7 Amendments of Ulrike LUNACEK related to 2012/2255(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to make the question of women’s rights central to the negotiations with potential candidate and candidate countries of the Western Balkans, thus ensuring that progress on women’s rights is reflected in all the relevant negotiating chapters and that women are fairly represented at the negotiating table;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reaffirms the need to mainstream women’s rights and gender equality throughout the enlargement process; underlines that governmental commitment, structures and methods for implementing gender mainstreaming are crucial for successful progress towards gender equality;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that genuine gender equality also rests on equality and non discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity; encourages the governments of accession countries to address lingering homophobia and transphobia in law, in policy and in practice, including legislating on hate crimes, police training and anti- discrimination legislation;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is concerned about the increasing marginalization of women from decision- making on peace and security, stresses in this context the importance of women’s participation and representation in the peace process and politics as well as strengthening laws and mechanism ensuring the security of women and girls in terms of gender-base violence protection and prevention;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for women in the Western Balkans to take a prominent role in society through their active participation and representation in political, economic and social life at all levels; points out that advancing towards women’s equal decision-making at all levels of government (from local to national, from executive to legislative powers) is of high importance; welcomes quotas and calls on the countries which have not done so already, to promote female representation and, where necessary, to apply quotas effectively in political parties and national assemblies, and encourages the countries which have already done so to continue this process in order to ensure that women can participate in political life and overcome their under-representation, welcomes in this respect the recent international Conference ‘Partnership for Change’ held in October 2012 in Pristina under the auspice of the only female head of state, Atifete Jahjaga, in the region;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines the importance of access to justice to women victims’ of wartime crimes and rape in particular, emphasis the responsibility of all States to put an end to impunity and to prosecute those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, including those relating to sexual violence against women girls, such as rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, enforced pregnancy, enforced sterilisation and any other form of sexual violence of comparable seriousness and to recognize and condemn these crimes as a crime against humanity and a war crime and in this regard, stresses the need to exclude these crimes from amnesty provisions;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that women play an essential role in stabilisation and conflict resolution which is crucial to reconciliation in the region as a whole., welcomes efforts done by networks like the Regional Women’s Lobby in order to support women in peace building and access to justice of women in post conflict countries;