Activities of Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES related to 2021/2003(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament – annual report 2020 (debate)
EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU Gender Action Plan III
Amendments (42)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
— having regard to the communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions: a Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 of March 2020,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the EU Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) 2019-2024 adopted in 2019,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regard to the Regulation (EU) 2021/947 establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women’s and girls’ rights are under threat and the space for civil society organisations, especially women’s rights, feminists and grassroots organisations is shrinking in many countries in the world, both within and outside the EU;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas women and girls are disproportionately affected by emergency situations such as those that result from armed conflicts, natural disasters and climate change;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the pandemic is having a serious impact on women and girls and has exacerbated existing gender inequalities, particularly in terms of access to education and, healthcare and work life balance, and is resulting in increasing gender violence and economic inequalities;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reiterates that EU commitments will be more effective if EU action takes an intersectional approach to gender equality; emphasises the commitment of the Commission and the EEAS to protect and enable LGBTIQ+ people to assert their rights around the world in the Commission’s LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for close ties to be established with organisational networks and ministries in partner countries andlocal civil society organisations, especially organisations that work to defend the rights of women and girls, LGBTIQ+ people and other vulnerable communities, and ministries in partner countries to be included in the development of implementation plans as well as in implementing and monitoring GAP III in each country; calls for an annual dialogue regarding GAP III implementation, encompassing stakeholders and, in particular, civil society;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for funding for local women’s organisationscivil society organisations, especially those working to defend the rights of women and girls, LGBTIQ+ people and other vulnerable communities, to be increased; condemns all moves to clamp down on women’s rights activists and urges all governments to protect, support and cooperate with civil society; recalls the urgent need for significant funding to support, protect and further enhance universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR);
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that 85% of all new external actions will be required to incorporate gender as a significant or principal objective; stresses that the objectives set should also be quantified in terms of dedicated funding and not just a percentage of the overall programmes; calls for 20 % of official development aid (ODA) in each country to be allocated to programmes having gender equality as one of its principal objectives; expects that no ODA will be spent on projects that could reverse or harm gender equality achievements;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the implementation of rigorous gender analysis, gender- disaggregated data collection and gender budgeting across the EU’s foreign and security policy; calls on the Commission to systematically assess the impact of programmes financed by the EU budget and to report back to Parliament;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Expects specific and measurable baselines, indicators, actions and targets to be added to the joint staff working document of 25 November 2020 on the objectives and indicators to frame the implementation of the Gender Action Plan III (SWD(2020)0284);
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls for the establishment of an extensive and comprehensive training programme to underpin the implementation of the GAP III, namely on gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessments, as well as on gender-based violence; stresses the need to invest in knowledge, resources and in-house expertise on gender equality in EU Delegations to be able to implement GAP III adequately; calls for these training programmes to be tailored as much as possible to the local and national context in which GAP III is being implemented; calls for these trainings and related tools to be made freely and easily available to interested local partners;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Calls for the EU to support and introduce trade policies that reduce socio- economic gaps and ensure a high level of protection and respect for fundamental freedoms and human rights, including gender equality; calls on the Commission, the Council and the EEAS to promote and support the inclusion of a specific gender chapter in all EU trade and investment agreements, and to ensure that it specifically provides for a commitment to promote gender equality and women’s emancipation; calls on the Commission to include the gender impact of EU trade policy and agreements in ex-ante and ex- post impact assessments;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Welcomes the focus of GAP III on young people as drivers of change; calls for the meaningful involvement of young people in the conception and implementation of GAP III related actions;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8f. Welcomes GAP III’s recognition of the importance of actively engaging men and boys to promote change in social attitudes and, as a result, broader structural change; emphasises the importance of creating practical ways to involve men and boys as agents of change through setting additional indicators and targets related to the engagement of men and boys and ensuring that the GAP III yields positive results for them too;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
8g. Welcomes the reference made in GAP III to the potential of the EU accession process to promote gender equality in candidate and potential candidate countries; stresses the need for a strong policy dialogue and technical assistance to bring gender equality into the enlargement and neighbourhood policies; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to make further use of accession negotiations as a leverage to make enlargement deliver for women;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 h (new)
