7 Amendments of Malin BJÖRK related to 2017/2270(INL)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender is a ground for protection under the 1951 UN Convention relating to the status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (the Refugee Convention) and women worldwide are affected disproportionately by sexual and others forms of gender-based violence, and affected in specific ways in times of armed conflict and war;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the current lack of a possibility to request protection on humanitarian grounds outside of the Union means that persons seeking asylum are forced to enter Europe in an irregular manner thereby risking their lives and health, with particular and gendered consequences for women, girls and LGBTI persons, such as rape, violence and being targets of smugglers and traffickers to be sexually and economically exploited;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas according to the UNHCR in 2017, women comprised from 9 - 22 % of the sea arrivals to Italy, Greece and Spain 1a; the large gender discrepancy is related to women’s specific vulnerability including economic and other dependencies; __________________ 1a https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/do wnload/63039
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Emphasises the pressing need of safe and legal pathways to the European union, of which Humanitarian visas should be one; This is important from a gender perspective since women and LGBTI persons are particularly vulnerable and therefore more exposed to sexual and gender-based violence along routes and in reception centres.
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasizes that oftentimes vulnerable economic and other type of dependenceies puts women and girls in third countries in a situation where it is even more improbabledifficult for them thean for men to safely seek asylum - according to the UNHCR in 2017, women comprised from 9 - 22 % of the sea arrivals to Italy, Greece and Spain1 ; __________________ 1 [1] https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/do wnload/63039;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that women, girls, and LGBTI persons who claim a well-founded fear of gender-based persecution need to be able to safely request visas on humanitarian grounds;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a separate instrument on humanitarian visas, in addition and complementary to a Union programme on resettlement and humanitarian admission, to be established at the Union lewhile ensuring its gender-sensitivel and calls on the Commission to deliver the legislative proposal wherein the third country nationals will receive the possibility to apply for a European humanitarian visa directly at any consulate or embassy of the Member States, while ensuring its gender-sensitive approach and effective protection of persons suffering gender-based persecution.pproach and effective protection of persons suffering gender-based persecution in which it is of outmost importance that the process is handled in a sensitive and respectful way, with full understanding regarding the complexity and the vulnerabilities of women and LGBTI persons;