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finally i urge the high representative and the commission to closely monitor european companies' activities in cambodia and ensure that they are not compliant with these abuses.
as the single largest donor to cambodia the eu's influence should weigh heavily upon cambodia's government. we must use this influence and urge cambodia to change its election process and create an environment suitable for a free and fair election.
the proper development of cambodia's land and natural resources could have a positive impact on the lives of its people if undertaken in a sustainable and equitable manner and within the framework of the human rights obligations of the government.
i urge the government of cambodia to protect the fundamental right of all persons to hold and freely express their opinions in a peaceful manner particularly with regard to elections.
in addition to the gross violation of the right to adequate housing agro industry induced displacement in cambodia has led to widespread violations of numerous human rights and freedoms such as forced eviction reduced access to farming and grazing lands and the destruction of the forests which people depend upon for their livelihoods.
the eu is exploring the possibility of an election experts' mission to follow the preparation of the parliamentary elections next july.
he will meet with prime minister hun sen and the president of the national assembly.
the eu will continue to pay particular attention to the human rights situation linked to economic land concessions.
this was criticised by the high representative's spokesperson in a statement underlining the lack of independence of the judicial system.
this is particularly relevant in the run up to the parliamentary elections in july.
seven five million to support the extraordinary chambers of the courts of cambodia and strengthen the cambodian human rights committee.
the eu has raised its concerns in relation to the allocation of economic land concessions with the cambodian authorities in a number of high level meetings most recently the eu cambodia joint committee in june.
positive steps are being taken towards democratisation and the economy has been growing well but the kingdom has still a long way to go on its path to democracy and a fair sharing of the economic growth dividend.
in april this year commissioner de gucht also discussed the issue at length with his cambodian counterpart cham prasidh.
two thousand and thirteen land disputes and forced evictions lead to violence and social instability and are becoming a major political problem.
it will continue to call on the authorities to create an environment conducive to free and fair elections where the voter the candidate and the commentator can exert their basic political rights.
the report on the human rights situation in cambodia issued in july two thousand and twelve by un special rapporteur professor surya subedi and his complementary report on the economic land concessions published on twenty four september confirmed the seriousness of the situation. there is a narrowing space for people from civil society including those belonging to different political parties to express their views peacefully and without fear.
sixty other projects have been funded since two thousand and three for a total of eur. fifteen five million under the european instrument for democracy and human rights primarily supporting land rights and indigenous peoples' rights freedom of expression and prison conditions.
mr president cambodia has come a long way from the murderous tyranny of the khmer rouge and the killing fields but recent events demonstrate there is still much work to be done.
this house has been particularly alarmed by the deaths of political prisoners at the hands of security forces recently the eviction and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of people by way of the economic land commission policy the lack of electoral transparency and the intimidation of opposition activists.
in the ecr group we wholeheartedly endorse the eu's efforts to promote democracy and respect for fundamental human rights in cambodia so that its people are able to protest without fear vote as they choose and live in stable communities unthreatened by the prospect of forcible removal.
mr president sam rainsy is an outstanding cambodian liberal politician and i fully condemn a politically motivated conviction of him as well as similar sentences and convictions against political critics parliamentary opposition politicians human rights defenders and land activists in cambodia.
the reason is very simple.
this report calls for a clear set of european consumers' rights.
so it is illegal to make a book that has a technological lock available to a blind person but the terms of service that simply erase an exception to copyright are completely legal.
they can simply be disabled by a contract or by technological restrictions.
according to the directive rights holders have rights and users have exceptions to those rights.
this report calls for interoperability and cross border access so you should be able to buy and to use works on any device or in any country.
the message was clear now is the time to act decisively.
you have had thousands of responses to the consultation on copyright asking for more europe in copyright law.
parliament recognises in the report that twenty eight different copyright laws are too complicated but still it considers our cultures to be so different that we cannot possibly agree on simple things like the fact that drawing a caricature should not require permission a rights holder should not forbid a journalist from quoting a work in order to criticise it or public pictures of public space should remain royaltyfree. this parliament is at its best when it is the voice of the people.
i also hope that you my colleagues will wonder why people considered it necessary to form a party that is solely based on reforming copyright to give it the ridiculous name of the pirate party and to elect me here to the european parliament to tell you that copyright reform is urgently needed.
