51 Amendments of Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES related to 2021/2003(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
— having regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015, in particular goals 1, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 107 thereof,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
— having regard to the International Labour Organisation Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (nº100),
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)
Citation 4 b (new)
— having regard to the International Labour Organisation Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (nº111),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 c (new)
Citation 4 c (new)
— having regard to the International Labour Organisation Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (nº190),
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 d (new)
Citation 4 d (new)
— having regard to the International Labour Organisation Social Protection Floors Recommendation 202,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
— having regard to the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war of 12 August 1949,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas gender inequality is deeply engrained in societal values built upon the patriarchal concept of women’s role within the family;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas there should be a more strategic and systematic approach to how the EU and Member States work together on gender issues in partner countries; whereas the EU delegations and Member States do not systematically work together to ensure that GAPs are integrated into the planning and implementation of the Multiannual indicative programmes and Joint programming;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas GAP III should be the framework for an active contribution of the EU external action in the fight against gender inequality;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas empowering and providing adequate funding to CSOs defending the rights of women and girls in partner countries is vital to generate new societal attitudes and consensus that facilitate gender equality; whereas active involvement of women organisations on the ground is essential for the successful implementation of GAP III;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas violence is the most extreme form of gender inequality; whereas preventing gender-based violence requires challenging gender norms that legitimate women subjection and adopting holistic legislative reforms;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas women human rights defenders are critically exposed to threats, intimidation and violence;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas extremist discourse that threatens the upholding of sexual and reproductive rights both within and outside the EU is on the rise; whereas with regard to healthcare services and services relating to sexual and reproductive rights, access must be universal;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas GAP III should ensure that no woman or girl is discriminated because of her belonging to a particular social class, ethnicity, religion, race or disability group;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas there is a lack of female students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields of study;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets that six Member States have still not ratified the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; calls on the EU to directly access the Istanbul Convention in the shortest possible timeframe;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Strongly condemns the withdrawal of Turkey from the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; considers that the denunciation of the Istanbul Convention is another step that questions the status of Turkey as a candidate for membership of the EU;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for fullReminds that the GAP III should not be exclusively implemented through the EU development cooperation policy; calls for full and coherent implementation of GAP III in every aspect of EU external action;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for an annual assessment of GAP results at every level and every stage, against targeted and measurable objectives; insists that the GAP annual assessment, beyond its role in the EU development policy, should evaluate the implementation of GAP III in all EU policies that are relevant to the EU external action, such as trade or agriculture;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on EU missions and delegations and onDelegations and Member States to cooperate closely in the implementation of GAP III, as well as to establish a coordinated approach to implementation between the Commission Headquarters, EU Delegations and all management levels; points out theat Member States to cooperate closely in the implementation of GAP III; should fully align their policies with the GAP III; calls on the Commission to establish a stronger and systematic monitoring and evaluation system to ensure that by 2025 the commitment on paper will be fully put into practice; underlines that regional and local governments should also be involved in the implementation of GAP III in accordance with their competencies in development cooperation and other areas with relevant external impact; calls on Member States to ensure high quality reporting on GAP III and to make it public for accountability reasons;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the EEAS should deploy more leadership to put gender as a key component of external action, and incentivise and politically back EU Delegations to do the same at partner country level - even if the scope and quality of political dialogue on gender would vary from country to country;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for close ties to be established with organisational networks and, ministries, regional and local governments in partner countries and; calls for an annual dialogue regarding GAP III programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation encompassing stakeholders and, in particular, civil society and women organisations;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for stronger and systematic collaboration between stakeholders involved in the implementation of the GAP III, including between the Commission Directorate-Generals, different management levels of the same Directorate General, the Commission and EU Delegations in third countries, the Commission and EU Member States, and at all management levels within EU Delegations;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for funding for local women’s organisations 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; calls on EU Delegations to strictly implement the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders in relation to activists defending the rights of women, especially regarding the duties to complain about governmental bodies responsible for violations of human rights and provide professionally qualified legal assistance to activists when needed; calls on the HR/VP to report annually to the European Parliament on the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for action to combat femicide and all types of violence against women to be stepped up; stresses the need to work with partner countries in view of criminalising all forms of gender-based violence and ensuring that criminal procedural norms take into account the special vulnerability of gender-based violence victims;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Is of the opinion that promoting gender