18 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2016/2219(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1
Citation 1
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Citation 4
Citation 4
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas lawmaking and the formulation and implementation of policies on sexual and reproductive health and rights are Member State competences;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas in many parts of the world women and girls are subjected to violence, including rape, slavery, human trafficking, forced marriages, honour crimes, prostitution or female genital mutilation;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas in countries where the death penalty is practised the methods used on women are akin to torture (e.g. stoning) and involve the abasement of the victim’s body;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas recent events in Europe have given rise to violations of the rights of women and girls who have arrived in the course of the immigration crisis, in the form of violence – especially sexual violence – in particular in refugee centres and their immediate surroundings, and also during the journey from immigrants’ country of origin to the place in which they settle;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Strongly condemns all forms of gender-specific torture, in particular stoning and honour killings;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reiterates that religious, cultural and traditional differences can never serve as a justification for any kind of violence against women and girls, such as female genital mutilation (FGM), early or forced marriages, acid attacks or honour killings;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Regrets that some fundamentalist countries have patriarchal systems that prevent women from working, travelling abroad, owning a bank account or undertaking higher education without the agreement of a male family member;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a global commitment to ensure the safety of women and girls from the start of every emergency or crisis, by adequately addressing the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, raising awareness, ensuring the prosecution of the perpetrators of such violence and ensuring that women and girls have access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health services, including safe and legal abortion for victims of war rape;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States in which the migration crisis has led to a significant deterioration in the protection of women’s rights to monitor refugee centres and their immediate surroundings in order to prevent acts of violence, including sexual violence, and to bring the perpetrators to justice;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to comply with Article 168(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which provides that ‘Union action shall respect the responsibilities of the Member States for the definition of their health policy and for the organisation and delivery of health services and medical care’;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Strongly condemns the practice of surrogacy, in which the human body is treated as a commodity; recalls that human dignity is an inviolable human right, and that the use of the human body for material gain is at odds with that right;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly regrets women’s under- representation in political decision-making, which undermines human rights and democracy; considers that governments should aim for gender equality in democracy-building and maintenance processes;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Deplores the fact that some countries still restrict women’s participation in elections;