5 Amendments of Flaviu Călin RUS related to 2008/2198(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that the EU institutions have attached increasing importance to gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment but underlines that much remains to be done to put the political commitments into practice, and stresses the importance of adequate funding and of bodies whose specific role would be to implement these policies;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to speed up its work and propose by July 2009, in close cooperation with the Member States and the Council Secretariat, an "EU Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in EU Internal and External Action", to be applied in the 27 Member States and in negotiations with third countries, together with a set of effective monitoring instruments to be applied at the various stages of this action plan;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Asks the Commission to address and prioritise more systematically gender inequalities in the programming and implementation of the external assistance instruments in a consistent and systematic manner, in particular as regards assistance to the security sector reform; strongly calls for gender-specific objectives and activities to be included in country strategy papers and for a better mainstreaming of gender aspect through them; underlines the need for a holistic approach in the use of external assistance instruments, including the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), Instrument for Stability (IfS), and thematic programmes such as "Investing in People", in order to best achieve the goals of gender equality and women's empowerment;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that the EU should pay special attention to needs of most vulnerable and socially excluded women, in particular disabled women, refugees or women from minority groups, and to resolving as high a proportion as possible of such problems by implementing specific programmes to be applied by organisations which are competent in such matters;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Encourages the regular holding of conferences to debate issues relating to equal opportunities for women and men, with the participation of delegations at the national parliament level, made up of both women and men, together with the establishment of common strategies to implement projects relating to this topic;