortion, commercial web streaming, revenge pornography, voyeurism, and grooming is urgently needed; recommends that the Commission, in this regard, should further assess whether the objectives of Directive 2011/93 have been achieved effectively, and whether the Directive provides a relevant response to the new digital and technological challenges and threats;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers, in particular, that the Member States should do mmake every possible efforet to combat the impunity of perpetrators who are close to child victims and are in a position of trust, authority or influence over the childof child sexual abuses, as well as of individuals or legal persons, who aid, assist or abet any of child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse offences; considers it to be of the utmost importance that the Member States ensure the liability of legal persons, where the lack of monitoring or supervision of a person who is a member of that legal entity, has permitted or facilitated the commission of crimes;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the need to address new forms of crime online, such as revenge porn and sexual-extortion, that affect many youngsters, in particular teenage girls but also a significant percentage of boys; calls on the Member States to step up their efforts to adopt concrete measures to combat this new form of crime and calls on the internet industry to take its share of responsibility for tackling these crimes;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the importance of implementing Article 17 (3) in order to ensure that the Member States have jurisdiction over offences committed by means of information and communication technology (ICT) accessed from their territory whether or not it is based on their territory;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Deplores that not all offences listed in Directive 2011/92/EU are included in Member States’ national legislation, when it comes to extraterritorial jurisdiction; regrets that some Member States guarantee that sexual abuse offences committed abroad will be prosecuted without a complaint by the victim; calls on the Member States to tackle effectively these shortcomings;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Regrets that precise statistics and data on the number of crimes committed in the area of child sexual abuse and exploitation in particular, is still lacking due to the high percentage of unreported cases, the novelty of the offences, and the differences in the definitions and methodologies used in various Member States;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to step up their police and judicial cooperation as well as to make full use of the existing EU cooperation tools provided by Europol and Eurojust to ensure the successful investigation and prosecution of perpetrators and possible accomplices; stresses that Europol and Eurojust should be given the appropriate resources to fulfil their task in this respect and encourages the Member States to share best practices;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Takes into account the vulnerable situation, in particular of migrant children and especially unaccompanied, as they are particularly vulnerable to abuse, trafficking and sexual exploitation; calls on the Member States and the EU authorities to take concrete actions to protect those children; recommends the Member States and the EU authorities to expedite the appointment of qualified guardians to unaccompanied children and ensure that the best interest of the child is always taken into account; calls on the Member States and any other competent authorities and organisations to register and identify children in a child- friendly way to ensure that they enter the national and international protection systems in order to prevent their sexual abuse or exploitation or their possible disappearance; recommends the Member States and the EU authorities to reinforce existing tools for such vulnerable or missing children including the appropriate helplines or hotlines;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to step up their police and judicial cooperation to combat the trafficking and smuggling of children, including migrant children, who are particularly vulnerable to abuse, trafficking and sexual exploitation, especially girls; calls for an enhance, but also a significant percentage of boys; calls for an enhanced cooperation, such as the rapid exchange of information among authorities to trace missing children and for the interoperability of data bases;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Encourages the Member States to intensify their efforts to combat child sex tourism and prosecute perpetrators and accomplices, taking into account the responsibility of all actors involved;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Condemns unequivocally forms of sexual abuse or exploitation of children, as well as violent and abusive child victimisation at all levels; welcomes the adoption by the Council of Europe of its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016- 2021); calls on the all the EU institutions and Member States to take appropriate measures to prevent and protect children from all forms of physical and psychological violence, including physical and sexual abuse and sexual exploitation; calls on all the EU institutions and Member States to make a united, effective action to eradicate sexual abuse and exploitation and in general sexual crimes against children; calls on the EU institutions and Member States to explicitly consider the protection of children as a priority when programming and implementing policies, which may negatively affect them;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Urges all Member States to conduct appropriate measures such as public awareness raising, preventive campaigns, training and dedicated education programmes for the authorities, parents, teachers, children and minors - in cooperation also with parents' associations active in the protection of children and minors, as well as with relevant civil society organisations -, in order to promote the importance of family values (e.g. mutual responsibility, respect and care), human dignity, self-esteem, non-violence, and in general of children's rights to be protected against all forms of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the EU institutions and the Member States for the establishment of a multi-stage system in child protection based on the best interests of the child and the full respect of her or his fundamental rights, in order to send a clear message that all forms of physical, sexual and emotional abuse against children are unacceptable, and punishable by law;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to exchangand competent EU institutions to exchange appropriate and in due time information about child sex offenders in order to prevent them from moving