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4 Amendments of Abir AL-SAHLANI related to 2020/2209(INI)

Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that persons with disabilities are entitled to enjoy their fundamental rights on an equal basis; calls on the Member States to take appropriate measures to provide effective access to justice for persons with disabilities; emphasises that facilities and services must be accessible to ensure equal access to justice; urges to pay special attention to women with disabilities as they are two to five times more likely to experience violence than other women1a; _________________ 1aEuropean Commission, ‘Union of Equality, Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030’ (3 March 2021), p.16, https://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/3e1e2228-7c97-11eb- 9ac9-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
2021/04/27
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Subheading 2 a (new)
Combating discrimination
2021/04/27
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Member States to ensure that people with disabilities are engaged in the policy-making process without any constraints; notes that the CRPD requires full political participation, which means that persons with disabilities must be able to participate in elections and decision- making processes on an equal basis with others; calls on the Commission to ensure that Member States provide facilitated naturalisation or specific exemptions from naturalisation exams for persons with disabilities to guarantee their access to citizenship;
2021/04/27
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that good education for persons with disabilities must be prioritised; encourages the Member States to promote high-quality education and lifelong learning; stresses the need to increase the participation of young people with disabilities in training taking into account their needs, which would provide them better access to the labour market; notes the benefits for children from linguistic minorities with special educational needs to learn in their mother tongue during early years’ education in cases where it is difficult for them to use language and communicate; calls on the Member States to ensure access to minority language education for children with special educational needs.
2021/04/27
Committee: LIBE