9 Amendments of Kinga GÁL related to 2012/2145(INI)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the lessons learned from the Arab Spring events must continue, to provide impetus for the EU to review and improve its policies on, inter alia, human rights defenders, international humanitarian law, human rights dialogues with third countries, and social media; whereas the opening up of European student exchange programmes to third country youth and the creation of training programmes for young professionals would foster the active participation of youth in democracy building and would strengthen civil society;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the VP/HR, the EEAS, the Council and the Commission, for the sake of efficiency, to ensure coherence and consistency between the various external financial instruments and existing or planned EU benchmarking, monitoring and evaluation activities and methodologies regarding human rights and democracy situations in third countries, including, inter alia: the human rights and democracy sections in the enlargement and neighbourhood policy progress reports; the assessment of the ‘more for more’ human rights and democracy principles set out for the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Southern Mediterranean; the planned inclusion of human rights in impact assessments carried out for legislative and non-legislative proposals and trade agreements, including human rights monitoring mechanisms in Partnership and Cooperation Agreements and Association Agreements; the Commission plan to introduce human rights assessment in the deployment of EU aid modalities (in particular regarding budget support); the strengthened monitoring mechanism to scrutinise implementation of human rights conventions in the GSP+ countries; the aim of systematising the follow-up use of EU Election Observation Mission reports; and the EU Council's emphasis on benchmarking as well as on continued and systematic consideration of aspects relating to human rights, gender and children affected by armed conflict in the lessons- learned documents of the CSDP missions;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes EU efforts to support and revitalise the human rights work within the UN system, including the conclusion of the review of the UN Human Rights Council in 2011; stresses the continued importance of supporting the independence of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the role of the thematic and country-specific UN Special Rapporteurs on human rights and looks forward to their close cooperation with the newly appointed EU Special Representative for Human Rights; emphasises the significance of the European Union accession of 22 January 2011 to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as the first UN human rights convention ratified by the European Union as a legal entity;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Welcomes the new EU Aid Volunteers initiative that from 2014-2020 will create opportunity for some 10.000 Europeans to participate worldwide in humanitarian operations where aid is most urgently needed and to demonstrate European solidarity by helping practically communities struck by natural or man- made disasters;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Reiterates its call on the Council and the Commission to develop a political strategy in relation to each EU election observation mission, followed up by an assessment of democratic progress two years after the mission, to be submitted during Parliament's annual human rights debate with the VP/HR; recalls the commitment of the VP/HR to focus in election observation on the participation of women and national minorities, as well as persons with disabilities both as candidates and voters;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 a (new)
Paragraph 72 a (new)
72a. Emphasises that traditional national minority communities have specific needs different from other minority groups and there is a need to safeguard equal treatment of these minorities with regard to education, healthcare, social services and other public services, furthermore to promote in all areas of economic, social, political and cultural life full and effective equality between persons belonging to a national minority and those belonging to the majority;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74 a (new)
Paragraph 74 a (new)
74a. Calls for the disarmament, rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers as a core element in the EU policies that aim at strengthening human rights, child protection and the replacement of violence with political conflict resolution mechanisms;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. Recalls the specific commitment made in the Lisbon Treaty to focus on children's rights in EU's external policies; points out that the near-universal adoption of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child provides a particularly solid international legal foundation to pursue progressive policies in this area, therefore calls on countries that have not ratified it yet to ratify and enforce it and its optional protocols as soon as possible;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80 a (new)
Paragraph 80 a (new)
80a. Stresses the need to combat all forms of forced child labour, child exploitation and trafficking; calls for the better implementation of existing national and international rules that foster awareness of child abuse in the labour market; emphasises the fact that children and adolescents should participate only in work that does not affect their health and personal development or interfere with their schooling;