Activities of Alviina ALAMETSÄ related to 2022/2026(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION towards equal rights for persons with disabilities
Amendments (17)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Urges the Commission to conduct a cross-cutting and comprehensive review of the EU legislation in order to ensure its full harmonization with the provisions of the CRPD, including by adopting, without further delay, a plan detailing the overall strategy to achieve this goal;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Stresses the vital importance to enhance actions aimed at fully upholding human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities, removing any obstacle preventing them from having a full and equal participation in society; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that all measures to implement at national and EU levels the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 are in full compliance with the CRPD;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Strongly condemns violence against women stressing its life-long implications for their physical and mental health; is highly alarmed that violence against women threatens the security of over 250 million women in the EU, with women with disabilities facing 2 to 5 times higher risks to be victims of violence; calls on the Council to conclude, as a matter of priority, its work on the EU’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) in order to strengthen the overall action to combat violence faced by all women and support all victims, thereby also contributing to the adequate implementation of the CRPD and of the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW);
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Is extremely concerned that persons with disabilities are still disproportionately affected by unemployment, leave labour markets earlier and that the employment gap between persons with and without disabilities remains high, contributing in the result of persons with disabilities having a very high risk of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Reiterates its request to the Commission to structurally integrate the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 within the European Semester process with a view to enhancing employment and social protection of persons with disabilities in all related policies adopted by Member States; believes that the Commission should carry out a detailed annual review of disability mainstreaming under the European Semester process;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that independent living goes hand in hand with the freedom to choose one’s place of residence5 , inclusive education6 , a guarantee of democratic rights7 such as the right to vote8 , and, access to the open labour market with an adequate salary9 , adequate social benefits and support systems; _________________ 5 Petition No 0988/2020. 6 Petitions Nos 1340/2020 and 1529/2020. 7 Petition No 1132/2016. 8 Petition No 1135/2021; European Economic and Social Committee report of 20 March 2019 on the real rights of persons with disabilities to vote in European Parliament elections. 9 Petitions Nos 0608/2020 and 1280/2021.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Member States to improve the accessibility of buildings, transport and communication, including web accessibility, in order toand remove physical, digital, logistical and social barriers in all areas, and in order to fully protect all fundamental rights of persons with disabilities, ensuring their active and equal participation in society; recalls that the Member States must speed up the transposition of the European Accessibility Act10 ; _________________ 10 Petitions Nos 0954/2019, 1491/2020,1135/21 and 1213/2021.
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that children with disabilities, including those with intellectual disabilities, have the right to inclusive education on the same footing as other children, including the possibility to access mainstream schools, as stipulated in Article 24 CRPD, and considers that accessible digital tools should be designed and used where possibleto ensure this12 ; _________________ 12 Petitions Nos 0956/2018 and 1340/2020.
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates that PwD, including those with mental disabilities, should have the right to the highest attainable state of both physical and mental health and access to healthcare, free from discrimination, of the same scope and quality as other EU citizens13 ; _________________ 13 Petitions Nos 0687/2020 and 0470/2020.
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses that during the COVID-19 pandemic, severe gaps emerged in the capacity and preparedness of healthcare and social care systems of various Member States to adequately support persons with disabilities, including those with mental disabilities, due to lack of resources, weak governance and inadequate involvement of persons with disabilities in planning measures to counter the spread of the virus and provide the necessary assistance; strongly believes that Member States must greatly improve their healthcare and social care systems by addressing all existing shortcomings in order to ensure that, even during a crisis, full support is given to everyone, and notably to the most vulnerable, thereby adequately protecting health and social rights of all;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights that PwD are exposed to discrimination most frequently, in particular those with intellectual, psychosocial and mental disabilities, and women and girls, migrants and members of the LGBTIQ community with disabilities; calls, in this respect, for improving the anti-discrimination legislation by also effectively covering multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination as well as strengthening equality bodies in order to protect the rights of PwD across the EU and for the horizontal Anti- Discrimination Directive to be unblocked in the Council14 ; _________________ 14 Petitions Nos 0164/2020 and 0226/2021.
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Commission to put in place the set of measures recommended by the European Ombudsman in her inquiry in case OI/2/2021/MHZ1a aimed at ensuring that the use by Member States of EU Structural and Investment Funds as well as of the funds under the Recovery and Resilience Facility are in line with the EU’s obligations, under the CRPD, to promote the right of persons with disabilities to independent living; _________________ 1a https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/de cision/en/155353
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Highlights the importance of ongoing legislative processes to regulate digital platforms and services and artificial Intelligence as they pertain to the rights of PwD; underlines the paramount importance to better ensure that these legislations comply with CRPD and improve the accessibility of digital technologies for PwD;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Believes that the EU must fully ratify without further delay the Optional Protocol to the CRPD, thus ensuring that citizens can denounce alleged violations of the CRPD's provisions by a State Party and allowing the CRPD Committee to initiate related confidential inquiries; urges those Member States that have not yet ratified the Optional Protocol to the CRPD to do so as a matter of priority;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Underlines that UN Disability Rights Committee found very recently that persons with disabilities in Hungary do not have a mechanism to make decision out of autonomy because of their disabilities and recommended Hungary to amend its legislation to ensure that the country’s supported decision-making mechanisms respect the dignity, autonomy and will and preferences of persons with disabilities in exercising their legal capacity; highlights that the UN Committee also stressed the importance of providing support to persons with disabilities to live independently and equally with others in the community, regardless of their type of impairment, suggesting Hungary to redesign its measures and redirect its effort and budgets into community-based support services; is firmly convinced that the Hungarian authorities must fully, consistently and swiftly implement the recommendations of the UN Disability Rights Committee;