5 Amendments of Justas Vincas PALECKIS related to 2010/2202(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the global economic and financial crisis has had a negative impact on economic, social and cultural rights; whereas the rights of the poorest people have been most affected; whereas, because of rising priceand volatile prices and commodity speculations, millions are struggling to meet basic needs in a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America; whereas millions of people have been facing insecurity and indignity, and in some countries protests have been met with repression and violence,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas new forms of human rights abuses are occurrarising in the world, notably in the area of the new information technologies, one of them being internet censorship,
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Urges the Iranian leaders to enact a law unequivocally banning stoning as a legal punishment; condemns the fact that the Iranian regime still sentences to death and executes juvenile offenders; condemns the Iranian regime’s use of the death penalty, which places Iran in second position, just after China, in the league table of countries with the highest number of executions; strongly condemns the increased number of executions following the peaceful demonstrations after presidential elections in Iran in June 2009; is concerned that China still carries out the greatest number of executions worldwide and calls on China to make its national execution figures public, so that there can be transparent analysis and debate on the death penalty; welcomes the positive action of the Belarusian authorities in setting up a Working Group to draft proposals on imposing a moratorium on the death penalty; remains concerned that executions are still carried out in Belarus, which is the only country in Europe that continues to use the death penalty;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Expresses deep concern about children affected by armed conflicts; urges the Commission and the Council to strengthen the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflicts; welcomes the new UNSC resolution 1882 (2009), which further strengthens the protection of children affected by armed conflict; urges countries which have not yet ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts to do so without delay;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82
Paragraph 82
82. Notes that in April 2009 the parliament of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) revised the country’s constitution to include, among other things, a provision that North Korea ‘respects and protects human rights’, calls on the North Korean authorities to make clear positive steps towards improving human rights conditions, stresses that not only constitutional provisions, but also constructive measures, should be taken into account when evaluating the human rights situation in the country; also calls on the North Korean authorities to lift restrictions on international staff's ability to monitor the distribution of aid, and to ensure that international aid reaches the needy; expresses the hope that North Korea will show an interest in engaging constructively in human rights dialogues with the EU;