Activities of Pier Antonio PANZERI related to 2014/2216(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Annual report on human rights and democracy in the world 2013 and the EU policy on the matter (debate) IT
Annual report on human rights and democracy in the world 2013 and the EU policy on the matter (debate) IT
Reports (1)
REPORT on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2013 and the European Union’s policy on the matter PDF (459 KB) DOC (407 KB)
Amendments (30)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)
Citation 27 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 10 October 2013 on Caste-Based Discrimination (2013/2676(RSP))
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. Whereas Article 25 of the UDHR recognises the right of every person to an adequate standard of living, in which motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance; whereas the UN Child Rights Convention celebrates its 25th Anniversary as the most widely ratified human rights treaty;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas Article 16 of the UDHR states that men and women of full ages, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family, and are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, both during marriage and at its dissolution; and that marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. Whereas Article 25 of the UDHR recognises the right of every person to an adequate standard of living, in which motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance; whereas the UN Child Rights Convention celebrates its 25th Anniversary as the most widely ratified human rights treaty;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the EEAS and the Commission to prepare a proper implementation report on the first EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2012-2014), and calls on the VP/HR and the EEAS to engage the Member States, the Commission, Parliament and, civil society, Regional and International Organisations in the review and consultations leading to the adoption of a new Action Plan, to take effect in early 2015; welcomes the discussions aimed at achieving better prioritisation of objectives in the new Action Plan, but warns against lowering the level of ambition in terms of mainstreaming human rights across EU policy areas;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the VP/HR in coordination with all the Commissioners to draft a program that mainstreams human rights into various EU activities, particularly into the areas of development, migration, environment, employment, internet data protection, trade, investments, technology, and business.
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Requests that the Council institutionalise the position of the EUSR for Human Rights so that it can become a permanent function with the adequate means to fully endorse his/her role, such as using public diplomacy;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Commends the EEAS for the successful completion of the first cycle of human rights country strategies developed with a strong emphasis on ownership at the EU Delegation level; regrets, however, the continued lack of transparency regarding the contents of the country strategies; encourages the EEAS to adopt indicators to evaluate their efficacy, and to treat the country sections of the Annual Report more explicitly as constituting implementation reports on the country strategies; Recalls the EU commitment to ensure that the human rights country strategies are taken into account at all policy-making levels with third countries, including human rights and political dialogues, as well as implementing and programming financial assistance;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses the need for the EU Delegations to draft an annual report of their activities in the field of human rights that will be presented at the European Parliament.
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. RemindUrges the EEAS and the Council, nevertheless, of the challenge of implementation and consequently of the need to evaluate the implementation ofto undertake appropriate actions to implement and evaluate the EU Guidelines at the country level; encourages the EEAS and Member States also to engage in continued training and awareness-raising among EEAS and EU Delegation staff, as well as among Member State diplomats, so as to make sure that the EU human rights guidelines have the intended effect in shaping actual policies on the ground;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Requests that the EEAS and the EU Delegations engage with human rights defenders and NGOs in a pragmatic political dialogue aimed at finding the best ways to support an enabling environment for their work; requests that the EU enhance its active diplomacy in third countries and strengthen the position of the human rights focal points in order to mainstream human rights in the daily political work of the EU Delegation, by systematically raising the names of political prisoners and engaging in trial monitoring and visits to prisons; request a systematic drafting of an updated list of political prisoners; stresses the need for the EU to use public diplomacy to support human rights defenders and to call for the release of imprisoned human rights activists;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Reiterates its full support for the work of the ICC in its role to end the impunity of the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern before the international community; remains vigilant regarding any attempts to undermine its legitimacy; c and to provide justice for the victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide; remains vigilant regarding any attempts to undermine its legitimacy or independence; urges the EU and EU Member states to cooperate with the Court and provide it with strong diplomatic and political support in bilateral relations and in all fora, including the UN; expresses its concerns that several arrest warrants have still not been executed, including those concerning President of Sudan, Omar Al Bashir. Considers the increasing number of states parties to be an important development in strengthening the universality of the Court; welcomes the ratification of the Rome Statute by Côte d’'Ivoire in February 2013; but regrets that no State has ratified the Statute this year; encourages the EU and EU member states to increase their efforts in promoting the ratification and implementation of the Rome Statute in order to widen access to justice for victims of serious crimes under international law;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Expresses its concern at the reported rise in the number of executions globally from 2012 to 2013, despite the fact that executions are confined to an increasingly small minority of countries; calls on the EU to take due action regarding the continuously high rate of executions in China and Iran, the resumption of executions in 2013 in Indonesia, Kuwait, Nigeria and Vietnam, the execution of minors in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 2013, as well as the marked increase in reported executions in Iraq and in Saudi Arabia;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Reiterates its call for the systematic inclusion of human rights clauses in the EU’'s international agreements, including trade agreements, concluded and to be concluded with third countries, and calls for effective monitoring of their application as well as for reporting back to the relevant committee of Parliament on the agreements’' human rights aspects;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Requests that the European Union consider both the European social dialogue model and the respect of the ILO standards on employment as a reference point in these agreements.
