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Debate: Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Ylva Johansson
Language: EN

I would like to emphasise the importance of this regulation and its adoption. The determined fight we are undertaking against forced labour demonstrates to our citizens and to the world that our pursuit of prosperity cannot be achieved without upholding our values and internationally agreed human rights. This regulation sets a new standard for the fight against forced labour and, together with our like-minded partners, through cooperation and exchanges of information on forced-labour risk, we will continue fighting effectively against this horrible human rights violation. The Commission is ready to prepare the effective and efficient implementation of the instrument, with the lowest administrative burden for companies, and in close cooperation with the Member States’ competent authorities. Allow me to thank you once again for your support of this legislative initiative.
Debate: Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Samira Rafaela
Country: Germany
Language: EN

And this cannot be only empty talks. So yes, this is an instrument with teeth. We need to make sure that we follow up when it comes to the human rights that we sell in the world, and we are following several examples now in the world as being the EU. There are several other likeminded partners that have comparable legislation in place. Also to protect our multilateral system, and given the geopolitical situation in the world, it is very important that we harmonise as much as possible, that we try to do the same as much as possible as being likeminded partners. Because if we leverage that power, if we leverage these resources, if we leverage that knowledge, then we can be truly effective, from a multilateral perspective, when it comes to fighting for human rights and when it comes to protecting human rights.  And I am very proud to hear that we will probably count tomorrow on a big majority for this Forced Labour Ban Regulation, because that is, I believe, the only message we can send also in light of the elections. This is the message that we need to centre our citizens, that this is the Parliament that we have been fighting for – a Parliament that stands for the human rights and that protects human lives. And if we want to explain to our citizens why they should keep voting for the European elections, why the European Parliament delivers for citizens, then this is one of the very good examples, how we are preventing people in the world to become a victim of forced labour.
Debate: Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques
Country: Italy
Language: EN

However, our work does not end here. For this regulation to be effective, it must be properly implemented. We must ensure that competent authorities, including the European Commission, have sufficient resources to carry out their new tasks, including inspection in third countries. I hope the Commission feels proud of this new competence. Cooperation with our international partners, particularly the US and Canada, will also be essential to prevent companies blocked by one country from selling their forced labour products elsewhere.  To finish, I want to dictate all my work in this file to the 28 million victims of this form of modern slavery. I am proud of the work of this Parliament.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Evelyn Regner
Country: Netherlands
Language: EN

The next item is the debate on the report by Malin Björk and Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, on behalf of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Lena Düpont
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Menschenhandel ist und bleibt leider weiterhin eines der stabilsten und lukrativsten Kriminalitätsphänomene in der EU. Daran hat leider auch die bisherige Richtlinie zum Kampf gegen Menschenhandel aus dem Jahr 2001 nichts geändert. Warum? Aus zwei einfachen, aber umso frustrierenderen Gründen: Erstens: Sie ist bisher von der überwiegenden Anzahl der Mitgliedstaaten nicht oder nur unzureichend umgesetzt worden. Zweitens: Der Kriminalitätsbereich hat sich, nicht zuletzt durch das Internet, entscheidend weiterentwickelt. Die Neufassung konzentriert sich daher genau darauf, Strafermittlungs- und Strafverfolgungsbehörden stärkere Instrumente an die Hand zu geben, um alte und neue Formen wie Zwangsheirat und illegale Adoption in den Blick zu nehmen, Ermittlungs- und Sanktionierungsinstrumente gegen Personen, die Menschenhandel betreiben oder die die Dienste von Opfern wissentlich in Anspruch nehmen, zu verbessern, den zynischen Möglichkeiten der Online-Dimension konsequenter entgegenzutreten und die Verfahren zur frühzeitigen Identifizierung und Unterstützung der Opfer zu verbessern. Der fast wichtigste Punkt – finde ich – die Zusammenarbeit zwischen allen europäischen Stellen, wie den  Aber, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, das kann nur dann zum Erfolg führen, wenn die Mitgliedstaaten die Instrumente auch umsetzen und anwenden. Das gilt für die vorliegende Richtlinie, das gilt für den verbesserten polizeilichen Informationsaustausch, für den gestärkten Kampf gegen Geldwäsche oder den Einsatz von KI. Wir werden gegen dieses menschenverachtende Geschäft nur ankommen, wenn unsere Strafverfolgungs- und Ermittlungsbehörden alle Instrumente an der Hand haben, die sie zur Erfüllung ihrer Aufgabe brauchen.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Juan Fernando López Aguilar
Political group: S-D
Country: Germany
Language: ES

