2 Amendments of Terry REINTKE related to 2014/2015(INI)
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas digital modes of communication have contributed to the prevalence of hate speech and threats against women, with 18 % of women in Europe having suffered since adolescence some form of online harassment and nine million victims of online violence in Europe; whereas there is a lack of responsiveness by the justice system towards violence against women online; whereas abusers and haters are very rarely reported, investigated, prosecuted and sentenced;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to present, as soon as possible, a European Gender Violence Strategy that includes a legislative instrument and tackles as well new forms of violence against women and girls, such as cyber-bullying, cyber- harassment and the use of degrading images online, the distribution on social media of private photos and videos without the consent of the people involved among others; Calls for the EU institutions, agencies and bodies, as well as the Member States and their law enforcement agencies to acknowledge the above forms of digital violence against women in order to concretely coordinate their actions to counter the use of ICTs to commit crimes related to trafficking in human beings, cyber-harassment and cyber-stalking; Calls for a gender impact assessment of the EU Cybersecurity Strategy and the European Cybercrime Centre (Europol) in order to include these issues and adopt a gender perspective in their work;