6 Amendments of Birgit SIPPEL related to 2015/2340(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that law enforcement personnel, including agencies such as Frontex, are provided with adequate training in THBthe EU Borders Agency, Europol, and EASO, as well as other officials likely to come into contact with victims or potential victims of trafficking in human beings, are provided with adequate training in THB, so as to help them identify and deal with these victims, with an emphasis on the special needs of trafficked women, children and other vulnerable groups, the respect for fundamental rights and on how to provide incentives and adequate protection for victims of THB and for others to report traffickers; is of the opinion that this training should be delivered in a harmonised and coordinated manner within the EU; calls for greater attention to be given to this aspect of training in the new EU Borders Agency;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that migrant smuggling and THB are different phenomena but that the former can easily turn into the latter when smuggled adults and children into the EU end up as victims of THB, the main difference being that migrants have consented to the smuggling, which ends with the arrival at their destination, contrary to victims of trafficking who are exploited by means of coercion, deception and abuse, without any possibility of consent; underlines that there can also be a crossover between the two, entailing the risk that criminals groups force refugees and migrants into exploitation as victims of THB, in particular unaccompanied minors and women travelling alone; urges the competent authorities in the Member States to pay attention to this overlap during their police, judicial-cooperation and law- enforcement activities;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Believes that it is essential as regards unaccompanied minors to achieve a better and more proactive identification of children victims of trafficking, in particular at border crossings and in reception centres, as well as a stronger multi-disciplinary cooperation to ensure the best interests of the child are effectively protected; underlines that it is also imperative to promptly appoint legal guardians to all unaccompanied children and to ensure that the latter are properly trained; recalls that, according to the Directive 2011/36/EU, "Member States shall take the necessary measures with a view to finding a durable solution based on an individual assessment of the best interests of the child"; believes a durable solution can be found through integration of the child into her or his host society, or facilitation of family reunification in order to enable the child to join her or his family in another Member State;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Raises the preoccupying issue of administrative detention, often used in a systematic and abusive way by some Member states, while it should be a solution of last resort; underlines that the use of detention very often leads to violations of migrants and asylum seekers' fundamental rights; calls on the Member States to put an end immediately to the detention of victims of human trafficking and children; demands more transparency with respect to the current situation in detention centres (through a better access for civil society, journalists and parliamentarians); calls on the Member States to make a better and more systematic use of existing alternatives to detention, taking into account the needs of vulnerable groups such as victims of trafficking;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Calls on Member States to fully and properly implement article 8 of Directive 2011/36/EU; recalls that victims of trafficking shouldn't be criminalised and held responsible for criminal activities they were forced to take part in, in particular in case of prostitution, any other form of sexual exploitation or forced labour;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6g. Calls on the EU and the Member States to cooperate with the private sector and all relevant stakeholders, so as to prevent trafficking in human beings along the entire supply chain, taking into account in particular the case of child labour; is of the opinion that this should involve an obligation for companies to report annually on their actions taken against trafficking in human beings and to conduct more labour inspections on sites; underlines the need in that respect to fully and promptly set up the European Business Coalition against trafficking in Human Beings, as outlined in the EU strategy towards the eradication of trafficking in human beings (2012-2016);