4 Amendments of María Teresa GIMÉNEZ BARBAT related to 2016/2324(INI)
Amendment 19 #
2. Considers that the EU should use its foreign policy instruments, including human rights and development instruments and bilateral agreements with third countries, to deal with the structural roots of the shrinking space problem and to design a multifaceted approach, since regimes are now using not only draconian NGO laws but also a wide range of direct and indirect tactics to limit the operation or financing of civil society organisations (CSOs), such as arbitrary registration and reporting requirements, distorted criminal charges, raids and audits, defamation campaigns, and counterterrorism measures;
Amendment 30 #
3. Calls on the Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the Member States, the High Representative / Vice President and the EU Special Representative for Human Rights to be more vocal, consistent and timely in expressing objections towell ahead the adoption of restrictive CSO laws and to exert effective and tailored pressure at the highest level on the host governments in question and raise this issue systematically in political and human rights dialogues; private demarches are an important first step, but should they do not work, it is important to consider more public diplomacy; considers that EU actors could exert more positive conditionality by allocating additional funds to those governments allowing a wider space for civil society; considers that in cases of rapid and dramatic closing of the space EU Member States should grant public high-level recognition to affected human rights NGOs/individuals human rights defenders for their work, for example by visiting them during officials visits;
Amendment 40 #
4. Calls on all EU actors to advocate more effectively in multilateral fora the strengthening of the international legal framework underpinning democracy and human rights, inter alia by engaging with the UN and with regional organisations such as the Organisation of American States (OAS), the African Union (AU), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Community of Democracies Working Group on Enabling and Protecting Civil Society;
Amendment 59 #
6 a. Call on the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to promote an effective, joint implementation of the EU Guidelines for Human Rights Defenders in all third countries where civil society is at risk by adopting local strategies for their full operationalization;