Activities of Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY related to 2017/2015(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Gender equality in EU trade agreements (debate) ES
Amendments (12)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is not only mainstreamed across all the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5but is also a standalone goal; whereas trade and trade liberalisation have very different impacts on women and men, which can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas EU trade policy lacks an environmental justice perspective, as well as obligations to comply with international and EU climate commitments; whereas the environmental effects of EU trade policy are unequally distributed between women and men and particularly affect women, further hindering the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Recalls the need to increase coherence among different but closely interlinked policies, such as trade, development, foreign affairs, employment, migration and gender equality;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Highlights the importance of including strong gender equality and women empowerment considerations in the future EU strategy on Trade for All;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to boost coherence between, on the one hand, trade and investment policies and, on the other hand, international conventions and commitments to human rights, development and gender equality; underlines that the existing mechanisms (under, for example, the SDGs, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Trade Policy Review Mechanism) and tools (such as the Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIAs), the Gender Trade Impact Assessments (GTIAs) and the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIAs)) must be used to monitor the gender impacts of trade and investments policies and agreements;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectives to be integrated systematically into trade and investment policies, and into the trade-related capacity building programmes of international finance institutions, donors and intergovernmental organisations, through ex-ante analysis and monitoring, with a view to overcoming the potentially negative gender impacts of different trade measures and instruments; stresses that a comprehensive analysis of the gender effects of trade should not be limited to employment effects, but should also have a focus on impacts on consumption and on effects on public services provision;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission, in order to fight gender-based inequalities regarding social and economic rights, to ensure that UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 16 and article 17 are fully respected in EU´s trade partner countries;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses the need for a coherent and comprehensive integration, within EU trade policy, of SDG Target 13.B on the promotion of women focused mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates the paramount importance of ensuring access to quality social services to all; reiterates its concerns about the possible privatisation of basic services resulting from trade and investment agreements, and highlights that the issue of public provision of social services is especially salient for gender equality, given that changes in access to such services, and their quality, creates a gender-uneven distribution of unpaid care work; underlines, therefore, that services and goods such as water and sanitation, education and health care (including women’s access to sexual and reproductive health and rights) should always and universally be ensured;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the paramount importance of respecting, in accordance with SDG target 17.15, partner countries’ democratic policy space to regulate and take suitable decisions for their own national context, respond to the demands of their populations, and fulfil their human rights obligations and other international commitments, including those on gender equality; underlines the need to ensure that neither trade and investment mechanisms nor intellectual property rights endanger the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality or stronger labour and consumer rights; underlines, in this regard, the need to recognise the risks inherent in Trade agreement mechanisms such as Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) or Investment Court System (ICS) which could endanger the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality boosting social services, labour standards and consumer rights- related regulations;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls the need to avoid the potential negative impact that trade deals Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) clauses might have on women’s health and women’s food sovereignty, namely through restrictions to access to medicines and through the seeds privatisations;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for the implementation of gender equality-focused training for EU staff and EU trade negotiators as they play a crucial role in gender and trade related issues;