18 Amendments of Lívia JÁRÓKA related to 2017/2275(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas child, early and forced marriage is a violation of the human rights enshrined in international conventions, and which form part of the core principles embodied in the European Union as an area of security, freedom, and justice;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas despite commitments at international, national and regional levels, child, early and forced marriage remain widespread across the world;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas girls and women are disproportionately vulnerable to child, early and forced marriage;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas child brides are often victims of violence, suffer multiple health problems, are deprived of education and the future paid employment, therefore more likely will be poor and remain poor1a; __________________ 1a www.girlsnotbrides.org
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas child marriage will cost developing countries trillions of dollars by 2030 1b __________________ 1bEconomic Impacts of Child Marriage: Global Synthesis Report 2017
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas although forced marriages is contrary to the law throughout the EU, its exact definition varies, whereas the lack of a generally accepted definition has hindered efforts to establish data on the numbers of forced marriages in the EU;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas forced marriage remains a concern within the EU, whereas it is not a specific crime in most of the Member States, instead protection is provided through a combination of more general criminal provisions, such as on rape or abduction;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls that ending child, early and forced marriage is included as one of the priorities for the EU’s external action in the field of promoting women’s rights and human rights;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses that ending child, early and forced marriages would have a large positive impact on the educational attainment of girls and their children, contribute to women having fewer children and could increase their expected earnings and household welfare;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Encourages the consideration of mandatory birth registration as the lack of registration can lead to the increase of risk of child and early marriage;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that the EU should play a major role and calls on the European External Action Servicet national, European and international level to address the phenomenon and calls on the European External Action Service to make use of all the existing instruments available as well as to put forward a specific strategy with a view to determining what steps need to be taken to combat early and child marriage and other practices harmful to girls, and what objectives should be set and funding earmarked expressly for that purpose in order to achieve the overall aim of eradicating the above forms of marriage by 2030, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (target 5.3);
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recommends to apply a holistic and comprehensive approach when dealing with child, early and forced marriages, i.e. addressing the root causes and extending gender mainstreaming beyond traditional sectors such as education and health and reaching out to all other policy areas;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Acknowledges that most of the countries around the world have laws that set a minimum age of marriage, however stresses that many countries provide exceptions to the minimum age of marriage, mostly upon parental consent or authorisation of the court, which should be addressed by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Encourages the Commission and Member States to launch awareness raising campaigns on the phenomenon, its consequences and available legal remedies throughout the EU, including in the refugee camps as well as in the candidate countries;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Member States to establish structures and programmes to support, assist and protect the victims of child, early and forced marriages;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a consistent data collection system on child, early and forced marriages, including sex- desegregated data, as robust and reliable data are essential to an evidence-based policy making and better targeted interventions;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to monitor the cases of child, early and forced marriages within the EU caused by recent migration crisis and to consider establishing unified legal standards with regard to the procedure for dealing with cases of child and early marriages;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Emphasises the negative influence of humanitarian crisis, conflicts and natural disasters on the child and early marriages, therefore stresses the need to combine development and humanitarian efforts;