18 Amendments of Virginie JORON related to 2020/2029(INI)
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of the funding of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and Internal Security Fund (ISF) programmes to ccontinuing to finance the fight against THB with European funds; notes that this funding must not result in any reductiont inue to be used for projects tackling THB, as well as using other available instruments the resources earmarked for tackling illegal immigration;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that between 15% and 30% of patients on organ donor waiting lists die before they receive a transplant; points out that criminal organisations exploit this problem and the vulnerability of people living in extreme poverty in order to encourage them to sell their organs; notes that this type of trafficking is one of the most heinous aspects of THB;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure differentiation between trafficking and smuggling, which require different responses in law; highlights that the confusion between them often leads to failings in correctly identifying victims and in ensuring that they can access protection measures and avoid secondary victimisation; points out that THB should also be punished harshly;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that knowingly hiring people in vulnerable situations and paying them less than the legal minimum or making them work under unacceptable working conditions, with a view to maximising profits, is a form of THB; notes that this particularly affects men who are exploited in manual sectors;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights that sexual exploitation remains the most prevalent form of trafficking in the EU since 2008, as 60% of victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation; notes that more than 90% of these victims are women and girls, and that more than 70% of traffickers are male; points out, too, that many of those responsible are from non-EU countries;
Amendment 263 #
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 demandpimping, 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; _________________ 19Second progress report on the implementation of the Directive, COM(2018)0777, p. 6.
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Is concerned about the development of paedophile and female trafficking rings in the form of community gangs, as in the gang rape cases in Telford, Rotherham and Oulu; calls on the Commission and the Member States to dismantle these rings and to expel the guilty foreigners from their territories after their sentences;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reiterates that asylum seekers, refugees and migrants are particularly vulnerabthe best way to tackle tohe trafficking and that special attention should be given to the trafficking of women, children and other vulnerable groups; highlights that there are vulnerabilities and risks at the different stages in the migration process prior to migration itself, en route to the EU, at the destination and on return22; _________________ 22European implementation assessment – ‘Implementation of Directive 2011/36/EU: Migration and gender issues’, Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research, Ex-Post Evaluation Unit, 15 September 2020, p. 50.smuggling of human beings is to have zero tolerance for illegal immigration and smuggling rings, like the ‘No Way’ programme successfully introduced by the Australian Government in 2014;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to step up their efforts to early identify potential victims, in particular within migration flows and hotspots; calls on the Member States to provide adequate resources for specialised facilities for unaccompanied minors and female victims of traffickingthe identification of unaccompanied minors through medical tests and victims of trafficking; calls for illegal immigrants who do not meet either these criteria or the asylum criteria to be deported;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes that children in migration, and, in particular, unaccompanied migrant children, continue to be at higher risk of trafficking and exploitation along migration routes en route to and within the EU; points out, however, that many supposed ‘unaccompanied minors’ are actually adults whose goal is economic immigration;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on the Member States to stop being deceived by the concept of ‘unaccompanied minors’, to systematically carry out medical tests to determine the age of these illegal immigrants and to deport those who are not minors to their country of origin or provenance;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Emphasises the importance of a coherent approach to improve the identification of potential victims in the context of migration flows and in the hotspots, of improving access toCalls for asylum procedures and of ensurto be examined ing their complementarity with the procedures related to trafficking; calls on the Commission to assess the implementation of the Anti-Trafficking Diuntry of origin, not the prospective recteive and to come forward with proposals to revise iting country;
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
Amendment 509 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 b (new)
Paragraph 37 b (new)
37b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to raise awareness in countries of emigration, and among women and girls in those countries as well as their parents, of the risks of sexual exploitation associated with migration to Europe;
Amendment 511 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 c (new)
Paragraph 37 c (new)
37c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify any third countries that are complicit in THB, and to adapt their diplomatic and trade relations accordingly;