58 Amendments of Ulrike LUNACEK related to 2016/2009(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
- having regard to the European Union Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 29 a (new)
Citation 29 a (new)
- having regard to the Guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons, adopted by the Foreign Affairs Council on 24 June 2013,
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 32
Citation 32
— having regard to its resolution of 4 February 2014 on the EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity13 , being followed up by the List of actions by the European Commission to advance LGBTI Equality, presented at the EPSCO Council on 7 December 2015, __________________ 13 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2014)0062.
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 a (new)
Citation 37 a (new)
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 41 a (new)
Citation 41 a (new)
- having regard to Fundamental Rights Agency's EU LGBT Survey (2013), its report "Being Trans in the EU - Comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data" (2014), to its focus paper on the Fundamental Rights Situation of Intersex people (2015) and to its report "Professionally speaking: challenges to achieving equality for LGBT people" (2016),
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas, under Article 2 TEU, the EU is founded on respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities, values which are shared by all the Member States and which must be upheld by the EU, and by each individual Member State, in everything they do;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas racism, xenophobia and hate crimediscrimination, hate crime and hate speech, motivated by racism, xenophobia, or bias against a person's religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, threaten the values of the EU and its Member States; whereas there is an increase in hate speech among political forces and increasing xenophobia and other bias in important sectors of the population;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas violence against women and gender-based violence is still ‘silently’ tolerated in many places and a zero tolerance approach is necessary;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas today an informal system of quotas, as firstly mentioned in the Parliament's report of 3 February 2012 on women in political decision-making, is de facto still in play, where men are privileged over women and where men choose men for decision-making positions, which is not a formalised system but nevertheless a systematic and very real deep-rooted culture of preferential treatment of men;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the EU institutions have already started procedures to overcome the so-called ‘Copenhagen dilemma’, not only for those countries applying for EU membership but also in Member States where the enforcement of fundamental rights values should be monitored and observed on a country by country basis in all circumstances;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas the FRA’s 2016 Fundamental Rights report found that increasing discrimination and anti- Gypsyism continue to pose challenges to effective Roma integration; whereas, according to the 2015 Eurobarometer survey on discrimination, ethnic origin is considered to be the most prevalent ground of discrimination;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas many persons of Roma origin in Europe face prejudice, intolerance, discrimination and social exclusion in their daily lives; whereas segregation of Roma children in schooling remains a persistent problem in some Member Statesmost Member States; whereas discrimination of Roma in the labour market prevents them to improve their ability to break out from the vicious circle of poverty;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Recalls, in line with international law, that human rights are universal and indivisible; this means that the human rights of one group cannot be used to undermine the rights of others. Human rights are always complementary, and a fair balance must be struck between the rights of all in a rich and diverse society;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that in its relations with the wider world, the Union shall contribute to the protection of human rights; in that respect, calls upon the EU institutions to ensure a high level of the protection of human rights in external relations, as well as in internal policies having external consequences;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the social inclusion and cultural integration of all migrants and refugees in the host society is a dynamic, two-dimensional process (involving rights and duties), representing a challenge and an opportunity that requires responsibilities and efforts both by the refugees and by the Member States, their local and regional administrations and host communities;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Recalls its resolutions of 14 September 2011 on homelessness and of 16 January 2014 on an EU homelessness strategy and in particular paragraph 10 and 11 thereof; deplores that the Commission has still failed to follow-up to this resolution; emphasises that the grounds for an EU homelessness strategy are still valid;
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on Member States to make equal efforts to identify, protect and assist victims of all forms of exploitation; calls on Member States to implement the EU Anti-trafficking Directive fully and correctly and encourages the Member States, EU institutions and agencies to convene meetingoperate and exchange best practices within the framework the EU Network of National Rapporteurs or equivalent mechanisms on trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 533 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Is concerned by increasing racism and xenophobia in the form of Afrophobia, anti-Gypsyism, Anti- Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant sentiment; condemns incidents of hate crime and speech motivated by racism, xenophobia or religious intolerance or by bias against a person's disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, which occur in the EU on a daily basis; welcomes the annual EU Colloquium on Fundamental Rights and the appointment of Coordinators on anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred; encourages the Commission to appoint Coordinators on Afrophobia and anti-Gypsyism and recommends adoption of European frameworks for national strategies to combat Afrophobia, anti-Gypsyism, anti- Semitism and Islamophobia;
Amendment 555 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. WIs concerned at the growing presence of hate speech on the internet; recommends Member States to put in place a simple procedure enabling members of the public to report the presence of hate content on the internet; welcomes the Commission’'s announcement of the Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online;
Amendment 559 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Expresses its concern that several Member States have insufficiently transposed provisions of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA and calls on the Member States to fully transpose and implement EU standards and to ensure the enforcement of national legislation punishing all forms of hate crime, incitement to hatred and harassment, and systematically triggering the prosecution of those criminal offences; calls on the Commission to monitor the full transposition of the Framework Decision and to launch infringement procedures against those Member States that fail to transpose it;
