Activities of Rui TAVARES related to 2012/2136(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on human rights PDF (224 KB) DOC (139 KB)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, although the financial and economic crisis affects, to varying degrees, all regions in the world, including the European Union, the scope of the present resolution is to assess the impact of the financial and economic crisis in third countries, with the main focus on developing and least developed countries;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the financial crisis and the budgetary pressure that it has put on the governments of some EU Member States has resulted in a wave of privatizations whereby public companies have been sold to state companies of authoritarian regimes, thus creating a situation of financial dependence on third countries by the governments of these EU Member States; whereas this dependence has consequences for the development of the human rights situation, both in the Member State and these countries and also in other countries where changes in the diplomatic influence of the EU in regard to other global powers may be decisive with regard to the respect and upholding of human rights;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the financial and economic crisis has become intertwined with numerous other crises, for instance food, ecological, energy and social crises;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the roots of the crisis lie in factors varying from country to country, there is undeniably a link between corruption and the financial crisis; whereas corruption impedes democracy and the rule of law and directly affects the population since it increases the price for public services, lowers its quality and often restricts poor people's access to water, education, health care and many other key services;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the current economic crisis carries significant implications for democracy and governance assistance by the European Union and other major donors; whereas economic difficulties for donor countries are likely to encourage reductions in overseas assistance, but whereas the global crisis makes it all the more important to sustain support for political reform and democratic development in third countries;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. calls on the EU Member States affected by the crisis not to make concessions on human rights principles in their diplomatic relations with third countries because of budgetary and fiscal pressures at home and growing foreign or external dependence, including any occasional affiliation with authoritarian regimes;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Stresses that the events of the Arab Spring have revealed a number of shortfalls in EU policies towards the region, including the situation of young people, who face mass unemployment and a lack of prospects in their countries; calls on the EU to better tackle the effects of financial crisis in third countries, including by taking into consideration reports by civil society organisations;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Emphasises that there is a need for further research and analysis on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on various regions, including in the EU and in its relations with third countries, and a need to improve the monitoring of early signals of global and regional crises; stresses that disaggregated data should be more prominent in research and policy planning in order to better capture and address the problems facing the poorest and most vulnerable members of society; calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide financial support for the UN innovation laboratory ‘Global Pulse’, launched by the UN Secretary General in 2009, with the aim of collecting and analysing the data required for a better understanding of the impact of the financial and economic crisis on vulnerable sections of the population and providing appropriate policy responses;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.