2011/2009(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Draft opinion
Paragraph A

A. whereas women in developing countries face a serious gender gap in terms of property rights and ownership especially in access to productive resources such as land and livestock; whereas women control less land than men and the land they control is often of poorer quality; whereas closing the gender gap in access to productive resources could reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17%1 ,

Amendment 10 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph C a (new)

Ca. whereas the UN’s 2010 report ‘Access to land and right to food’ cited 389 large- scale acquisitions or long-term leases of farmland in 80 countries and pointed out that only 37% of investment projects aim to produce food while 35% are intended for agrofuels, and whereas FAO figures show that every year 19.5 million hectares of farmland are turned over to industry and real estate,

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~allocate sufficient~~utilize existing financial resources~~, in their~~ in a cost effective, appropriate and practical way when providing development assistance, for closing the gender gap in property rights and ownership, including through the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women under the law;

Amendment 12 #

Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to allocate sufficient financial resources, in their development assistance, for closing the gender gap in property rights and ownership, including through the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women under the law in line with the principles of the Beijing Declaration;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to allocate sufficient financial resources, in their development assistance, for closing the gender gap in secured access to land and other property rights ~~and ownership,~~ including through the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women under the law;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to allocate sufficient financial resources and provide specific clauses, in their development assistance, for closing the gender gap in property rights and ownership, including through the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women under the law;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Reaffirms European Union's commitments to reduce poverty worldwide in the context of sustainable development and that the EU shall include a strong gender component in all its policies and practices in its relations with developing countries1; __________________ 1 OJ C 46 of 24.2.2006

Amendment 16 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses the importance of legally certain contractual and commercial relationships for equal and democratic societies; believes that all individuals have the right to freely own and dispose of their property without state intervention;

Amendment 17 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the strengthening of policies to ~~increas~~place women’s access to property in developing countries on an equal footing with men’s is necessary; takes the view that this needs to be accompanied by the requisite financial support mechanisms, (such as savings, credit and insurance~~) and by the empowerment of women and NGOs, which inclu~~; believes that these strengthened policies will result in the empowerment of women, NGOs and companies; considers that they will improv~~ing~~e women’s legal and financial literacy, increas~~ing~~e the dissemination and accessibility of information, and establish~~ing~~ supporting legal services;

Amendment 18 #

Antonyia PARVANOVA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the strengthening of policies to increase women's access to property in developing countries needs to be accompanied by the requisite financial support mechanisms (such as savings, credit and insurance) and by the empowerment of women and NGOs, which includes improving women's legal and financial literacy, increasing the dissemination and accessibility of information, ~~and~~ establishing supporting legal services and gender-sensitivity training for financial service providers;

Amendment 19 #

Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the strengthening of policies to increase women's access to property in developing countries needs to be taken into consideration in the country programs and needs to be accompanied by the requisite financial support mechanisms (such as savings, credit, micro-credits and insurance) and by the empowerment of women and NGOs, which includes improving women's legal and financial literacy, supporting girls' education, increasing the dissemination and accessibility of information, and establishing supporting legal services;

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph B

B. whereas, in many developing countries, women's property rights are not legally enforceable or socially recognised, and women are often excluded from property inheritance laws,

Amendment 20 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the strengthening of policies to increase women's’s equal access to ~~property~~savings, credit and insurance in developing countries needs to be accompanied by the requisite financial support mechanisms ~~(such as savings, credit and insurance)~~ and by the empowerment of women and NGOs, which includes improving women'’s legal and financial literacy, increasing the dissemination and accessibility of information, and establishing supporting legal services;

Amendment 21 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the strengthening of policies to increase women’s access to property in developing countries needs to be accompanied by the requisite financial support mechanisms (such as savings, credit and insurance) and by the empowerment of women and NGOs, which includes improving women’s legal and financial literacy, increasing the dissemination and accessibility of information, and establishing ~~supporting~~ legal aid services;

Amendment 22 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the strengthening of policies to increase women’s access to property in developing countries needs to be accompanied by the requisite financial support mechanisms (such as savings, credit including grants, microcredits and insurance) and by the empowerment of women and NGOs, which includes improving women’s legal and financial literacy, increasing the dissemination and accessibility of information, and establishing supporting legal services;