equality in all fields of social life is essential to address the root causes of gender-based violence; calls on EU Delegations and Member States to deploy all possible diplomatic means to promote the adoption of legislation providing for structural gender equality in every aspect, such as minimum age for marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, control over assets, access to the labour market and overall equal civil capacity;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that 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; underlines the need to engage in raising awareness about the harm of female genital mutilation in countries where this practice is widespread and to achieve the criminalisation this specific form of gender-based violence in all partner countries;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Points out to the special vulnerability that women with intersectionalities may have in various respects, such as LGBTI women, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, women with disabilities and living with HIV, ethnic minorities, indigenous and tribal women; believes that there is need for greater investment in data disaggregation which can provide precise information on intersectional discrimination in partner countries and enable proper policy responses to tackle it;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that the EU should be a leading example worldwide in terms of promoting the right to bodily integrity and autonomy of women and girls in all their diversity, both in terms of ending gender- based violence against them and concerning their sexual and reproductive rights;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the importance of sexual and reproductive rights with regard to women’s bodies and their autonomy and urges that they be treated as public health issues; calls for universal access tocompulsory sexual education in the school system, contraception and safe and legal abortion; stresses that the EU should promote that partner countries include these issues in their national public health plans;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Reminds that the quality of maternal healthcare is an important indicator of the development of a country; believes that the EU should help partner countries to uphold the right to health in the context of pregnancy and childbirth through the establishment of decent maternal health services that effectively decrease infant mortality and deaths related to complications of childbirth;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Stresses the importance of improving the availability of contraception methods in partner countries, especially for adolescent girls who are at greater risk of complications in case of pregnancy; affirms that all women and adolescent girls are entitled to make their own free and informed choices with regard to their sexual and reproductive health and lives;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Reiterates that the crisis is affecting women’s access to the labour market and the formal economy; believes that GAP III should finance measures to enforce the economic rights of women and promote the establishment of tax policies that support the economic self- empowerment of women; stresses the need for the inclusion of a gender dimension in all recovery plans;
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Welcomes that the Commission intends to require compliance with relevant ILO and UN conventions regarding gender equality in its upcoming review of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Regulation; calls on the Commission to effectively include gender equality in all TSDs and to ensure that trade and investment do not exacerbate gender inequality; stresses that all impact assessments linked to trade should take into account SCOs views;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to work with partner countries to prevent and tackle harassment on women at work, as well as to promote the ratification of ILO Violence and Harassment Convention (nº190);
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Amendment 353 #
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; calls for measures to help make women more employable and provide them with business opportunitgender-responsive social protection systems, including social protection floors that are universal, fair and inclusive, in line with the ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation 202; calls for measures to help make women more employable and provide them with business opportunities; underlines, in this regard, the need to promote the adoption of effective maternity protection, family leave and care leave legislation in partner countries;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for GAP III to promote gender-responsive macroeconomic policies that will identify and address the needs of diverse groups of women, as well as care deficits;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to work with partner countries to fund measures that address the disproportionate burden of unpaid work that women have to bear, and to support actions helping women workers moving from the informal to the formal economy;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Notes that women are under- represented at every level of political and public life; stresses the importance to boost the establishment of female youth organisations, given that teenage girls and young women are among the sectors most affected by gender-based discrimination; calls for programme funding to promote the training and participation of women;
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Reiterates the need to prevent and combat the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and to combat impunity; calls on the Commission and Member States to work with partner countries and their armed forces to ensure proper enforcement of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of persons in time of war with a specific focus on preventing and punishing sexual violence;
Amendment 474 #
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, energy and digitalisation; calls for them to be given support in the form of funding, legislative framework provisions and access to resources;
Amendment 499 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Stresses the need to work with partner countries to enact and enforce proper criminal law provisions to counter online abuse, threating messages, sexual harassment and sharing of private images without consent;
Amendment 524 #
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 to establish a baseline and clear targets;
Amendment 530 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Underlines that proper funding through the EU programming process is needed for the effective implementation of GAP III; insists that the EU needs to develop a clear EU-wide definition of gender mainstreaming and specific guidelines to apply it at policy and programming level; calls on EU Delegations to prioritise funding for gender equality in partner countries;
Amendment 533 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Calls on the Commission to revise funding mechanisms and practices to allow smaller, grass-root organisations to access EU funding for gender equality through established networks of women's rights organisations in partner countries who are able to manage and redistribute funds to their members;
Amendment 534 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Amendment 540 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Is of the opinion that the EU should step up actions to tackle religious fundamentalism in coordination with faith-based organisations and religious leaders;