20 Amendments of Maria ARENA related to 2014/2143(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) of 18 December 1979;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
– having regard to the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in September 1995, the Declaration and Platform for Action adopted in Beijing and the subsequent outcome documents of the United Nations Beijing +5, +10 and +15 Special Sessions on further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted on 9 June 2000, 11 March 2005 and 2 March 2010 respectively;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
– having regard to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) that took place in Cairo in 1994, where the global community recognized and affirmed that sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights are fundamental to sustainable development;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas every year, 14 million girls are forced into marriage; whereas one woman out of every three in the world is assaulted, abused, raped, or suffers some other form of ill-treatment; and whereas violence and rape constitute a greater risk to women aged between 15 and 44 than cancer, road accidents, war, or malaria;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas globally, women and girls constitute a majority of those living in extreme poverty, women predominate in the world’s agricultural production (50- 80%), but own less than 10% of the land;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas 62 million girls in the world do not attend school;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas the maternal mortality rate is 15 times higher in developing countries than in developed countries;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital D d (new)
Recital D d (new)
Dd. whereas access to information about sexual and reproductive rights, including contraception and abortion, is central to women’s empowerment, and whereas, compared with health assistance as a whole, family planning assistance has been cut back over the past ten years;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital D e (new)
Recital D e (new)
De. whereas women are harder hit by military conflicts as well as by economic and climate crises, and whereas they are accounting for a growing proportion of migration, now making up half the number of migrants;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Maintains that a gender perspective needs to be mainstreamed in all future sustainable development goals and that, alongside these, specific targets should be set as regards women’s rights.
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the post-2015 framework must eliminate the root causes of poverty by promoting equality of outcome and empowerment for all, especially for those living in poverty, and marginalised and under-served populations, with an explicit focus on women, girls, and youth.
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers it essential to devise a global financing framework with an inbuilt gender perspective – using the European Development Fund where the EU is concerned – in order to attain the new sustainable development goals.
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Maintains that all girls should be given easier access, free of charge, to good primary and secondary education, paying particular attention to the most marginalised groups.
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls for the goal of universal access to reproductive health to be further pursued within the new global development framework and treated as a priority, and for financial support for family planning to be provided on a commensurate scale.
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Considers that the eradication of all forms of violence against women is essential in order to bring about more egalitarian societies and calls, therefore, for this to be made a priority objective.
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Points to the importance of gathering age- and gender-specific data for the purpose of implementing such policies as might be shown to be appropriate.
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Maintains that women must be viewed as having a role to play in development and must therefore be consulted, not least through civil society.
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Points to the need to establish effective specific protection arrangements for migrant women.
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Maintains that the EU should significantly reduce the inequalities between women and men as regards access to, and control of, climate change adaptation resources and in decision- taking at all levels concerning weather- related disasters.
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Maintains that women have a key role to play in conflict prevention and peace- building and that it is therefore imperative for them to be involved in peace talks.