Activities of Isabel SANTOS related to 2021/2243(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on intersectional discrimination in the European Union: the socio-economic situation of women of African, Middle-Eastern, Latin-American and Asian descent
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas many women face intersecting inequalities and discrimination in the EU; whereas intersectional discrimination refers to a situation in which several grounds of discrimination operate and interact with each other in a negative synergy, for example gender with other grounds of discrimination such as race, colour, ethnic or socio-economic status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, sex characteristics, genetic features, religion or belief, nationality, residence status, or disability, among others, in a way that they are inseparable and produce distinct and specific types of discrimination; whereas discrimination per se is somehow addressed within the EU Policy and Legal Framework, and intersectional discrimination continues to be on the margins of both; whereas the compounded effects of intersectionality constitute a human rights violation;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the EU institutions to address intersectional forms of discrimination in EU anti-discrimination and gender equality legislation and policies; suggests to the European Court of Justice to take in due consideration in its reasoning the intersectional approach, in order to better protect those who are particularly at risk;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of taking into account the specific experience of women victims of intersectional discrimination in the design, implementation and evaluation of asylum, migration and integration policies; calls on the EU’s anti-racism Coordinator and other Coordinators active in this field to implement this task, in close cooperation with civil society organisations, academia and research while exploring new perspectives on the topic; asks for best practices and specific training in this area to be disseminated in all public and private institutions in order to reach a wider public, and enforced, whenever possible; welcomes the different recent strategies from the Commission in this field, and in particular both the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 and the EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025, which take into consideration this problematic;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on forthcoming presidencies of the Council to make equal treatment and the fight against discrimination a key priority and to adopt without delay the Horizontal Anti-Discrimination Directive; stresses that this directive presents a unique opportunity to address intersectional discrimination in fields other than employment and occupation; calls on the Council to establish a Council configuration on Gender Equality and Equality to properly discuss the abovementioned topics in a permanent forum;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to collect equality data disaggregated by gender, racial and ethnic origin, sexual orientation and identity based on voluntary participation, self-identification and informed consent, while protecting anonymity and confidentiality and respecting the key principles of data protection and fundamental rights.; supports the work of the Fundamental Rights Agency in analysing this data and welcomes further developments in this field, in line with its new mandate;