Contents Motion for a Resolution on Human Rights (DROI) Motion for a Resolution by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Motion for a Resolution by the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Motion for a Resolution by the Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
Motion for a Resolution by the Committee on Human Rights: More than meets the eye: taking into consideration that one in nine Europeans suffer from depression and 90% of suicides are caused by untreated mental disorders, what steps can the EU take to educate European citizens on the topic and contribute to suicide prevention? Submitted by: Yulia Balenko (UA), Maksym Beliakov (UA), Anastasiya Bulgakova (UA), Diana Koskovetska (UA), Anastasia Kovalchuk (UA), Katia Moroz (UA), Sofia Nikiforova (UA), Mikhail Popov (UA), Valeriia Prykhodko (UA), Kateryna Remez (UA), Anastasiya Stebliuk (UA), Yanina Rybalka (Chairperson, UA), Yevheniia Soboleva (Chairperson, UA)
The European Youth Parliament, A. Realising that 9 out of 10 countries with the highest suicide rates are located in Europe , 1 B. Bearing in mind the mortality rate among people with mental disorders being 35% higher than among the general population 2, C. Taking into account Germany, Poland, and Spain having no national suicide register to estimate suicide rates 3, D. Alarmed by severe stigmatisation of individuals affected by mental disorders ,4 E. Recognising an extremely low level of awareness concerning existing emergency hotlines and support services, F. Noting with regret the insufficient level of education on mental disorders at educational institutions across the EU 5, G. Disturbed by the lack of qualified psychologists at educational institutions in the EU and Eastern Partnership States 6, H. Regretting 30% of people with mental disorders lacking access to necessary medication and services 7;
1. Facts about suicide, Mental Health Europe (2017) 2. Mortality Rate Report, World Health Organisation (2015) 3. European Homicide Research, Marieke C. A. Liem (2012) 4. Suicide and Stigma, Robert Olson 5. The School Children Mental Health in Europe (SCMHE) Project: Design and Result, Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health (2005) 6. Mental Health Fact Sheet, World Health Organisation (2019) 7. Facts about Suicide, Mental Health Europe (2017)
1. Requests Member States to conduct profound governmental research to discover the main reasons of suicide ideation for every region; 2. Recommends Member States to allocate more funding to suicide prevention campaigns; 3. Strongly proroses Member States to create a media campaign on mental disorders and their consequences; 4. Invites Eastern Partnership States to further provide mental health related services to people suffering from mental disorders by: a)popularising online support chats and hotlines with professional psychologists, b)creating support groups involving people who managed to overcome mental disorders; 5. Recommends Member States to create a unified educational program for teachers and parents on the importance of mental health;
6. Highly encourages Member States to conduct profound trainings for school psychologists; 7. Requests Member States to allocate extra funding to the public health care system.
Motion for a Resolution by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: Love is love: taking into account still common homophobic attitudes and attacks in Eastern Partnership countries for the sake of ‘traditional values’, how can the EU contribute to guaranteeing the fundamental rights and freedoms of LGBTQ people? Submitted by: Katia Bystrova (UA), Lubov Dzhevaga (UA), Alona Dzon (UA), Volodymyr Lysiuk (UA), Arkadii Nikitin (UA), Vladyslava Ponomarenko (UA), Yurii Scherbak (UA), Kateryna Soloviova (UA), Natalia Velykanova (UA), Sofia Volkova (UA), Andrii Zabolotnikov (UA), Anastasia Ivanchenko (Chairperson, UA) The European Youth Parliament, A. Alarmed by Eastern Partnership 1governments institutionalizing homophobia by:
I. the absence of protection from discrimination on the legislative level in Eastern Partnership States of Belarus and Azerbaijan, II. disregarding the attacks on LGBTQ people as hooliganism instead of hate crimes 2, III. neglecting the obligation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), B. Deeply concerned by the persecution of LGBTQ people:
I. hate crimes committed on the basis of a person's sexual or gender identity, II. the unacceptance and judgment by the Orthodox church and its followers, III. the lack of awareness concerning LGBTQ, leading to further misconceptions and stigmatisation 3, C. Noting with regret that 50% of hate speech transmitted through mass media in Georgia is 4 directed towards LGBTQ , D. Appreciating the law banning discrimination at workplace passed by the Ukrainian Parliament 5, 1. Eastern Partnership (EaP) is a joint initiative of the EU and six Eastern European ex-Soviet countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine). 2. “World Report 2020”, Human Rights Watch (2020) 3. Stigmatisation is disapproving and disregarding people who have a certain characteristic that is seen by a society as shameful and wrong 4. “Anti-Western Propaganda”, Media Development Foundation (2018) 5. “Ukraine passes anti-discrimination law”, BBC (2015)
