6 Amendments of Jean LAMBERT related to 2008/2336(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Considers that necessary measures should be taken to ensure that human rights issues are followed in a more systematic way by the EU missions, for instance by appointing human rights focal points and including guidelines on human rights and their implementation in EU mission staff training programmes;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Welcomes the ongoing elaboration of new guidelines aimed at the establishment of a comprehensive strategy for strengthening EU action to enhance women's security, especially in conflict- affected countries; is looking forward to receiving those guidelines as soon as they are adopted, and underlines tunderlines the importance of involving Parliament in drafting new guidelines and calls, in this regard, for a mechanism to be established importance of involving Parliament in drafting new guidelinesn future for consultation with Parliament both when the new guidelines are being drawn up and when they are being assessed and revised;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Draws attention, nonetheless, to the existing gaps in the development of the Union's policies and actions for the human rights of women; finds these gaps reflected in the Council's report insofar as when assessing various specific areas it fails to go into detail; suggests that the Council should appoint an EU special envoy for women’s rights to strengthen its action in this area;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 b (new)
Paragraph 69 b (new)
69b. Welcomes the 2008 revised version of the EU Guidelines on human rights defenders; highlights the inclusion of provisions aimed at improving the support given to, and the protection of, human rights defenders by EU missions, such as local strategies for the implementation of the guidelines, local working groups on human rights and the organisation of meetings at least once a year between human rights defenders and diplomats; welcomes at the same time the inclusion of the possibility of issuing emergency visas and facilitating temporary shelter in the EU Member States as measures to provide swift assistance and protection to human rights defenders in danger in third countries;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Once again calls on the Council and the Member States to consider in concrete terms the matter of emergency visas for human rights defenders by including a clear reference to the specific situation of human rights defenders in the new Common Code on Visas, thereby creating a specific and accelerated visa procedure which could draw on the experience of the Irish and Spanish governments in this matter; notes the discussion concerning the issuing of visas for the temporary relocation of human rights defenders who are at immediate risk or in need of respite, and calls on COHOM to take further steps; considers that the confidentiality of European Union demarches in favour of human rights defenders is sometimes useful but asks that, despite that confidentiality, European Union local staff should always confidentially inform NGOs on the ground about such demarchystematically and confidentially provide all information concerning those demarches to the NGOs on the ground, to the human rights defenders and/or their families;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 115
Paragraph 115
115. Reminds Parliament's delegations visiting third countries that they should systematically include in the agenda of their visits to third countries an interparliamean interparliamentary debate on the human rights situation, as well as meetings with human rights defenders, in order to learn first-hand about the human rights situation in the countary debate on the human rights situaconcerned and to provide them, where appropriate, with international visibility and protection;