25 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2016/2328(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
- having regard to the study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) entitled 'Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union ', published in June 2015,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 b (new)
Citation 13 b (new)
- having regard to the survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) entitled 'Second European Union minorities and discrimination survey', published in December 2017,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the FRA study "Making hate crime visible in the European Union: acknowledging victims’ rights" states that an immigrant status enhances the risk of being criminally victimised, independent of other known risk factors;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas Article 1 of the Directive states that the rights set out in the Directive shall apply to victims in a non- discriminatory manner, including with respect to their residence status;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
F c. whereas the FRA study on "Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union" states that victims of severe labour exploitation who are in an irregular situation of residence are discouraged by their status from reporting to any public authority;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F d (new)
Recital F d (new)
F d. whereas the FRA survey "Second European Union minorities and discrimination survey" states that only one out of eight respondents reported or filed a complaint about the most recent incident of discrimination they experienced because of their ethnic or immigrant background;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I – indent 4
Recital I – indent 4
- ensuring equal accessibility for allto all victims, including persons with disabilities, LGBTI persons and child victims, to victim support services, particularly in the cases of LGBT victims of gender- based violence, including sexual violence, , and victims of hate crimes and honour- related crimes;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I – indent 5
Recital I – indent 5
- guaranteeing rapid, efficient and victim-sensitive procedures in criminal court cases that take account of the special needs of the most vulnerable groups;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas only 27% of Europeans are familiar with the single European emergency telephone number 112, and not everyone has access to it yet;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. DeplorCritizes that the Commission has not submitted a report to Parliament and to the Council on the application of the Victims’ Rights Directive by November 2017, in accordance with Article 29 of the directive;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. RegretCritizes that two years after transposition was due, only 23 out of 27 Member States had officially transposed the Victims’ Rights Directive by September 2017, and among these, some are only partially compliant and only on some provisions;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 1
Paragraph 4 – indent 1
- shortcomings in victim support services, including weak links in the victim support system and inconsistent referral mechanisms,
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Encourages the Member States to promote access to justiceasy and free-of-charge access to justice in all the proposals considered in the Directive, as this contributes greatly to increasing the victim’s sense of justice, decreases the possibility of impunity and allows the victim to begin the process of psychological recovery;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Reminds the Member States of the importance to ensure that the residence status is not an obstacle to the rights under the Directive; welcomes the steps taken by some Member States in order to give undocumented victims a safe option to report crimes without being reported to immigration authorities or to obtain a residence permit on humanitarian grounds; reminds the Member States in this context of Article 59 of the Istanbul Convention which states that victims in the scope of the Convention can be granted a renewable residence permit if the competent authority considers that their stay is necessary for their cooperation in criminal proceedings; considers that granting stays of deportation to all undocumented victims for the duration of criminal proceedings or granting temporary residence permits could encourage them to report crimes and counter the climate of impunity for perpetrators;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses that abusive fathers can never be good fathers and therefore calls on the Member States to take steps to take away their right to custody and/or to see their children;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Member States to make the procedures more flexible and speed up the process of forwarding the judgments for gender-based violence handed down in a country, particularly in the case of international couples, so that the authorities in the countries which the spouses come from can act accordingly as soon as possible and prevent custody of their children being given to a father accused of gender- based violence in another country;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all individual assessments are gender sensitive and to pay particular attention to the individual assessment of minors and of child victims of human trafficking;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to pay particular attention to the individual assessment of minors and of child victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide gender sensitive training programmes and guidelines for law practitioners, police officers, prosecutors and judge, judges and health professionals to ensuring that they are better able to execute individual assessments without delay once a crime has taken place, to avoid further victimisation or secondary victimisation experienced by victims of crime and to empower victims, as a means of reducing post-traumatic stress; stresses that such training should also be included in education programmes and that compulsory training should be available, on a regular basis, to all professionals involved in dealing with victims of crime, in order to develop a victim-oriented mind- set; trainings should include guidance on how to ensure the victims' right to be protected from coercion, abuse and violence and the right to respect their body and mental health integrity;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Member States to monitor the conditions that the children of women murdered by their husbands find themselves in and the problems that they face and to take the requisite measures to meet their needs with regard to education, housing, social and psychological support, etc.;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Member States to guarantee assistance to victims from victim support services before, during and after criminal proceedings, including psychological support; deplores th and health care and to ensure a gender perspective factross all support services; deplores that in some countries, governments rely heavily on NGOs to provide’s for the provision of key support services to victims (‘volunteerism’);
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Member States to guarantee support services such as trauma support and counselling and access to necessary healthcare, including sexual and reproductive health as a part of targeted support for victims withho have specific needs, such as children,women and people with disabilities;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the 112 emergency hotline is fully accessible for disabled persons and that awareness of it is raised through campaigns;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35 b. Calls on Member States to set up mechanisms for recovering adequate compensation payments from the offender;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Again repeats its call on the European Commission to present as soon as possible a European strategy for preventing and combating all forms of gender-based violence, including an EU legislative act to end and prevent violence against women in all Member States;