9 Amendments of David LEGA related to 2023/2041(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas of January 2021, there were at least 1,300 children with disabilities held in nine institutions; whereas these institutions had problems with proper diagnostics, education, and social reintegration as well as public accountability and transparency;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas released political prisoners face extreme discrimination with the regime prohibiting them free movement, as well as access to the labour market, to their bank accounts and other financial assets;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Belarusian regime to refrain from any kind of harassment also of former political prisoners who have now been released; urges the regime to allow these former prisoners to live their life in freedom and give them full access to the labour market, social life, as well as their bank account and assets;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the EU institutions and its Member States to explore the possibility of allowing representatives of the Belarusian democratic forces and civil society to take up the empty seats, in bilateral and multilateral formats, in particular within the framework of the Eastern Partnership policy, which were previously occupied by representatives of the Belarusian authorities; regrets that the Belarusian civil society and the Belarusian Freedom Movement is currently not yet able to take part in multilateral formats like the European Political Community (EPC);
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the leaders of the Member States, the President of the European Parliament, the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Council, as well as the political leaders of the remaining participating states of the European Political Community to include the Belarusian Freedom Movement in the European Political Community, for instance by giving them an observer status;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Notes that the inclusion of representatives of political, civil society and human rights organizations of Democratic Belarus ("Belarusian Freedom Movement") with observer status in the EPC would also strengthen the platform for developing joint strategies against authoritarian regimes and for democracy in Europe;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Belarusian authorities to immediately seize the temporal removal and threat of removal of children from the custody of their parents to punish the parents for protesting or political activism;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Deplores that institutions for children with disabilities have had problems with proper diagnostics, education, and social reintegration as well as public accountability and transparency; underlines the need for deinstitutionalisation and the repeal of the Belarusian law that discriminates against children and persons with disabilities, limiting their ability to access primary, secondary, and higher education depending on their degree of disability;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Is appalled that Belarusian authorities continue the practice of placing persons with different disabilities in the same facilities and does not provide any groups with specialized care, that more than 10,000 persons with disabilities who lived in “psychoneurological” institutions are deprived of legal rights, and courts designated directors of these institutions as their legal guardians; underlines the need to repeal provisions allowing involuntary deprivation of liberty;