14 Amendments of Irene MONTERO related to 2024/2019(DEC)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union not only enshrines gender equality but also protects human dignity and prohibits all forms of discrimination, including those based on sexual orientation and gender identity;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas the protection and promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are essential to achieving full gender equality and guaranteeing women's autonomy over their own bodies;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. ERecalls that one in three women in the Union has been affected by gender- based violence; expresses serious concern over the lack of focus on protecting women and girls from gender-based violence in the Union budget; calls for additional ongoing funding, which it should be at least 5% or total EU budget, of the Equality and Rights Strand of the CERV programme and the Daphne programme to combat all forms of gender-based violence in the Union, including in the framework of the effective implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence and sexual abuse against women, girls and other forms of domestic violence and the Directive combatting violence against women and domestic violence; regrets the absence of disaggregated data on gender-based violence and urges mandatory gender impact assessments specifically aimed at protection against violence to enable monitoring of the effectiveness of the measures in relevant legislative acts; urges the Commission to treat this as a priority and make use of the opportunities to improve data collection requirements and indicators in new legislation and reviews;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses that sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental rights and a precondition of gender equality and must be placed at the heart of health policy, considering the backlash against women’s rights and access to safe and legal abortion; stresses the need to reinforce budgetary allocations that support universal respect for and access to SRHR, including access to free, safe and legal abortion in health public service, and demands the allocation of resources for sexual and reproductive health under the EU4Health Programme in particular to ensure universal access to SRHR, as well as free access to contraceptive methods, and ensuring essential care and medicines for voluntary family planning, specifically covering, inter alia, the issues of reproduction, preparation for childbirth maternal and neonatal health and fertility treatments; highlights the continued importance to fund organisations working in the field, such as those that facilitate cross-border cooperation between organisations providing safe and legal abortions;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Highlights that due to the persecution that LGTBIQA+ people are suffering it is necessary to allocate sufficient budget to measures to combat LGTBIQA+phobia, such as telephone lines for counselling and attention;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. stresses that women’s rights and a gender equality perspective should be integrated and ensured into all policy areas, particularly in light of the multiple gendered impacts of various ongoing climate, energy and social crises, including the backlashes against gender equality and women’s rights, especially sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), in several Member States and worldwide; reiterates therefore its call for the implementation of gender budgeting at all stages of the budgetary process;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Rejects the increase in the budget allocations for militarisation, specifically for arms, infrastructure, civil-military or security research, capacity and military mobility and for border surveillance and externalisation; demands that the budget earmarked for this expenditure be reallocated to the fight against gender- based violence, to promote economic and social cohesion and tackle the root causes of migration, such as poverty and violent conflicts;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges the Union’s commitment to gender mainstreaming and the need to further focus on combating violence against women and girls in policymaking; stresses the need to urgently establish a common approach to rapereiterates that rape remains one of the most widespread human rights violation and stresses the need to urgently establish a common definition of rape on the basis of lack of consent with common minimum sanctions in national laws;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned about the growing financial risks due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its impact on gender equality policies; highlights the need to prioritisDenounces that gender equality is particularly impacted by the consequences of the war in Ukraine, the cost of living crisis, which women are disproportionately affected by, and the backlashes against gender equality and women’s rights, especially around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in several Member States; calls on the EU and its Member States to increase public investment in policies that, directly or indirectly, aim to counteract the negative effects of the cost of living crisis on women in all their diversity, to guarantee access to high-quality, free poublicies that protect children, women and families services for care, education, health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, and housing, and to protect victims of gender-based violence;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the United Nations’ Spotlight Initiative’s goal of ending violence against women and girls and addressing the needs of vulnerable groups, such as victims of harmful practices like female genital mutilation or child marriage; urges the Commission to stop funding movements in and outside the Union that contribute to the oppression of women in all formsand emphasizes the need for these measures to include the protection of lesbian, bisexual, and trans women; repeats its calls for the Commission to ensure that EU funds are not made available to any entity that is implicated in breaches of human rights, including women’s fundamental rights and SRHR;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Requests the creation of a specific program within the Daphne funding framework to address violence against LGBTIQA+ women, including the provision of safe shelters, access to support services tailored to their needs, and the protection of their sexual and reproductive health rights;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Urges the Commission and Member States to strengthen awareness- raising campaigns against gender-based violence and discrimination, explicitly including educational efforts to combat LGBTIQA+phobia and to promote sexual and reproductive rights; calls for comprehensive sexual education programs that promote gender equality, consent, and respect for diversity in all Member States;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Calls on the Union to take a firm stance in defending sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as a non-negotiable element of gender equality, urging Member States to eliminate legal, financial, or practical barriers to accessing contraception, safe abortion, and other essential reproductive health services, ensuring no woman is left behind.
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Stresses the importance of strengthening the specifically dedicated Daphne initiative by increasing its resources, in particular measures that aim to combat all levels and all forms of gender-based violence and to properly support victims;