E. Conscious about high levels of Euroscepticism, preventing LGBTQ rights security by promoting conservativism in society, F. Condemning the absence of legislation protecting LGBTQ families in Eastern Partnership countries,
G. Approving the recognition of same-sex marriages performed abroad in Armenia 6, H. Noting the lack of sex education in school curricula of Eastern Partnership countries, further leading to promoting stigmatisation and invisibility of the LGBTQ community; 1. Calls upon the European Commission to set up a 5-year plan aimed at Eastern Partnership States’ full compliance to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), penalising the countries failing to comply; 2. Encourages Eastern Partnership States to implement changes into their respective Criminal Codes in order to: a) guarantee the investigation and prosecution of hate crimes towards the LGBTQ community, b) ensure psychological consultations sponsored by the government for hate crime offenders; 3. Instructs the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)to raise awareness of the general public by creating and promoting an Eastern Partnership-centred volunteer-produced media campaign on LGBTQ; 4. Invites Ministries of Education of Eastern Partnership States to introduce gender-unbiased and LGBTQ-friendly sex education in the school curriculum;
5. Suggest state-owned media of Eastern Partnership countries to encourage modern cultural influential figures to bring up the topic of tolerance in their social media as well as public communication; 6. Calls upon Eastern Partnership States to protect LGBTQ families by considering: a) legalisation of same-sex marriages, b) permission for LGBTQ couples to adopt children; 7. Endorses the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) to: a) create accurate statistics on abuse and harassment cases of LGBTQ people in Eastern Partnership States, b) provide the victims of persecution and hate crimes with law consultants’ services during litigation.
Motion for a Resolution by the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety: The suspicious needle: taking into account high levels of mistrust of vaccines in Ukraine and the rise of anti-vaccination movements across the EU alongside recent outbreaks of deadly measles and other diseases, how can the EU ensure public safety and protect patients’ rights? Submitted by: Anastasia Artiukh (UA), Dariia Chernyk (UA), Daria Chikinieyeva (UA), Vadym Filatov (UA), Ziniida Hayeva (UA), Anastasiya Hurska (UA), Nikola Huzii (UA), Dmytro Nashchochych (UA), Anastasiia Plaskonis (UA), Ivan Ponomariov (UA), Anastasia Skabarykhina (UA), Alexander Suprunets (UA), Nina Ubozhenko (UA), Nikola Pelnena (Chairperson, LV) The European Youth Parliament, A. Alarmed by the recent global outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, with Ukraine reporting the highest number of measles cases in Europe in 2019 ,1 B. Bearing in mind the high price of vaccinations in Ukraine, paying at the same rate as Spain for the DTP vaccine , 2 C. Deeply regretting deliberate misinformation in the media, lack of veritable information concerning vaccinations, and its effect on public ,3 D. Emphasising the importance of vaccinations for people with weaker immune systems, E. Concerned with the rise of anti-vaccination groups on social media ,4 F. Recognising the distrust towards vaccines and governmental health institutions present in today’s society, with lower than 50% of people in Eastern Europe agreeing on the topic of vaccines’ safety 5-6, F. Aware of the lack of health care facilities in lower income countries of the EU , 7 H. Conscious of the general public not being adequately educated on the topic of vaccination ; 8 1. Measles continues to be a threat in EU/EEA countries, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, (2019) 2. Cost Analysis of Vaccination for Children in Ukraine, Medicamentalia (2017) 3. The Impact of Fake News: Evidence from the Anti-Vaccination Movement, Meradee Tangvatcharapong, (2019) 4. The anti-vax movement is effectively reversing decades of progress in disease prevention, Jonathan Kennedy, (2019) 5. State of Vaccine Confidence in the EU 2018, European Commission, (2018) 6. Attitudes towards vaccines, Wellcome Global Monitor, (2018) 7. Access to healthcare for the most vulnerable in a Europe in social crisis, Pierre Chauvin, Nathalie Simonnot, Caroline Douay, Frank Vanbiervliet, (2015) 8. Teaching children about immunization in a digital age, Hum Vaccin Immunother, (2017)
