41 Amendments of Leila CHAIBI related to 2019/2975(RSP)
Amendment 11 #
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), General Comment N.º1, Article 12: Equal recognition before the law (adopted 11 April 2014) Corrigendum (26 January 2018),
Amendment 12 #
Citation 4 b (new)
- having regard the UN Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), General Comment N.º2, Article 9: Accessibility (Adopted 11 April 2014),
Amendment 13 #
Citation 4 c (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), General Comment N.º3, Article 6: Women and girls with disabilities (Adopted 26 August 2016),
Amendment 14 #
Citation 4 d (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), General Comment N.º4, Article 24: Right to inclusive education (Adopted 26 August 2016),
Amendment 15 #
Citation 4 e (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), General Comment N.º5, Article 19: Right to independente living (Adopted 31 August 2017),
Amendment 16 #
Citation 4 f (new)
Amendment 17 #
Citation 4 g (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), General Comment N.º7, Article 4.3. and 3.3.: Participation of persons with disabilities in the implementation and monitoring of the Convention (Adopted 21 September 2018),
Amendment 33 #
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the explicit disability references in the Sustainable Development Goals, related to education (Goal 4), growth and employment (Goal 8), inequality (Goal 10), accessibility of human settlements (Goal 11) and data collection (Goal 17),
Amendment 46 #
Citation 21 a (new)
- having regard to the study of the European Parliament Policy Department C of 2016 on European Structural and Investement Funds and people with disabilities in the European Union,
Amendment 72 #
Recital A
A. whereas, as full citizens, all persons with disabilities have equal rights in all fields of life and are entitled to inalienable dignity, equal treatment, education, employment, independent living, autonomy and full participation in society;
Amendment 132 #
Recital J
J. whereas there continues to be new and revised legislation without any reference to the UNCRPD and accessibility; whereas accessibility is a prerequisite for independent living and participation; whereas the EU, as a party to the UNCRPD, has the duty to ensure the close involvement and active participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in the development and implementation of legislation and policies while respecting diverse concepts of disability;
Amendment 153 #
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Calls on the Commission to propose a comprehensive, ambitious and long-term post-2020 European Disability Strategy (the post-2020 Strategy)long-term post-2020 comprehensive strategy with ambitious, clear, binding and measurable targets, ensuring its implementation both at European and national levels.
Amendment 159 #
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Calls on the Commission to propose a comprehensive, and ambitious and long-term post2020-20230 European Disability Strategy (the post-2020 Strategy)
Amendment 160 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
- with designated priority areas covering all the provisions of the UNCRPD in all areas of EU policy and addressing the Concluding Observations of the UNCRPD Committee adopted in 2015 and the UNCRPD General Comments,
Amendment 167 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
- with ambitious and clear targets, clear, binding and measurable targets, allocated at European and national level,
Amendment 182 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 5
- mainstreaming the rights of the children, women and elder people with disabilities into all areas,
Amendment 206 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 7
- ensuring coherence with other EU initiatives and strategies and integrating the follow-up to the Europe 2020 Strategy and initiatives under the European Pillar of Social Rights and the roadmap for a Social Europe,
Amendment 211 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 8
- allocating an adequate budget for the implementation of the post-2020 StrategyStrategy both at European and national levels;
Amendment 234 #
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the post 2020 Strategy should be based on a cross-cutting, comprehensive review of all EU legislation and policy in order to ensure full harmonisation with the provisions of the UNCRPD; insists that it should include a revised declaration of competences including all policy areas in which the EU has legislated or adopted soft law measures that have an impact on persons with disabilities;
Amendment 254 #
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to prepare the post-2020 Strategy with the close and systematic involvement of persons with disabilities and of their representative organisations, and to ensure their accessible and meaningful participation in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the post-2020 Strategy also through funding their capacity-building;
Amendment 256 #
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the strategy will remove all barriers (physical, intellectual, psychological, financial), preventing persons with disabilities from accessing quality and affordable services in line with their needs, and provide information in accessible formats, particularly concerning the right to vote which must be facilitated by all means.
Amendment 258 #
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to provide the necessary conditions to facilitate the implementation of the directives supporting the Accessible Act by the Member States, particularly on what concerns access to public transports.
Amendment 262 #
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to include a review of the post-2020 Strategy every 53 years with a clearly defined role for the EU CRPD Framework; and systematic and active involvement of persons with disabilities and of their representative organizations (both at European and national levels);
Amendment 264 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the strategy will guarantee access to employment and vocational and professional training for persons with disabilities by ensuring that reasonable accomodations are provided in the workplace, that persons with disabilities are paid at the same level as employees without disabilities and avoiding and preventing that any other ways of discrimination at workplaces will be possible;
Amendment 266 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure that the strategy will specially guarantee access to employment, vocational and professional trainings, inclusive education, affordable quality healthcare services, civic and political participation, digital services, sport activities for persons with disabilities;
Amendment 267 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission and on the Member States to develop trainings about the disability challenges, targeting especially healthcare professionals, policy makers, educators and informing them on disability topics in order to tackle persisting stigma and misconceptions on all types of disabilities;
Amendment 268 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission to mainstream disability within all European institutions and to create focal points in the main EU institutions, namely by establishing quotas of employment for people with disabilities;
Amendment 281 #
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for continuousregular and periodical monitoring of the implementation of the UNCRPD; calls for the collection of robust, disaggregated, comparable data on the situation of persons with disabilities to facilitate proper monitoring of progress; urges the Commission to provide adequate resources to the EU CRPD Framework to enable it to perform its functions independently and adequately;
Amendment 283 #
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Stresses the need for continuous monitoring of the core values and fundamental principles of the UNCRPD and its General Comments;
Amendment 297 #
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to systematically mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in all the relevant EU laws, policies and programmes, in particular areas such as employment, health, housing, access to training and long-life learning, social inclusion and independent living, sexual and reproductive rights and non discrimination;
Amendment 319 #
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the UNCRPD-compliant use of EU funds and to ensure that EU funds will not contribute to the construction or refurbishment of institutional care settingssegregated occupational and educational settings and are instead applied for inclusive education, community living and supported employment;
Amendment 325 #
Paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Calls on the Commission to safeguard the UNCRPD-compliant use of EU funds and to ensure that EU funds will not contribute to unethical research, involuntary sterilization nor violation of reproduction rights of persons with disabilities.
Amendment 336 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Commission to actively promote the transition from institutional and / or segregating care to community based support, including personal assistance and inclusive mainstreamed services in all EU policy initiatives.
Amendment 373 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on the Commission to develop accessible formats of all European legislation and communications concerning disability adapted to persons with disabilities;
Amendment 374 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on the Commission to develop European initiatives which promote self advocacy and political participation of people with disabilities;
Amendment 386 #
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to re- affirm their commitment to promoting, protecting and ensuring the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to free movement and residence, by all persons with disabilities, and to promoting respect for their inherent dignity also by implementing the post-2020 Strategy and to allocate adequate human and financial resources to its implementation;
Amendment 398 #
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on Member States to enhance national initiatives which promote self advocacy and political participation of persons with disabilities.
Amendment 427 #
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on Member States to report on the follow up of the national recommendations made by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, after the evaluation of the implementation of the UNCRPD in each country;
Amendment 428 #
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on Member States to reform the medical disabilty measurement model, refocusing on the needs for support; calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal for a European certificate for persons with disabilities;
Amendment 431 #
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Amendment 432 #
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on all Member States to report on the implementation of the european disability strategy;