11 Amendments of Mirja VEHKAPERÄ related to 2018/2117(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas academic freedom – including its constituent freedoms of thought, opinion, expression, association, travel, and instruction – contributes to creating the space in which anyone in an open and stable society is free to think, question and share ideasproduce, consume and disseminate knowledge;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas answers to issues in society should be found through reason, evidence and persuasion; whereas attacks on academic freedom undermine research, teaching, and public discourse and the right to education, eroding academic quality and social, political, economic and cultural development; whereas answers to issues in society should be found and developed through reason, evidence and persuasion;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas every year hundreds of attacks on universitiehigher education institutions and scholars are reported around the world, including killings, violence and disappearances, imprisonment, wrongful prosecution, loss of position and travel restrictions;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the attempts to control or silence higher education institutions or their scholars, students and staff extend well beyond the individuals and institutions directly targeted and shrink the space for the inclusive democratic participation, free speech and empowerment of all citizens;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas it is important to identify attacks on academic freedom as part of global phenomenand recognise them as a threat all around the world, and to encourage the recognition of academics and students being targeted not only as individuals whose rights are being violated, but also as human rights defenders who are being attacked;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) explicitly recognise the importance of academic freedom in public statements, policies and actions, including recognition of the principles that ideas are not crimes and that critical discourse is not disloyalty but an essential part of a democratic society and its development;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) publicly highlight the problems of attacks on academic freedom, including their negative consequences, and the responsibility of states to protect higher education and individual scholars;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(d a) step up diplomatic efforts with partnercountries through bilateral and multilateral engagement in relation to incidents of concern involving threats or attacks on academic freedom, particularly violent attacks on institutions and members of the higher education community, also including discriminatory policies or practices, undue restrictions on research or expression, wrongful prosecution or detention;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) work with UN, international agencies and civil society to create a mechanism for monitoring and reporting attacks, threats and unreasonable restrictions on higher education and individual scholars, and to strengthen and promote monitoring in order to raise awareness, hold perpetrators to account and improve efforts to prevent and respond to attacks on academic freedom;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) contribute to the development of capacities for prompt, thorough and transparent investigations of violations of academic freedom, particularly in situations involving violent attacks; improve efforts to prevent and respond to attacks on academic freedom, as well as undertake all reasonable efforts to hold perpetrators to account;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h