1 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2013/2945(RSP)
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Expresses support for the database on violence against women currently under preparation by the Ministry for Family and Social policies; asks to complement existing legislation on the creation of shelters for women who are victims of domestic violence with adequate follow-up mechanisms where municipalities fail to establish such shelters; supports the efforts of the Minister for Family and Social policies to raise penalties for forced early marriages, which must be eradicated; stresses the importance of providing women and girls who have been victims of violence with concrete alternatives and self-sustainment prospects; underlines also the importance of tackling poverty amongst women and of increasing the social inclusion of women; welcomes the government’s efforts to increase the schooling of girls, as a result of which the gender gap in primary education is almost closed, and calls on the government to take all the necessary measures to diminish the gender gap in secondary education too; renews its concern at the low level of women’s participation in the labour force, in politics and at senior level in the administration and encourages the Government to make gender equality a priority of its reform efforts, adopting adequate measures to promote a more central role of women in the economic and political fabric of Turkey; calls on political parties to take specific action so as to further encourage women’s active engagement and empowerment for participation in politics;