12 Amendments of Jaime MAYOR OREJA related to 2007/2145(INI)
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Stresses the need for a global, human rights based approach to non- discrimination reflecting the European dimension of discrimination against the Roma; takes the view that a European Union framework strategy for Roma inclusion should seek to tackle the following problems: - segregation of the Roma as regards access to housing, and their exclusion from employment and public education, - frequent denial of their rights by public authorities and their political under- representation, - the very inadequate guarantees against racial discrimination at local level and too few appropriate integration programmes; blatant discrimination in health care, including forced sterilisation and a lack of appropriate information on family planning and access to contraceptionunsatisfactory access to health care, - discrimination by the police, in particular (deliberate) shootings, arson, assault or other violent acts, which are not impartially investigated and prosecutions are not brought; the police’s racial profiling – inter alia by taking fingerprints or other forms of data collection – and wide discretionary powers, which give rise to abuses with no disciplinary consequences; training and awareness-raising programmes on non- discrimination by the police, which are largely non-existent;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Stresses the importance of ensuring that third-country nationals entering European Union territory and EU citizens are aware of the existing laws and social agreements on gender equality in the society of host countriesbetween men and women, so as to rule out discriminatory situations resulting from a lack of awareness of the legal and social context;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 a (new)
Paragraph 66 a (new)
66a. Calls on the Member States to preserve the guarantees for access to pastoral care for the military personnel;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
Paragraph 67
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68
Paragraph 68
68. Expresses shockdeep concern at the tragic fate of those who lose their lives in an attempt to reach European territory; since channels for legal migration to the European Union from third countries are virtually non- existent, migrants are left to the mercy of smugglers or traffickers and/or risk their lives in order to travel to Europe, leading to thousands of deaths each year;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce realisticeffective, long- term migration policies and more flexible rules governing asylum seekers, rather than focusing all their efforts on preventing illegal immigration, deploying to that end a growing range of frontier checks which lack the mechanisms needed to identify potential asylum seekers at Europe’s borders, a shortcoming which leads to violations of the principle of non- refoulement, as enshrined in the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
Paragraph 80
80. Asks that particular attention be paid to the situation of refugee, asylum seeker and migrant children, and to the children of parents who are asylum seekers, refugees or undocumented, so that every child can fully exercise its rights, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the right to non- discrimination, with the interests of the child being given the highest possible priority in all actions taken, however fully acknowledging the important role and the responsibility of parents; condemns the development in some Member States of a two-tier education system and different care and assistance arrangements for children of nationals and non-nationals; condemns situations in which higher priority is given to the application of immigration laws than to arrangements designed to protect the child; calls on Member States to respect the right of the parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96
Paragraph 96
96. Takes the view that freedom of the press should always be exercised within the limits of the law, but is at the same time concerned by the fact that the temptation in recent years to exclude certain subjects, from public debate, and in particular the attempt to relegate religion to a strictly private ambit, leads in many Member States to a form of unofficial censorship or to self-censorship by the media;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 97
Paragraph 97
97. Condemns all forms of violence against children, and stresses in particular the need to combat the forms of violence most frequently encountered in the Member States: paedophilia, sexual abuse, domestic violence, corporal punishment in schools and other forms of abuse in institutions; calls for reliable, confidential, accessible mechanisms to be put in place to allow children in all the Member States to report violence, and for those mechanisms to be given wide publicity;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 98
Paragraph 98
98. Calls on the Member States to implement drasticeffective measures to forbid the various forms of exploitation of children, including for the purposes of prostitution, for the production of pedo-pornographic material, drug trafficking, pickpocketing and begging, and any other form of exploitation;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 102
Paragraph 102
102. Recalls that almost 20% of children in the EU live beneath the poverty threshold and that the most vulnerable of them come from single-parent families and/or have parents who were born abroad; stresses that combating family break-ups should be considered as an effective measure to achieve the proclaimed goal of the EU leaders to fight against child poverty; stresses in consequence that appropriate assistance measures, centred around the needs of the child, must be taken, including support measures for families, and calls on the Member States, particularly those with the highest levels of poverty, to adopt ambitious, achievable targets for reducing child poverty;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 110
Paragraph 110
110. Calls on the Member States to take action to guarantee the right of children to a family and to act accordingly to find effective solutions to prevent abandonment of children; calls on them to move away from the policy of large institutions and instead to reform, develop and reinforce effective alternative child-care structures based on the family and the community; calls on the Commission to study and propose a common definition of international adoption and an EU policy in this area;