39 Amendments of Anna HEDH related to 2016/2009(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached, that, in many areas, no improvements are being made, and that women’s fundamental rights continue to be breached; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in the decision- making process, both in the private and the public sectors, and by the persisting gender pay gap;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 f (new)
Citation 21 f (new)
- having regard to the Council conclusions on LGBTI equality, adopted in on 16 June 2016,
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 f (new)
Citation 27 f (new)
- having regard to the European Commission's "List of Actions to advance LGBTI Equality" adopted in December 2015,
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 39 b (new)
Citation 39 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 3 February 2016 on the new Strategy for Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Europe post-201516a , __________________ 16a P8_TA(2015)0218
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 42 d (new)
Citation 42 d (new)
- having regard to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' report "Being Trans in the EU Comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data" (2014), to its report on the Fundamental Rights Situation of Intersex people (2015) and to its report "Professionally speaking: challenges to achieving equality for LGBT people" (2016),
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 42 e (new)
Citation 42 e (new)
- having regard to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' report 'Violence against women: An EU- wide survey',
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 42 h (new)
Citation 42 h (new)
- having regard to the European Institute for Gender Equality's 'Study to identify and map existing data and resources on sexual violence against women in the EU',
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 46 j (new)
Citation 46 j (new)
- having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality23a , __________________ 23a PE 585.437v02-00
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to introduce gender mainstreaming in all areas of policy making and in all proposed legislation, including systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights compliance assessment and as an integrated criterion in dialogue with, inter alia, countries which are candidates for accession; stresses once again the need for strong and comprehensive protection of EU citizens against discrimination and reiterates its position on the anti-discrimination directive, which is blocked within the Council;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D d (new)
Recital D d (new)
Dd. whereas women and girls make up 80% of registered victims of trafficking in human beings, and this can be attributed partly to structural violence and discrimination against women and girls26a; __________________ 26aEurostat report, ‘Trafficking in human beings’, 2015 edition
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls both on the EU institutions and on all Member States to work actively with gender mainstreaming, wage mapping and the fair division of parental leave; notes that social vulnerability and weak social inclusion stem from the fact that fewer women than men are in employment, and more women than men work part-time.
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the European Union, and Articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibit any discrimination on grounds of sex and require equality between men and women to be ensured in all areas;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas children are the future of our society and we are responsible for their present; whereas education is one of the best ways to impart values such as peace, tolerance, equality, justice and respect for human drignityhts via formal, non-formal and informal education methods;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 t (new)
Paragraph 1 t (new)
1t. Calls on the Member States to ensure that women victims of gender- based persecution or harm, torture, rape, or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence have genuine access to international protection and to provide them with appropriate treatment and support, in line with internal rules and international obligations applicable to victims of violence such as the UN Convention against torture and the Istanbul Convention; calls on the Member States to follow the Commission guidelines for the implementation of Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification, including the immediate issue of a residence permit valid in its own right to family members who have entered for reasons of family reunification when there are particularly difficult circumstances, such as domestic violence;
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Emphasises that the EU's legal and political framework recognises that trafficking is a gender-specific phenomenon, and calls on Member States to adopt gender-specific measures; recalls that Article 1 of the Directive stresses the need to adopt a gender-sensitive approach to trafficking in human beings; highlights that women and men, girls and boys are vulnerable in different ways, and are often trafficked for different purposes, and that prevention, assistance and support measures must therefore be gender-specific; points out, further, that the EU strategy identifies violence against women and gender inequalities as being among the root causes of trafficking, and lays down a series of measures to address the gender dimension of trafficking;
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Recognises freedom of thought, conscience, religion, belief and non- belief, and freedom to practise the religion of one's choice and to change religion and freedom to manifest one's religion or belief, individually or in community with others, in public or private, through worship, observance, practice and teaching; condemns any form of discrimination on the grounds of religion or beliefs; calls on the Member States to protect freedom of religion or belief, including the freedom of those without a religion not to suffer discrimination as a result of excessive exemptions for religions from laws on equality and non- discrimination;
Amendment 551 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 n (new)
Paragraph 12 n (new)
12n. Urges the EU and Member States to include multiple discrimination within equality policies;
Amendment 606 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the EU institutions and on the Member States to recognise that long-term investment in social inclusion is beneficial as it tackles the high cost of discrimination and inequality; calls on EU institutions and the Member States to ensure that access to justice and redressing discrimination are not put in danger by drastic funding cuts in equality bodies budgets; calls on EU and national institutions not to threaten social inclusion by budgetary measures threatening the survival of community- based organisations working for equality;
Amendment 610 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to collect reliable and comparable equality data according to current data protection standards, in consultation with minority representatives, in order to measure inequalities and discrimination, disaggregated according to discrimination grounds, to monitor the impact of EU and Member States policies on them and to devise better policies to overcome those inequalities; calls on both institutions to define consistent equality data collection principles, based on self-identification, EU data protection standards and the consultation of the relevant communities;
Amendment 611 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Calls on the Commission to address a recommendation to the Member States in order to support equality data collection in the EU;
Amendment 622 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 h (new)
Paragraph 15 h (new)
15h. Urges the EU and the Member States to combat and prosecute all forms of violence and discrimination against women; calls on the Member States in particular to deal effectively with the effects of domestic violence and sexual exploitation in all its forms, including that of refugees and migrant children, and early or forced marriage; calls on Member States to exchange best practices among each other and to provide regular trainings for police and judicial staff on new forms of violence against women, such as stalking, cyber-harassment or revenge porn;
Amendment 623 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 i (new)
Paragraph 15 i (new)
