Progress: Procedure completed
Legal Basis:
RoP 132-p2Subjects
Events
The European Parliament adopted by 335 votes to 230 with 102 abstentions, a resolution on the EU’s priorities for the UNHRC sessions in 2016. The resolution was tabled by the EPP, S&D, ALDE, Greens/EFA and EFDD groups.
UN Human Rights Council : Members reaffirmed the importance of the universality of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), with a view to reaching a full understanding of the human rights situation in all UN member states, and reiterated their support for the second cycle of the review. They called again, however, for the recommendations that were not accepted by states during the first cycle to be reconsidered in the continuation of the UPR process.
Human rights : Members considered all human rights analysed by the UNHCR, including civil and political rights. They called for the UN member states, including the EU Member States, to implement the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
They condemned the continued harassment and detention of human rights defenders and opposition figures by government forces in a number of third countries. Parliament considered that the continued harassment and detention of human rights defenders and opposition figures by a number of UNHRC members undermines the credibility of the UNHRC. It urged the EU and its Member States to promote an initiative at UN level to outline a coherent and comprehensive response to the major challenges that human rights defenders face worldwide.
Death penalty : Members recalled the EU’s position on zero tolerance for the death penalty and reiterated its long-standing opposition to the death penalty, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment in all cases and under all circumstances. The EU must continue to advance the moratorium on the death penalty as a first step towards its permanent abolition . Members reiterated that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity.
Freedom of religion : Parliament recalled that freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief is a fundamental human right recognised by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . It recalled its interrelatedness with other human rights and fundamental freedoms encompassing the right to believe or not to believe , and the right to adopt, change and abandon or return to a belief of one’s choice. However, some countries still use state repression, which may include the death penalty, in violation of freedom of religion or belief. Members requested concrete action to protect religious minorities, non-believers, apostates and atheists who are victims of blasphemy laws.
Social and economic rights : Parliament was of the opinion that corruption, tax evasion, mismanagement of public goods and lack of accountability are threats to the equal enjoyment of human rights and undermine democratic processes, the rule of law, and the fair administration of justice.
On economic rights, Members called on the UN and the EU also to raise with multinational and European enterprises the issue of land grabbing and land rights defenders, who are victims of reprisals.
Migration and refugees : Members were alarmed by the most serious humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. They called on all countries to adopt a human rights-based approach to migration, which safeguards the rights of migrants and refugees in migration policies and management, paying particular attention to the situation of marginalised and disadvantaged groups of migrants and refugees, such as women and children. They recalled that a global strategy on migration is closely linked with development and humanitarian policies.
Rights of women and children : Parliament expressed its dismay at the fact that since the emergence of violent extremist groups such as Daesh in Syria and Iraq or Boko Haram in West Africa, violence against women has taken on a new dimension. It asked the Commission, the EEAS and the Vice-President/High Representative (VP/HR) to continue promoting the political and economic empowerment of women and girls by mainstreaming gender equality in all their external policies and programmes.
With regard to children, Members supported the EU’s efforts to promote children’s rights, but also recalled that a number of persons have been sentenced to death for crimes committed while under the age of 18 and have been put to death in countries around the world in 2015.
EU human rights mainstreaming and coherence : Members called on the EU to promote the universality and indivisibility of human rights, and reiterated their call for the EU to adopt a rights-based approach. They stresses also that the EU’s human rights policy should ensure that its internal and external policies are coherent . They requested the EU Special Representative for Human Rights to continue to enhance the effectiveness, coherence and visibility of the EU’s human rights policy.
Drones and counter-terrorism : Parliament reiterated its call on the EU Council to develop a EU common position on the use of armed drones, addressing issues such as the legal framework, proportionality, accountability, the protection of civilians and transparency. It also stressed the need to develop effective communication strategies for countering terrorist and extremist propaganda and recruitment methods, notably online.
Lastly, Members took stock of all the countries under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), stressing the situation in certain countries:
Syria: Parliament condemned the deliberate targeting of civilians, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, attacks on civilians and the persecution of religious and ethnic minorities; Burundi: Members remained deeply concerned about the humanitarian impact of the crisis on the civilian population in the country.
