5 Amendments of Konrad SZYMAŃSKI related to 2012/2063(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. States that maternal death rates are disproportionately high in developing countries; notes with concern that African women are 175 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in the developed regions of the world1 ; stresses that accessible, affordable, adequate and high- quality emergency obstetric care is vital in order to reduce maternal death rates; emphasises that developing countries need increased numbers of qualified healthcare professionals to attend to women in labour and states the need for women to be informed about the sexual and reproductive health servicesprimary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation they can access;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reaffirms its declaration A (2010) 21584 of the ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reaffirms that girl children have equal status under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and calls on EU delegations in developing countries to work with the governments of those countries to ensure that girl children enjoy their rights without discrimination, inter alia by requiring the immediate registration of all children after birth, granting girls and boys equal entitlement to education and schooling and ending the unethical and discriminatory practices of prenatal sex selection, abortion of female foetuses, female infanticide, early forced marriage, female genital mutilation and child prostitution; reaffirms its resolution of 5 July 2012 on the forced abortion scandal in China (2012/2712(RSP))1; __________________ 1 P7_TA(2012)0301
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. reminds that EU and Member States must take into account the rights and duties of the parents, legal guardians, or other individuals legally responsible for the child when dealing with the rights of the child within the development assistance; calls the competent institutions to pay special attention to the relationships between parents and children, for example through programmes containing concrete measures specifically tailored to national requirements, seeking to provide maximum and optimum assistance for parents or guardians in the fulfilment of their parental duties in order to prevent family breakdown, children mistreatment and placement in social care as a result of serious poverty or ensure that such a measure is envisaged only as a very last resort;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses concern about widespread gender-based violence, especially sexual violence and feminicide, in developing countries; states that upholding women's the legally binding international human rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights, is essential in order to end gender-based violencestruments do apply to both women and men and that its respect and implementation, is essential to end gender-based violence; states that upholding the fundamental right of all women to access to public health care systems, in particular to primary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation, is part of the realisation of equal opportunities for women and men; calls on the Commission to make the fight against impunity for the perpetrators of such violence one of the priorities for its development assistance policy;