Miles de personas caen cada año víctimas de la explotación de personas y de los tráficos ilícitos. El 70 % son mujeres. Y el 70 % —fíjense qué casualidad— son víctimas de explotación sexual; el otro 20 %, laboral. Del 70 % que son víctimas de explotación sexual, el 20 % son menores. Por tanto, estamos ante un paisaje brutal que tenemos que acometer. El informe sobre la implementación pone de manifiesto defectos en la protección de las víctimas, defectos en la coordinación de las autoridades nacionales, escasez de demandas, escasez de denuncias y, por tanto, la necesidad de acometer la demanda de servicios laborales y sexuales. Ese es el punto esencial de esta legislación: invitar a los Estados miembros a tipificar penalmente el uso de servicios laborales o sexuales de las víctimas de trata, además de tipificar penalmente el matrimonio forzado, la adopción ilegal, la extracción de órganos y, por supuesto, la explotación de la gestación subrogada. Se trata de un avance de la legislación europea, una Directiva penal contra los tráficos ilícitos que da un mandato claro de compromiso del legislador europeo contra esta insoportable forma de explotación de personas como son los tráficos ilícitos y la trata de seres humanos.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Jana Toom
Political group: Renew
Country: Hungary
Language: EN

Ernestine and many vulnerable persons are being recruited in order to be exploited and tricked into cheap labour. The update of this directive takes more measures to protect victims by introducing early detection and specialised assistance. It also provides for more opportunities to persecute perpetrators by introducing measures for legal persons, aggravating circumstances and punishment for those who knowingly use services from trafficked persons. Trafficking is not only the crime, it is a blatant violation of human rights.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Alice Kuhnke
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Germany
Language: SV

Det är tack vare ert och andras mod, styrka och solidaritet som vi nu får en tuffare lagstiftning på plats i hela EU. Den kommer att göra det svårare för dem som vill köpa andra människors slavarbete, och det kommer att göra det lättare för offren att få hjälp.  Och till dig som göder efterfrågan på traffickingoffer när du köper sex, varje gång du köper sex: Du är en skam för mänskligheten.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Political group: ECR
Country: Slovakia
Language: ES

El tráfico de personas es esencialmente una perversión del valor de la vida y, por tanto, de la dignidad de la persona. Nadie merece ser tratado como un objeto ni, mucho menos, como objeto de transacción. Todos somos un fin en sí mismos, y no mercancías ni útiles para que los otros deshonren nuestra identidad. De una cultura que denigra el valor de la vida humana, podemos esperar que proliferen prácticas que atentan de forma inmoral y criminal contra las personas, tratas de mujeres y niños que deben ser investigadas y perseguidas. La gestación subrogada es también un modo de explotación, donde unos se lucran de la desesperación de otros con propuestas que manipulan la voluntad de las partes implicadas, a las que se tienta con salidas que —lejos de liberarlas— las encadena en grandes dilemas y deseos siempre insatisfechos. No puede ser de otra manera. Se oferta al bebé como un objeto de diseño, susceptible incluso de ser rechazado. Se atrapa a la mujer con contratos perversos que ignoran su libertad y su salud y promueven la aceptación del desgarro traumático que supone la separación de una madre de su hijo. Esperemos que este cambio en la Directiva relativa a la prevención y lucha contra la trata de seres humanos prevenga de estas prácticas que nos dañan en lo más profundo del corazón humano.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Anabela RODRIGUES
Political group: The Left
Language: PT

