13 Amendments of Nathalie COLIN-OESTERLÉ related to 2016/0062R(NLE)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
— having regard to the Explanatory Report to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence of 11 May 2011,
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an increase in violence against women and domestic violence; highlights the decrease in access to essential services such as emergency accommodation and telephone assistance, which confirms how urgent it is to adopt concrete measures to combat such violence;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas violence against women and domestic violence cause physical, mental or sexual health problems for the women and their children who fall victim to such violence and as such constitute a public health issue;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas certain groups of women, such as women and girls with disabilities, are particularly affected by violence, abuse or exploitation, both outside and inside the home;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas gender-based violence against women may take the form of offences such as sexual violence, including rape, female genital mutilaprohibition of abortion in cases of rape, female genital mutilation, forced sterilisation or abortion, trafficking in women for the purposes of sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, ‘honour crimes’ and forced marriages, femicide, stalking and various forms of cyberviolence;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the Istanbul Convention is a uniquen essential tool to combat gender-based violence at European level and beyond;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Strongly condemns all forms of gender-based violence, including the denial of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, against women and girls and against LGBTIQ+ persons;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that while all Member States have already signed the Istanbul Convention, six have not ratified it yet and one is threatening to withdraw from it; underlines that the EU’s accession to the Istanbul Convention does not exempt Member States from national ratification and thus strongly encourages the remaining Member States that have not already done so to ratify the Convention without delay;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention as of 1 July 2021, which once again distances Turkey from the values of the European Union, calls on the Commission and the Council to end all funding to Turkey under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA III) through the current and future multi-annual financial frameworks; insists that all EU-membership negotiations with Turkey be halted immediately;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, which will be the first EU act comprehensively to address gender-basedviolence against women and domestic violence, thus helping to harmonise Member States’ differing approaches towards violence against women and domestic violence and to lay down common minimum standards for the protection of victims and survivors of gender-based violence and for improving their access to justice;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that the directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence proposed by the European Commission on 8 March 2022 aims to establish common minimum standards for the protection of victims of gender-based violence by improving their access to justice, by encouraging Member States to set up a mechanism of one-stop shops to provide guidance, counselling and protection to victims, and by developing shelters with an adequate distribution of one family per 10 000 inhabitants, as foreseen in the final activity report of the Council of Europe Task Force to Combat Violence against Women, including Domestic Violence (EG-TFV (2008)6);
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reiterates its call on the Council to activate the passerelle clause by adopting a unanimous decision identifying gender- based violence against women and girls as one of the areas of crime listed in Article 83(1) of the TFEU;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Recalls, moreover, the commitment of the President of the European Commission to defend the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the European Union in her speech to the plenary of the European Parliament on the conclusions of the European Council meeting of 25-26 March 2021 and on the outcome of the EU-Turkey meeting of 6 April 2021;