11 Amendments of Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO related to 2007/2145(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the setting-up of the Agency, which represents a first step towards meeting Parliament’s calls for the establishment of an integrated regulatory and institutional framework designed to put the Charter into effect and guarantee consistency with the system established by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; points out, however, that the annual reports on human rights drawn up by the European Network of Independent Experts in Fundamental Rights, published until 2005, scrutinised the application of all the rights recognised by the Charter in each Member State, and is concerned, therefore, at the fact that the Agency’s limited remit and the dissolution of the Network may exclude from systematic scrutiny a series of important areas of human rights policy in Europe, in particular anti-terrorist policies, mistreatment and the use of force by the police, the right to a fair hearing, violence against women and trafficking in human beings, respect for private and family life, extreme poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 102
Paragraph 102
102. Recalls that almost 20% of children in the EU live beneath the poverty threshold and that the most vulnerable of them come from single-parent families and/or have parents who were born abroad; stresses in consequence that appropriate assistance measuremeasures to give access to rights, centred around the needs of the child, must be taken, including support measures for families, and calls on the Member States, particularly those with the highest levels of poverty, to adopt ambitious, achievable targets for reducing child poverty and that of their families;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 103
Paragraph 103
103. Calls on the Commission to make efforts to incorporate all the various strategies specifically relating to child poverty and that of their families, youth unemployment and social inclusion of minorities in all the relevant development policies, including the Strategy Documents on poverty reduction and the indicative programmes;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 104
Paragraph 104
104. Asks the Commission and the Member States to pay particular attention to the various forms of discrimination affecting children, which often take multiple forms and are experienced in particular by children living in poverty, street children from ethnic minorities and migrant groups, as well as children with disabilities, and lead to their being debarred from education and healthcare;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 110
Paragraph 110
110. Calls on the Member States to take action to guarantee the right of children to a family and to act accordingly to find effective solutions to prevent separation of parents and children and abandonment of children; calls on them to move away from the policy of large institutions and instead to reform, develop and reinforce effective alternative child-care structures based on the family and the community; in the event of placement, asks the Member States for the means to enable children to return to their families; calls on the Commission to study and propose a common definition of international adoption and an EU policy in this area;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 116
Paragraph 116
116. Takes the view that poverty and social exclusion can only be combated by guaranteeing theall the fundamental rights, including economic and social rights, of everyone; approves in this context the decision to make 2010 the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion; calls on the Commission and the Member States to agree on and pursue ambitious objectives in this area;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 117
Paragraph 117
117. Stresses that there is a set of indivisible, interdependent fundamental rights to which all human beings must be guaranteed genuine access;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 118 a (new)
Paragraph 118 a (new)
118a. Stresses that Article 30 of the revised European Social Charter enshrines the right to protection from poverty and social exclusion, and calls on the Member States to ratify it;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 119 a (new)
Paragraph 119 a (new)
119a. Stresses that extreme poverty and social exclusion constitute a violation of fundamental rights as a whole;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 120
Paragraph 120
120. Hopes for genuine integration of the social dimension and fundamental rights into all EU policies;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 130
Paragraph 130
130. Recognises that the minimum wage is very low or beneath subsistence level in many Member States, and therefore hopes that a methodology for setting the national minimum wage will be put in place at European level in order to guarantee that all workers in the EU are paid a wage that covers their basic needsallows them to live a dignified life;