25 Amendments of Ernest URTASUN related to 2014/2015(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
– having regard to the FRA report entitled ‘The fundamental rights situation of intersex people’, published in May 2015,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
– having regard to the document entitled ‘Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, and the goals and targets on gender equality, women’s rights, and the empowerment of women included in that document,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)
Citation 34 b (new)
– having regard to Eurofound report Developments in working life in Europe: EurWORK annual review 2015 and 2014, 1Or. en
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 c (new)
Citation 34 c (new)
– having regard to Eurofound (2015) First findings: Sixth European Working Conditions Survey and the forthcoming 6th European Working Conditions Survey –overview report,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 d (new)
Citation 34 d (new)
– having regards to Eurofound’s report The gender employment gap: challenges and solutions,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 e (new)
Citation 34 e (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 13 September 2016 on Creating labour market conditions favourable for work- life balance,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Eurofound’s report on gender employment gap estimates that gender employment gap is costing EU around 370 billion euros per year - equal 2.8% of EU GDP1, 1Eurofound report (2016) The gender employment gap: challenges and solutions
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas cutbacks in public care and health services (less availability and higher fees for childcare, reduced services for elderly and disabled people, privatization and closure of hospitals) leads to a reprivatisation of care and a return to traditional gender roles, where the responsibility for care moves away from society and returns to households, mostly women;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas thone precondition for women’s active inclusion in the labour market is availability of quality accessible and affordable childcare facilities and services for children, elderly and other dependent family members;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas despite the EU’s commitment to gender equality in decision-making, the management boards of EU agencies are seriously lacking in gender balance, and show persisting patterns of gender segregation. On average 71% of Management Board members are men, and only one in three management boards are chaired by a woman. Out of 42 Executive Directors in EU Agencies, only 6 are women;
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 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)
Recital O b (new)
Ob. whereas 23% of lesbian women and 35% of trans persons had been at least once physically/sexually attacked or threatened with violence at home or elsewhere (street, on public transport, at your workplace, etc.) in the last 5 years;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)
Recital S a (new)
Sa. whereas in particular EU gender equality directives are not properly implemented in a number of EU Member States that do not protect trans people against discrimination in the areas of access to employment and to goods and services;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)
Recital T a (new)
Ta. whereas some EU Member States have also seen a substantial increase of civic and political movements that come at the expense of equal rights for women and men, and even challenge the overall need of gender equality policies; whereas these anti-gender movements aim at reinforcing traditional gender roles and at challenging existing and future achievements in the area of gender equality, women’s rights and the rights of LGBTI people;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes with appreciation that in 2014-2015 a number of Member States have changed the policy and/or legislation on parental leave introducing non- transferability of the right to take the leave, mandatory nature of paternity leave, longer paternity leave and/or bonuses if leave is shared between parents or equally shared between parents, underlines that policy design from the perspective of the fathers’ right to care promotes mothers’ participation and reintegration in the labour market;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Observes that the first step in combating the gender pay gap is establishing the transparency on pay levels and notes with enthusiasm that a number of companies has instituted the practice of analysing and publishing the difference between the pay of their male and female employees; invites Member States to conduct salary and wage- mapping on a regular basis as well as to introduce an obligation for companies to detect pay gaps;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Reiterates its call on the Council to state its position on the proposal for a directive on gender balance among non- executive directors of listed companies, so as to enable the legislative process to continue as soon as possible; Notes that progress is most tangible where binding legislation on quotas for boards has been adopted;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Member States to prevent and respond to all types of violence against women and gender-based violence and to put in place further prevention strategies, to make widely available specialised support and protection services so that all victims can access them and to focus special attention on gender-specific aspects of victims’ rights including when related to a victim’s gender identity and gender expression when reporting on the implementation of the Victims’ Rights Directive in 2017;
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;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Considers that the denial of life- saving sexual and reproductive health services, among which safe abortion, amounts to a grave breach of fundamental human rights;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Calls on universities and research institutions to adopt systematic gender equality policies, by following the guidelines developed by EIGE, in cooperation with European Commission ( ‘GEAR tool – Gender Equality in Academia and Research’) and calls to MS and the Commission to address and break gender based stereotypes and segregation in education and training by supporting gender-sensitive curricula in education and career counselling;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)
Paragraph 20 c (new)
20c. Calls on the Member States to monitor the media and advertising industry that promote sexualisation and commodification of women; calls on the Commission to take legal action in case of violation of the Audio-visual Media Services Directive by a Member State and to promote good practices in enterprises through incentives;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to come forward with a proposal for an overarching Sustainable Development Strategy encompassing all relevant internal and external policy areas and to develop effective monitoring, review and accountability mechanisms for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including for its targets and indicators on gender equality, women’s rights, and the empowerment of women;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Reminds the commitments agreed by the EU in the UE-CELAC 2013 and 2015 Action Plans regarding the eradication on violence against women and expresses its concern for the lack of implementation of its chapter 7 on the promotion of gender equality; Calls on the Member States and the European External Action Service to cooperate and assign economic and institutional resources to assure the fulfilment of the recommendations on the promotion of gender equality agreed in the Action Plans, especially regarding the eradication of all forms of violence, in accordance with the Belem de Pará Convention, the Istanbul Convention and CEDAW Convention;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on national governments to ensure the existence, permanence and appropriate resources of bodies tasked to design, coordinate and implement policies for gender equality, as a major indicator of the governmental responsibility in promoting gender equality;