Entre 2008 e 2022, Portugal registou um aumento de 107 % neste tipo de crime. Infelizmente, no Alentejo, quem trabalha a terra são, na maior parte das vezes, cidadãos migrantes de países como o Nepal, Bangladexe, Bulgária, Roménia, Moldávia, Ucrânia, Índia, Senegal, Paquistão, Timor-Leste – e podia dizer outros–, atraídos para a Europa sob promessas falsas de redes de criminosas. À chegada, em vez de trabalho digno, são manipulados por empregadores que lhes apreendem os passaportes, os mantêm em locais remotos, com condições insalubres e com mais dívida do que salário.  Dos 24,9 milhões de pessoas, de que a OIT fala, que estão presos em trabalho forçado, 16 milhões são explorados no setor privado, como o do trabalho doméstico, como o a construção ou da agricultura. Há uma responsabilidade política da UE contra o tráfico, por uma melhor solidariedade, investimento na capacidade para acolher e integrar vias seguras para imigrantes e refugiados, ao invés de insistir em medidas securitárias que os deixam sempre nas mãos desta gente sem escrúpulos e sem um trabalho digno.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Frances Fitzgerald
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, Commissioner, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Dublin: every EU city, town and village houses a victim of human trafficking. We may not know it or just may not want to notice it, but it is clear from the figures that victims of trafficking are everywhere in our Union.  I would say denial is everywhere: trafficking takes place not just in the murky underworld, but before our very eyes: 37 % of victims of trafficking in the EU are EU citizens, 15 % are children. In 2022 alone, 10 093 victims of trafficking were registered in the EU. This was a staggering 41 % increase on the previous year – of course the real number is likely to be far higher – and 63 % of those trafficked are women and girls and 60 % of those who are trafficked are trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation. Colleagues, we cannot talk about trafficking if we do not speak about prostitution: they are inextricably linked with violent criminal gangs profiteering from the exploitation of women. Let’s be clear: as the  Colleagues, it is frightening to think that young boys and girls are being trafficked across our Union. It is time to do more for the innocent children of Europe who are having their childhoods taken away. We have to tackle the criminal gangs involved in prostitution.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, na Europa há pessoas traficadas para casamentos forçados, para adoção ilegal, para prostituição, para atividades criminosas, para serem forçadas a trabalhar – ainda hoje, aqui, há pouco discutimos o trabalho forçado – e até para serem barrigas de aluguer. São mais de 7 000 vítimas de tráfico na União Europeia todos os anos, na sua maioria mulheres e crianças, lamentavelmente.  É para acabar com esta comercialização de pessoas que lutámos arduamente para fazer a diferença com a revisão da Diretiva antitráfico de seres humanos. Muito obrigada à Malin e à María Eugenia e a todos os outros envolvidos neste trabalho.  Não obtivemos o acordo final tão ambicioso quanto os socialistas gostariam, mas ainda assim imprimimos novas regras europeias, não apenas para prevenir, investigar e combater o tráfico de maneira mais eficaz, mas também para oferecer melhor proteção às vítimas e aos sobreviventes deste crime hediondo. Os resultados da sua aplicação pelas autoridades dos Estados-Membros mostrarão se valeu a pena. Eu quero acreditar que sim.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Abir Al-Sahlani
Political group: Renew
Country: Sweden
Language: SV