Amendment 23 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in their development work, to actively promote female entrepreneurship and proprety rights, as part of the process of enhancing women’s independence from their husbands and strengthening their countries’ economies;

Amendment 24 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Asks the Commission and the Member States, in their development assistance policies, ~~to take account of large-scale land acquisition processes, with a view~~ to protect~~ing~~ women and children from impoverishment and famine;

Amendment 25 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Asks the Commission and the Member States, in their development assistance policies, to take account of large-scale land acquisition processes by developed countries in developing countries, and on the African continent in particular, with a view to protecting women and children from impoverishment ~~and famine~~, famine and forcible eviction from their villages and land;

Amendment 26 #

Antonyia PARVANOVA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Asks the Commission and the Member States, in their development assistance policies, to take account of large-scale land acquisition processes, with a view to protecting women and children from impoverishment and famine; Calls the Commission and the Member States in their development and humanitarian policies to ensure these developing countries introduce legislative measures aiming at gender equality and no discrimination with regard to property rights based on ethnic-ity, race, and civil status and address how to remove the significant social, political, and cultural constraints in acquiring land rights;

Amendment 27 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Asks the Commission and the Member States, in their development assistance policies, ~~to take account of large-scale land acquisition processes,~~ with a view to protecting women and children from impoverishment and famine and to address the issue of large- scale land acquisition by foreign investors, which is affecting local farmers and which has a devastating impact on women and children;

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to examine, via the UN, the impact such acquisitions have on the desertification of farmland, on the loss of women’s right of residence and right to property, with particular reference to women who are single or the head of the family, on food security and on their livelihood and that of their children and dependent persons;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for the European Union’s Delegations in the developing countries to monitor women’s property rights to ensure they are not breached, thereby protecting women from the risk of falling into poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 3 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph B

B. whereas, in many developing countries, women’s property rights are not ~~leg~~socially ~~enforcea~~recognised; whereas, starting from such a discriminatory basis, it is impossible for ~~socially recognised~~women to assert their property rights by legal means,

Amendment 30 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Recalls that 15 October is the International Day of Rural Women and calls on the European Union and the Member States to promote awareness- raising campaigns in the developing countries;

Amendment 31 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give particular consideration to women's property rights in post-conflict situations. , especially in countries where women's property rights are not legally enforceable and socially recognisable.

Amendment 32 #

Antonyia PARVANOVA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give particular consideration to women's property rights in post-conflict situations, where gender- biased laws, traditional attitudes toward women, and male-dominated social hierarchies pose obstacles to women attaining equal and just rights.

Amendment 33 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give particular consideration to women's property rights in post-conflict situations by harnessing the resources of the newly created UN Women Organisation.

Amendment 34 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~give particular consideration to women's property right~~empower women in their rights and access to land, inheritance, access to credits and savings in post-conflict situations.

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph B

B. whereas, in many developing countries, women'’s ~~property righ~~secured access to land and other property rights like inheritance and access to savings and credits are not legally enforceable or socially recognised,

Amendment 5 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph B a (new)

Ba. whereas under Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights everyone has the right to take possession of the resources or means needed to produce or obtain food in sufficient quantities for existence,

Amendment 6 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph B a (new)

Ba. whereas more than 60 % of chronically hungry people are women and girls and, in the developing countries, 60- 80% of food is produced by women;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph C

C. whereas women’s rights to property in developing countries are being violated through the increasing incidence of large- scale land acquisition by the developed countries in developing countries for commercial or strategic purposes such as agricultural productivity, food security, and energy and bio-fuel production,

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph C

C. whereas women's and men's rights to property in developing countries are being violated through the increasing incidence of large- scale land acquisition for commercial or strategic purposes such as agricultural productivity, food security, and energy and bio-fuel production; and recognises that women in particular often lack the opportunity to harness legal aid and representation to successfully challenge violations of property rights in developing counties,

Amendment 9 #