2015/2325(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas an unprecedented and increasing number of men, women and children are seeking international protection in the EU as a result of ongoing conflicts, regional instability and human rights violations, including gender-based violence and rape as a weapon of war; whereas an unprecedented and increasing number of men, women and children are seeking to emigrate to certain Member States as economic refugees;

Amendment 100 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Notes~~Expresses it concern with the Commission’s proposal to establish a common EU list of safe countries of origin; demands that all appropriate steps be taken to ensure that this approach is consistent with the principle of non-refoulement and that the rights of women, children and other vulnerable groups are not undermined; calls for gender differentiation to be applied; believes that claims based on fear of gender-based violence or discrimination should never be subject to accelerated asylum procedures;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Not~~Welcomes the Commission’'s proposal to establish a common EU list of safe countries of origin; demands that all appropriate steps be taken to ensure that this approach is consistent with the principle of non-refoulement and that the rights of women, children and other vulnerable groups are not undermined; calls for gender differentiation to be applied; believes that claims based on fear of gender-based violence or discrimination should ~~never~~, in principle, not be subject to accelerated asylum procedures bearing in mind that member states should apply the European asylum laws;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Notes the Commission’s proposal to establish a common EU list of safe countries of origin; stresses that these lists breaches Article 14 of the Human Rights, namely the right to seek asylum, since in practice these lists overrules every individuals right to an asylum case; demands that all appropriate steps be taken to ensure that this approach is consistent with the principle of non-refoulement and that the rights of women, children and other vulnerable groups are not undermined; calls for gender differentiation to be applied; believes that claims based on fear of gender-based violence or discrimination should never be subject to accelerated asylum procedures;

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Underlines that even in countries deemed safe women may suffer gender- based persecution, while LGBTI persons may also suffer abuse, thus having a legitimate request for protection;

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Believes that escaping gender based violence and State-sanctioned gender discrimination is a valid reason for seeking asylum in the EU;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Urges the Commission not to include in safe country of origin list any country that does not have equality between women and men as an established legal principle;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Strongly urges EU institutions not to conclude readmission agreements with countries that violate women´s rights or that do not recognise women´s civil, political and social rights on an equal basis with men; believes that returns to those countries cannot be considered as "safe returns";

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 e (new)

7e. Strongly urges Member States to stop deporting women to countries where women´s rights are less recognised than in the EU;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Believes that no country where gender equality is not recognized on a legislative level, and where gender based violence against women and LGBTI people is a wide spread reality, can be on any list of safe countries;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for more objective and gender- sensitive approaches to credibility assessment in all Member States, ~~and~~with the aim of helping women to overcome the problem of a lack of paperwork to ensure that their stories are judged to be more comprehensive and consistent and that they can be granted asylum within a shorter time; calls, in addition, for enhanced training on credibility assessment for decision-makers which incorporates a gender dimension;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas between the start of 2015 and November of the same year, some 900 000 people crossed the Mediterranean to reach Europe’s coasts, and women and children accounted for around 38% of the total;

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for more objective and gender- sensitive approaches to credibility assessment in all Member States, and enhanced training on credibility assessment for decision-makers which incorporates a gender dimension; highlights that credibility assessments cannot be fully nor always accurate, and should not be used as a base for a negative asylum decision;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for more objective and gender- sensitive approaches to credibility assessment in all Member States, and enhanced training on credibility assessment for decision-makers which incorporates a gender dimension; Recommends that when assessing asylum claims from women, cultural, social and psychological profiles including cultural background, education, trauma, fear, shame and/or cultural inequalities between men and women, should be taking into account;

Amendment 112 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Member States to give reasons for positive asylum decisions in order to make available useful data on the consideration given to gender-based violence and to provide transparency about the Convention grounds on which asylum claims have been granted;deleted

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Member States to ~~give reasons for positive asylum decisions in order to~~ make available useful data on ~~the consideration given to~~cases of gender- based violence and to provide transparency ~~about the Convention grounds on which asylum claims have been granted~~;

Amendment 114 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Member States to ensure, in any case, independent legal status as far as documents are concerned, thus enabling women to apply for and maintain the status of refugee or asylum seeker regardless of the situation of the other members of their families;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Member states to fully implement Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims and Directive 2012/29/EU on establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime;

Amendment 116 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Takes the view that prompt action should be taken in terms of humanitarian assistance whenever gender-based violence is suspected, given the extremely high exposure of vulnerable groups such as women and children to forms of physical violence and moral coercion along illegal migration routes, where all kinds of rights are denied;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Stresses that women and girls are particularly vulnerable to exploitation by smugglers; calls therefore on Member States to increase their police and judicial cooperation, including with Europol, Frontex, Eurojust and EASO to effectively combat smuggling and trafficking of migrants;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Urges the Member States to guarantee provision of childcare and care for dependants during assessments and interviews carried out in the course of the asylum process;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Urges the Member States to provide women with information on asylum procedures, their rights and the specific services available to women applying for asylum, and to inform them of their right to file a separate application for asylum;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas women as well as LGBTQI persons are subject to specific forms of gender based persecution, still too often not recognised in the asylum procedures;