Fru talman! Kommissionär, kollegor! Om du åker 20 minuter från det här huset kan du köpa en kvinnas kropp – fritt fram för dig att våldta utan några konsekvenser. Vi är alltså 20 minuter från misär där kvinnor, flickor och pojkar utnyttjas, brukas och används som en slit-och-släng-vara i en butik.  Jag hoppas att ni blir obekväma av den här tanken, för det är den känslan som vi ska bära med oss. För nu har vi chansen att skicka en signal till hela EU om att sexköp aldrig är acceptabelt. Jag hoppas att ni kollegor tar på er det ansvaret att stå på varenda kvinnas, flickas och pojkes sida som är och har varit offer för människohandel och prostitution.  Det finns inga ord för att beskriva hur viktigt det är att EU tar sitt ansvar och förbjuder sexköp och förstör denna affärsmodell som bygger på bordellherrarnas preferenser. Och till er män som köper sex: Era dagar som utnyttjare av kvinnors kroppar är räknade, ni som genom er ekonomiska makt tror att det är okej att våldta en kvinnas kropp – för ingen kropp ska vara till salu. Ingen ska behöva gå igenom den psykiska och fysiska terror som era bordeller och trafficking innebär.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Beata Kempa
Political group: ECR
Country: Czechia
Language: PL

Pani Przewodnicząca! Pani Komisarz! Potrzebujemy bardzo konkretnych, bardzo celowych, ale przede wszystkim natychmiastowych działań. Potrzebujemy zdecydowanie większej aktywności państw członkowskich w zwalczaniu przemytu i handlu ludźmi. Potrzebujemy przede wszystkim wyższych kar za ten proceder i przede wszystkim surowszego traktowania winnych.  Kobiety i dzieci to dwie grupy szczególnie narażone. Dane są przerażające. Co roku około 300 tysięcy dzieci staje się ofiarami handlarzy. Unia Europejska chce zrobić więcej. To dobrze. To bardzo dobrze. Tylko np. dlaczego wciąż akceptujemy surogację dzieci. Surogację, która się wiąże z opłatą za to zjawisko? Dosyć przymykania oczu na ten haniebny proceder, który jest niczym innym jak handlem ludźmi.  Ale dlaczego również wciąż akceptujemy przemytnicze łódki krążące po Morzu Śródziemnym i Atlantyku i dostarczające ludzi na nasz kontynent? Bardzo często jest tak, że ludzie tymi łódkami nie dopływają, że giną na morzu. Usprawiedliwiamy często organizacje pozarządowe, które niestety – w jakiejś części, bo nie wszystkie oczywiście – za to odpowiadają.  Najprostsze sposoby okazują się najskuteczniejsze. Wszyscy wiemy, co trzeba zrobić. Trzeba przede wszystkim zdecydowanie w tej sprawie i skutecznie działać.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Cyrus Engerer
Political group: S-D
Country: Romania
Language: EN

Madam President, as a Parliament, we are strongly united to fight human trafficking and the organised criminal networks that prey on the most vulnerable people across the globe. I believe that all human trafficking should be condemned. Anyone who is forced to do anything against their own will should be considered as a victim and needs our protection in the European Union. I do agree that anyone using the services of people who have been human-trafficked should also face criminal proceedings, and that is why I agree with this very strong statement and with this very strong directive in this Parliament being discussed right now. However, if I could constructively criticise the text, I would say that we should not have listed the different reasons why people are exploited, why people are trafficked. I say this because all of it is wrong, all of it is criminal, and we can run the risk of leaving some situations out. At the same time, we have unfortunately listed all of surrogacy in general terms as something which is totally wrong – and I agree, if this is forced, it is unacceptable. But then there are some circumstances where we have altruistic surrogacy, and we need to make sure that we do not put this in a negative light. Let’s be strong. Let’s combat human trafficking in all our force, ensuring justice for all victims and holding criminal networks accountable.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Dorien Rookmaker
Political group: ECR
Country: Netherlands
Language: NL