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52 a (new)
Paragraph 52 a (new)
52a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to raise violations of freedom of assembly and association at every level of political dialogue, including at the highest level, when other forms of dialogues, such as the human rights dialogue, have failed to bring any concrete improvement on the ground; urges the EU and its Member States to use these dialogues to raise individual cases of concern, particularly of all those imprisoned only for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and association;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52 b (new)
Paragraph 52 b (new)
52b. Encourages representatives of the EU Delegations and Member State embassies to monitor trials of human rights defenders and all those detained only for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and association, and when relevant publicly condemn the lack of respect for fair trial rights;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52 c (new)
Paragraph 52 c (new)
52c. Calls on the EU to make the respect and promotion of freedom of assembly and association a key priority in the future EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy, and lay out specific actions in that regard, as freedom of assembly and association are vital elements for democracy and an open society;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Welcomes the EU’s support for UN resolutions on gender issues, notably on the elimination of violence against women and girls, on discrimination against women, on the role of freedom of expression and opinion in women’s empowerment, and for the UN’s statements on early and forced marriage and on female genital mutilation;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Reaffirms its condemnation of all forms of abuse and violence against women and girls, especially the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and domestic violence; calls on all Council of Europe member states, accordingly, to sign and ratify the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women; calls on the EU as such to take steps to accede to the Convention in order to ensure coherence between EU internal and external action on violence against women and girls;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. Strongly condemns the use of sexual violence against women and girls as a tactic of war, including crimes such as mass rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, gender- based forms of persecution including female genital mutilation, trafficking, early and forced marriages, honour killings and all other forms of sexual violence of comparable gravity; remains particularly concerned in this regard at the situation in the Great Lakes region of Africa and in Syria for example; expresses its support for the work of UN Women, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and the UN Special Representative on Conflict- related Sexual Violence;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. Recalls the EU’'s commitment to the mainstreaming of human rights and gender aspects in CSDP missions in line with the landmark UN Security Council resolutions 1325 and 1820 on women, peace and security; reiterates, in this respect, its call for the EU and its Member States to support, in the process of building sustainable reconciliation, the systematic participation of women as a vital component of peace processes, and to recognise the need to mainstream gender perspectives in conflict prevention, peacekeeping operations, humanitarian assistance and post-conflict reconstruction; and democratic transition process;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 21 b (new)
Subheading 21 b (new)
Caste-based discrimination
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65 b (new)
Paragraph 65 b (new)
65b. Condemns the continuing human rights violations committed against people suffering from caste hierarchies and caste-based discrimination, including the denial of equality and of access to the legal system and to employment, continued segregation and caste-induced barriers to the achievement of basic human rights and development; Calls on the EU to adopt a policy to direct action for elimination of caste based discrimination; and include policy objectives on caste-based discrimination in its new EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Welcomes the ratifications of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD); reiterates the importance of efficient implementation both by the Member States and the EU institutions and stresses, in particular, the need to credibly integrate the rights of persons with disabilities into all EU policy instruments, especially with regard to development cooperation and into the very policies of the EU, emphasising the prescriptive and horizontal nature of this issue;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
71. Welcomes the EU’'s cooperation with UNICEF, which has resulted in a toolkit for the mainstreaming of children’'s rights in development cooperation and in support to key MDGs and Child Protection programmes for realizing children rights specially in fragile contexts; welcomes the use of the Nobel Prize money awarded to the EU to assist children in conflict situations; welcomes the EU’'s participation in the October 2013 Third Global Conference on Child Labour held in Brasilia, and its participation in the negotiation of the tripartite declaration on child labour;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to continue to take action regarding the rights of the child, with a specific focus on violence against children, including torture, as cases of torture and detention of children have been reported by organisations such as UNICEF and Amnesty International; calls for particular focus on the issues of forced child labour, child marriage and harmful practices, enlistment of children in armed groups and their disarmament, rehabilitation and subsequent reintegration, as well as placing the issue of child witchcraft on the agenda of human rights dialogues with the countries concerned; stresses the importance of prioritising children’s rights within EU external policy;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Reiterates the need to step up efforts to implement the Revised Implementation Strategy of the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflict; encourages the EU to further deepen its cooperation with the UN Special Representative for Children affected by Armed Conflicts supporting the Action Plans and the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanisms - MRM; calls for the universal ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and notably the third Optional Protocol which will allow children to submit their complaints to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. Stresses the urgent need to develop stronger policies at Union level to address the pressing issues related to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in a manner consistent with international human rights law and fundamental human dignity, and calls on the EU to guarantee effective common standards for reception procedures throughout the Union in order to protect unaccompanied minors and the most vulnerable; invites the VP/HR, the Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs and the EEAS to promote a true spirit of cooperation and equitable burden- sharing among Member States in order to tackle the multiple challenges that persist in this regard; recalls the commitment of the Commission to developing adequate legal migration channels, and, to this end, calls for a revision of the Dublin Regulation, which places disproportionate responsibility on Member States for the Union’s external borders and hinders migrants’ ability to seek and obtain asylum;
Amendment 481 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. Calls for a review of the Guidelines for the European Parliament’'s Interparliamentary Delegations on promoting human rights and democracy, to be conducted by the Conference of Delegation Chairs, in cooperation with the Subcommittee on Human Rights; recommends, in this context, a more systematic and transparent practice of raising human rights issues, especially the individual cases referred to in Parliament’'s resolutions, during delegation visits to third countries, and of reporting on actions taken to the Subcommittee on Human Rights in writing, and, where politically warranted, through a specific debriefing session;