now you have the chance to take up this call and to update copyright law to the digital age.
but at the same time this report is also a tragically missed opportunity.
just a year ago thousands of europeans participated in a public consultation on copyright and they expressed how they come into daily conflict with a law that is unfit for the digital age.
president juncker announced his goal to tear down national silos in copyright and commissioner ansip boldly took on geo blocking.
personally i wonder if this report as it stands is really the best that we can do if this is what european leadership looks like.
you have had half a million petitioners demanding freedom of panorama.
with copyright you have seen tens of thousands of your young people on the streets opposing acta and holding signs saying this video is not available in your country'.
it has rejected the acta treaty because the people we represent embrace the internet as an integral part of their reality.
it sides with the right to education and with allowing libraries museums and archives to do their jobs in the digital world and to make our shared cultural heritage accessible to anybody regardless of their social status.
circumventing those restrictions is illegal even for legitimate purposes.
these exceptions are optional to the member states.
the copyright directive so far protects digital locks more than it protects the people.
on the one hand it is a great step forward. it recognises that users of copyrighted works have rights a foreign concept to the current copyright directive.
it states that copyright exceptions must not be overridden by a contract and that you cannot charge a levy for private copying on the one hand but then on the other hand use technology that makes private copying impossible.
ms reda's report as we all know reviewed the two thousand and one information society directive and as such or perhaps not as such it has achieved some notoriety.
because if they are not we will not have music as we know it we will not have much in the way of television and radio and we will have very few new books.
but the report as a result of that is both wide ranging and forward looking.
and it is not consumers creators both need to be taken into consideration and both need to be in the reforms that eventually come forward for copyright.
i do not believe as ms reda said that we have missed an opportunity. i think what this report as amended by the committee does is to put forward constructive proposals which i very much hope the commission will take on board.
on freedom of panorama.
i urge you all to vote to delete the whole of paragraph forty six tomorrow because if we do that with one press of our button in the european parliament it will mean that photographers across europe can safely continue to press their buttons.
for an own initiative report of this kind it has certainly received more attention than perhaps we would have expected.
we had lengthy negotiations amongst all the political groups in the committee on legal affairs and i believe and i think my colleagues also believe that we did eventually achieve a fair balance between the competing interest groups between consumers and creators.
but my focus and i believe the focus of the socialist and democrat group has always been on creators to give creators fair remuneration to make sure that they are adequately paid.
this is really a matter for our culture across the european union and we need to see it in that light.
i urge member states to take action and ratify this treaty.
the key points i wanted to raise are on e book access the ratification of the marrakesh treaty and text and data mining. there are still too many barriers to libraries being able to provide books in electronic format and i hope that we will see concrete proposals from the commission later this year to try to address some of these problematic issues.
this is the challenge if we want to make our digital single market work effectively.
publishers and libraries have been working together to seek solutions and these discussions must continue.
so the challenge is there and we will meet it.
the book famine which visually impaired and blind people still face is a clear breach of human rights. let us remind ourselves that less than five of the books published in europe are available in a format that is accessible.
commissioner oettinger is right about the balance that we need to strike between the new digital world that we exist within and the rights of the creators of content.
in the uk and in other countries the right to take pictures in public places of public buildings is a cherished freedom and an eu limitation is not appropriate.
therefore exemptions need to be clear and targeted.
madam president we do need to update copyright for the digital age and people expect to be able to take their music films and books with them when they travel. consumers should be able to access legally available content and know when they buy it how portable it is. but portability must not be an excuse for piracy eight million people work in the creative sector and they should be paid properly.
this one is connected to the world. i would urge you everyone to vote for the good things in this report. they are a sign that the political system is waking up to the enormous change that has already taken place and i would also urge you to consider the changes that are going to take place in the coming decades and the world we will be living in then.
the computer i have in my hand has a memory that is two and a half million times larger than my first computer but the sense of change is far greater than that.
but copyright is still basically in the old paradigm.
they fear that the regulations coming out of this place are going to mean that their jobs are redundant.
they can vote to leave this place and have a government at westminster a government they can vote out instead of the commissioners that they did not vote for deciding their laws.