Amendment 561 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Deplores increasing levels of hate speech from within certain institutions, political parties, individuals and media; calls on the EU to set the example of opposing hate speech within the institutions; recommends the need for strengthened procedures sanctioning hate speech by officials and parliamentarians;
Amendment 564 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Welcomes the fact that some EU Member States have extended the protection granted to victims of discrimination based on other grounds, such as sexual orientation or gender identity, when implementing the Framework Decision; calls on the Commission to start a dialogue with those Member States whose legislation does not cover homophobic and transphobic hate motives, aimed at filling the remaining legislative gap;
Amendment 572 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. CExpresses its concern at the lack of reporting of hate crimes by victims due to inadequate safeguards and failure of authorities to properly investigate and bring convictions for hate crimes in Member States; calls on Member States to develop and disseminate tools and mechanisms for reporting hate crime and hate speech and to ensure that any case of alleged hate crime or hate speech is effectively investigated, prosecuted and tried in accordance with national law and, where relevant, in compliance with the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia, European and international human rights obligations, as well as relevant ECtHR case law; expresses its concern that several Member States have not correctly transposed the provisions of Framework Decision; calls on the Commission to propose a review of the Framework Decision in order for to fully cover all forms of hate crimes and crimes committed with a bias or discriminatory motive related to the victims' personal characteristics, including on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and to clearly define consistent investigation and prosecution standards;
Amendment 580 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to support training programmes for law enforcement and judicial authorities, and for the relevant EU agencies, in preventing and tackling discriminatory practices and hate crime; calls on the Member States to provide the authorities responsible for investigation and prosecution with practical tools and skills to enable them to identify and deal with the offences covered by the Framework Decision, and to interact and communicate with victims;
Amendment 581 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 585 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Notes the intersectionality between gender and other grounds of discrimination and the disproportionate impact of multiple discrimination on women; encourages Member States to work with regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies, national equality bodies and civil society organisations to increase monitoring of the intersectionality between different grounds of discrimination and gender;
Amendment 586 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and intersex people (LGBTI), as fostered by laws and policies that restrict the fundamental rights of LGBTI people; calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt laws and policies to combat homophobia and transphobia; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to issue an action plan or strategy for equality on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, as repeatedly called for by the Parliament and as promised by Commissioner Jourova in the process of the Commission hearings;
Amendment 597 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strengthen the role of human rights education in national curricula as a tool for preventing racism and related intolerance, homophobia and transphobia, and calls for greater rights awareness;
Amendment 618 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6
Subheading 6
Violence against women and women's rights
Amendment 626 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women, and calls on the Member States and the EU to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention following the launch of the procedure by the Commission in March 2016; stresses that victims of gender-based harm, torture, rape, or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence should receive appropriate treatment and support, in line with internal rules and international obligations applicable to victims of violence such as the UN Convention against Torture and the Istanbul Convention; reiterates the request to the Commission made in its resolution of 25 February 2014 with recommendations to the Commission on combating Violence Against Women to submit a proposal for an act establishing measures to promote and support the action of Member States in the field of prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG);
Amendment 634 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights that improvements are still needed to combat violence against women and gender-based violence, and calls on the Member States and the EU to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention following the launch of the procedure by the Commission in March 2016;
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to share Member States' best practices for addressing gender stereotypes at school.
Amendment 675 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Deplores the Commission decision to withdraw the Maternity Leave Directive; calls on the Commission to put forward a new proposal and to respect Parliament's position to increase the current minimum guaranteed maternity leave from 14 to 20 weeks fully paid and for the mandatory right to paid paternity leave;
Amendment 714 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Welcomes the adoption by the Council of Europe of its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021) and in particular its focus on the need to counter discrimination against children with disabilities, children affected by migration, Roma children and LGBT and intersex children;
Amendment 718 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for a focus on violence against children at all levels, from homes to schools, public places and detention centres for migrants; encourages the European Commission to strengthen peer-learning between Member States on how to best address school bullying, in particular when it affects specific groups such as children with disabilities, LGBTI children or children from ethnic minority background;
Amendment 745 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Highlights that child protection should be enhanced in the digital world and calls for further cooperation between the private and public sectors; encourages those involved to follow good examples of prevention and complaint mechanisms in online social media and to implement these EU-wide; calls on Member States to take measures to address cyber-bullying, and in particular, when it affects specific groups such as children with disabilities, LGBTI children or children from ethnic minority background;
Amendment 772 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Calls on Member States to prohibit unnecessary medical treatments on intersex children when they can be deferred, until the child can provide fully informed consent;
Amendment 856 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Highlights that discrimination on the basis of age is often combined with other forms of discrimination, such as discrimination on grounds of race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, health or socio- economic conditions;
Amendment 865 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39 a. Notes that older persons face a number of particular challenges in the enjoyment of their human rights that have not yet been fully addressed;
Amendment 868 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 10 a (new)
