8 Amendments of Pina PICIERNO related to 2017/2015(INI)
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas article 8 TFUE states that the European Union should, through all its actions inside and outside of the Union, aim at eliminating inequalities and promote equality between women and men;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas women rely more than men on the affordable access to healthcare and to medicines and their availability, especially with regards to their sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)
Recital I c (new)
Ic. whereas an above-average number of women is employed in public services or in the public service sector and, as users of these services, are more dependent on high-quality, affordable, accessible and demand-driven public services than men, particularly with regard to social services such as child care and care for dependents; whereas cuts in national households and cuts to public services, as well as price increases, tend to shift this care burden nearly exclusively onto women which will consequently hinder gender equality;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that fair and inclusive international trade policies require a clearer framework aiming to enhancimprove women’s livelihooding and working conditions, strengthen gender equality, protect the environment, and promote social justice and international solidarity;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. URegrets that human rights often seem subordinated to corporate rights in trade relations; underlines the urgent need to adopt gender-sensitive binding human rights regulations on an international level to regulate transnational companies (TNCs) and other companies; welcomes the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for binding and enforceable measures to combat exploitation and improve working conditions for women in the export- oriented industries, in particular the garment and textile manufacturing and agriculture sectors where trade liberaliszation hasmight contributed to precarious labour rights and the increase of gender wage gaps;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for the inclusion of a human rights clause in all trade agreements that includes gender equality, in order to guarantee the protection of girl’s and women’s rights and their participation in trade and services, as well as the inclusion of appropriate indicators to guarantee gender equality in the implementation of trade agreements;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that trading commitments in EU agreements should never overrule human rights, women’s rights or environmental concerns; and therefore suggests at least the inclusion of human rights experts in arbitration processes;