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15.

Underlines the importance that the EU attaches to its cooperation with Egypt as an important neighbour and partner; strongly urges Egypt to therefore respect its commitment made in the EU-Egypt Partnership Priorities adopted on 27 July 2017 to promote democracy, fundamental freedoms and human rights, in line with its constitution and international standards; underlines that the Partnership Priorities were concluded with Egypt in 2017 despite continuous backsliding in the field of human rights, democracy and the rule of law; urges the VP/HR and the Member States to make further cooperation with Egypt conditional on respect for human rights, and to mainstream human rights concerns in all talks with the Egyptian authorities, especially with regard to the three priorities established; reiterates that human rights should not be undermined by migration management or counter-terrorism actions;
46.

Welcomes the initial steps taken in enhancing the prevention of discrimination and urges the authorities to include sexual orientation and gender identity as grounds for discrimination in the Law on Prevention and Protection against Discrimination; calls on the authorities to allocate an appropriate budget for the implementation of the National Strategy for Equality and Non-Discrimination 2016-2020; urges the authorities to effectively address hate crime and hate speech against minorities, including vulnerable groups such as the Roma and the LGBTI community, and to punish homophobic and transphobic violence and incitement to violence; remains concerned that societal prejudice continues and that hate speech is prevalent against LGBTI persons in the media and on the internet and social media; calls upon the authorities to ensure effective protection and to put in place dissuasive and proportionate sanctions for hate speech and homophobic/transphobic actions and violence; stresses the need to grant access to healthcare for transgender persons; deplores persistent deficiencies in the work of the Commission for Protection from Discrimination; welcomes the setting-up of the Inter-party parliamentary group for the rights of the LGBTI community and also the Inter-party parliamentary group for the rights of the Roma;
7.

Stresses, while recognising the need for more digital skills, that the impact of digital technologies on education is not at present easy to assess, meaning that it is vital to take into account neurological research into the effects of digital technology on brain development; calls, therefore, for investment in unbiased and interdisciplinary research into the various impacts of digital technologies on education, linking education sciences, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, neuroscience and computer science so as to achieve as deep an understanding as possible of how the minds of children and adults are responding to the digital environment, with a view to maximising the benefits of the use of digital technology in education and minimising its risks; stresses the need to promote responsible use of digital tools that protects the physiological, neurosensory and behavioural development of learners, particularly during childhood, and strikes the right balance in the daily use of technological and digital equipment, both in educational institutions and in private life;
11.

Expresses serious concern about the pressure exerted by the Tanzanian Government on the EU Head of Delegation, Roeland van de Geer; welcomes the decision of the European Union and its Member States to conduct a comprehensive review of EU policies towards Tanzania; insists on the importance of political dialogue to seek tangible commitments from the Tanzanian authorities towards creating an enabling environment for the operation of civil society, political parties and the media; calls on the Commission to ensure that an explicit reference to non-discrimination based on sexual orientation is included in the future ACP-EU partnership agreement post-2020;
26.

Welcomes the efforts and commitments made by Peru to reinforce the implementation of its commitments under the Trade and Sustainable Development chapter of the Agreement but insists that additional efforts have to be made in order to tackle violence against human rights defenders, social and ethnic community leaders and, particularly, against women; welcomes the latest measures taken in Peru to improve labour inspections and encourages the country to keep on reinforcing its efforts in accordance with the ILO recommendations; also welcomes the fact that Peru has held the Presidency of the Administrative Council of the ILO in 2018, which further strengthens Peru’s commitment to leading by example in respecting labour laws; stresses equally that on 6 August 2018 Peru ratified a framework agreement with the ILO on the promotion of decent work for the period 2018-2021; stresses, nevertheless, the lack of effective implementation of ILO Conventions 87 and 98, and expresses its concern over recent legislative changes that may lead to the weakening of environmental protection; calls on the Commission to duly inform Parliament of how it will process in an independent way the official complaint introduced by Peruvian organised civil society against the Peruvian Government regarding the compliance with labour and environmental standards;
3.

