21 Amendments of Barbara LOCHBIHLER related to 2012/2036(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas common international values and norms aim to ensure peace, the protection of human rights, security and prosperity in the world, and to share the benefits of globalisation among all on a more equitable basis;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the EU is committed to effective multilateralism with a strong UN at its core, since this is essential in order to address global challenges such as the protection of the universality and indivisibility of human rights, poverty reduction, climate change, environmental degradation and peace;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas human rights and democracy are founding values of the EU and principles and objectives of European external action, including international trade; whereas respect for, and the promotion and safeguarding of, the universality and indivisibility of human rights are cornerstones of European unity and integrity;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas all countries and all citizens as well as the international community itself couldo benefit from continued support for democratic processes; whereas they are confronted with challenges of building, restoring and preserving democracies;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to enhance its contribution to the work of the UN by working with partners towards fully implementing the UNGA resolution on the modalities of the EU's participation in the work of UNGA; continue to support, including financially, the work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) to engage more actively with strategic and other bilateral and multilateral partners in order to promote effective solutions to problems which affect both EU citizens and the world at large, includingespecially the poorest and most vulnerable;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) to emphasise the need factively support a comprehensive reform of the UNSC in order to strengthen its legitimacy, regional representation and effectiveness; in leading by example, to enact concrete steps towards achieving a common EU seat in a reformed UNSC in the foreseable future, and towards the abolition of the veto right of whichever UNSC member;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) to advance cooperation and build partnerships in the area of conflict prevention and civilian and military crisis management with the UN, the OSCE, the African Union (AU), the Arab League and other international and regional organisations, as well as with civil society; to improve regional organisations‘ peace- building capacities, inter alia through the proposed EU–UN– AU and EU–UN– ECOWAS tri- partnerships;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to promote the collaboration of different actors in the peace-building architecture, notably between the UN Secretariat, the UNSC, the UNGA, and the UN member states involved in peace-building missions; to pursue efforts to ensure that EU Member States contribute to UN peace missions with special capacities, such as transport and logistics, and training; to consider the option of launching a military operation under CSDP including the possible deployment of a battlegroup to precede a UN peace mission if requested by the UN; to support the development of conflict managementprevention and management as well as mediation, peacekeeping and peacebuilding capacity at national and subnational levels;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) to focus, in line with UNSC Resolution 1325, on the need to ensure the full participation of women at all stages of peace processes and to systematically engage them in preventive diplomacy, early warning and security monitoring;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) to work with partners to ensure that this concept becomes part of prevention and post-conflict reconstruction, and to assist states in building capacities to this effectprimarily focuses on prevention, but also on post-conflict reconstruction, in line with the tripartition of R2P into responsibility to prevent, to protect and to rebuild; to assist states in building capacities to this effect, among others by strengthening early-warning mechanisms within the UN and the UN's mediation capacities like the Mediation Support Unit (MSU) of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO); to encourage, in cooperation with UN member states, the establishment of focal points to monitor emerging conflict situations, and to build relevant capacities in EU delegations;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 7
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 7
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point -v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point -v a (new)
(-v a) to strengthen the international criminal justice system, to further promote and financially support the ICC as the only permanent court with jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes; to work towards the widespread ratification of the Rome Statute and the Kampala Protocol; to support also existing country-specific UN criminal courts as a temporary means to tackle the most serious crimes committed in specific circumstances; to fight impunity at all levels;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point z a (new)
(z a) to support the VP/HR, the Commission and the European Parliament in completing the planned Human Rights review of the EU, including the nomination of an EU Special Representative on Human Rights; to work towards defining the EUSR's role on all levels, including the UN and especially in the UNHRC;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point z b (new)
(z b) to address, on all UN levels including UNGA and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the issue of environmentally induced internal and cross-border displacement, in order to find common definitions and legal solutions for all kinds of displacement, be it after sudden-onset catastrophes, slow environmental degradation or the sinking of small island states; to adopt a human- rights-based approach in doing so, by analysing the numerous links between climate-induced displacement and different human rights, and the advantages that human rights offer in addressing environmentally induced displacement by bridging the different legal and scientific aspects of the issue;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point z b (new)
(z b) to establish a UN commission of inquiry to investigate crimes against humanity in the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, which - according to reports, including by the former UN Special Representative - continue to be committed with impunity and have been committed for decades;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point z c (new)
(z c) to address, with a view to increasing EU credibility in the UN, particularly at UNHRC level, human rights violations committed within the EU or by EU actors, such as the running of secret prisons in the so-called 'fight against terrorism', the organisation of secret rendition flights in the same context, or the export of arms and dual-use technology to authoritarian regimes or regimes involved or in danger to get involved in armed conflicts or repression;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z d (new)
Paragraph 1 – point z d (new)
(z d) to continue its endeavours in the UNGA and its Committees on the call for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, which continues to receive increasing support from an ever-larger number of countries, on the rights of the child, free media and religious tolerance; to support all efforts to eradicate torture; to particularly encourage the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on Torture;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ad a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ad a (new)
(ad a) to mainstream EU development- related policies at all levels, in order to avoid contradictions between pro- development policies on the one hand, and obstacles to partner countries' development in bi-, pluri- and multilateral agreements and fora on the other; to pay particular attention to human rights and development implications in free trade agreements, and during negotiations at WTO level;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ae
Paragraph 1 – point ae
(ae) to ensure that the share of overall European aid channelled through the EU budget is not reduced and retains a poverty focus; to ensure that the goal of reserving 0,7% of GDP for Official Development Aid is met, and that possible financial contributions to measures of mitigation and adaptation to climate change in developing countries, in accordance with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, are not included but add up to those 0,7% of GDP; to consider earmarking 20 % of all EU assistance for basic social services as defined by the UN, with a special focus on free and universal access to primary health care and basic education, taking into account the EU's support for the ‘Education for All’ initiative and its commitments to playing a role in global health;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ae a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ae a (new)
(ae a) to push for a widespread ratification of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security; in general, to address more intensively the issue of land grabbing and its consequences on the right to food, including by highlighting and countering the causal link between land grabbing and European policies and practices in areas such as the production of bio fuels, industrial livestock farming and the consequent massive import of protein crops;