Subheading 10 a (new)
Rights of LGBTI people
Amendment 869 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39 a. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people (LGBTI) in the EU;
Amendment 870 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 b (new)
Paragraph 39 b (new)
39 b. Welcomes the List of actions by the European Commission to advance LGBTI Equality, presented at the EPSCO Council on 7 December 2015 as an internal working document following up on the Parliament's resolution of 4 February 2014 on the EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to make specific proposals in the evaluation of the list of actions, on how in the future to ensure coherence between external and internal EU policies, considering that the Foreign Affairs Council adopted the Guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons on 24 June 2013;
Amendment 871 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 d (new)
Paragraph 39 d (new)
39 d. Calls on Member States to continue implementing the Employment Equality Directive 2000/78/EC and Gender Recast Directive 2006/54/EC, ensuring non-discrimination in the workplace, including on the basis of sexual orientation and gender reassignment respectively; calls on the Commission to follow CJEU case law and to include the perspective of trans people throughout its gender equality work; encourages EU Member States to support trade unions and employers' organisations in their efforts to adopt diversity and non-discrimination policies with a focus on LGBTI people;
Amendment 872 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 e (new)
Paragraph 39 e (new)
39 e. Reiterates that any legal recognition procedure which imposes forced sterilisation on transgender people is violating human rights standards; welcomes the recent adoption by a number of Member States of new legal gender recognition procedures more respectful of the fundamental rights of trans people. Calls on the European Commission to strengthen peer-learning among Member States to ensure their practices are in line with human rights standards;
Amendment 873 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 f (new)
Paragraph 39 f (new)
39 f. Deplores the fact that transgender people are still considered mentally ill in the majority of Member States and calls on respective states to review national mental health catalogues, and to develop alternative stigma-free access models ensuring that medically necessary treatment remains available for all trans people;
Amendment 874 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 g (new)
Paragraph 39 g (new)
39 g. Welcomes the initiative shown by the Commission in pushing for depathologisation of transgender identities in the review of the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases (ICD); calls on the Commission to intensify efforts to prevent gender variance in childhood from becoming a new ICD diagnosis;
Amendment 875 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 h (new)
Paragraph 39 h (new)
39 h. Strongly regrets that genital "normalisation" surgeries of intersex infants are widespread, despite not being medically necessary and being considered as a violation of the right to bodily integrity, by a number of UN bodies as well as the Fundamental Rights Agency; welcomes the fact that a few Member States have already adopted measures contributing to better protect the human rights of intersex people and calls on the European Commission to encourage the exchange of good practices amongst member states in protecting intersex human rights.
Amendment 885 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Notes that people belonging to the Roma minority are entitled to freedom of movement, and calls on the Member States not to plan resettlement policies based on ethnic reasons; is concerned that people belonging to the Roma minority are disproportionately subjected to forced evictions in many Member States;
Amendment 890 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40 a. Recalls that several court cases have proven that unjustified placement of Roma children into special schools or classes is a part of segregation mechanisms, which effects extremely negatively the later life perspectives of those children;
Amendment 893 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. CReminds that the discrimination of Roma in the field of labour, housing, education, health or any other domain is unacceptable and harmful for the society of Europe; therefore calls on Member States, in the light of the Commission’s Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies 2015, to put in place specific measures to fight ethnic discrimination against Roma in line with the Racial Equality Directive provisions and the European Convention on Human Rights, and to combat anti-Gypsyism in line with the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia; calls for the FRA to continue its data collection on the situation of Roma and develop and propose a "dashboard" of Roma inclusion indicators that would make possible tracking progress in that area; calls for the development of the European Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies into a fully-fledged European Strategy;
Amendment 901 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41 a. Notes that Roma people should benefit from the EU funds on an equal footing; therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to pay special attention that all programs are implemented in a way that directly and clearly reduces the gaps in the field of education, health, labour and housing between Roma and non-Roma;
Amendment 928 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42 a. Recalls that freedom of expression, information and the media are fundamental with a view to ensuring democracy and the rule of law; strongly condemns violence, pressure or threats against journalists and the media, including in relation to the disclosure of information about breaches of fundamental rights; calls for a decriminalization of defamation;
Amendment 929 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 b (new)
Paragraph 42 b (new)
42 b. Stresses that the right to freedom of movement and residence of European citizens and their families laid down in the Treaties and guaranteed by the Directive on freedom of movement is one of the fundamental rights of European citizens; condemns any attempt to review this acquis, and calls for any breach of the rules to result in action before the Court of Justice, particularly in cases where the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality, ethnic or racial origin or sexual orientation is breached; expresses its concerns about the growing trend of quick expulsions of EU citizens from their countries of residence as a result of the loss of their jobs and income, considers that this is contrary to the spirit of the freedom of mobility;
Amendment 938 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social and civic participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work; calls on Member States and on the EU to uphold the freedom of assembly and of association as part of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Amendment 953 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)
Paragraph 45 a (new)
45 a. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a regulation to ensure mutual recognition of civil status documents (including legal gender recognition, marriage and registered partnerships) and their legal effects, in order to reduce discriminatory legal and administrative barriers for citizens who exercise their right to free movement;
Amendment 963 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46 a. Reiterates its call to create an effective system of monitoring of respect for democracy, the rule of law and human rights in each Member State;