7 Amendments of Maurice PONGA related to 2017/2015(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas current EU trade policy lacks a gender equality perspective, as well as obligations to enforce women´s rights conventions; whereas including a gender perspective in trade and investment policies is an essential element of an integrated sustainable development policy framework that combines social and economic measures to ensure fairer and beneficial outcomes for all;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectives to be integrated systematically into trade and investment policies, and into the trade-related capacity building programmes of international finance institutions, donors and intergovernmental organisations, through ex-ante analysis and monitoring, with a view to overcoming the potentially negative gender impacts of different trade measures and instruments;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates its concerns about the possible privatisation of basic services resulting from trade and investment agreements, and highlights that the issue of public provision of social services is especially salient for gender equality, given that changes in access to such services, and their quality, creates a gender-uneven distribution of unpaid care work;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the paramount importance of respecting, in accordance with SDG target 17.15, partner countries’ democratic policy space to regulate and take suitable decisions for their own national context, respond to the demands of their populations, and fulfil their human rights obligations and other international commitments, including those on gender equality; underlines the need to ensure that neither trade and investment mechanisms nor intellectual property rights endanger the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality or stronger labour and consumer rights;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to enhance the participation of women and gender experts in trade policy-making and negotiation processes at all levels, and the fact that multi-stakeholder mechanisms should be established to reorient the trade agenda in support of a pro-poor and gender-aware development frameworkwhereas free trade has brought new possibilities and empowerment to women in developing countries;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Insists that all EU trade agreements should include bindingenforceable clauses on women’s rights, gender equality and gender mainstreaming, with an appropriate body appointed, or an explicit mechanism established, to monitor compliance;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the progress made in recent years with the establishment of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact¸ the EU Timber Regulation and the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation, and calls on the Commission to expand binding frameworks onconsider expending due diligence obligations to other sectors in order to ensure that the EU and its traders and operators live up to the obligation to respect human rights and the highest social standards, including the ones related to gender equality.