Activities of Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP related to 2020/2121(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the gender perspective in the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis period
Amendments (15)
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Underlines that due to a higher life expectancy and higher likelihood of experiencing health problems, older women are often the majority of residents in long-term care facilities30 that became virus hotspots in many countries; calls on the Member States to examine the provision of care for older persons in different settings and include it as an integral part of a Care Deal for Europe; _________________ 30https://eige.europa.eu/covid-19-and- gender-equality/gender-impacts-health
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Regrets that many of the women with disabilities who depend on others for everyday care or support were unable to access their usual support networks or maintain physical distancing and had difficulties to access health and SRHR services and information, essential goods and shelters for victims of gender-based violence; calls on the Member States to ensure that these support networks as well as those services and goods are still accessible and adequately adapted to the circumstances; and based on the principles of non-discrimination;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. Highlights the need for homeless and undocumented women to access health care services and the need for out- reach services; calls on the Commission to address the risk of social exclusion, poverty and homelessness in the forthcoming Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion, in order to prevent these women from being excluded from social and economic policies, thus further deepening the poverty cycle;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Highlights the additional needs of minority groups, such as Roma women, who face challenges in maintaining hygiene and adhering to confinement measuressuch as discrimination and marginalisation due to a lack of access to basic infrastructure, services and information;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Deplores instances of xenophobic and racial discrimination which increased in light of the crisis, and urges the Commission and the Member States to take a zero-tolerance approach to the racist attacks and to adopt an intersectional approach in their responses;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Emphasises that the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic requires a global response; highlights the vulnerable position of women and girls in many parts of the world in relation to COVID-19, such as access to healthcare, including SRHR, vulnerability to sexual and gender-based violence, including FGM and chilearly and forced marriage, employment status, access to education and extreme poverty and hunger; underlines the importance ofdemands strengthened supporting for women’s human rights defenders and women’s rights organisations, including SRHR organisations; emphasises that all efforts must be made to ensure that a future vaccine will be available to all women and girls, particularly in remote rural areas, in refugee and displacement camps and on low incomes;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36 a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to prioritize global solidarity by maintaining sufficient level of ODA funding, and by supporting partner countries’ response to the crisis in a comprehensive manner, including to ensure access to SRHR; calls on the EU to focus on health systems strengthening and universal access to SRHR as part of Universal Health Coverage in its humanitarian and development response to theCOVID-19 pandemic; demands that the new MFF and in particular the NDICI prioritise gender equality and women’s rights across geographic and thematic programmes;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 b (new)
Paragraph 36 b (new)
36 b. Calls on the European Commission to include women and youth at the heart of its global response and to fully involve them, listen to their voices and empower them to be an active part of the response to the pandemic;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 c (new)
Paragraph 36 c (new)
36 c. Calls on the European Commission to include health, and in particular sexual and reproductive health, as a priority in the new Gender Action Plan III;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 d (new)
Paragraph 36 d (new)
36 d. Urges countries to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage as an essential priority for international development;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully assess the needs arising from the crisis and its socio- economic consequences and to ensure that the crisis does not exacerbate existing inequalities, and to allocate adequate budgetary resources and targeted measures to tackling these needs, as well as to the monitoring of this spending, following its commitments in the Gender Equality Strategy; emphasises that preparatory action is the best way to build resilience in all areas for future crises;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37 a. Calls on the Commission to include national gender equality plans for recovery and strategies to address gender issues emerging in the crisis, including gender-based and domestic violence in the assessment criteria for national recovery and resilience plans;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 b (new)
Paragraph 37 b (new)
37 b. Calls on the EU to include equality between women and men as a prerequisite enabling condition for EU members States to uphold when receiving EU funds;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 c (new)
Paragraph 37 c (new)
37 c. Calls on the Commission to ensure, in the instances of decision- making on the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, equal representation of women in their diversity, and that women’s perspectives are duly taken into account;
Amendment 415 #
37 d. Calls on the EU and Member States to maintain an enabling environment for civil society organisations notably through political support and sufficient level of funding; calls on the European Commission to ensure flexibility in existing EU-funded projects and programmes, remove co- funding requirements and allow beneficiaries to reallocate the funding received to respond to the crisis;