15i. Expresses concern about the extent and forms of violence against women in the EU, as documented by the FRA's EU-wide survey which showed that one in three women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15, and that an estimated 3,7 million women in the EU experience sexual violence over the period of one year;
Amendment 629 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights that improvements are still neededCalls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to review existing legislation and to keep the issue of violence against women high on the agenda, as gender-based violence should not be tolerated; regrets the fact that improvements to combat violence against women, andre made at an excessively slow pace; calls on the Member States and the EU to sign and ratify immediately the Istanbul Convention following the launch of the procedure by the Commission in March 2016;
Amendment 671 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Calls on Member States to ensure respect for and safeguarding of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights; insists on the role of the Union in awareness-raising and promoting best practices on this issue, given that health is a fundamental human right essential to the exercise of other human rights; urges the Commission to include sexual and reproductive health and rights, as basic human rights, in its EU Health Strategy in order to ensure coherence between the EU's internal and external fundamental rights policy as called for by Parliament on 10 March 2015;
Amendment 686 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Paragraph 18 d (new)
18 d. Is deeply concerned with the decision of local authorities in France to ban certain types of swimwear mostly worn by Muslim women and the comments made by politicians in other Member States in this regard; condemns institutionalising racial profiling and anti-Muslim sentiments in such way; calls on Member States and local governments to respect women's choices in terms of their attire and overturn such bans; calls on Member States to foster inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogues that are inclusive to hear the voices of all women in decisions impacting them;
Amendment 687 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 e (new)
Paragraph 18 e (new)
18 e. Recalls that poverty in old age is especially concerning in the case of women, due to the continued gender pay gap resulting in the gender pension gap; calls on Member States to draw up appropriate policies to support elderly women and to eliminate the structural causes of gender differences in compensation;
Amendment 693 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 k (new)
Paragraph 18 k (new)
18 k. Calls on the Commission to review the Council Framework Decision on combatting certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia so that hate crimes and violence against LGBTI persons are also covered by this rule; urges the Commission to carefully monitor and enforce LGBTI-relevant legislative provisions, such as the Directive on Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation and the Directives on Gender Equality in access to goods and services and employment, which also protect trans-gender people from discrimination (based on the EUCJ extension of the sex/gender characteristics), but also the Victims Right Directive; calls on the Commission to provide interpretation guidelines in order to make clear for national authorities that sexual identity is fully covered by the said legislation; calls on the Commission to use the tools available, including infringement procedures to enforce legislation relevant to LGBTI persons;
Amendment 713 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on Member States to step up their efforts on tackling child poverty and social exclusion through effective implementation of the European Commission Recommendation 'Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage' through integrated strategies supporting access to adequate resources, enabling access to affordable quality services and promoting children's participation in decision making that affects them; calls on the Commission to take further measures for monitoring the implementation of the Recommendation;
Amendment 716 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19 b. Calls on the Commission to consider launching a Child Guarantee to combat child poverty and social exclusion; supports the inclusion of free access to healthcare, education, childcare facilities, adequate housing and quality nutrition in the Child Guarantee;
Amendment 726 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Highlights that violent punishment is the most common form of violence against children and that putting an end to it is fundamental for creating peaceful, non-violent and rights-respecting societies; Welcomes the European commission's efforts towards elimination of corporal punishment of children;
Amendment 727 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for a multi-stage system in child protection based on the best intereson the Member States that yet have not done so to prohibit all forms of corporal punishment in line with their obligations in the Convention on the Rights of the cChild, which should not be designed to punish parents and care-givers, but (article 19) and in line with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 target 16.2, to send a clear message that all forms of physical and emotional violence againstll violence against children; Urges all Member States to conduct public education and awareness raising campaigns on children's rights to protection together and the promotion of positive, non-violent relationships with children, are unacceptable, and in which the separation of the child from the family would be the very last steps well as to adopt indicators that specifically cover prohibition and elimination of violent punishment to support achievement of Sustainable Development Goals target 16.2;
Amendment 767 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Calls on the Member States to fully implement the asylum package and register children upon their arrival in order to ensure their inclusion in child protection systems; calls on the Member States to increase information sharing in order to better protect migrant children in Europe;
Amendment 820 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Stresses that persons with disabilities are entitled to enjoy their fundamental rights on an equal basis with others, including the rights to inalienable dignity, independent living, autonomy and full social integration, sexual and reproductive health and rights and family; notes that a human rights-based approach to disability is not yet fully endorsed, and urges the EU and its Member States to intensify efforts to align their legal frameworks with CRPD requirements and to effectively include persons with disabilities in society;
Amendment 824 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Calls on the Council to urgently adopt the 2008 proposal for a Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation;
Amendment 825 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32 b. Regrets the fact that EU funds earmarked for integration measures for persons living with disabilities are still used to renovate big institutions instead, despite the commitment of the EU and its Member States to de-institutionalisation; calls on the Commission to closely monitor the utilisation of the funds and take action where necessary;
Amendment 843 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37 a. Calls on Member States to provide accessible solutions to refugees with disabilities;
Amendment 883 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 c (new)
Paragraph 39 c (new)
39 c. Regrets that in the application of the Racial Equality Directive there are still shortcomings, including in the area of awareness of rights and access to justice;
Amendment 895 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Calls on Member States, in the light of the Commission’'s Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies 2015, to fully and rapidly implement their own national Roma Strategy and to put in place specific measures to fight antigypsyism and ethnic discrimination against Roma in line with the Racial Equality Directive provisions, and to combat anti-Ggypsyism in line with the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia;
Amendment 937 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Notes that civil society organisations, including volunteering and youth work, play a key role in social participation and calls on the EU and the Member States to support and to promote their work; regrets that in Hungary, Poland and Lithuania there are on-going smear campaigns against NGOs; calls on Member States and EU to provide for adequate public investment in the work of NGOs, including equality bodies;