13 Amendments of Francisco José MILLÁN MON related to 2021/2181(INI)
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
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4. Underlines the importance of the EU’s support to mediation and electoral processes through its assistance to domestic observers and through the election observations missions, in which Parliament plays an active role; urges the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the European External Action Service to send the reports drawn up by the Exploratory Missions in due time and in the prescribed manner; highlights the need for effective follow-up to the missions’ reports and recommendations, in order to strengthen democratic standards and facilitate future peaceful democratic transitions in the countries concerned; recalls Parliament’s political mediation tools, which could be developed further to help in this overall approach;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that the dialogues should be one of the tools in the EU’s comprehensive engagement in human rights and that they should not be seen as a replacement for human rights-related discussions at high-level forums with all relevant actors and, in particular, with the EU’s strategic partners; calls on the EEAS to share the information about envisaged dialogues – both bilateral and within international forums – sufficiently in advance with Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Subcommittee on Human Rights and with civil society organisations;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
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14. Condemns the increase in attempts to undermine the functioning of the UN’s bodies, in particular the Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and to obstruct the rules-based international order; regrets the fact that countries with autocratic regimes and which have repeatedly breached human right have been able to join the UNHRC; regrets Venezuela’s involvement as a full member of the UNHRC between 2020 and 2022, when the UN itself, in its 2020 report, has endorsed reports of crimes against humanity committed by the Venezuelan Government, and points out that there is a clear lack of consistency in this situation; calls on the EU Member States and the EU’s democratic partners to decisively counter these attempts and to strengthen their response to serious violations of international human rights; stresses that state sovereignty cannot be used as a pretext to avoid human rights monitoring by the international community since, according to the Founding Charter of the United Nations and UN General Assembly resolution 60/251, all states, regardless of their political, economic and cultural systems, have the duty and the responsibility to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, and the UN Human Rights Council should address situations of violations of human rights;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
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17. Highlights the highly negative impactconsequences of COVID-19, which has disproportionately affectedespecially on women, LGBTIQ persons and vulnerable groups, including the poor, children, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, minorities, informal workers and persons in prison or detention, among others; stresses that vulnerable groups are also more affected by the negative economic and social consequences of the pandemic, as well as the restrictions in access to healthcare and education; notes with concern the increase in hate speech against certain vulnerable groups, in particular minority groups;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 22
22. Highlights the interdependenceIs aware of the relationship between human rights, a healthy environment and combating climate change, and welcomnotes the UN’s call for global recognition of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment; underlines the vital role played by environmental human rights defenders and local and indigenous populations in preserving such an environment, despite the threats of violence that they often face from those responsible for, and profiting from, environmentally harmful practices; encourages the EU and the Member States to promote the recognition of ecocide as an international crime under the Rome Statute of the ICC, and requests that the Commission study the relevance of ecocide to EU law and EU diplomacy;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
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25. Regrets the fact that the overall progress in women’s rights is far below the UN countries’ commitments included in the Beijing Convention in 1995 and is concerned at the trend of backsliding in progress achieved; in this regard, is extremely concerned about the deterioration of the right of every individual to have full control over matters related to their sexuality, as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights, without coercion and discrimination, in particular with regard to safe and free access to abortion; calls for the EU and its Member States to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights as part of their international commitments and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 26
26. Notes that in 2020, the situation of the victims of trafficking, the majority of whom are women, has worsened considerably, since the COVID-19 pandemic has left the victims of trafficking in an even more vulnerable position; welcomes the launch of the EU’s Strategy on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (2021–2025); stresses in particular the need to increase the fight against organised crime groups that traffic people; underlines that the identification of the victims of trafficking has become even more complicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore calls for the EU and its Member States to intensify their efforts in international judicial and law enforcement cooperation to prevent trafficking and identify victims, avoiding their criminalisation, in close cooperation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, NGOs and civil society organisations dedicated to the protection of victims;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
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28. Reiterates its strong condemnation of discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance, persecution and killings linked to race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, disability, caste, religion, belief, age, sexual orientation and gender identity that continue to be a major problem in many countries; welcomes the launch of the EU’s anti-racism action plan 2020–2025, which recognises not only the individual and social dimensions, but also the structural nature of this phenomenon; stresses that in spite of 20 years of work since the signing of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action in 2001, racism, discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance continue to be a scourge aroundin many countries of the world and calls for a zero-tolerance approach to them;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 29
29. Underlines the difficult situation, discrimination and threats to life faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people around the world; welcomes the factin various countries of the world; is aware that the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020– 2025 includes the EU’s commitment to include LGBTIQ issues in all its external policiesy, including support under the NDICI – Global Europe Instrument and Instrument for Pre-Accession funds;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
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30. Fully supports the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to hold a belief, or not to believe, and the right to manifest and to change or leave one’s religion or belief without fear of violence, persecution, or discrimination; deplorecondemns the persecution suffered by minorities on the grounds of belief or religion in many places in the world; stresses that Christians are the most persecuted group for their faith; condemns the abuse of blasphemy laws to perpetuate discrimination and deplores the use of religion and religious institutions to the detriment of human rights through the persecution, including by legal means, of belief or religious minorities, women and LGBTIQ persons;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 33
33. Calls for the extension of the scope of the EU GHRSR-EU Magnitsky Act to include acts of corruption in order to ensure the effective targeting of the economic and financial enablers of human rights abusers; stresses the need for an effective strategy to implement the EU GHRSR-EU Magnitsky Act, consistent both with the EU’s other external policies, in particular with its human rights policies, and with the existing international frameworks on sanctions, international criminal law and international humanitarian law; points out that the consistent and uniform application of restrictive measures in all Member States is a precondition for the credibility and effectiveness of the EU’s external action; welcomes the Commission’s announcement that in 2021, it will conduct a review of practices undermining sanctions and of the existing reporting obligations for Member States on their implementation and enforcement; urges the Commission, in its role as guardian of the Treaties, and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, as those responsible for the unity, consistency and effectiveness of the EU’s external policy, to ensure that national responses to infringements of restrictive measures adopted by the EU are effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Reaffirms the inalienable human rights of migrants and refugees, and calls for the EU and its Member States to fully uphold them in their cooperation with third countries, both in terms of the establishment of high legal standards and, equally importantly, their operationalisation in order to ensure the effective protection of these rights in practice; reiterates its call on the Commission to carry out a review of the human rights impact of migration policy frameworks and of the EU’s cooperation on migration with third countries; underlines the risks related to informal arrangements on return and readmission, which are not subject to judicial scrutiny and therefore do not allow for effective redress for human rights violations suffered by migrants and asylum seekers;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Stresses the vital role of social platforms in advancing freedom of expression and of organisation, but underlines the need for proper safeguards to prevent, on the one hand, the unjustified censorship of users’ content, including automated censorship, and, on the other, the spread of terrorist or hate speech, fake news and disinformation; welcomes the adoption of the new EU rules on the control of exports, brokering, technical assistance, transit and transfer of dual-use technologies;