17 Amendments of Jean-Paul GARRAUD related to 2019/2166(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
— having regard to the purposes set out in Article 1 of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), which entered into force on 1 August 2014,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22
Citation 22
— having regard to the statement of 24 March 2020 by the President of the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO), Marceline Naudi, entitled ‘For many women and children, the home is not a safe place’, on the need to uphold the standards of the Istanbul Convention in times of a pandemic, , in times of a pandemic, to comply in particular with Articles 16 on prevention and treatment programmes, 20 to 22 on support for victims, 23 on shelters and 31 on visitation rights and safety, of the Convention,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality between women and men is a fundamental value and an objective of the EU underlined in Articles 2 and 3 TFEU; whereas gender-based violence is an extreme form of discrimination against women and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equalitythis objective;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality between men and women is a fundamental value and an objective of the EU; whereas gender-based violenceviolence based on a person's sex is an extreme form of discrimination against women and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality of the sexes;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, in spite of numerous instances of formal recognition and progress having been made on gender equality of the sexes, women and men do not enjoy the same rights in practice and social, economic and cultural inequalities persist;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, in order to address the issue of the eradication of gender-based violenceviolence based on a person's sex, it is necessary to rely on consistent and comparable administrative data, based on a robust and coordinated framework of data collection; whereas the current available data collected by the Member States’ law enforcement and justice authorities fail to reflect the full extent of intimate partner violence, as most Member States neither collect gendersex- segregated comparable data on gender- based violenceviolence based on a person's sex nor do they recognise intimate partner violence as a specific offence;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the right of every child to maintain contact with both parents, implied in Article 8 of the ECHR and Article 9 of the CRC, may be restricadapted byin the best interests of the child;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the Istanbul Convention requires the Parties to adopt legislative or otherlegislative measures are necessary measures to ensure that incidents of domestic violence are taken into account when determining custody and visitation rights in relation to children, and that the exercise of any visitation or custody rights does not jeopardise the rights and safety of the victim or their children;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas children who are victims of or witnesses to intimate partner violence have more health problems (stunting, allergies, ENT and dermatological problems, headaches, stomach aches, sleeping and eating disorders, etc.), adjustment disorders (school phobia, hyperactivity, irritability, learning difficulties) and problems with concentration and behaviour;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)
Recital N b (new)
Nb. whereas various studies show, on the one hand, that children who have lived in a violent family environment are heavily overrepresented among offenders and, on the other hand, that transgenerational repetition of violence is frequently observed;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, in principle, shared custody and unsupervised visits are desirable in order to ensure that parents enjoy equal rights and responsibilities, as well as to safeguard the best interests of the child; underlines, however, that intimate partner violence is clearly incompatible withcan justify the withdrawal of shared custody and care, owing to its severe consequences for women and children, including the risk of extreme acts of femicide and infanticide; stresses that when establishing the arrangements for custody allocation and visitation rights, the protection of women and children from violence and the best interests of the child must be paramount and should take precedence over other criteria; stresses, therefore, that awarding exclusive custody to the non-violent partner, most frequently the mother, often represents the best alternative in order to prevent further violence and secondary victimisation of the victims;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Strongly recommends that Member States establish specialised courts and judicial offices, as well as appropriate laws, training, procedures and guidelines for all professionals dealing with the victims, including raising awareness of gender-based violenceviolence based on a person's sex, in order to avoid discrepancies between judicial decisions and discrimination or secondary victimisation during judicial, medical and police proceedings, ensuring that children and women are duly heard and their protection is given priority; emphasises the need to strengthen dedicated judicial offices and child and female victim- friendly justice, limiting the excessive discretionary powers of practitioners and establishing checks on child custody procedures by qualified professional figures;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide quality, gendersex- segregated and comparable EU-wide data on the prevalence, causes, consequences and management of intimate partner violence and custody rights, making full use of the capacity and expertise of the EIGE;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses its concern about the fact that discriminatory gender bias often leads to a lack of trust indifficulties faced by women, in particular concalernting presumed false allegations ofthe authorities, without risk, to child abuse and ofor domestic violence;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses its concern about the fact that discriminatory gendersex bias often leads to a lack of trust in women, in particular concerning presumed false allegations of child abuse and of domestic violence;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Strongly recommends that Member States put in place systematic procedures for monitoring, including psychological monitoring, of children who are victims of and witnesses to domestic violence, in order to respond to the troubles this causes in their lives and to prevent them from repeating such violence as adults;