Calls on the Member States: i. to prepare their Strategic National Roma Inclusion Strategies for the post-2020 period with a wide set of priority areas, clear and binding targets, timelines and indicators for monitoring and addressing the specific challenges and reflecting the diversity of their Roma communities, and to allocate substantial public funds to this end; ii. to follow a bottom-up approach and involve Roma representatives, communities, NGOs and equality bodies in the design of their Strategic National Roma Inclusion Strategies (Strategies), and to enable their meaningful participation in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of these Strategies; iii. to place the fight against anti-Gypsyism at the heart of their Strategies, in addition to one of the manifestations of anti-Gypsyism, social and economic exclusion; to develop targeted strategies and concrete actions to fight anti-Gypsyism, such as investigating current and past racist attacks against Roma; and to encourage equitable representation of Roma in all spheres of life, including in media, public institutions and political bodies; iv. to ensure that multiple and intersectional discrimination, gender mainstreaming and a child-sensitive approach are properly addressed in their Strategies; v. to explicitly consider children as a priority when programming and implementing their Strategic National Roma integration strategies; reiterates the importance of protecting and promoting equal access to all rights for Roma children; vi. to strengthen the NRCPs in terms of their mandate, institutional capacity, human resources and budget and to ensure appropriate positioning of NRCPs within the structure of their public administrations in order to enable them to carry out their work through effective cross-sectoral coordination; vii. to pay attention to specific groups within the Roma population in their Strategies, such as EU Roma exercising their right to freedom of movement, and non-EU nationals, including Roma from accession countries; viii. to include a truth, recognition and reconciliation process in their Strategies for the sake of trust-building and to highlight concrete cultural and structural measures and initiatives supported by public funds; ix. to ensure and safeguard the effective inclusiveness of their mainstream public policies, to utilise the available EU Structural Funds to improve the living conditions and life chances of Roma in a transparent and accountable manner; to investigate the current and past misuse of relevant funds and take legal action against the perpetrators; to take the necessary steps to secure the absorption of all the funds targeting Roma communities, including by the end of the current MFF;
5.

Stresses that this agreement does not imply any form of recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, presently listed by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory, large parts of which are currently administered by the Kingdom of Morocco, and insists that the EU’s position remains that of supporting UN efforts to secure a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution to the conflict in Western Sahara that will provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, in accordance with international law, the UN Charter and the relevant UN resolutions; reiterates, therefore, its full support to the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Mr Horst Köhler, in helping to bring the parties back to the UN negotiation table in order to achieve this settlement; calls on the parties to resume these negotiations without preconditions and in good faith; emphasises that ratification of the amended Liberalisation Agreement between the EU and Morocco has to be strictly without prejudice to the outcome of the peace process over Western Sahara;
2.

Expresses deep concern at the breaches of the Treaty, and the subsequent announcements by the US and then Russia regarding the suspension of their obligations under it and their withdrawal from it within a period of six months; underlines that these developments pose a threat to one of Europe’s most vital security interests, as well as to European and global security and peace; fears that these actions might result in miscalculations and misperceptions leading to a deterioration of relations between the US and Russia, an escalation of tensions, heightened nuclear and military threats and risks, and a possible return of destabilising arms races, which would be detrimental to Europe’s security and strategic stability;
10.

Expects the prerogatives of Parliament and Council as co-legislators to be fully respected in future decisions on the location or relocation of agencies; considers that Parliament should be systematically involved, throughout the legislative process and on equal terms with the Council and the Commission, in defining and assessing the weight of the criteria for the location of all Union bodies and agencies, in a transparent manner; points out that Parliament, the Council and the Commission made a commitment in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016 to sincere and transparent cooperation, and that the agreement highlights the principle of equality between the co-legislators, as enshrined in the Treaties; underlines the value of enhanced exchange of information from the initial stages of future processes for the location of agencies, as such early exchange would make it easier for the three institutions to exercise their rights and prerogatives;
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having regard to its previous resolutions under Rule 135 of its Rules of Procedure calling for the imposition of targeted sanctions against individuals involved in grave human rights violations, including those of 19 January 2017 on the situation in Burundi (3), of 5 July 2018 on Burundi (4), of 18 May 2017 on South Sudan (5), of 14 June 2017 on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (6), of 18 January 2018 on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (7), of 14 September 2017 on Gabon: repression of the opposition (8), of 5 October 2017 on the situation in the Maldives (9), of 5 October 2017 on the cases of Crimean Tatar leaders Akhtem Chiygoz, Ilmi Umerov and the journalist Mykola Semena (10), of 30 November 2017 (11) and of 4 October 2018 (12) on the situation in Yemen, of 14 December 2017 on Cambodia: notably the dissolution of CNRP Party (13), of 14 December 2017 on the situation of the Rohingya people (14), of 15 March 2018 on the situation in Syria (15), of 25 October 2018 on the situation in Venezuela (16), of 13 September 2018 on Myanmar, notably the case of journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo (17), of 25 October 2018 on the situation in the Sea of Azov (18), of 25 October 2018 on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul (19) and of 14 February 2019 on the situation in Chechnya and the case of Oyub Titiev (20),
4.

