12 Amendments of Brice HORTEFEUX related to 2018/2103(INI)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women and girls in the EU may experience structural gender inequality in a variety of forms and in a range of settings – including gender discrimination, gender- based violence and misogynistic hate speech – which may severely limits their ability to enjoy their rights and to participate on an equal footing in society; whereas in 2017, the #MeToo movement raised awareness of the scale and intensity of the sexual harassment and sexual and gender- based violence women face;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls in this regard on EU Member States to consider six maina number of areas of intervention to step up their commitment to safeguarding the dignity and rights of women and girls, as suggested in the FRA report: empowering equality bodies to deal with the entire range of issues that impacts on women’s rights, from gender equality to violence against women; improving safety online; promoting gender equality in education and life-long learning more effectively; introducing gender quotas as a bold step towards positive action; mainstreaming gender equality in the coordination of economic policies across the EU through the European Semester;and improving data collection and dissemination of knowledge on all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses its concern that few specific legal provisions to ensure the protection of media actors from violence, threats and pressures can be identified at national level in EU Member States; expresses its concern over the precarious working conditions for journalists and the amount of psychological violence they witness, which compromises their ability to work appropriately and thus hampers media freedomdeplores the deterioration of working conditions for journalists, which can undermine quality journalism and the expression of journalistic diversity;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Points out that EU Member States should address adequately discriminatory or violent reactions against the schooling of migrant and refugee children, both through law enforcement and by promoting mutual understanding and social cohesion; calls on Member States to structurally address respect for diversity, intercultural understanding and human rights, including children’s rights, in regular school curricula;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to continue their efforts to ensure the effective practical enforcement of the Race Equality Directive (2000/43/EC)4 and to ensure effective enforcement of the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia to tackle persisting discrimination against Roma, anti- Semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia and anti-Gypsyism, as well as more recent phenomena such as anti-white racism and violence against Christians; points out that the Member States should review their national integration strategies to ensure that all people regardless of race, ethnicity, religion gender or any other status are empowered to engage actively in the process of inclusion by promoting their social, economic, political and cultural participation in society; __________________ 4 OJ C 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22. OJ C 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22.
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls that the Commission, as guardian of the Treaties under Article 17 of the TEU, has the legitimacy and authority to ensure that all Member States are upholding the principles of the rule of law and the other values referred to in Article 2 of the TEU; insists that Article 7 of the TEU should be employed if all other remedies have failed;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Points out that improving the quality, independence and efficiency of national justice systems, in particular judges, prosecutors and lawyers, remains a key priority of the European Union; stresses that there is an urgent need to introduce a gender-sensitive perspective into the Member States’ legal and judicial systems, including the development and institutionalisation of the gender component into training programmes for all judiciary staff;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Expresses concern about persistent fundamental rights challenges in the area of migration, with regard to access to territory, reception conditions, asylum procedures, immigration detention and protection of unaccompanied children;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on Member States to introduce specific safeguards to guarantee that the interoperability of large-scale IT systems does not lead to adverse effects on the rights of children or vulnerable persons, such as applicants for and beneficiaries of international protection, or to discriminatory profiling; calls on Member States to ensure that the implementation of interoperability aims at fulfilling a child protection objective, such as identifying missing children and assisting family reunification;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Stresses that Member States should consider putting into place a combination of protection-related schemes, such as resettlement and humanitarian admission, and regular mobility schemes to promote legal pathways to the EU for persons in need of protection; recalls that any action undertaken by a Member State, when acting within the scope of EU law, must respect the rights and principles of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls on EU Member States to effectively ensure the right to asylum and to accept relocation of refugees from Member States most affected by high numbers of arrivalfor refugees and to reach an effective solution with a view to limiting irregular external border crossings and secondary flows; also calls on Member States to respect the principle of non-refoulement for migrants requesting asylum for the first time and introduce adequate procedural safeguards to their asylum and border procedures, including safeguards against collective expulsion;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recognises the work carried out by different NGOs operating in the Mediterranean in their effort to save lives and provide humanitarian assistance to those in need; calls on Member States to transpose the humanitarian assistance exemption provided for in the Facilitation Directive with the objective of reducing the unintended consequences the Facilitators’ Package has for citizens providing humanitarian assistance to migrants and on the social cohesion of the receiving societcalls on Member States to apply, on a case-by-case basis, the humanitarian assistance exemption provided for in the 2002 Directive governing the entry, transit and residence of irregular migrants and in accordance with their national legislation; encourages Member States to step up their cooperation with regard to combating smugglers and traffickers in their territory;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27