Activities of Pernille WEISS related to 2020/2029(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation of the Anti-Trafficking Directive (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights that the early identification of victims remains one of the main challenges to implementation, and is one of the most crucial in terms of enabling victims to exercise their rights; calls on the Member States to give more actors responsibility for identifying victims of THB at all stages of the process, including civil society organisations representatives, immigration and asylum officials, labour inspectors and social workers or healthcare staff; as well as other professionals and actors involved; calls on all Member States to earmark adequate funds for identifying victims of THB
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on all Member States to effectively guarantee and inform about the rights of victims and to support them with a gender- sensitive approach while ensuring complementarity with the Victims’ Rights Directive; notes that the Anti-Trafficking Directive prohibits the criminalisation of victims of THB;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to prioritise the prevention of the crime of trafficking for sexual exploitation, including through adopting measures and programmes to discourage and reduce demandand to work through information and awareness raising campaigns, , and calls on the Member States to include the use of the services of victims of trafficking as a criminal offence in their national statutes, as recommended by Article 8 of the Anti-Trafficking Directive and reiterated by the Commission in 201819 ; Urges the Member States to work closely with civil society organisations in the field working with trafficked persons; _________________ 19Second progress report on the implementation of the Directive, COM(2018)0777, p. 6.
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Highlights the need to earmark adequate funds for training purposes and therefore calls for the Member States to provide adequate resources for the national authority operating in the filed, such as the police forces, to enable them to be properly trained in detecting and supporting victims, and to develop gender sensitive processes;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Notes the low number of prosecutions and convictions for the crime of trafficking; urges the Member States to take measures to improve the investigation of trafficking cases through strengthened police efforts both nationally and transnationally and to put in place strong criminal sanctions for crimes of human trafficking;
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the Commission to define, allocate and earmark adequate funds in the battle against THB.
Amendment 499 #
36a. Stresses the importance and the need of defining allocating and earmarking adequate funding for targeted actions in the fight against human trafficking, either national or European level, through the funding possibilities of the European funds and projects, such as the Asylum, Migration and Integrational Fund (AMIF), the Internal Security Fund (ISD), the Daphne strand on the Rights and Values Programme in the new MFF;