Activities of Angelika MLINAR related to 2014/2152(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015 (debate) DE
EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015 (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015 PDF (222 KB) DOC (172 KB)
Amendments (21)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 30 a (new)
Citation 30 a (new)
- having regard to the comparative analysis of EU LGBT survey data "Being Trans in the European Union of the Fundamental Right Agency published in December 2014 1 a, __________________ 1a http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2014/b eing-trans-eu-comparative-analysis-eu- lgbt-survey-data
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it idisproportionately female, and this includes particularly single mothers, young and old women, women with disabilities, migrant women and trans women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the economic crisis and specific austerity measures because it is particularly public sector jobs and services in the care sector that are being eliminated;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
J a. whereas one in six couples worldwide experience some form of infertility problem and whereas Commission should put forward a new Comparative Analysis of Medically Assisted Reproduction in the EU as the 2008 study (SANCO/2008/C6/051), which then showed significant inequality of access to fertility treatment, is outdated;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas institutional mechanisms form a necessary basis for the achievement of gender equality; whereas also gender equality, as a must be treated as an important, cross-cutting task should serve as a basispect of all policy areas in the EU and its Member States, together with the concepts of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessment;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed at eliminating discrimination against all women and men (in their diversity (cluding, but not limited to, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, nationality and age);
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the European Commission to take into account and to gather the gender-specific data in all policy areas collected by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to draft the strategy in the form of a practical action plan, ensuring that it takes into account in particular the following specific suggestions in the areas of violence against women, work and time, women in power and decision-making, financial resources, health, knowledge, education and the media, the wider world and institutional mechanisms and gender mainstreaming; emphasises the need to introduce, where applicable and in the full respect of the EU competences, legislative inputs in order to strengthen the legal framework for gender equality;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Violence against Women and gender based violence
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates the appeal to the Commission it made in its resolution of 25 February 2014, with recommendations to combat violence against women, to submit a legal act providing both a consistent system for collecting statistical data as well as a uniform approach by Member States to the prevention and suppression of violence against women and girls and all other form of gender-based violence;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and the reasons why women resort to prostitution and emphasises the importance of including men more specificallythe whole society and in particular men in the fight against violence against women;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to adopt a new strategy to combat human trafficking after the current strategy expires in 2016, with particular focus on new methods of trafficking that are developing as other more established methods are being closed down; stresses the importance of implementing and transposing Directive 2011/36/EU adequately to protect victims of trafficking;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Call on the Commission to assist Member States ensuring that victims of stalking can benefit from the protection afforded by existing measures such as the European Protection Order, Regulation on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters, and the EU Victims' Directive when moving from one EU Member State to another, and to consider further measures to improve the protection of victims of stalking, considering that figures show that 18 % of women in the EU have experienced stalking since the age of 15, and one in five victims of stalking said that the abusive behaviour had continued for two years or longer 1 b . __________________ 1bViolence against women: an EU-wide survey. Main results report by FRA, pp.83-84 and 92-93.
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in drawing up their action programmes for gender equality and to pay special attention to new forms of violence against women, such as cyber-harassment and, cyber-stalking and cyber bulling, and to carry out continual evaluations; stresses in this connection also the importance of close cooperation with civil society in order to recognise problem areas at an earlier stage and to address them more effectively; 1 a ; __________________ 1aBased on the FRA survey, 5 % of women in the EU have experienced one or more forms of cyber stalking since the age of 15, and 2 % have experienced it in the 12 months preceding the survey. http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2014/v iolence-against-women-eu-wide-survey- main-results-report, page 87
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses the importance that policies aimed for equality between women and men in employment should acknowledge the potential vulnerabilities of women in top professions, in particular the Commission should promote policies against harassment in the work place 1 a; __________________ 1a Sexual harassment is more commonly experienced by women with a university degree and by women in the highest occupational groups: 75 % of women in the top management category and 74 % of those in the professional occupational category have experienced sexual harassment in their lifetime, compared with 44 % of women in the occupational category ‘skilled manual worker’ or 41 % of women who state that they have never done paid work. http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2014/v iolence-against-women-eu-wide-survey- main-results-report, page 96
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses the importance of support programmes for women entrepreneurs and for women in science and academia and urges the EU to support these programmes in a more tangible manner. Potential women entrepreneurs, scientist and academics should be made aware of support programmes and funding opportunities;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Stresses that pensions are an important determinant of their beneficiaries' economic independence. Focusing on gaps in pensions should be the natural sequel to an action tackling the gender pay gaps. Those gaps would reflect the cumulated disadvantages of a career spent in a gender-biased labour market.
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stress the fact that when establishing and running a business one of the main challenges faced by female entrepreneurs is the access to finance;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in ensuring high-quality, geographically appropriate and readily accessible services in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights, safe and legal abortion and contraception as well as general health care, including fertility treatments to all women without any kind of discrimination;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to enshrine (medical) fertility support as an individual rightnd assisted reproduction as individual rights eliminating discriminations in the access procedure and to fight social stigma through education and awareness campaigns;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls on the Commission to contribute to combatting the bulling in educational setting; emphasises the need to encourage peer learning among EU Member States and promote existing best practices tackling bulling and in particular homophobic and transphobic bulling;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Stresses the importance of a gender- sensitive asylum and migration policy and, the development of appropriate guidelines and the coordination of best practice examples; emphasises in this connection the indispensability of an individual right to stay, especially for as this creates an imbalance of power, with particular reference to migrant women in cases of domestic violence;