8 Amendments of Alojz PETERLE related to 2015/2340(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 36 a (new)
Citation 36 a (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament's Annual Report on human Rights and Democracy in the World 2014,
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas gestational surrogacy is a growing practice of reproductive exploitation of women from developing countries, generating already more than 2 billion US dollars per year in India alone1a; _________________ 1aReport by the Confederation of Indian Industry, estimating surrogacy generates in India $2.3bn a year by 2012 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/d ec/06/surrogate-mothers-india
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls for the inclusion of gestational surrogacy as a form of trafficking in human beings as it involves reproductive exploitation and use of the human body for financial or other gain;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Calls on the Commission to include gestational surrogacy as a new form of THB as it implies the sale of children according to the definition given by Article 2a of the optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; Moreover in this practice children are traded without respect of their rights as persons;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19c. Condemns the practice of gestational surrogacy, which undermines the dignity of women since their bodies and reproductive functions are used for trade; considers that the practice of gestational surrogacy which involves reproductive exploitation and use of the human body for financial or other gain, in particular in the case of vulnerable women in developing countries, shall be banned and treated as a matter of urgency in human rights instruments;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Recommends to the international community and especially to those countries, such as the United States, India, Russia and Ukraine, in which gestational surrogacy is growing fastest, to give attention to comply with international obligations acquired in the ratification of the optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and take proper action regarding gestational surrogacy;