but my message to those people is not to listen to the blank reassurances from this chamber.
i have had hundreds of emails and letters from graphic designers web designers professional photographers who fear for their livelihoods.
it could be twenty million.
copyright reform has to be one of those innovative moves for europe.
i urge the commission to be ambitious and to come up with a revolutionary copyright proposal in the autumn.
we need to give cross border access to online content we need to ensure portability and we need to remove legal uncertainties and inconsistencies that affect the functioning of the internal market. i hope that parliament will give clear guidance for the commission
it could be much more.
that is what we should aim for but in order to be competitive we need to be innovative.
even though the debate has been blown a bit out of proportion it does show that we need a new balance in copyright that we should not hold onto ideas that have already failed the practice test and that exceptions and limitations are not harmful to authors.
they quite often give a necessary breathing space for new creation to take place and they give aspiring authors the necessary access to culture and education.
not everybody in the future will be a victor hugo but victor hugo the initiator of the berne convention himself famously said and i quote literature is the secretion of civilisation poetry of the ideal.
is why there must be a vast public literary domain.
banning the freedom of panorama exclusion for example was exactly the wrong way to look at the digital single market.
i am glad that the groups and the author have agreed now to remove it but i have huge concerns that the committee thought it was a good idea in the first place.
it shows that there is little understanding of the immense changes that the digital environment is bringing to consumers users right holders and businesses.
the call to reopen the e commerce directive is also unwelcome as is the very wide educational exemption the study into the pan european licence and the amendment for a new internet tax. but my final point is on geo blocking. one of europe's biggest sporting events is taking place right now it is the ashes cricket series between england and australia and it has a global audience of billions.
yet if you bought access to watch this in the uk you are blocked from accessing it here in france or on holiday in spain even though the right to work is there.
i worked to ensure that opportunities in the creative sector are not lost to the creators or to the users.
this report seeks to make copyright work in both the analogue as well as the digital world by giving users and creators the full possibility of drawing on the potential of both these worlds.
it emphasises the importance of portability of content across borders further remuneration for creators respect for contractual freedom marketdriven solutions that reflect the everchanging expectations of users and the provision of solutions which are evidence based.
with this report parliament continues to show its belief in creators as well as its aspirations to continue to make avenues available to make european cultural and creative works more accessible by seizing the opportunities that the digital age provides. i look forward to a favourable vote on this report.
i also thank the commissioner for indicating that parliament and the commission seem to be following the same principles and i look forward to the commissioner's proposals.
personal use is completely and utterly ridiculous. the people who designed these buildings let us say they are buildings got paid for those designs. we have been contacted by many people who believe this is just another way for big business to make more money. technology was meant to improve our lives.
i hope it does.
when i was growing up i could listen to any sporting event in the world on bbc radio.
it. i fear in the future that my grandkids will not have access to similar things because of the progress of technology and blocking. that is not what we are looking
mr zwiefka thank you very much for your contribution. would you kindly just provide some further details as far as the right of panorama is concerned?
it is of course right that providing we deal with the voting in the way that we feel the large groups in this house are about to we will arrive at a situation where the national positions of each of our member states remain protected so that they can deal with that in the way that they feel is appropriate.
the intervention of the private sector is also crucial for the transformational objectives of the social development goals and the climate change commitments.
discussions in the eu platform for blending involving the european parliament include exchanges on the issue of private sector engagement in blending.
domestic resource mobilisation is key and we must also catalyse private funding flows.
it is a significant contribution to a full and coherent expression of the european union's institutions on the importance of the private sector's role in development.
this requires sustainable investment to diversify our partners' economies and link them to global value chains.
we need partnerships that encourage businesses to put sustainability at the core of their strategies and to promote innovative inclusive business models.
two thousand and fourteen the main challenge in our cooperation with developing countries remains achieving inclusive and sustainable growth and creating decent jobs.
this strategy would be implemented also through innovative instruments such as electrify' or agrify' initiatives which have been developed to promote private sector investments in rural electrification and agriculture.
the private sector is sending signals that it is ready to work with us to become a true financing and implementing partner in achieving sustainable growth in developing countries.
for example as it is expected that africa's population will double by two thousand and fifty we need to help it create at least four hundred million new jobs.