Expresses its concern about the enormous democratic, political and economic risks that the people and the country are facing, and that will increase if urgent action is not taken, taking into account the current internal confrontations, social rupture and economic decline; urgently calls for a meaningful internal dialogue with a view to achieving a sustainable and peaceful solution that would allow all actors in the society to have space to operate and freely express themselves and that would restore their civil rights, such as the right to peaceful protest; reiterates that any solution should render all those responsible for the violations accountable; asks all the political parties, social movements, leaders, students and civil society organisations to maintain and reiterate their unwavering commitment to a peaceful means of resolving the crisis; reiterates its full support for the reform of the judicial system and the electoral law, and requests that the VP/HR act accordingly; asks the VP/HR and the EU Delegation to closely monitor the negotiations that are taking place in the country between the government and the Alianza Civica, and to continue addressing the human problems arising from the situation created in the country in relation to prisoners, students, protesters, journalists, etc.;
(g)

welcome the release of political prisoners but urge the authorities to guarantee them full rehabilitation and access to remedy and medical treatment; call for the release of all remaining political prisoners and all other individuals imprisoned or persecuted on politically motivated charges such as human rights activists, civil society and religious activists, journalists and opposition politicians; express concern at several closed-door trials and urge the government to put an end to such practices; urge the government to swiftly amend its criminal code provisions relating to extremism that are sometimes misused to criminalise dissent; welcome the commitments made to stop using the charge of ‘violations of prison rules’ to arbitrarily extend the sentences of political prisoners; ensure that all political prisoners who are convicted of criminal and other offences are given copies of the court sentences on their cases so as to enable them to access their right to appeal and apply for rehabilitation; welcome the relaxation of some restrictions on freedom of peaceful assembly and encourage furthermore the removal of restrictions on those rights, such as detention of peaceful demonstrators, thereby adhering to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; welcome the recent visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief;
10.

Calls for action on the communications from the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture; calls for protection for victims of torture, for them to be provided with proper medical care and for the proper investigation of incidents of torture; requests an end to the abuse of Interpol’s extradition procedures and the cessation of harassment of the political opposition; urges the government of Kazakhstan to fulfil its pledges of zero tolerance for torture and to ensure that allegations of torture, including those made in the context of the Zhanaozen events, are fully investigated; urges the government to review the case of Iskander Yerimbetov in light of the conclusions of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and to ensure that the allegations of torture are duly investigated;
A.

whereas in 2014 Brunei introduced the Sharia Penal Code, to be implemented in three phases; whereas the third phase of implementation entered into force on 3 April 2019; whereas this third phase puts into effect provisions including death by stoning for consensual same-sex acts, extramarital sex and abortion, as well as amputation of limbs for stealing; whereas the code also imposes the death penalty for insulting or defamation of Prophet Mohammad by both Muslims and non-Muslims; whereas the Sharia Penal Code applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims, including foreigners, as well as to offences committed outside the country by citizens or permanent residents;
S.

whereas the Commission’s response to the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal included not only the revision of Directive 2007/46/EC but also a proposal for a directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers (COM(2018)0184); whereas such binding legislation is key to ensuring that consumers have clear rights and can take meaningful collective action, in particular since the 2013 recommendation on collective redress was scarcely implemented in the majority of Member States; whereas in the United States, where the system of class actions is well developed, Dieselgate victims have received between USD 5 000 and USD 10 000 in compensation payments, while European consumers are still waiting for proper compensation; whereas this file is among the many that are blocked in the Council;
I.

whereas many of the measures taken are disproportionate, violate Turkish domestic legislation and are in breach of the commitments of a member of the Council of Europe and run counter to the ICCPR; whereas over 150 000 people were taken into custody in the post-coup crackdown and 78 000 have been arrested on charges of terrorism, while more than 50 000 people remain in jail — in most cases without conclusive evidence; whereas, as of December 2018, the total number of detainees in prison without an indictment or who are pending trial is around 57 000; whereas over 20 % of the imprisoned population is in jail for terrorism-related charges, including journalists, political activists, lawyers and human-rights defenders, leading to increased concerns about the independence of the judiciary;
7.