Paragraph 8 h (new)
8h. Welcomes the fact that GAP III addresses the extreme vulnerability of migrant women and girls; calls for particular attention to be paid to the situation of women and girls on the move, on migration routes or in camps, and specifically calls for their access to water, sanitation and hygiene, SRHR and maternal healthcare to be guaranteed;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for action to combat femicide and all types of violence against women and girls to be stepped up, with special attention to conflict and emergency situations where women and girls are amongst the most vulnerable;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that early, forced and child marriages make girls vulnerable to violence and abuse; points out that at least three million girls are at risk of genital mutilation every year; calls for integrated action to prevent female genital mutilation and forced marriages;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that the victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation are mainly women and girls; calls for increased international cooperation to end the practices resulting in such forms of enslavement; stresses that the vulnerability of women and girls to trafficking and sexual exploitation is exacerbated in conflict and emergency situations;
Amendment 288 #
13. Calls for GAP III to attach greater importance to these rights and for adequate, flexible and sustained funding to be allocated to them when programming the ‘Europe in the World’ instrument;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for measures to prevent girls from missing school during their periods by improving menstrual hygiene facilities on school premises and by, combating stigmatisation in this area and tackling period poverty;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for the continuity of support for measures providing women in conflict and emergency contexts with SRHR core relief packages, by funding frontline organisations and women-led organisations;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Reiterates that the crisiseconomic and societal crisis resulting from the COVID- 19 pandemic is affecting women’s access to the labour market and to their livelihoods; stresses the need for the inclusionEU to support the development of a gender dimension in all recovery plan- sensitive post-pandemic recovery plans in partner countries;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for GAP III to promote women’s economic activity and their access to the necessary resources and social protection, especially in emergency contexts; calls for measures to help make women more employable and provide them with decent jobs, access to finance and business opportunities;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for a comprehensive effort to provide women and girls with access to education and quality training tailored to the needs of the labour marketon skills that can contribute to their access to the labour market; welcomes the intention to increase overall funding for education, with 10 % of the humanitarian aid budget to be devoted to funding for education in emergencies;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Underlines that women and men should equally share care responsibilities; expects concrete steps towards recognising, reducing and redistributing unpaid care and domestic work;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses the need to ensure that women and girls who have suffered sexual violence in conflict zones receiveand countries receive appropriate and holistic care and treatment;
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Reiterates the need to combatDeplores the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and to combat impunitycalls on the urgent need to combat it as well as to combat impunity by bringing perpetrators to justice;
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Reiterates that in order to achieve a fair and just transition, all EU climate action must include a gender and an intersectional perspective;
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Points out that women are at the forefront when it comes to expertise in the fields of agriculture, climate and biodiversity; calls for them to be given support in the form of adequate and flexible funding, legislative framework provisions and access to resources;
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Stresses the importance of promoting digital proficiency, digital accessibility and digital affordability for women and girls as instruments to obtain gender equality in development strategies; stresses the need to channel development funds into the promotion of the digital education of women and girls, and to support female-led projects in the digital sector, especially those with a social and economic impact;
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Amendment 502 #
Leading by example
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Calls on the EEAS, the Commission and the Member States to use GAP III as a blueprint to enhance gender equality and gender mainstreaming in their external action and to put its gender-transformative, human rights-based, intersectional approach into practice; calls on them to adopt and implement a feminist foreign policy;
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 d (new)
Paragraph 27 d (new)
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 e (new)
Paragraph 27 e (new)
27e. Urges all EU Member States to ratify and implement the Istanbul Convention; calls on the EEAS to promote the ratification of the Istanbul Convention within its political dialogue with Council of Europe partner countries;
Amendment 506 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 f (new)
Paragraph 27 f (new)
27f. Calls on all Member States to ensure universal access to SRHR in their territories; underlines the need to focus on all age groups, including girls and younger women, and provide relevant information, education and access to SRHR, including pre-natal care, safe and legal abortion and contraception;
Amendment 528 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Recalls the Commission’s commitment to earmark EUR 4 billion from the external budget for women and girls and to increase funding for women’s organisations; calls for these commitments to be clarified and adequately monitored;
Amendment 538 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Points out once again that intergenerational dialogue and commitment on the part of men and boysthe inclusions of as well as the commitment of men and boys to advance gender equality are crucial to bringing about societal change and creating a true Generation Equality;