Documents
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T8-0020/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0056/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0052/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0063/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0064/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0065/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0066/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0050/2016
- Joint motion for resolution: RC-B8-0050/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0050/2016
- Joint motion for resolution: RC-B8-0050/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0052/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0063/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0064/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0065/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0066/2016
- Motion for a resolution: B8-0056/2016
Activities
- Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (2)
- Fernando RUAS
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (2)
- Tibor SZANYI
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (2)
- Pavel TELIČKA
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (2)
- Zigmantas BALČYTIS
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA
- Hugues BAYET
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Xabier BENITO ZILUAGA
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- José BLANCO LÓPEZ
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Nicola CAPUTO
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Therese COMODINI CACHIA
- Andi CRISTEA
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Marielle DE SARNEZ
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Mariya GABRIEL
- Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Andrzej GRZYB
- Takis HADJIGEORGIOU
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Filiz HYUSMENOVA
- Liisa JAAKONSAARI
- Teresa JIMÉNEZ-BECERRIL BARRIO
- Ivan JAKOVČIĆ
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Barbara LOCHBIHLER
- Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- David MARTIN
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Norica NICOLAI
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Pier Antonio PANZERI
- Soraya POST
- Cristian Dan PREDA
- Jozo RADOŠ
- Judith SARGENTINI
- Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Marietje SCHAAKE
- Siôn SIMON
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Monika SMOLKOVÁ
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Claudia ȚAPARDEL
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- László TŐKÉS
- Bogdan Brunon WENTA
- Tim AKER
- Louis ALIOT
- Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN
- Marie-Christine ARNAUTU
- Jonathan ARNOTT
- Goffredo Maria BETTINI
Institutional Motions (1)
- Louise BOURS
- Renata BRIANO
- Steeve BRIOIS
- Gianluca BUONANNO
- James CARVER
- Salvatore CICU
- David COBURN
- Alberto CIRIO
- Jane COLLINS
- Javier COUSO PERMUY
- Edward CZESAK
Institutional Motions (1)
- Michel DANTIN
- William (The Earl of) DARTMOUTH
- Rachida DATI
- Angélique DELAHAYE
- Isabella DE MONTE
Institutional Motions (1)
- Mark DEMESMAEKER
Institutional Motions (1)
- Stefan ECK
Institutional Motions (1)
- Mireille D'ORNANO
- Georgios EPITIDEIOS
- José Inácio FARIA
Institutional Motions (1)
- Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ
- Francisco de Paula GAMBUS MILLET
- Arne GERICKE
- Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG
Institutional Motions (1)
- Ana GOMES
Institutional Motions (1)
- Brian HAYES
- Marian HARKIN
Institutional Motions (1)
- Mike HOOKEM
- Richard HOWITT
Institutional Motions (1)
- Cătălin Sorin IVAN
- Diane JAMES
- Marek JUREK
- Marc JOULAUD
- Philippe JUVIN
- Barbara KAPPEL
- Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA
Institutional Motions (1)
- Miltiadis KYRKOS
Institutional Motions (1)
- Constance LE GRIP
- Marine LE PEN
- Vladimír MAŇKA
- Ivana MALETIĆ
- Andrejs MAMIKINS
- Notis MARIAS
- Valentinas MAZURONIS
Institutional Motions (1)
- Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON
- Miroslav MIKOLÁŠIK
- Sorin MOISĂ
Institutional Motions (1)
- Louis MICHEL
- Krisztina MORVAI
- Renaud MUSELIER
- József NAGY
- Momchil NEKOV
Institutional Motions (1)
- Franz OBERMAYR
- Margot PARKER
- Ioan Mircea PAŞCU
Institutional Motions (1)
- Emilian PAVEL
Institutional Motions (1)
- Alojz PETERLE
- Marijana PETIR
- Pavel POC
- Miroslav POCHE
- Julia REID
- Sofia RIBEIRO
- Robert ROCHEFORT
- Liliana RODRIGUES
- Claude ROLIN
- Jasenko SELIMOVIC
Institutional Motions (1)
- Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ
- Branislav ŠKRIPEK
- Davor ŠKRLEC
- Igor ŠOLTES
- Barbara SPINELLI
Institutional Motions (1)
- Jaromír ŠTĚTINA
- Patricija ŠULIN
- Eleftherios SYNADINOS
- Adam SZEJNFELD
- Timothy Charles Ayrton TANNOCK
Institutional Motions (1)
- Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS
- Elena VALENCIANO
Institutional Motions (1)
- Ángela VALLINA
- Paavo VÄYRYNEN
Institutional Motions (1)
- Marie-Christine VERGIAT
Institutional Motions (1)
- Miguel VIEGAS
- Anna ZÁBORSKÁ
- Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ
Votes
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 29/2 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 31/2 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 31/3 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 32/2 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 34 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 38/1 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 38/2 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 45/1 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 45/2 #
