23 Amendments of Diana IOVANOVICI ŞOŞOACĂ related to 2024/2057(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas equality between women and men is a fundamental principle of the EU, which must also apply at global level, and whereas the EU’s external action must be guided by this principle;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women’s human rights and gendersexual equality are not only fundamental human rights, but preconditions for advancing development and reducing poverty, and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable worldincreasing the level of education and civilisation, and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous world that we can pass on as a legacy to future generations;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas 189 governments across the world, including the EU and its Member States, committed to working towards gendersexual equality and empowering all women and girls at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is the most comprehensive globalworld agenda for promoting gendersexual equality and is considered the international ‘Bill of Rights’ for women, defining women’s rights as human rights and articulating a vision of equal rights, freedom and opportunities for all women in the world, and was reaffirmed in 2015 with Goal 5, ‘Achieve gendersexual equality and empower all women and girls’, of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) set out in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, by specifying targets and concrete measures across a range of issues affecting women and girls;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the UN General Assembly has raised the alarm about the active resistance to advances in gendersexual equality and the growing transnational backlash against women’s rights; whereas there is a clear and urgent need to reaffirm substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls4; _________________ 4 UN General Assembly, Escalating backlash against gender equality and urgency of reaffirming substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls: Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, 15 May 2024, https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g2 4/073/47/pdf/g2407347.pdf.
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) confirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to the range of actions for women’s human rights and gendersexual equality outlined therein; confirm its commitment to women’s human rights, through gendersexual equality policy mainstreaming in all policy areas and cycles, to the implementation of specific and targeted actions for women’s human rights and gender equality of sexual equality policy, to avoid a deepening of these inequalities, especially in less developed countries with precarious education, and to ensuring proper gendersexual equality policy budgeting;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) ensure that gender equality andbetween women’s rights are fully and proudlynd sexual equality policy is fully supported and implemented in all aspects of EU external action through an adequately funded, gender-inclusive and intersectional approach that is transformative, inclusive and intersectional approach terms of sexual equality policy; there is also a pressing need for this policy of equality in women’s rights to be supported by men, in all fields and at all levels;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) take due stock of the progress, and setbacks, encountered in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and promote active measures to achieve the proposed goals, as well as drastic penalties for delays and/or failure to achieve goals in relation to equal rights for women and men;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) reinvigorate the EU’s efforts to overcome remaining challenges, at European and global level, to the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; ensure that the EU leads by example by putting in place robust policy measures to address, combat and, anticipate genderand penalise sexual inequality in all its manifestations, and to empower women in all their diversityand men to achieve the proposed goals;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-sex- equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing gendersex discrimination; ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe, in accordance with the provisions of their constitutions and with reference to their domestic law, as well as religious principles;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or cultural, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to semiotic violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages youngboth young women and adult or elderly women from entering politics and the public sphere;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) emphasise that weak political leadership, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficient investment, and the rise of anti- rights movements have been identified as obstacles; thus making it necessary to promote more women in leadership, increase investment, and implement comprehensive education, learning, lifelong training, cultural and policy reforms to overcome these systemic barriers and achieve a truly equal society, processes in which the mandatory involvement of men is also necessary;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) apply gender mainstreaming and gendersexual equality policy mainstreaming and sexual equality policy budgeting in all EU policy areas, including external action, and lead by example in this regard, including by adopting penalties in accordance with the domestic and constitutional laws of the Member States;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) commit to constant appraisal and pro-active corrective action in the EU’s internal and external policies in regard to gendersexual equality, sexual equality, policy mainstreaming and budgetingsexual equality policy budgeting in order to achieve the proposed goals, and penalties for delays and/or failure to achieve goals;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) call on the Commission to further develop and roll out concrete and well- financed plans and actions to address the UN SDGs, specifically those related to gendersexual equality policy;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) take the lead and promote measures at European and global level in the global fight against the backlash against gendersexual equality and women’s rights;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) urge the Commission to further develop and improve the collection of gender-sex- desegregated data and to ensure that this data contributes to better policymaking; as well as to reinforce the European Institute for Gender Equality both in terms of funding and capacity, in order to achieve the proposed goals at European and global level; all policies on equality between women and men must have regard to and comply with both the domestic law of the Member States and their constitutions, and, in particular, the religious norms of the Member States;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) implement without delay and to the fullest extent the EU Sexual Equality Action Plan (GAP) III and ensure that 85 % of all new actions throughout external relations by 2025 contribute to gender equalitysexual equality and women’s empowerment; all policies on equality between women and women’s empowerment must have regard to and comply with both the domestic law of the Member States and their constitutions, and, in particular, the religious norms of the Member States;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a gendersex-transformative and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as genderwomen’s and men’s equality policy mainstreaming in all areas of external action, whether trade, development policy, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy and agriculture; all policies on equality between women and men must have regard to and comply with both the domestic law of the Member States and their constitutions, and, in particular, the religious norms of the Member States;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) devise, fund and implement policies that reduce the role of gendera person’s sex as a factor in poverty both within and, through external action, outside of the EU, taking due note of intersectional factors, including age, social class, level of schooling and education, care responsibilities, disability, race and sexuality;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty, focusing on those women living in rural areas or remote and deprived areas, and empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, lifelong- learning, entrepreneurship for financial independence, non-discriminatory labour opportunities, equal pay with men for equal work, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating gender stereotyping and promoting women as role models;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) call for further efforts, legislation and enforcement of existing measures to ensure the rights of women domestic workers so that they are not constantly dependent on their partners and so that their household work is recognised as equivalent to employed and remunerated work in work sectors;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gendersex-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, including in war zones, taking account of migration, drug trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitation, and also reducing forced marriages, where necessary, by implementing legislative penalty provisions;