Voorzitter, dank u wel, meneer Engerer, want uw punt is precies het punt dat ik wilde maken. Mensensmokkel is mensensmokkel en het maakt niet uit waarom je het doet, het is booming business en het is crimineel. Of het nu gaat over smokkelen van vluchtelingen, over smokkel voor adoptie of prostitutie of gedwongen huwelijken, criminelen verdienen er miljoenen aan en dat is verkeerd. Een oversteek van de Middellandse Zee kost gemiddeld 10 000 euro en op een bootje zitten gemiddeld 500 mensen. Tel uit je winst: 5 miljoen omzet per bootje. Daar kun je niet zomaar wat aan doen. Maar we moeten er iets aan doen. En wat gebeurt er nu? Eigenlijk niks. We maken het smokkelaars nog makkelijker om de dans te ontspringen, dat wel. Het aanvragen van een verblijfsstatus, dat zou voor iedereen buiten de grenzen van de EU moeten plaatsvinden. Op ambassades, zo dicht mogelijk bij de plaats van vertrek. Pas als de procedure met succes is doorlopen, mag men veilig afreizen. Zo tackel je de businesscase van mensensmokkelaars en daar moet je de aanpak op richten. Zolang we de oversteek van de EU-grens zonder geldige papieren blijven toestaan, gaat dit feest door.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Maria Noichl
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin, liebe Kolleginnen, liebe Kollegen! Wenn es um die Prävention beim Menschenhandel geht, ist es wichtig, ganz genau zu benennen: Was ist der Zweck des Menschenhandels? Denn nur, wenn ich den Zweck wirklich im Blick habe, kann ich präventiv tätig sein. Und ich möchte da meinem Vorredner explizit widersprechen: Es ist richtig und gut, und ich möchte Danke sagen, dass klar benannt ist, was der Zweck der Ausbeutung ist, nämlich Menschenhandel zum Zwecke der sexuellen Ausbeutung, offline oder online, Menschenhandel zum Zwecke der Leihmutterschaft, Menschenhandel zum Zwecke von Organhandel. Genau der Zweck gibt uns die Richtung an, wie wir die Prävention starten können. Es ist doch klar: Wenn der Zweck die sexuelle Ausbeutung ist, sei es in der Prostitution oder in der Pornografie, dann müssen wir dort ansetzen, wenn wir Menschenhandel stoppen wollen. Genau in der Pornografie und in der Prostitution – dort muss klar sein: Hier ist der Ansatzpunkt. Beim Zweck der Leihmutterschaft müssen wir genau dort ansetzen und ebenso beim Organhandel. Wichtig ist zu wissen, dass legale Strukturen – gäbe es legale Strukturen, und es gibt legale Strukturen, z. B. in der Prostitution – diese legalen Strukturen ausgenutzt werden, um die illegalen Strukturen aufzubauen. Das bedeutet: Die illegale Prostitution findet mehr oder weniger im Schatten der angeblich legalen statt. Deswegen: Der Zweck gibt uns den klaren Ansatz, wo die Prävention starten kann.
Debate: Amending Directive //EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Date: MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024
Speaker: Bert-Jan Ruissen
Political group: ECR
Country: France
Language: NL

Voorzitter, beste collega’s, mensenhandel is een veelkoppig monster waar we maar geen grip op krijgen. Wat daarbij zeker niet helpt, is dat veel landen prostitutie als een normaal beroep zijn gaan beschouwen, terwijl juist daar heel veel mensenhandel is. Dat we nu de richtlijn inzake de bestrijding van mensenhandel actualiseren, is een goede zaak. Maar er is meer nodig, met name bij de lidstaten: meer mensen en middelen voor opsporing en handhaving, betere informatie-uitwisseling tussen nationale instanties, maar ook meer uitstapprogramma’s voor prostituees en het aanpakken van prostitutiebezoekers en exploitanten. Uitbuiting van draagmoeders zal nu ook onder de richtlijn vallen en dat is zeer terecht. Ik blijf echter van mening dat draagmoederschap in zijn geheel verboden zou moeten worden. En dat niet alleen vanwege de uitbuiting, maar ook omdat het ethisch gezien zeer discutabel is een kind na de geboorte bij de moeder weg te halen.