Demands that the Cuban Government implement legal reforms in order to guarantee freedom of the press, association and demonstration, and launch the political reforms enabling free, fair and democratic elections that take account of the sovereign and freely expressed will of the Cuban people; urges the Cuban Government to align its human rights policy with the international standards defined in the charters, declarations and international instruments to which Cuba is a signatory and to allow civil society and opposition political actors to actively participate in political and social life, with no restrictions; calls on the Government to allow independent domestic and international human rights monitors to have unhindered access to Cuba to extend invitations to the UN Special Rapporteurs on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, of expression and on the situation of human rights defenders;
44.

Stresses the need for enhanced and more effective accountability of the ECB in a context in which its missions have expanded since the beginning of the global financial crisis; reiterates its call for greater ECB transparency and accountability to Parliament; stands ready, to this effect, to improve the format of the monetary dialogue with the ECB president; recognises the steps taken by the ECB on this front, in particular the adoption of the single Code of Conduct for all ECB high-level officials, which includes a requirement to publish the declarations of interests of Governing Council members and sets clear guidelines and transparency requirements, as well as appropriate restrictions on meetings with stakeholders; is of the opinion that enhanced transparency arrangements should contain at least the following elements: — Ensuring that there are independent members in the Audit Committee, as well as in the Ethics Committee; — Adoption of a new whistleblowing policy; — Providing for specific requirements as regards the positions taken by the institution in the framework of financial assistance programmes, as well as in multilateral forums such as the Basel committee;
24.

Stresses that the proposal for an EU Recovery plan presented by the Commission on 27 May 2020, which includes a reinforced long-term EU budget (MFF 2021-2027) and a new recovery instrument of EUR 750 billion which should be conditional on implementing structural reforms and respecting ecological and social standards, serves as a good basis for further negotiations; welcomes the recognition of tourism as one of the economic activities worst affected by the COVID-19 crisis; notes that the new recovery instrument, Next Generation EU, outlines that tourism could see a more than 70 % drop in turnover in the second quarter of 2020, while the basic investment needs in tourism, comprising EUR 161 billion, rank first among the various ecosystems; calls on the Commission to accord due importance to the tourism sector in the recovery package and to issue guidance to ensure swift access to funding, without being hindered by any disproportionate administrative burden, under both ongoing and upcoming programmes: highlights, in this context, the importance of investments in this sector through the Recovery and Resilience Facility which will allow the development of a strategy for a sustainable, flexible and competitive tourism sector across the EU; considers that the EU Recovery plan must include the possibility of providing additional financial support to the tourism sector on the basis of the share that the travel and tourism sector contributes to a Member State’s GDP;
19.

Takes note of the agreement on the overall volume of the NGEU; deplores the massive cuts to the grant components, which upset the balance between grants and loans and will undermine the recovery efforts, especially the cancellation of innovative programmes like the Solvency Support Instrument; believes that these cuts will decrease the firepower of the instrument and its transformative effect on the economy; regrets the fact that once again some Member States negotiated in the spirit of operating budgetary balances while completely disregarding the overall benefits of membership of the single market and the EU as a whole; challenges the Council to justify the massive reductions in the budgets of ReactEU, Horizon Europe, EU4health and the NDICI in the context of the pandemic and the budgets of InvestEU and the Just Transition Fund in the context of the Green Deal;
6.

Stresses that the EU is China’s largest export destination; believes that the EU should use its economic leverage to challenge China’s crackdown on human rights by economic means; underlines that the current situation reinforces Parliament’s conviction that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms must be an important element in the negotiations of an EU-China investment agreement; calls on the Commission to make use of all means at its disposal, together with the ongoing negotiations for a bilateral investment agreement, to put pressure on the Chinese authorities to preserve Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy as well as the basic rights and freedoms of its citizens and independent civil society organisations and to improve the human rights situation in the mainland and in Hong Kong; reiterates its call to include a binding and enforceable sustainable development chapter in the agreement; urges the EU, pursuant to Article 21 of the TEU, to include a human rights clause in any future trade agreement with the People’s Republic of China; instructs the Commission to inform the Chinese side that Parliament will take the human rights situation in China, including in Hong Kong, into consideration when asked to endorse a comprehensive agreement on investment or future trade deals with the PRC;