7 Amendments of Karen MELCHIOR related to 2023/2068(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender-based hate speech and hate crimes disproportionately affect women1 and the LGBTIQ+ community1a; whereas young women and women in the public sphere are targeted by hate speech in particular; whereas women and LGBTIQ+ people facing intersectional discrimination due to discrimination based on race, colour, ethnic or socio-economic status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, sex characteristics, genetic features, religion or belief, nationality, residence status, migrant background, disability political or other opinion, or language among others, experience exacerbated hate speech and hate crimes; _________________ 1 Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy, ‘Combating Sexist Hate Speech’, 2016. 1a EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020- 2024, 2020. FRA, A long way to go for LGBTI equality, 2020.
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas anti-gender movements are internationally connected and spread misleading rhetoric against anyone who does not fall under the normsit the conservatise and traditional vision of the heteronormative, cisnormative and patriarchal society;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas hate speech often starts as an act of bias, which can then lead to motivated violence; whereas hate speech and hate crimes have an enormous harmful psychological and physical impact on individual women and a detrimental impact on human rights globally and society as a whole;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission proposal for a directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, and the inclusion of minimum rules for the definition of the criminal offence of hatred online and cyber-violencecyber incitement to violence or hatred; calls on the Commission to ensure that this directive serves as a minimum standard when it comes to legislation tackling online hate speech and hate crimes;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to establish a binding, mandatory Code of Conduct tackling disinformation and hate speech, alongside a large-scale campaign carried by the Commission, Member States and tech and social media platforms in order to spread awareness on human rights-compliant online content moderation and specifically on reporting, flagging and notifying practices in order to empower both victims and bystanders of online hate speech and fear-inciting speech;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to actively research, analyse and report on anti-gender movements, including their strategies and funding within 3 years of the implementation of the proposal, including their strategies and funding as well as combat the misinformation that they spread.