Activities of Miguel URBÁN CRESPO related to 2021/2055(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion
Amendments (46)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19
Citation 19
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 29
Citation 29
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 30
Citation 30
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 31
Citation 31
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 32
Citation 32
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35
Citation 35
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas UN human rights treaties, together with international and EU laws provide standards for the protection of the rights of persons belonging to religious minorities as an integral part of human rightsasserts that everyone has the right to their own beliefs, to have a religion, have no religion, or to change it;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas freedom of religion or belief and the freedom not to believe, is violated in almost one third of countries worldwide; whereas over 5 billion people live in countries imposing or tolerating severe violations of freedom of religious or belief;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas according to the Freedom of Thought Report of 2019, 22 countries criminalize apostasy, including 12 countries in which apostasy is punishable by death; whereas 69 countries have blasphemy laws and expression of non- religious views is severely persecuted in parts of the world; whereas human rights defenders are also targeted for fighting against blasphemy laws used against believers of other religions or secularists;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas discrimination and persecution of religious or belief minorities, is carried out by different actors – whether governments or other groups in society – and can take different forms, such as killings, physical attacks, arbitrary arrests, mass incarcerations, coercion, forced conversion, kidnapping and forced marriage, forced birth controlgender based violence, rape, forced birth control, ban of access to sexual and reproductive rights including abortion, forced labour and displacement, threats, exclusion, discriminatory and unfair treatment, harassment, limitation of access to citizenship and elective offices, employment, education, health and, administration services, destruction of places of worship, cemeteries and cultural heritage, and online hate speech; whereas available data suggest that the prevalence of laws, policies and government actions that restrict the ability of rights holders to enjoy freedom of religion or belief and the freedom not to believe increased between 2007 and 2017; whereas there has been an increase in online hate speech towards religious minorities around the world; whereas online manifestations of religious hatred are often followed by hate crimes and violence;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas gender-based violence and discrimination grounded in religious justifications persist; whereas women and LGBTIQ+ people continue to experience discrimination and violence inflicted in the name of religion by both state and non-state actors; whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including abortion, are being banned in the name of religion by both state and non-state actors;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas in almost every region of the world, religious minorities appear to be at risk of being designated “terrorist groups” and of having members arrested under “extremism” or “illegal activity” charges; whereas some governments are using national security imperatives and counter-terrorism measures to criminalize membership in or activities of certain religious or belief groups; whereas such approaches severely undermine the exercise of the right to freedom of religion or belief;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes the view that, regardless of their religion and belief, it is essential to promote and ensure the inclusion of all citizens in their societies and in political and cultural lifecultural and economic life; stresses that states have the primary responsibility to promote and protect the human rights of persons belonging to religious or belief minorities, including their right to exercise their religion or belief and their right not to believe freely;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that freedom of religion or belief, including freedom to worship, and freedom to believe or not believe, is a human right, and that believe or not believe, and freedom either individually or in community with often serves as a last bastion of liberty and as a sourthers to manifest one’s religion or belief in teaching, practice, of fierce determination in highly repressive settingsbservance and worship, is a human right;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines that the violence and discrimination against persons belonging to religious or belief minorities have an intersectional dimension, with religious- based discrimination intersecting with forms of discrimination based on the grounds of gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, class, national or ethnic origin, disability, age, migration status and other axes of socio- demographic differentiation;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is deeply concerned about the rise over the last decade of violence against people belonging to minorities on the grounds of their belief or religion as a global phenomenon, which is intensifying and affecting more and more countries; notes that it affects many religious communities, namely Christians (including Copts), Jews, Muslims (including Ahmadis and Alevis), Buddhists, Hindus and smaller religious groups, such as Baha’is, Sikhs and Zoroastrians, as well as groups of people who are atheists, humanists, agnostics or do not identify with any religion;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Deplores the fact that atheists are still persecuted in almost all of the region and that apostasy carries the death sentence in several countries; expresses its regret that freedom of worship is severely limited in some of the countries in the Middle East, with the notable example of Saudi Arabia, where public practice of any religion other than Islam is strictly prohibited;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. SCalls on governments to address and counter hate speech against religious or belief minorities in both online and offline communications; stresses the paramount importance of holding accountable perpetrators of human rights abuses against persons belonging to religious or belief minorities including by prosecuting those responsible, holding them accountable and ensuring that victims have effective access to justice and remedy; calls on the EU and Member States to urgently work towards the establishment of UN mechanisms and committees to investigate current human rights violations against religious or belief minorities around the world;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. UnderlinDeplores that violence and crimes against religious or belief minorities thatve been carried out along gendered lines with women belonging to religious minorities haveing been specifically and increasingly targeted with the purpose of inflicting harm on their community as a whole; stresses that theywomen are particularly exposed to violent attacks, kidnapping, sexual and gender-based violence, forced conversion, forced sterilization and abortion, forced and early marriage and domestic incarceration, and that lockdown measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic have made their human rights situation even more precarious;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Underlines that the right to freedom of religion or belief can never be invoked by governments to justify laws, policies and practices that deny women’s rights and equal personhood of LGBTIQ+ people; reaffirms that freedom of religion cannot be instrumentalized as pretext to violate women's sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as to discriminate against sexual and gender minorities;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Deplores the fact that more than 70 countries in the world enforce criminal laws or seek to introduce new legislation which provide for punishments for blasphemy, apostasy, defamation of religion and conversion, including the death sentence; reiterates its strong opposition to the death penalty and calls on governments to repeal the blasphemy, heresy and apostasy laws, some of which have resulted in death sentences and have fomented a climate of religious intolerance, violence and discrimination; notes that laws already in place are used disproportionately against people belonging to religious minorities, and are thus seen, with good reason, as an instrument of oppression; calls for the EU to intensify its political dialogue with all countries concerned with a view to repeal those laws;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Highlights the important role that religious leaders and actors have on preventing violence and its incitement by disseminating messages of peace, tolerance, mutual respect and by taking effective actions to reduce tensions between religious communities;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33