23 Amendments of Isabella TOVAGLIERI related to 2019/2167(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13
Citation 13
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the principle of equality between women and men is a core value of the EU, and gender mainstreaming should therefore be implemented and integrated into all EU activities and policies; whereas the EU should contribute to creating a world in which all people, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race and abilitypromoted by the Member States; whereas the EU should contribute, with the vital input of the Member States, to creating a world in which all people can live peacefully, enjoying equal rights and the same opportunity to realise their potential;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women and girls are particularly affected by violence, poverty, and armed conflicts and the impact of the climate emergency; whereas there is a growing global trend towards authoritarianism and an increasing number of Islamic fundamentalist groups, both of which are clearly linked to a backlash against women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights; whereas any understanding of security that focuses on States rather than human beings is defective and will not lead to peacerights;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas countries such as Sweden, France, Canada and Mexico have recently adopted and implemented frameworks to advance towards a feminist foreign policy; whereas a policy of this type questions the existing balance of power and aims to define its interactions with other States and movements in a manner that, firstly, gives priority to gender equality between men and women, protects and promotes the human rights of women and other traditionally marginalised groups; secondly, aims to guarantee their fair access to social, economic and political resources and their participation at all levels; thirdly, allocates significant resources to achieve that vision and seeks through its implementation to disrupt male-dominated power structures across all of its levels of influence; and finally, is informed by the voices of women human rights defenders and civil society; whereas any future EU foreign and security policy should aim to achieve these goals;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas Denmark, Switzerland and Norway have a strong gender equality- focused foreign policyforeign policy that focuses strongly on equality between men and women; whereas Spain, Luxembourg, Cyprus and Germany have announced their intention to make gender equality between men and women a priority of their foreign policy; whereas the new Commission has made gender equality between men and women one of its key priorities across all policy areas;
Amendment 64 #
F. whereas GAP II constituted an important step forward in fostering gender equality between men and women in the EU’s external relations, but its implementation still displays a number of shortcomings such as a narrow scope, the absence of gender-responsive budgeting, a lack of commitment on the part of the EU’s leaders, and a lack of institutional architecture and incentives to motivate and adequately support staff;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas progress has been made in the realisation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) across the world, but important shortcomings continue to exist and threats of regression persist; whereas in 2018 the number of EU actions on SRHR decreased and the lowest number of global actions by Commission services on gender equality between men and women pertained to SRHR;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
Amendment 116 #
1. Calls on the EU and its Member States to commit to advancing towards a foreign and security policy that incorporates a gender-transformative vision to foster equality between men and women, putting the need to address unequal structures and power relations at its centre; stresses the need for such policy to be grounded in rigorous gender analysis and systematic gender impact assessments, and for a meaningful and equitablewomen to have a role that all levels and stages of decision-making to be secured for women and for people from diverse backgroundsis the result of careful analysis based on merit, rather than imposition;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to carry out a review and present a new EU Gender Action Plan III in 2020; stresses that this document needs to take the form of a communication in order to ensure its effective implementation; welcomes the EU Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, and calls for its robust implementation; welcomes the decision to renew the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy, and calls for genderthe mainstreaming and targeted actions for gender equalityof equality between men and women, and women’s rights, - including SRHR, - to be included in the Action Plan;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to ensure continued commitment at the highest political levels to the implementation of GAP III; requests that GAP III specify that 85 % of official development assistance (ODA) should go to programmes which have gender equality as a significant or as a principal objective, and that, within this broader commitCalls for targeted actions to achieve equality between men and woment, 20 % of ODA should be allocated to programmes with gender equality, including SRHR, as a principal objective; calls for further targeted actions to achieve gender equality; calls, furthermore,to be carried out in cooperation with the Member States; calls for the new plan to strengthen qualitative analyses and to move beyond the ‘box ticking’ logic to assess the real impact of such programmes in advancing gender equality between men and women;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that GAP III be accompanied by clear, measurable, time- bound indicators of success, including an attribution of responsibility to different actors, and with clear objectives in each partner country, developed with the partner country and civil society organisations (CSOs);
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for specific earmarked funding on gender equality in the framework of the proposed Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) regulation, and for reduced administrative constraints to allow access to funding for local and small CSOs; stresses the importance that are involved in women’s rights; a focus ofn ensuring that partners can count on receiving sufficient financial resources for gender mainstreamingquality between men and women and diversity in the EU institutional culture at headquarters and delegations;
Amendment 185 #
8. Calls on the Member States to create a formal Council working group on gender equality between men and women;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. WelcomNotes the EEAS Gender and Equal Opportunities Strategy 2018-2023, but regrets the lack of specific and measurable objectives; calls for it to be updated in order to include concrete and binding goals on the presence of women in management positions; recommends a target of 50 % of management positions being held by women, including as Heads of Delegation and Heads of CSDP missions and operations; regrets, in addition, the absence of other diversity targets and of overall diversity in the EU institutions, especially regarding race, ability and ethnic backgrounds;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the VP/HR to ensure that Heads ofthe EU Delegations abroad have a formal responsibility to ensure gender equality is mainstreamed throughout all aspects of the delegaensure equal rights and condition’s wfork and that they be required to report on it; further calls on the VP/HR to ensure that there is one full-time gender focal point in men and women in the course of the EU delegations’s work;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the VP/HR, the EEAS and the Member States to ensure full implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, and to adopt an annex aiming to recognise and develop additional strategies and tools to respond better and more effectively to prevent the specific situation, threats and risk factors faced by defenders of women’s human rights;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU Delegations to monitor the backlash against gender equality and SRHR and the tendency towards shrinking space for civil society, and to take specific steps to protect them; urges the Commission, the EEAS, the Member States and Heads of EU Delegations to ensure political and financial supporttalk to local CSOs, including women’s organisations and humanwomen’s rights defenders, and to make cooperation and consultation with them a standard element of their work;