Point 3 and 4 mention deafblindness
| European Parliament
2014 – 2019 |
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
29/01/2020
AMENDMENTS: 12
Marc Angel, Katrin Langensiepen, Elżbieta Rafalska, Radka Maxová, José Gusmão, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Stelios Kympouropoulos
EU disability strategy post 2020
Draft motion for a resolution PE646.825 – 2019/2975(RSP)
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Amendment 1
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
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| – having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the situation of women with disabilities, | |
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Amendment 2
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
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| F a. whereas the EU Disability Strategy 2010-2020 failed to include and address the specific situation of women and girls with disabilities, who constitute an important group facing multiple and intersectional discrimination based on both their gender and their disability; | |
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Amendment 3
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
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| F b. Whereas deafblind people suffer from unique dual disabilities, combining two sensory deficiencies, visual and hearing, which restricts their full participation causing specific problems such as access to communication, information, mobility and social interactions; | |
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Amendment 4
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
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| 4 a. Stresses that deafblind persons need additional care provided by professionals with specialist and qualified knowledge as well as deafblind interpreters; calls on the Member States to recognize the red-white cane as the symbol of the deafblind pedestrian in order to make deafblind people more visible in traffic; | |
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Amendment 5
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
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| 6 a. Stresses that the potential of social economy enterprises and organisations in facilitating labour market inclusion for persons with disabilities should be acknowledged in the new EU Disability Strategy post 2020; | |
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Amendment 6
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
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| 7. Calls on the Commission to systematically mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in all the relevant EU laws, policies and programmes; | 7. Calls on the Commission to systematically mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in all the relevant EU laws, policies and programmes; calls on the Commission to ensure disability-specific measures are included in the Country Specific Recommendations , especially with the upcoming proposals for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights; |
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Amendment 7
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
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| 8. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the UNCRPD-compliant use of EU funds and to ensure that EU funds will not contribute to the construction or refurbishment of institutional care settings; | 8. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the UNCRPD-compliant use of EU funds and to ensure that EU funds will not contribute to the construction or refurbishment of institutional care settings; believes EU funds must be addressed towards promoting inclusive environments, services, practices and devices, and deinstitutionalization, through, among other measures, determined support for personal assistance and independent living; |
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Amendment 8
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
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| 8 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure coherent implementation of the European funds, with concurrent strategies in the Member States, to develop universal accessibility, truly achieving a Europe free of barriers by the end of the next European Strategy post 2020 period; | |
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Amendment 9
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
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| 8 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the European Strategy and national actions are fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, as a major global framework for action which includes disability as a horizontal issue in SDGs 4, 8, 10,11 and 17; | |
Or. en
Amendment 10
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
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| 11 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure all projects and infrastructure supported by EU funds in third countries are accessible for the inclusion of persons with disabilities and that EU funds invest in the implementation and monitoring of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and capacity building of organisations of persons with disabilities; | |
Or. en
Amendment 11
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
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| 12 a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure that the post 2020 Disability Strategy includes a gender-based and intersectional approach to combat the multiple forms of discrimination faced by persons with disabilities; | |
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Amendment 12
Jordi Cañas
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
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| 12 b. Calls on the European Commission to ensure that the post 2020 Disability Strategy includes violence against persons with disabilities as one of its main focus areas, paying particular attention to gender-based violence and children with disabilities; | |
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