1. Encourages Member States to support non-governmental organisations in order to ensure the creation of awareness campaigns on epidemics and how to prevent them; 2. Further encourages the European Commission to invest in vaccination programmes in order to lower cost for countries with low vaccine coverage; 3. Requests Member States to ensure governmental health services being informed about positive and negative effects of vaccination; 4. Suggests the European Commissionto fund an independent EU-wide organisation of medical experts to raise awareness and facts about vaccines on social media; 5. Encourages Member States to initiate legislation penalising media outlets that spread misinformation by: a) imposing fines for posting false information about vaccines, b) taking down anti-vax websites; 6. Invites the World Health Organisation (WHO) to sponsor video advertisements in the media presenting the positive sides of vaccination, whilst informing the dangers of avoiding it; 7. Proposes Member States to finance “vaccination buses� to visit areas with low vaccination coverage, thus increasing vaccination availability in remote areas; 8. Further suggests WHO to provide free vaccination equipment to Member States with low vaccination coverage; 9. Requests Member States to raise awareness about vaccination by: a) implementing vaccine education workshops in formal education, b) ensuring that immunology classes are included in the school curricula.
Motion for a Resolution by the Committee on Regional Development: Our house is on fire: with Ukraine being among the highest greenhouse gas emitters in the world, what steps should the government and the EU take to encourage individuals to become actors of the fight against climate change and of the safeguarding of the environment? Submitted by: Bohdan Babenko (UA), Khrystyna Borysova (UA), Sofia Davydenko (UA), Vitalii Huziiy (UA), Mariana Mubarakshyna (UA), Diana Mykhalienko (UA), Polina Puzhchyna (UA), Alisa Rakova (UA), Dariya Stupak (UA), Nadiya Vasylevska (UA), Dariya Zorina (UA), Anastasiiya Zhylina (UA), Anna Kichula (Chairperson, UA), Kacper Lubiewski (Chairperson, PL) The European Youth Parliament, A. Congratulating Italy on marking history as the first country in the world to introduce 1 mandatory climate change classes at all levels of school-education , B. Alarmed by 60% of Ukrainian society being concerned about climate change, while 33% claim the absence of a reason for concern ,2 C. Deeply disturbed by 93% of Ukraine's household waste being transported to landfills , 3 D. Taking into consideration 40 million European citizens being exposed to emissions incompatible with World Health Organisation (WHO) air quality guidelines , 4 E. Pointing out the potential annual rise of the Earth’s temperature by 2-3 degrees ,
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F. Emphasising that climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths annually between the years 2030 and 2050 , 6 G. Noting with regret that more than 530 million children are living in areas extremely prone to floods ; 7
1. Italian Law to Require Climate Change Education in Grade School, Nace, T., the Forbes (2019) 2. Surveying Ukrainian attitudes toward climate change, Unian Information Agency (2019) 3. Ukraine Plans to Improve Waste Recycling System, UA TV (2019) 4. Data and statistics on air quality in Europe, World Health Organisation (2020) 5. Methodological Guidance,Climate Change and Health Diagnostics, World Health Organisation & World Bank Group (2018) 6. Climate IQ Answers, The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (2017) 7. Children will bear the brunt of climate change, UNICEF (2015)
1. Strongly encourages Member States and Eastern Partnership countries’ governments to follow the example of Italy in introducing climate change classes at all stages of education. 2. Calls upon Member States to establish a modernised recycling system under which citizens would receive reduced community service fares;
3. Encourages Member States to promote the usage of electric cars by measures such as: a) making parking lots free for users of such vehicles, b) implementing a European-wise media campaign on the advantages of using ecofriendly means of transportation; 4. Further encourages Member Stated to lower the prices of public transport as well as introduce their timetables in areas when their lack can be observed; 5. Suggests Member States to reward innovative businesses and start-ups in the sector of renewable energy sources with tax breaks; 6. Proposes Member States to create national funds to support citizens dependent on the agriculture sector in case of a natural disaster; 7. Invites the European Environmental Agency (EEA) to conduct further research on combating climate change.