7 Amendments of Jacek SARYUSZ-WOLSKI related to 2015/2340(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
– having regard to the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co- operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13
Citation 13
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 36 a (new)
Citation 36 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 17 December 2015 on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2014 and the European Union’s policy on the matter (2015/2229 INI),
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas trafficking in human beings is defined by the United Nations (Palermo Protocol) as the act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring or receiving persons by means of the threat or use of force or other forms coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation; whereas the exploitation includes, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs; whereas, in accordance with Article 2(a) of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the sale of children means ‘any act or transaction whereby a child is transferred by any person or group of persons to another for remuneration or any other consideration’;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the ILO estimates that there are around 21 million people in forced labour globally, being trafficked for labour and sexual exploitation or being held in slave- like conditions and whereas of these people 14.2 million were trapped in forced labour, 4.5 million in a situation of forced sexual exploitation, and 2.2 million in state- imposed forced labour; whereas women and girls make up 55% of the total, while men and boys account for 45%; whereas both women and children are subject to the same forms of exploitation and both can be regarded as commodities on the international reproductive market, and whereas new reproductive arrangements, such as surrogacy, are increasing the trafficking of women and children and the number of cases of illegal adoption across borders, an issue which Parliament addressed in 2011;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the persistent lack of adequate legislation to criminalise and effectively combat trafficking in human beings in many countries worldwide, including any act or transaction whereby an adult or child is transferred by any person or group of persons to another for remuneration or any other consideration;