23 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2016/2219(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women and girls with disabilities or belonging to cultural, traditional, linguistic, religious, gender or sexual orientation minority groups experience multiple and intersectionalare more at risk from violence, abuse, negligence and multiple forms of discrimination based on both their disability, minority status and their gender;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas, in armed conflicts, women and children, and especially refugee women and children, are among the most vulnerable groups in society;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas three-fifths of the billion people living below the poverty line are women; __________________ 1b http://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pu b-pdf/swp08_eng.pdf
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. insists on the importance of bolstering the role played by women in preventing conflicts, promoting human rights and ushering in democratic reform, and in post-conflict peace and reconstruction processes;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. condemns the fact that, according to UNICEF, each year more than 500 000 women across the world die in childbirth1c; draws attention to the need for women to be afforded proper health care, free of charge, during childbirth, in order to reduce the high number of mothers and babies who die in childbirth in many third countries as a result of inadequate or non-existent health care; __________________ 1c http://www.unicef.org/factoftheweek/inde x_52778.html
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Regrets the frequent violations of women’s sexual and reproductive rights, including the denial of access to family planning services, contraceptives and safe and legal abortion services;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that to achieve gender equality the economic independence of women must be ensured through empowerment, and therefore calls on the EU to continue to support the economic, social and political empowerment of women as a tool for promoting the proper enjoyment of their rights and fundamental freedoms and to ensure their economic independence; calls moreover for the highest importance to be attached to access to quality education for girls, especially those from the poorest and most marginalised communities, for support to be given to vocational training for women and gender equality training programmes to be devised for education professionals in third countries, and for steps to be taken to prevent stereotypes from being conveyed through educational materials; urges the EU to include this priority in all its diplomatic, trade and development cooperation activities;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses the importance of combating gender stereotypes that reinforce women’s subordinate position in society and constitute a principal cause of inequality between men and women, human rights violations against women and gender violence; highlights the importance of awareness-raising campaigns targeting all levels of society, strategies to encourage women and involve men, a greater involvement of the media, and the inclusion of gender issues in education and in all EU policies and initiatives, especially with regard to external action, cooperation and development and humanitarian aid;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Regrets that, all too often, women are discriminated against in favour of men when it comes to accessing financial resources such as bank loans; underlines the fact that women’s empowerment in the entrepreneurial realm has been proved to be a vital factor in boosting the economy and, in the long term, combating poverty;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that religious, cultural and traditional differences can in no way justify discrimination or any form of violence, especially against women and girls, such as female genital mutilation, sexual abuse, femicide, early or forced marriage, domestic violence, honour killings or violence, or any other means of torture and death such as stoning;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Deplores the fact that in some third countries marriages between adults and minors are legal and in some cases involve brides under the age of nine (child brides);
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Condemns the fact that in countries where capital punishment is practised, methods that are equivalent to torture (such as stoning to death) and involve bodily humiliation (such as public hanging) are used to execute women, in order to intimidate other women;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on all Council of Europe member states to sign and ratify the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women without delay; underlines the importance of the EU’s decision to initiate proceedings with a view to its accession to the Convention, with the aim of ensuring consistency between the external and internal action of the EU with regard to violence against women;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Condemns the fact that women and girls make up 98% of victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation; calls on the Member States to do more to combat this practice that violates the fundamental rights of women and children;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Deplores the lack of prevention policies on gender-based violence, the lack of victim support and the high rate of impunity for offenders in a large number of countries; asks the EEAS to exchange good practices with third countries on law-making procedures and training programmes for police, judicial personnel and civil servants; urges the EU to support civil society organisations working to defend human rights and promote gender equality in third countries, and to cooperate closely with international organisations active in the gender equality field with a view to creating synergies and promoting women’s empowerment;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Calls on the Commission to urgently draft a European strategy for combating gender-related violence that includes a legal instrument to combat and prevent all forms of violence against women in the EU;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly regrets the lack of gender equality in the political sphere and women’s under- representation in political, social and economic decision-making, which undermines human rights and democracy; considers that governments should aim for gender equality in democracy-building and maintenance processes;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the importance of introducing positive measures such as quota systems in order to promote women’s participation in political bodies and the democratic process and in economic decision-making;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses that the international community has identified the situation of women with disabilities as a priority; recalls the conclusions of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which stated that policies and programmes to address violence against women and girls with disabilities should be developed in close partnership with those persons who have disabilities, recognising their autonomy, and with disability organisations; underlines the need for regular oversight of institutions and appropriate training for caregivers; calls on the EU to incorporate the fight against disability discrimination into its external action, cooperation and development aid policies, including the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls for the EU to ensure that fundamental human rights safeguards, in particular for women and girls, are written into its economic and trade agreements with third countries, and to review such agreements in cases where those rights are not upheld; also calls for the promotion of women’s rights, gender equality and the fight against violence against women to be systematically included in the human rights country strategies and in the human rights and political dialogues with third countries and candidate countries;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Deplores and condemns the fact that in some third countries homosexuality is a crime, and one that is in some cases punishable by death;