3 Amendments of Teresa JIMÉNEZ-BECERRIL BARRIO related to 2014/2230(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that many Afghan women's rights advocates are worried that the decrease in international funding and influence following the reduction of international troops in 2014 might give 'carte blanche' to the Taliban and risks reversing some of the progress on women's rights, and that resistance to Western-driven and Western-influenced rights programming, particularly with regard to women's rights, is increasing within the Afghan polity;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Alarms that in spite of the ban on child marriage, the Afghan Ministry of Public Health estimates that 21 percent of all women were married by age fifteen and another 53 percent by age eighteen;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Strongly condemns the use of Islamic sharia law in certain areas in Afghanistan to justify punishments in the most extreme forms of violence such as stoning to death, flogging or slavery of women;