10 Amendments of Elisabeth JEGGLE related to 2010/2202(INI)
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Council, the Commission and the EEAS to strengthen their engagement with democratic governments or governments on the path to democracy from other regional groups within the UNHRC, with a view to improving the chances of success of initiatives aimed at respect for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; asks the Commission to provide an annual report on voting patterns at the UN in matters concerning human rights, which would analyse how these have been affected by the policies of the EU and its Member States and those of other blocs;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Calls for recognition of health abuses against patients and individuals, in particular those unable to defend themselves, be they political prisoners or mentally disabled people, as cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, while recognising the difficulty of proving certain acts and therefore calls for the highest degree of vigilance;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Expresses deep concern about children affected by armed conflicts or even forced to take an active part in them; urges the Commission and the Council to strengthen the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflicts; welcomes the new UNSC resolution 1882 (2009), which further strengthens the protection of children affected by armed conflict;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63
Paragraph 63
63. Calls on the Commission to address systematically the issue of democracy support in the Country Strategic Papers, consistently taking into account the country’s specific situation and the EU’s regional strategy;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Notes that measures to fight terrorism have resulted in violations of basic human rights in a number of countries around the world, in the form of the application of excessivdisproportionate surveillance measures, illegal detentions and the use of torture as a means of extracting information from suspected terrorists; condemns these violations of human rights and is convinced that civil liberties should not be compromised in the fight against terrorism, as the disruption of normal democratic life in Western societies is precisely what the terrorists are seeking;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
Paragraph 79
79. Takes the view that, in general, human rights dialogues and consultations shouldmust be planned and conducted transparently, withand that objectives set in advance of, and evaluated after, the dialogue the dialogue must be evaluated immediately afterwards; calls on the Council and the Commission to press the non-EU countries’ authorities for high, broad ministerial involvement in the dialogues and consultations;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
Paragraph 80
80. Welcomes the establishment of human rights dialogues with each of the Central Asian states – Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and, Turkmenistan – inand Uzbekistan – and the holding of a second dialogue in each case up to November 20089; welcomes in addition the first EU-Uzbek civil society seminar on human rights dialogue in October 2008; regrets that the EU-China human rights dialogues have consistently failed to deliver any improvements as regards specific human rights abuses in China; expresses its disappointment that EU-Russia human rights consultations have not yielded any substantial results; welcomes the launch in 2009 of human rights dialogues with Indonesia, and the holding of the first dialogue meetings with Georgia and Armenia;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
Paragraph 84
84. Stresses that human rights include the right to food, water, education, adequate housing, land, decent work, social security and the right to form a trade union; recognises that it is poverty that is behind most of the situations of non-compliance with such rights; calls for the EU to invest more efforts and money in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), given the evidence that the world is falling far short of the goals set for 2015;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96
Paragraph 96
96. Reiterates its calls for the electoral process, including both the pre- and post- electoral stages, to be incorporated into the different levels of political dialogue with the third countries concerned, accompanied by specific measures where appropriate, with a view to ensuring the coherence of EU policies and reaffirming the crucial role of human rights and democracy;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99
Paragraph 99
99. Reminds Parliament’s delegations to systematically include debates on human rights in the agendas of interparliamentary meetings, include in their visits projects and institutions seeking to improve respect for human rights, as well as to meet human rights defenders and provide them, where appropriate, with international visibility and protection;