17 Amendments of Niccolò RINALDI related to 2010/2202(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ea (new)
Recital Ea (new)
Ea (new). whereas justice, democracy and the rule of law are the pillars of sustainable peace, by guaranteeing fundamental freedoms and human rights, and whereas sustainable peace cannot be achieved through protecting those responsible for systematic human rights abuses and violations of international criminal law,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital La (new)
Recital La (new)
La (new). considering the paramount importance for the life of European institutions the implementation and enforcement of the founding principles codified in the European Convention on Human Rights,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ma (new)
Recital Ma (new)
Ma (new). Whereas human rights are violated in countries that have recognized the jurisdictions stemming from the International Instruments of Human Rights and in those that disregard those rights historically acquired,
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7a (new)
Paragraph 7a (new)
7a (new). Recognises that non- governmental organisations are essential to the development and success of democratic societies, the promotion of mutual understanding and tolerance as well as initiating and sustaining actionable policy priorities and shared solutions to the challenges to democratic development;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13a (new)
Paragraph 13a (new)
13a (new). Urges the Commission to finally follow up without delay, with the necessary initiatives and financial commitments, to the 2007 Human Rights Report in which the Parliament considered "non-violence as the most appropriate means of ensuring that fundamental human rights are enjoyed, upheld, promoted and respected" believing that "its promotion should constitute a priority objective in EU human rights and democracy policy";
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14a (new)
Paragraph 14a (new)
14a (new). Urges the Commission and the Council to widely promote within and outside the Union the European Convention on Human Rights also with the aim of educating the public on the existence of jurisdiction of the European Court on Human Rights that can be activated to address and redress the violations suffered by citizens in or by a Member State of the Council of Europe;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU Member States to sign up to, and ratify, all core UN and Council of Europe human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto, in particular to ratify the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; insists that the Optional Protocol to the Convention should be regarded as an integral part thereof, and calls for simultaneous accession to the latter (Convention and Protocol);
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15a (new)
Paragraph 15a (new)
15a (new). Underlines the fact that the definitions of human rights adopted by the international community from the end the Second World War have proven sufficiently flexible to include new developments of human progress, but stresses the need to codify new rights to respond to new threats to freedom, such as those relating to freedom of science, conscience and knowledge, gender identity or sexual orientation and all the rights relating to the digital domain, starting from universal access to the Internet;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Council and the Commission to continue their efforts to promote universal ratification of the Rome Statute and the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court and national implementing legislation, in accordance with Council Common Position 2003/444/CFSP of 16 June 2003 on the International Criminal Court and the 2004 Action Plan to follow up on the Common Position; welcomes the fact that the ratifications of the Rome Statute by the Czech Republic and Chile in the reporting period brought the total number of States Parties to 110 by December 2009; calls on all EU member States that have not done so to enact ICC implementing legislation, covering substantive crimes and cooperation with the ICC, to do so as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17a (new)
Paragraph 17a (new)
17a (new). Underscores the need to strengthen the international criminal justice system in general and in this respect notes with concern that Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić remain at large and have not been brought before the ICTY; in this regard, calls on the Serbian authorities to ensure full cooperation with the ICTY, which should lead to the arrest and transfer of all remaining indictees, in order to open the way to the ratification of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement; notes the need for ongoing support, including financial support, for the Special Court for Sierra Leone to complete ongoing trials, including through to end of any appeals process; also notes progress in multilateral cooperation for the supply of expertise and assistance where the identification, collection and preservation of information would assist a wide range of international and transitional justice options, in particular through the Justice Rapid Response (JRR), in which more than half of the EU member States are participants, and encourages ongoing and increased support for the JRR;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for enhanced cooperation between the Council of Europe and the European Union in the field of promoting minority rights and, protecting regional and minority languages and promoting the rights of LGBTI individuals and defenders of LGBTI rights, and ensuring that victims of discrimination are aware of and have access to effective legal remedies before a national authority to combat discrimination, using the legal tools of non-discrimination to advocate diversity and tolerance;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20a (new)
Paragraph 20a (new)
20a (new).Regrets the weakening of the EU's policy and conduct towards the Burmese junta, underlines that the current attitude is not helpful in fighting against the tragic political, social and human situation in which the Burmese people are forced to live since the beginning of the military rule and risks to appear a sort of appeasement with the dictatorship;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Notes that the programme of the Trio Presidency of France, the Czech Republic and Sweden (July 2008 - December 2009) gave priority to the question of violence against women and girls, and asks for coherence on principles and policies both outside and inside the EU, including with respect to supporting a ban on female genital mutilation as a human rights violation; notes the recent adoption of a new set of guidelines on the matter and expects the Commission to present the results of its implementation to Parliament;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40a (new)
Paragraph 40a (new)
40a (new). calls on the Commission, the Council, the Member States to activate all political and institutional means in order to support initiatives aiming at the adoption as soon as possible of a resolution by the UNGA calling on a worldwide moratorium on female genital mutilation;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82a (new)
Paragraph 82a (new)
82a (new). Continues to be concerned that the human rights dialogue with Iran has been interrupted since 2004 due to a lack of cooperation from Iran and considers that time has come for the international community to act in support of Iranian civil society at this crucial juncture in the history of the country’s democratic movement; calls on the Council, the Commission as well the Member States to support and strengthen – through peaceful and non-violent means – those processes that can provide support to democratic reforms, ensure their sustainability and consolidate the involvement of Iranian human rights defenders and civil society representatives within policy-making processes, reinforcing the role of civil society within the general political discourse;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 91
Paragraph 91
91. Stresses the importance of using the EIDHR as a way of reacting to human rights threats and a way of providing increasing support to human rights defenders and victims of human rights abuses; supports a network of 11 EIDHR- funded organisations focusing on protecting human rights defenders and responding rapidly in emergency situations; encourages the development of specific strategies to respond to the needs of different categories of human rights defenders, including those defending LGBTI rights and those associated with investigations of human rights and humanitarian law violations;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92a (new)
Paragraph 92a (new)
92a (new). Mindful of the still worrying situation of the enjoyment of Human Rights in the African continent and convinced that African States have taken significant steps towards the promotion of the Rule of Law at the continent level with the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter), the European Parliament decides to set up an ad hoc budget line to support the work of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.