the report reflects the priorities and challenges identified in the two thousand and fourteen commission communication a stronger role of the private sector in achieving inclusive and sustainable growth in developing countries' and in the council conclusions of june and december.
the commission remains committed to ensuring and enhancing the local ownership of blended projects by involving partner countries and regional organisations.
the commission will invest over eur two billion to support global private sector development and facilitate responsible and inclusive partner sector investment in development by.
european economic diplomacy can help mobilise european investments with mutual benefits for the sending and receiving countries in terms of growth and jobs.
the european union blending framework is a successful tool for achieving european union external policy objectives by leveraging public and private funds.
money that should stay in those countries is brought to europe and other offshore accounts and hidden away by the elite of those countries.
if we mean to offer the billion people still living in abject poverty the dignity of work and of earning a living wage then we must seize this opportunity before us now and get on with it.
it provides a solution to the huge financial shortfalls in funding created by the development agenda for the next fifteen years.
fourthly public private partnerships must mobilise long term not short term private finance and hold the private sector accountable to public sector tendering processes transparency and scrutiny. so this report calls for the private sector to invest in building and running schools;
we have to make sure that those funds stay in those countries to be used for the development of those countries.
the united nations conference on trade and development projects a funding gap yes i repeat a funding gap of usd.
digging for wells and irrigating agriculture; building running and maintaining hospitals and hospital services;
the success of the millennium development goals in the past fifteen years has provided ample evidence of how to get it right in the next fifteen years but one billion people still live on less than usd.
we have fifteen years to fix that with the new seventeen sustainable development goals announced at the united nations last year.
mr president my report on the private sector in development breaks new ground.
but first we have to end the tax fraud in developing countries which accounts for losses of nearly one trillion annually through illicit funding.
this is a staggering sum a sum that is beyond comprehension to our european taxpayers a sum that the already struggling european taxpayer cannot even begin to shoulder.
mr president it is very clear that there is a huge financing gap for development.
i think that at best an environment which is conducive to the private sector and business is one where good governance accountability and transparency rules and which is predictable for all.
however i believe that when enterprises enter into the field of development they have to be practising due diligence so that they really understand the conditions on the ground;
i believe that if we come to this kind of communication between the private sector and other development actors we can really achieve something.
there are currently three hundred and fifty six palestinian children children in israeli prisons. now is the time for the eu to speed up the two state solution.
it is the only way to secure a peaceful fair future for both of them and i mean it.
the people living there are living without access to such basic needs as food water electricity and education.
isn't that exactly the problem when you're trying to bring peace taking sides?
but at the same time we have to look at things from a point of view of the long term perspective.
similar diplomacy is needed if we are to bring about the two state solution which we all desire i think in israel and the gaza strip and i think we have a very important role to play in that.
mr president i congratulate those who worked so hard to bring this resolution here before us today.
mr president i'd like to state my solidarity with people living in gaza especially women and children who've been living in horrendous conditions for far too long.
those of us who care about human dignity are appalled to see how israel continues to turn a blind eye to the humanitarian consequences of its colonial policy.
israel uses security as an excuse far too often as we well know when we speak to veterans from breaking the silence.
i was shocked therefore to learn that my colleague ana gomes was the target of a smear campaign including comments from eu officials who should have been neutral.
the high representative vice president was at the summit of the league of arab states this past sunday where she met several leaders including president abbas and the king of jordan.
on the recent protests in gaza.
the european union has been crystal clear freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are fundamental rights that must be respected by all and israel must respect the right to peaceful protests and proportionality in the use of force when defending its legitimate security interests.
the immediate priority for all sides must now be to prevent any further escalation and loss of life. we call for utmost restraint and responsibility. those leading the protest in gaza must ensure that they remain strictly non violent and are not exploited for other means.
the human rights situation in gaza that you referred to cannot be separated from the broader political context which contributes to a worsening situation on the ground.
that is why the eu together with our partners has put a strong focus on gaza in the last month with two ad hoc liaison committee meetings in brussels and a successful donor conference on the gaza desalination plant with a project on energy and more humanitarian aid.
we are also ready if the political conditions are met to assist in the re opening of the rafah crossing which would be a game changer for freedom of movement in gaza.
be quiet.
israel needs to allow more access and movement.