18 Amendments of Juozas OLEKAS related to 2019/2167(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the EEAS, the Commission and the EU Member States to systematically integrate gender mainstreaming and an intersectional perspective into the EU’s foreign and security policy; and to make gender equality an explicit goal of the EU external action; calls for the experiences of women and girls facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and marginalization - based on their age, gender, ethnicity, religion, socio- economic and legal status, ability, sexual orientation and gender identity - to be put at the heart of policy-making, and draw on their unique and diverse experiences;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the VP/HR to make substantial and highly visible progress on gender equality in terms of leadership and management, staffing, training, financial resources and organisational hierarchy; calls in this regard for mandatory training on gender equality; calls for better gender balancing when it comes to the EU external representation, in particular calls for gender equality to be taken into consideration for the nomination of future Heads of EU Delegations and EU Special Representatives;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the annual budgetary procedures applied for the upcoming MFF, including external financing through and the Neighbourhood, Development, and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) and Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) III to integrate a gender-responsive perspective; calls for gender-responsive budgeting and obligatory requirements for gender impact assessments in the NDICI and IPA III regulations, as part of a general ex-ante conditionality to inform programming, in accordance with European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) guidance, the EU Gender Action Plan and OECD DAC criteria requirements;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the VP/HR to ensure that the Heads of EU Delegations abroad have a formal responsibility to ensure that gender equality is mainstreamed throughout all aspects of the Delegation’s work and that gender equality issues are regularly raised in political dialogues with government counterparts, and are required to report on it; further calls on the VP/HR to ensure that there is one full-time gender focal pointadvisor in the EU Delegations;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that not a single one of the 12 civilian CSDP missions is headed by a woman; calls on the VP/HR to draw up a gender equality strategy for CSDP missions with specific targets, for both leadership and personnel;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that developing and using gender analysis and the systematic integration of a gender perspective constitutes one of the foundations of effective and lasting conflict prevention and resolution; stresses for the recognition of the significant role women and girls play in achieving sustainable peace; calls for the safe, meaningful and inclusive participation of women and girls from the grassroots level to peacebuilding, post- conflict reconstruction, governance and institution building actions;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Member States to be fully compliant with the Common Position on Arms Exports, specifically calls on Member States to take into account the risk of exported materials being used for, or facilitating, gender-based violence or violence against women or children; emphasises that a gender-sensitive approach means a human centred security approach, aiming at improving securities of women, including economic, social and health security;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the eradication of female genital mutilation and the eradication of gender-based violence to be systematically addressed in the EU political dialogues with third countries; stresses that gender- based violence against women and girls must keep being a political priority for the EU in its external action; urges the EU to exercise all possible leverage for the perpetrators of mass rapes in warfare to be reported, identified, prosecuted and punished in accordance with international criminal law;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Regrets that no explicit reference to gender equality and women’s rights is made in the European Commission’s joint communication on an EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020- 2024; calls for the revision and update of the EU Guidelines on violence against women and girls and combatting all forms of discrimination against them;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the EU to put the ratification of the Istanbul Convention high on the agenda of its Political Dialogue with the Council of Europe (CoE) partner countries; welcomes the invitation from the Committee of Ministers of the CoE to Kazakhstan and Tunisia to accede to the Convention as the first non-member states, encouraging other countries to express their interest to accede too;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the EU needs to take decisive action to counter the global backlash against women’s rights and gender equality; calls on all external funds and programmes to have a significant share earmarked for gender equality purposes; calls in particular for financial support to female human rights defenders and to women’s civil society organisations, especially for capacity- building actions;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Acknowledges the key role of civil society organisations and in particular women’s rights organisations and women human rights defenders in supporting the implementation of the EU Gender Action Plan and the EU Strategic Approach to Women Peace and Security and its Action Plan; calls on the European Commission to strengthen the involvement of civil society organisations in the formulation of the third Gender Action Plan and in its implementation in partner countries;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the VP/HR and the EU Member States to include references to UNSC resolution 1325 and follow-up resolutions in CSDP-related Council decisions and mission mandates, and to make sure that all CSDP missions and operations have an annual action plan on how to implement the objectives of GAP III and the EU Action Plan on WPS; calls for gender analysis to be put in place for new CSDP instruments, including the European Defence Fund and the proposed European Peace Facility;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for specific earmarked funding on gender equality in the framework of the proposed NDICI regulation and the IPA III regulation, and for reduced administrative constraints to allow access to funding for local and small CSOs and especially WCSOs;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the European Commission and the EEAS to use the accession negotiations as a leverage to foster gender equality in the candidate countries;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission, the Council and the EEAS that its development cooperation policy and humanitarian aid action supports women’s economic empowerment and women and girls’ rights in partner countries; calls for the improvement of the reporting of EU funding for gender equality allocated and disbursed in partner countries through the EU GAP III;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on particular attention to be paid to the situation of women and girls on the move, on migration routes or camps, specifically calls for their access to WASH, SRHR and maternal health;
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. 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 foresees the commitment to promote gender equality and women empowerment; calls as well for provisions to be included in these trade agreements ensuring that their institutional structures guarantee periodical compliance reviews, substantial discussions and the exchange of information and best practices on gender equality and trade, through among others, the inclusion of women and experts on gender equality at all levels of the administrations concerned, including trade negotiating teams, joint committees, expert groups, domestic advisory groups, joint consultative committees and dispute settlement bodies;