DE | ES | GB | IT | FR | RO | SE | BE | PT | NL | FI | DK | BG | CZ | AT | IE | LU | HR | MT | LV | EE | EL | CY | SI | LT | SK | HU | PL | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total |
79
|
47
|
58
|
62
|
67
|
29
|
19
|
20
|
18
|
24
|
12
|
13
|
15
|
18
|
16
|
7
|
6
|
9
|
5
|
6
|
6
|
21
|
6
|
6
|
8
|
13
|
18
|
44
|
|
S&D |
169
|
Germany S&DFor (23)Bernd LANGE, Birgit SIPPEL, Constanze KREHL, Dietmar KÖSTER, Evelyne GEBHARDT, Gabriele PREUSS, Iris HOFFMANN, Ismail ERTUG, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Jens GEIER, Jo LEINEN, Joachim SCHUSTER, Jutta STEINRUCK, Knut FLECKENSTEIN, Maria NOICHL, Martina WERNER, Norbert NEUSER, Peter SIMON, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Susanne MELIOR, Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN, Udo BULLMANN, Ulrike RODUST
|
United Kingdom S&DFor (20)Afzal KHAN, Catherine STIHLER, Clare MOODY, Claude MORAES, Dame Glenis WILLMOTT, David MARTIN, Derek VAUGHAN, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Julie WARD, Linda McAVAN, Lucy ANDERSON, Mary HONEYBALL, Neena GILL, Paul BRANNEN, Richard CORBETT, Richard HOWITT, Seb DANCE, Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI, Siôn SIMON, Theresa GRIFFIN
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Italy S&DFor (24)Alessia Maria MOSCA, Andrea COZZOLINO, Brando BENIFEI, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Daniele VIOTTI, David Maria SASSOLI, Elena GENTILE, Elly SCHLEIN, Enrico GASBARRA, Flavio ZANONATO, Gianni PITTELLA, Goffredo Maria BETTINI, Isabella DE MONTE, Mercedes BRESSO, Michela GIUFFRIDA, Nicola CAPUTO, Nicola DANTI, Patrizia TOIA, Pier Antonio PANZERI, Pina PICIERNO, Renata BRIANO, Roberto GUALTIERI, Silvia COSTA, Simona BONAFÈ
Against (2) |
Sweden S&D |
4
|
Portugal S&DFor (7) |
3
|
2
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
Austria S&D |
1
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
4
|
2
|
1
|
2
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
|||
PPE |
182
|
Germany PPEFor (21)Andreas SCHWAB, Axel VOSS, Burkhard BALZ, Daniel CASPARY, David MCALLISTER, Elmar BROK, Herbert REUL, Ingeborg GRÄSSLE, Jens GIESEKE, Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Markus PIEPER, Michael GAHLER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Norbert LINS, Peter JAHR, Reimer BÖGE, Renate SOMMER, Sven SCHULZE, Thomas MANN, Werner KUHN, Werner LANGEN
Against (4)Abstain (3) |
Spain PPEFor (10)Against (3)Abstain (1) |
Italy PPEAgainst (6) |
France PPEFor (15)Abstain (2) |
Romania PPEFor (7)Against (2)Abstain (1) |
4
|
4
|
Portugal PPEFor (4)Abstain (2) |
Netherlands PPE |
2
|
1
|
Bulgaria PPEAgainst (1)Abstain (1) |
Czechia PPEFor (3)Against (3)Abstain (1) |
4
|
3
|
3
|
Croatia PPEFor (2)Against (1)Abstain (1) |
3
|
3
|
1
|
Greece PPEFor (1)Abstain (1) |
2
|
4
|
2
|
Slovakia PPEFor (2)Against (4) |
Hungary PPEFor (2)Against (5)Abstain (2) |
Poland PPEFor (9)Against (8)Abstain (2) |
|
ALDE |
61
|
2
|
1
|
France ALDEAbstain (1) |
3
|
3
|
Belgium ALDE |
2
|
Netherlands ALDEFor (6) |
4
|
3
|
4
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
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GUE/NGL |
44
|
5
|
1
|
2
|
France GUE/NGL |
1
|
3
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
2
|
Greece GUE/NGLFor (6) |
2
|
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Verts/ALE |
43
|
Germany Verts/ALEFor (12) |
Spain Verts/ALE |
2
|
France Verts/ALEFor (6) |
3
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
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EFDD |
38
|
United Kingdom EFDDFor (1) |
1
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
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ECR |
66
|
Germany ECRFor (1)Against (3)Abstain (3) |
United Kingdom ECRFor (13)Abstain (3) |
1
|
1
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
Denmark ECRFor (1)Abstain (3) |
2
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
Poland ECRAgainst (18)
Anna FOTYGA,
Beata GOSIEWSKA,
Bolesław G. PIECHA,
Czesław HOC,
Edward CZESAK,
Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA,
Karol KARSKI,
Kazimierz Michał UJAZDOWSKI,
Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI,
Marek JUREK,
Mirosław PIOTROWSKI,
Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO,
Ryszard CZARNECKI,
Stanisław OŻÓG,
Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI,
Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA,
Zbigniew KUŹMIUK,
Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI
Abstain (1) |
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NI |
15
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
Greece NIAgainst (5) |
3
|
1
|
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ENF |
34
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1
|
Italy ENFAgainst (5) |
France ENFAgainst (17)
Bernard MONOT,
Dominique BILDE,
Dominique MARTIN,
Edouard FERRAND,
Gilles LEBRETON,
Jean-François JALKH,
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER,
Joëlle MÉLIN,
Louis ALIOT,
Marie-Christine ARNAUTU,
Marie-Christine BOUTONNET,
Marine LE PEN,
Mireille D'ORNANO,
Mylène TROSZCZYNSKI,
Philippe LOISEAU,
Steeve BRIOIS,
Sylvie GODDYN
|
1
|
1
|
4
|
4
|
1
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RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 46 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 86 #
RC-B8-0050/2016 - § 89 #
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