32 Amendments of Mónica Silvana GONZÁLEZ related to 2019/2975(RSP)
Amendment 2 #
Citation 1
— having regard to Articles 2 of the Treaty on European Union, and Articles 2, 9, 10, 17, 19 and 216(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 4 #
Citation 2
— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, particularly to Articles 3, 15, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26 and 2647 thereof,
Amendment 9 #
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to the General Comments of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as the authoritative guidance on the implementation of the UNCRPD,
Amendment 43 #
Citation 21 a (new)
- having regard to the study of the European Parliament Policy Department C of 2016 on European Structural and Investment Funds and people with disabilities in the European Union,
Amendment 62 #
Citation 28 a (new)
- having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European structural and investment funds, particularly to articles 4,6 and 7,
Amendment 82 #
Recital D a (new)
D a. wheareas children with disabilities should have full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children, and recalling obligations to that end undertaken by States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 83 #
Recital D b (new)
D b. wheares the feasibility study for a Child Guarantee points out that the main barriers identified for children with disabilities are problems of physical access, the non-adaptation of services and facilities to children’s needs and simply their non-availability in many cases; whereas discrimination was also cited by many in respect of education and problems of affordability in respect of housing;
Amendment 84 #
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union consider that a policy can be indirectly discriminatory not only when the provision in question does in practice affect in a negative way a substantially higher proportion of people with disabilities, on the contrary, in the case of some intrinsically suspicious provision it is sufficient that the provision is liable to have such a negative effect;
Amendment 89 #
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas, despite article 19 of the UN CRPD states that “States Parties to the present Convention recognize the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, with choices equal to others, and shall take effective and appropriate measures to facilitate full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of this right and their full inclusion and participation in the community (..)”, there are still 800 000 persons with disabilities who are denied from their right to vote in the EU;
Amendment 120 #
Recital H a (new)
Amendment 124 #
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas there are an estimated 80 million persons with disabilities in the European Union, of whom 46 million are women and, due to lack of statistics, an unknown number of children that possibly approaches 15% of the total number of children in the European Union;
Amendment 127 #
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas measures in the workplace are crucial for promoting positive mental health, and for preventing mental-health and psychosocial disabilities;
Amendment 166 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
- with ambitious and clear targets, including a list of planned actions with clear timeframes and allocated resources in the following thematic areas: equality, participation, free movement and independent living, accessibility, employment and training, education and culture, poverty and social exclusion, participation, external action, mainstreaming disability and awareness raising;
Amendment 171 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
- reflecting the diversity of persons with disabilities and ensuring that Member States include into their legislation the recognition of specific disabilities in order to address and cover their specific needs (like for instance deafblindness),
Amendment 178 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 4 a (new)
- reflecting the guidance and interpretation of the UNCRPD given by the General Comments of the UNCRPD Committee, including definitions of the key terms,
Amendment 195 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- including systematic and mainstreaming measures and actions to promote, protect and guarantee the rights, inclusion and well-being of women and girls with disabilities,
Amendment 240 #
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses the need to mainstream the rights of people with disabilities and non-discriminatory principles into every policy of the European Union including employment programs for people with disabilities and intellectual disabilities, health research programs with therapeutical goals, as well as inclusive educational programs;
Amendment 259 #
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that persons deprived of their legal capacity can exercise all the rights enshrined in European Union treaties and legislation;
Amendment 261 #
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls on the Member States to foster participation by accelerating the deinstitutionalisation process and the replacement of substitute decision-making by supported decision-making;
Amendment 265 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission to recognize, promote and protect inclusive enterprises as are based on the right to work and employment, the fundamental right enshrined in Article 27 of the UNCRPD. Calls on Member States to encourage the growth of the inclusive enterprise of people with disabilities by implementing policies that facilitate investments;
Amendment 269 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 270 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission that inclusive enterprises are included in Social Economy at the European level;
Amendment 271 #
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Invites the Commission to carry out the necessary statistics and compilation of data on the population with disabilities aged below 15 years old;
Amendment 272 #
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Calls on the Commission to improve access for vulnerable children to essential services and social rights (specifically, healthcare, education, early childhood education and care, nutrition and housing);
Amendment 280 #
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for continuous monitoring of the implementation of the UNCRPD; calls for the collection of robust, disaggregated, comparable data with a gender perspective, 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 298 #
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; EU funds should aim to promote inclusive environments, services, practices and devices, favouring deinstitutionalisation, including strong support for personal assistance;
Amendment 305 #
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission to work with the European Court of Justice on communication and accessibility strategies to make it possible to people with disabilities to access the justice of the European Union;
Amendment 321 #
Paragraph 8
8. Calls onUrges 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 settingensure that European funds are implemented with conviction and energy, with competing strategies alongside the Members States, to develop universal accessibility, effectively achieving a Europe free of all kinds of barriers;
Amendment 335 #
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 (mainstream) services, in all EU policy initiatives.
Amendment 365 #
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive campaign in accessible format to raise awareness of the UN CRPD among the persons with disabilities and the society in general;and the Member States to ensure that the European Strategy and national action are fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Agenda 2030 as a major global framework of action for sustainability, equality and inclusion.
Amendment 384 #
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to 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 439 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Commission to invest seriously in disability rights in third countries in its external action, especially concerning development and humanitarian aid, ensuring that all projects and infrastructure supported by EU funds are accessible for and inclusive of persons with disabilities, including women and girls with disabilities