21.2.2018 A8-0025/1 1 Citation 3 a (new) having regard to the report of 22 July 2014 of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of nonrecurrence,
21.2.2018 A8-0025/2 2 Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Expresses concerns regarding the use of anti-terrorist legislation to limit the activities of social movements, as well as other expressions and actions that are in no way related to terrorist purposes or acts;
21.2.2018 A8-0025/3 3 Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Deplores the fact that the austerity measures implemented by Member States and promoted by the EU institutions have seriously affected fundamental rights, including public and universal access to rights such as education, housing or healthcare; calls, therefore, on the EU institutions and the Member States to carry out ex-ante impact assessments on fundamental rights for all policies and to guarantee that sufficient resources are made available to safeguard respect for fundamental rights and to ensure minimum essential levels of civil, economic, cultural and social rights, with special attention to the most vulnerable and socially disadvantaged groups;
21.2.2018 A8-0025/4 4 Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls for the European Union and its Member States to work to ensure the principles of truth and justice in relation to the crimes against humanity committed in Member States, as well as clarifying responsibilities and making reparations to their victims accordingly; deems it crucial, as a result, that all Member States cooperate with national or international judicial investigations in this area; urges them, in accordance with the Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA, to eliminate all forms of glorification or support of the regimes and their leaders that committed these crimes, such as monuments, the names of streets and buildings, awards, privileges, and public funding of their organisations and funds;
21.2.2018 A8-0025/5 5 Paragraph 36 a (new) 36a. Calls on Member States, in their implementation of anti-terrorist legislation, to respect the rights of citizens as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights, particularly those guaranteeing the right to effective judicial protection and avoiding extensive application of the acts classified as terrorism by Directive (EU) 2017/541 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on combating terrorism and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA and amending Council Decision 2005/671/JHA;
21.2.2018 A8-0025/6 6 Marina Albiol Guzmán, Malin Björk, Merja Kyllönen, Lola Sánchez Caldentey, Tania González Peñas, Xabier Benito Ziluaga, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Estefanía Torres Paragraph 62 a (new) 62a. Calls for EU-wide training for police enforcement officials in the EU to effectively combat hate crimes against LGBTI persons, to be provided by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) and building upon best practices at national level and the work of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights(FRA);underlines the importance of diversity in law enforcement agencies, which increases trust;
21.2.2018 A8-0025/7 7 Marina Albiol Guzmán, Malin Björk, Merja Kyllönen, Lola Sánchez Caldentey, Tania González Peñas, Xabier Benito Ziluaga, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Estefanía Torres Paragraph 63 a (new) 63a. Calls on Member States which have adopted legislation on same-sex partnerships and/or marriage to recognise provisions with similar effects adopted by other Member States; recalls the Member States obligation to fully implement Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, including for same-sex couples and their children; welcomes the fact that more and more Member States have introduced and/or adapted their laws on cohabitation, civil partnership and marriage to overcome the discrimination based on sexual orientation experienced by samesex couples and their children, and calls on other Member States to introduce similar laws; calls on the Commission to bring forward a proposal for the full mutual recognition of the effects of all civil status documents across the EU, including legal gender recognition, marriages and registered partnerships, in order to reduce the discriminatory legal and administrative barriers for citizens
who exercise their right to free movement;
21.2.2018 A8-0025/8 8 Marina Albiol Guzmán, Malin Björk, Merja Kyllönen, Lola Sánchez Caldentey, Tania González Peñas, Xabier Benito Ziluaga, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Estefanía Torres Paragraph 63 b (new) 63b. Welcomes initiatives prohibiting LGBTI conversion therapies and banning the pathologisation of trans identities and urges all Member States to adopt similar measures that respect and uphold the right to gender identity and gender expression;