15 Amendments of Diana RIBA I GINER related to 2021/2181(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) of 18 December 1979;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-A a. having regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015, in particular goals 1, 4,5, 8 and 10 thereof;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-A b. having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (‘the Istanbul Convention’) of 11 May 2011,
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-A c. having regards to the resolution of 16 September 2021 with recommendations to the Commission on identifying gender- based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU,
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas women’s and girls’ human rights are still not guaranteed in many parts of the world and the space for civil society organisations, especially women rights, feminists and grassroots organisations is shrinking in many countries; whereas a worrying backlash against women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights is being observed throughout the world and involves limiting SRHR and banning sexuality education and gender studies;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Urges the High Representative, the Commission and the Council to be more vocal and specifically reject any further attempts at rolling back gains for women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, both in the EU and the world; Calls for the EU and the Member States to promote gender equality and SRHR in all their external actions, including in multilateral and bilateral forums;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the rise of violence against women and girls worldwide; calls for greater commitment, resources and targeted action to combat femicide; , which is the most extreme form of violence against women,
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Reiterates its call on the EU Member States that have not done so to urgently conclude the ratification of the Istanbul Convention and to negotiate the addition of gender-based violence to the crimes listed in Article 83(1) TFEU; calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure the full integration of the Convention into the future EU Directive to combat gender based violence; Is appalled by the decision of Turkey to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention and condemns the attempts in some States to revoke measures already taken in implementing the Istanbul Convention and in combating violence against women;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Condemns targeted violence against women and girls in situations of armed conflict; calls for decisive action to put an end to sexual violence as a weapon of war and raises awareness about the specific situation and discriminations experienced by war children; Calls on the EU to ensure that humanitarian assistance is gender sensitive and based on gender- responsive needs assessments that regularly consult civil society organisations and survey women, including those internally displaced;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for the EU to take into account the gender-specific threats, needs and challenges faced by Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) and urges EU institutions to guarantee their access to specific protection mechanisms, as well as to provide political and increased direct financial support;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Condemns all forms of violence against LGBTIQ+ and gender non conforming people, including stigmatisation, arbitrary detention, torture, persecution and killings, so-called conversion therapy, genital mutilation and forced sterilisation and the incitement to violence against them;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Calls for implementation of the EU guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and calls for the inclusion in the Gender Action Plan III of concrete targets to support the promotion of the rights of LGBTIQ+ people;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that LGBTIQ+ women face intersectional discrimination., migrant and racialized women, women with disabilities among others face intersectional discrimination; Calls for EU internal and external action to take into account intersecting identities and discriminations and to recognise that women and girls in all their diversity are not affected equally by gender inequalities as they are compounded by other levels of oppression;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on the EU institutions and Member states to commit to advance towards a feminist foreign and security policy that entails a gender transformative vision and to ensure that all goals and commitments of the Gender Action Plan III are fully implemented by Member States, EU delegations and all EU institutions;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Stresses that the harmful effects of climate change and ecosystem degradation are being borne disproportionately by the poor, notably women and youth, as well as by indigenous people and other natural resource-dependent communities and calls the EU to commit towards gender transformative climate actions;