Activities of Minodora CLIVETI related to 2013/2066(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Gender aspects of the European framework of national Roma inclusion strategies - Progress made in the implementation of national Roma integration strategies (debate)
Gender aspects of the European framework of national Roma inclusion strategies - Progress made in the implementation of national Roma integration strategies (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on gender aspects of the European Framework of National Roma Inclusion Strategies PDF (224 KB) DOC (123 KB)
Amendments (37)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas the Roma population is a part of the big family of European citizens, with their rights and obligations;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. Whereas on the EU territory there are numerous stereotypes which often have a negative impact on the real integration of this ethnic group;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to monitor and evaluate that National Roma Integration Strategies taking into account gender perspective and the situation of multiple and intersectional discrimination faced by Roma women in the four priority areas being set up (employment, health, housing and education) and, specifically, regarding anti-discrimination and the protection of fundamental rights actions;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Member States to combat and address discrimination and racism at the workplace against migrant women and identify best-practice examples where anti-discrimination work place policies are already in place;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. Whereas the national reports for implementing the European integration strategy do not focus enough on the aspect of gender equality;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. Whereas the Roma women live in a traditionalistic and patriarchal environment which imposes on them stricter behaviour rules;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Underlines the necessity to support multi-lingual counselling services for women, where migrant women could get information and advice on how to access labour market; stresses that there support could be given for their need to re-skill or to get accreditation when in families is given less priority to their professional career due to gender hierarchy within households;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to develop National Action Plans in the four key priority areas: health, housing, employment, and education with specific goals and targets, funding, indicators and timeframe; evaluate progress by measuring outcomes in implementation;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the necessity to encourage economic incentives for employers who hire Roma women employees;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Member States to promote the inclusion of positive actions in human resources strategies, such as training courses, literacy classes and internships for Roma, as a way to promote the employability of Roma women both in public services and private sector;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission and on Member States to ensure that the fundamental rights of Roma women and children are respected and not implement policies such as forced evictions that would further marginalise them;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on Member States to apply a gender equality perspective to all policies and practice affecting Romani women;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on Member States to ensure austerity measures do not impact disproportionately on Romani and Traveller women and that budget decisions are underpinned by human rights principles;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Calls on Member States and on the Commission to ensure that disaggregated data according to gender and ethnicity is collected across all administrative systems and used to inform policy development. Such data collection must be undertaken in line with human rights principle;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to take positive action in the field of education by providing vocational training and life- long learning in order to ensure an equal start for Roma women and increase their chances of being integrated in the labour market;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Calls on Member States to ensure that Roma women and girls are informed about their rights under existing national legislation on gender equality and anti- discrimination and fully benefit from them;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Calls on Member States to implement equality in civic rights and in access to health services, education, employment and accommodation that respect human rights, non-discrimination and compatible with nomadism in relevant cases;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1h. Calls on the Commission and on Member States to ensure the adoption and implementation of specific and comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation in line with international and European standards in all Member States, ensuring that anti-discrimination bodies are equipped to promote equal treatment and complaint mechanisms accessible to Romani women and girls;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on Member States to ensure that specific measures for women's rights and gender mainstreaming are included in the National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS), and to make sure that assessment and annual monitoring by the European Commission, and in particular by the Fundamental Rights Agency, take into account a women's rights and gender equality perspective in each section of the National Roma Integration Strategies and to guarantee that the findings are presented to the European Parliament;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission and on Member States to ensure that National Roma Integration Strategies(NRIS) reflect Romani women's specific rights and needs and develop concrete indicators for their implementation, follow-up and monitoring, e.g. based on the (United Nations Development Programme) UNDP's Gender Related Development Index (GDI) such as: long and healthy life, knowledge and decent standard of living; and based on the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) such as: political participation and decision- making, economic participation and decision-making and power over economic resources; Use gender budgeting as one of the tools to mainstream gender;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls on Member States to develop national monitoring and evaluation framework for the NRIS that include different stakeholders such as: budget monitoring and other forms of civil society watch (carried out by national NGOs, NGO networks or umbrella organizations), expert assessment (carried out by independent experts with proven expertise in the field) and administrative monitoring;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Member States to ensure that roma women's activists and NGOs are represented in the EU and national consultation, monitoring and assessment processes on NRIS and all Roma related policy discussions;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Invites the NGOs in the field from the Member States to elaborate personalized action plans with an aim at supporting women and young people in searching and finding a place to work; to assure psychological counselling, which will contribute to the consolidation of the motivation for Roma women and in general for this ethnic group to get involved in education and vocational training, but also to knowing their personal skills and abilities for a better social inclusion on the labour force market; to offer mediation between the suppliers of qualification/requalification courses and employers on the one hand, and the Roma women/Roma population on the other hand; to stimulate the educational process of Roma women and girls, by granting subsidies and scholarships, while respecting the principle of equal chances, due to the fact that it is known that girls marry at a younger age than boys;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to establish a financial mechanisms for supporting Roma women's participation within the forthcoming Multinational Financial Framework 2014-2020;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on Member States to increase the number and visibility of Roma and Traveller programmes and Roma and Traveller beneficiaries, including specific support to Traveller and Romani organisations working to promote women's empowerment and access of NGOs to structural funds;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission and on the Member States to develop financial mechanisms for supporting civil society and community monitoring on the social inclusion policy, initiatives and projects regarding Romani and Traveller women;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on Member States to establish positive action measures to proactively increase access to jobs in public administration for Romani women and men;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission and on Member States to strengthen entrepreneurship among Roma women through facilitating access to micro-credit programmes, introducing simple, entrepreneur-friendly administration and taxation rules for micro businesses and issuing special licenses for the recognition of a range of seasonal, temporary, etc. jobs as "paid work" contributing to social security payments;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on Member States to develop targeted and integration-oriented measures in the field of unemployment support, (e.g. retraining, job creation and placement through wage support, social security support, tax allowances, etc.) – instead of the current, almost exclusive focus on public work programmes, which are very costly and yet fail to help integration into the labour market;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Invites Member States to intervene in fighting stereotypes, in order to avoid the anathematization of this ethnic group, which contributes to the discouragement of the employers to hire Roma women/Roma population, to a discriminatory treatment within the public administration or in schools, leading to negative repercussions on the relations with the authorities and in the process of job filling;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and on the Member States to invest resources into attracting "non-traditional learners" to further their educational training, and to give support to NGOs and programmes whose goal is to further the inclusion of non-traditional learners through education and adult learning programmes;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on Member States to ensure access to good quality and affordable childcare for the romani children;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls on Member States to promote networks of Roma students, to encourage solidarity between them, the visibility of reference points of success and overcoming the loneliness of Roma students;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Calls on Member States to encourage the participation of Romani families in schools, to evaluate the schools where Roma children and youth study and make all necessary changes to ensure the educational integration and achievement of all; points out that specific intervention should target Romani girls, based on successful actions validated by the academic community;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 e (new)
Paragraph 13 e (new)
13e. Requests the Commission and Member States to allocate funds for building schools and kindergartens with more places, so that the Roma children can participate in classes with the other children, without being discriminated and left outside of the educational process, being rejected by the teachers as a result of their ethnic origin;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on Member States to ensure access to health, notably through the participation of Roma Women's NGOs in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health programmes and policies that affect their lives and addressing social factors like housing conditions .
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Requests European solutions from the Member States and the Commission for Roma people's problems, taking into consideration their right of free movement as European citizens, and the necessity of collaboration between Member States for solving the issues of this ethnic group;