unnoticed from one Member State to another in order to work or volunteer with children or children’s institutions; encourages the Member States to enhance information sharing on criminal convictions and disqualifications, as well as to improve systematic and coherent data collection in national registers of perpetrators and accomplices;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on all the Member States to fully and in due time transpose the provisions of Directive 2011/93/EU on offences concerning sexual exploitation, offences concerning sexual abuse when abuse is made of a recognised position of trust, authority or influence or abuse is made of a particularly vulnerable situation of the child, and concerning the liability of legal persons;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the law-enforcement authorities, both at national and EU-level to invest in new technologies to fight crimes in the dark web and deep web; stresses that Eurojust and Europol must be given appropriate resources to improve the identification of victims, especially to fight organised networks of sexual abuse and exploitation of children and to accelerate the detection, analysis and referral of child abuse material on- and offline;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Notes that some Member States have developed dedicated operational systems and forensic capabilities aimed at investigating child sexual abuse, however most of Member States do not have specialised investigative services, nor the financial means to acquire forensic materials, such as specific software for enabling online investigation; recommends therefore the EU to support these services by providing relevant funds, where it is needed;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Acknowledges that the Member States have put in place legislation and administrative measures to remove webpages containing child pornographymaterial of sexual abuse or exploitation of children hosted on their territory; regrets the fact that only half of the Member States have incorporated provisions into their legislation making it possible to block access to such webpages for users within their territory; calls on the Member States to fully and in due time implement Article 25, including blocking child sexual abuse material where possible,or exploitation material and with the relevant safeguards in place;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses that the measure of removal of online content regarding sexual abuse or exploitation of children shall be preferable to blocking such content; underlines in this context that removing a website with such content ensures complete eradication of its content, while blocking a website with such content renders its content temporarily inaccessible and bears the risk, if insufficient safeguards are in place to authorise it, of possible interference with the right to freedom of expression, e.g. by occasionally also blocking legitimate content;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. CHighlights that child protection should be enhanced especially in the digital world in light of the increased instances of sexual violation, grooming and forced prostitution where the perpetrators used the internet to make contact; calls on the Member States to speed up, in cooperation with the public sector and the Internet industry, the notice and take-down procedures and to establish partnerships with the online industry, as well with competent authorities such Europol and Eurojust, to prevent networks and systems from being hacked and misused to distribute child sexual abuse or exploitation material; urges the public and especially the private sector to take its shared responsibility and refrain from providing or facilitating the transmission and distribution of child sexual abuse or exploitation material;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to speed up, in cooperation with the Internet industry, Eurojust and Europol, the notice and take-down procedures and to establish relevant partnerships with the online industry to prevent networks and systems from being hacked and misused to distribute child sexual abuse material;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recommends that blacklists of websites containing child pornographymaterial of sexual abuse or exploitation of children shall be updated regularly by the relevant authorities and communicated to internet service providers to avoid, for instance, over-blocking and to ensure proportionality; recommends the sharing of such blacklists of websites among the Member States, with Europol and its European Cybercrime Centre, and with Interpol; considers, in this regard, that newly developed hashing technology, such as PhotoDNA, should be applied;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Takes the view that children should be properly informed about the potential risks related to the internet, in particular when providing their personal data online; stresses that online profiling of children should be prohibited; suggests that the establishment of adequate reporting of sexual abuse or exploitation of children among professionals in regular contact with children together with the establishment of hotlines or helplines dedicated to the reporting of child sexual abuse or exploitation should be strongly promoted, e.g. through appropriate raising awareness campaigns and educational programmes in schools and other relevant organisations;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Calls for a code of conduct on protecting children's rights online and offline in cyber space; recalls that in the fight against cybercrime by law enforcement authorities special attention needs to be paid to crimes against children and in particular to crimes regarding the sexual abuse and exploitation of children; stresses in this context the role of Europol and Eurojust and the necessity of strengthening judicial and police cooperation among Member States and with Europol and Eurojust to prevent and to combat cybercrime, and in particular to combat the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Recognises the active and supportive role in combating child sexual abuse material on the Internet played also by civil society organisations, as is the case with the Internet Watch Foundation in the UK; urges the Member States which have not yet done so to set up such hotlines and takes the view that theyestablish assistance services, including online services, to provide support, information and training on how to recognize the signs of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, and how to respond when troubling behaviour that is not yet abusive is observed; recommends them to set up such hotlines, the use of which needs to spread out widely, e.g. through systematic advertising; takes the view that Member States and other competent authorities should be allowed to search for child sexual abuse material online proactively;