25 Amendments of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2010/2039(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) adopted in 1979,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
– having regard to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, reconfirmed during the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, in particular Articles 3, 16, 18, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 29,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
– having regard to International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions Nos 26 and 131 on minimum wage fixing and No 29 and 105 on the abolishment of forced labour,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the ILO report "A global alliance against forced labour. Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director-General, 2005",
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
Citation 5 b (new)
– having regard to Articles 34, 35 and 36 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which specifically define the right to social and housing assistance, a high level of human health protection and access to services of general economic interest1, 1 (OJ C 303, 14.12.2007, p. 1.)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)
Citation 5 c (new)
– having regard to the report of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the opinion of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (A6-0364/2008),
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas poverty and social exclusion are violations of human dignity and fundamental human rights, and the central objective of income support schemes must be to lift people out of poverty and enable them to live in dignity,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the risk of falling into extreme poverty is greater for women than for men; whereas the persistent trend towards feminisation of poverty in European societies today demonstrates that the current framework of social protection systems and the wide range of social, economic and employment policies in the Union are not designed to meet women's needs or to address the differences in women's work; whereas poverty among women and their social exclusion in Europe requires specific, multiple and gender-specific policy responses,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas the risk of falling into extreme poverty is greater for women than for men, particularly in old age, because social security systems are often based on the principle of continuous remunerated employment; whereas an individualised right to a poverty preventing minimum income should not be conditional on employment related contributions,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas account should be taken of the multidimensional nature of poverty and social exclusion, the existence of particularly vulnerable population groups (children, women and elderly people), which also include people with disabilities, immigrants, large or single-parent families, the chronically ill and the homeless, as well as the need to incorporate action to prevent and combat poverty and exclusion in other policies, with a guarantee of universal access to public services, high- quality jobs with rights and aninfrastructure and services of general interest, high- quality jobs with rights and a poverty preventing guaranteed minimum income allowenabling people to live withsocial, cultural and political participation and a life in dignity,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the role of social protection systems is to ensure the level of social cohesion needed for development guaranteeing social inclusion, which also implies a poverty preventing individually guaranteed minimum income, improving the level of education training of those people excluded from the labour market and guaranteeing equal opportunities in the exercise of fundamental rights,
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need for concrete measures to effectively and significantly reducradicate poverty and social exclusion, ensuring a fair redistribution of income and wealth and also, thereby giving meaning and content to the European Year for Combating Poverty and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, including guaranteeing an adequatepoverty preventing and socially including minimum income schemes throughout the European Union;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the promotion of social integration and inclusion, in order to guarantee protection of fundamental human rights, and clear commitments to draw up EU and national policies to combat poverty and social exclusion, by ensuring universal access to public health services, education, vocational education and training, housing and energy provision, and social protection, in addition to employment with rights, fairand wages, decent pensions and an adequate income for everyoneminimum income schemes for everyone that guarantees freedom from poverty and ensures social, cultural and political inclusion;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the European Commission, in its "‘Europe 2020"’ strategy document, announces that removing the risk of poverty for 20 million people is one of the EU'’s five headline targets; believereminds that this target should be at least doubled and made more credible with appropriatefalls behind the initial ambitions of the Lisbon Strategy (overcome poverty), believes that poverty and social exclusion must be eradicated by credible, concrete and binding measures;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Council and the EU Member States to base the "Europe 2020" headline target to tackle poverty on the relative poverty indicator (60% of the median income threshold), as endorsed by the Laeken European Council in December 2001, because this indicator sets the reality of poverty within the context of each member state, as it reflects an understanding of poverty as a relative condition;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls, in respect of the poverty reduction target, its earlier proposals for the following targets: - The need to set up an EU target for minimum income schemes and contributory replacement income schemes providing income support of at least 60% of national median equalised income, and agreement on a timetable for achieving this target in all Member States; - The need to set up an EU target for minimum wages (statutory, collective agreements at national, regional or sectoral level) to provide for remuneration of at least 60% of the relevant (national, sectoral, etc.) average wage, and agreement on a timetable for achieving that target in all Member States; - The need for the EU to agree on an EU- wide target to end street homelessness by 2015 and for all Member States to develop integrated homelessness strategies with a view to ending homelessness;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls for further real progress on the adequacy of Minimum Income Schemes, so as to be capable of lifting every child, adult and older person out of poverty and delivering on their right to a dignified life; calls on the Council to reach agreement on a common EU definition of adequacy and of common methods to establish adequacy, which should inform an EU Framework Directive on Minimum Income to achieve higher level social standards;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Considers that an explicit commitment must be made by Member States to implement Active Inclusion: reducing conditionality, investing in supportive activation, defending adequate minimum income and preserving social standards by outlawing cuts to key public services so that the poor will not pay for the crisis;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the various experiments with minimum incomes, accompanied by additional social integration measures, show that this is a further essential way of combating poverty and social exclusion; therefore calls on the European Commission to prepare an initiative supporting these experiments, taking into account best practices and ensuring an adequateindividually guaranteed poverty preventing minimum income schemes throughout the European Union as a means to preventeradicate poverty and guarantee social justice and equal opportunities for all, without calling into question the specific situations in each Member State;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the urgent need to define and use appropriate economic and social indicators in various areas (health, housing, energy provision, social and cultural inclusion, mobility, education, income and employment), which will allow the progress made in combating poverty and promoting social inclusion to be monitored and measured; states that these indicators should be presented annually on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October), should evolve as necessary and should include gender, age ranges, households, disability situations, immigration, chronic illness and various income levels (60% of median income; 50% of median income; 40% of median income) in order to take account of relative poverty, extreme poverty and the most vulnerable groups;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the EU Member States to examine how different models of unconditional and poverty precluding basic incomes for all could contribute to social, cultural and political inclusion, taking especially into account their non-stigmatising character and their ability to prevent cases of concealed poverty;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges those people in a state ofCalls for an integration of people experiencing poverty and their representative organisations to participateand networks in the preparation and, application and monitoring of policies, measures and indicators at European, national, regional and local levels;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Deeply regrets that some Member States appear not to have regard to Council Recommendation 92/441/EEC, which recognises the 'basic right of a person to sufficient resources and social assistance to live in a manner compatible with human dignity';
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that minimum income schemes must cover fuel costs to allow poor households affected by energy poverty to pay their energy bills; minimum income schemes must be calculated on the basis of realistic assessments of how much it costs to heat a home related to the specific household needs – e.g. family with children, older people and disabled persons.
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Points out that most Member States in EU-27 have national minimum income schemes, but several do not; encourages the Member States to provide for poverty preventing guaranteed minimum income schemes for social inclusion, and urges them to exchange best practice; recognises that, where there is provision of social assistance, Member States have a duty to ensure that citizens understand and are able to obtain their entitlements.