Activities of Angelika MLINAR related to 2015/2229(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2014 and the European Union’s policy on the matter
Amendments (10)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas despite the clear obligation to respect, protect and fulfil rights related to women´s and girl´s sexual and reproductive health and rights, violations remains frequent, and widespread in many States;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas in some countries around the world women still do not enjoy the same civil and political rights as men, including the right of assembly as men and they are also poorly represented in local and national decision-making bodies;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas women and girls from cultural, traditional, linguistic, religious, gender or sexual orientation minority groups experience multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination based on both their minority status and their gender;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates that religious, cultural and traditional differences can never justify discriminations and violence against women and girls, such as female genital mutilation (FGM), early and forced marriages, domestic violence and honour killings;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Deplores the high rate of impunity for offenders of gender-based violence in a large number of countries; asks the EEAS to exchange good practices with third countries on law-making procedures and training programmes for police and judicial personnel, to integrate gender based violence interventions in the EU humanitarian actions and to prioritise EU humanitarian actions targeting gender based violence and sexual violence in conflict;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Deplores that in some countries the criminalisation of abortion still persist in cases of victim of rape and abuses in armed conflicts; Stresses that unsafe abortion is also a major cause of maternal mortality and morbidity;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Urges all actors involved in conflicts to provide to the victims all necessary health care, including abortions, with no distinction based on sex in all circumstances and irrespective of local laws, as foreseen by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Deplores the fact that women and girls are the most affected by extreme poverty, while it is factually proven that investment in women and girls and empowering them through education is one of the most efficient ways of combating poverty;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the efforts made by EEAS in third countries to step up the implementation of obligations and commitments to women’s rights made in CEDAW, under the Beijing Platform for Action, in the Cairo Declaration on Population & Development in the post- 2015 development agenda;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Welcomes the reviewed EU humanitarian aid policy which allows women and girls raped in armed conflict access to safe abortion services under International Humanitarian Law; stresses the need for rapid implementation of this reviewed policy;