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3

NThe needs of women in asylum procedures

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the Member States to ~~guarantee and publicise~~duly inform women seeking asylum about their right ~~of women seeking asylum~~s and in particular about the right to request a female interviewer and interpreter and to deliver comprehensive and mandatory training for interviewers and interpreters on sexual violence, trauma and memory; urges the Member States to guarantee that these rights are being respected;

Amendment 122 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the Member States to guarantee and publicise the right of women seeking asylum to request a female interviewer and interpreter including the opportunity to have a personal interview separately from their husband/partner and other family members, and to deliver comprehensive and mandatory training for interviewers and interpreters on sexual violence, trauma and memory;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the Member States to guarantee and publicise the right of women seeking asylum to request a female interviewer and interpreter and to deliver comprehensive and mandatory training for interviewers and interpreters on sexual violence, trauma and memory;(Does not affect English version)

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Notes with concern that many asylum case workers in the EU are not familiar with FGM; calls on Member States to work at national level with their asylum authorities to establish better procedures to help support and assist women and girls who have undergone or who are at risk of FGM;

Amendment 125 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Member States, in collaboration with the EU, to promote medical and psycho-social care projects for women who have suffered violence, with the direct involvement of qualified women who are specialists in the field;

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Urges all Member States to provide specialised trauma counselling for women who have experienced gender-based harm which is available at all stages of the asylum process;

Amendment 127 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Urges all Member States to provide up to date and accessible information about the asylum process, rights and entitlements specific to women seeking asylum;

Amendment 128 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)

10c. Stresses the crucial importance of providing childcare during screening and asylum interviews, in order to ensure a fair opportunity to make an asylum claim;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Urges the Commission and the Member States to guarantee full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to safe abortion, and to allocate additional resources to healthcare provision as a matter of urgencyMember States to take measures to guarantee women in disadvantaged circumstances equal access to public health systems, in particular basic health services as defined by the World Health Organisation, encompassing the protection of mother and child and gynaecological and obstetric care;

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security has not achieved its primary objective of protecting women and substantially increasing their participation in political and decision- making processes;

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Urges the Commission and the Member States to guarantee full access to ~~sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to safe abortion,~~health and to allocate ~~additional~~ resources to healthcare provision ~~as a matter of urgency~~, paying special attention to pregnant women or those with newborn children;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Urges the Commission and the Member States to guarantee full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights~~Insists it is only for Member States to decide access to healthcare, including access to safe abortion, and tohe allocat~~e additional~~ion of resources to healthcare provision ~~as a matter of urgency~~, in line with any agreed international law;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Urges the Commission and the Member States to guarantee full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to safe abortion, ~~and~~ to allocate additional resources to healthcare provision as a matter of urgency and to provide women asylum seekers with basic hygiene kits;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Urges the Commission and MS to provide women's protection and assistance as much as possible during the refugees' journey (with centres along the main routes) as well as during their stay in refugee camps, at the border controls and of course after entering into the EU;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the EU Member States to ensure that asylum procedures at borders comply with the UNHCR Guidelines on International Protection, in particular with regard to gender-related persecution;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Stresses the need for family reunification procedures to afford individual rights for women and girls joining their families in the EU, in order not to have to depend on a possibly abusive relationship with the male family member for access to health, education, or work;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Calls for women asylum seekers and migrants to be granted an independent legal status from that of their spouse, in order to avoid exploitation, decrease vulnerability, and achieve greater equality;

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11c. Stresses that undocumented migrant women and girls should have full access to their basic fundamental rights and channels for legal migration should be developed;

Amendment 138 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)

11d. Considers that exploitation in prostitution in the host country should be considered as a ground for granting asylum on humanitarian grounds;

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Underlines the right of women to lodge a claim for asylum independent of their spouse as key to women's empowerment and the principle of non-- refoulement; urges Member States to inform all women of their right to make an independent claim for asylum;

Amendment 14 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas Christian refugees in reception centres for asylum seekers in the Member States are suffering attacks by and even death threats from fanatical Muslims who live in accordance with Sharia law;

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Strongly condemns the use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war; considers that special attention should be given to migrant women and girls abused in conflicts by ensuring access to medical and psychological support;

Amendment 141 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Urges all Member States to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence and to apply Article 59 thereof, which clearly states that the Parties should take the necessary measures to suspend expulsion proceedings and/or to grant an autonomous residence permit in the event of a dissolution of marriage to those women migrants whose residence status depends on their spouse;

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Welcomes the development of a new training module on Gender, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO); calls for the full incorporation of gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting into the work of the EASO through gender focal points and formal liaison with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE); calls for Country of Origin information which includes the situation of women, both legally and de facto, including information about the persecution, or threat thereof, by non-state actors;

Amendment 143 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Recommends that officials adopt a pro-active attitude in particular towards women from Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia when assessing their asylum claims, considering that they run a higher risk of becoming a victim of sexual or gender-based violence when returning to their country of origin;

Amendment 144 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11c. Encourages all Member States to make full use of the Dublin Regulation to ensure that families are able to be together and have their asylum claims processed by the same authorities;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the ~~Commission and the Member States to take immediate measur~~Member States to ensure that reception conditions are safe and adequate, with separate accommodation and sanitation facilities for women and families;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Calls on~~Demands that the Commission and the Member States to take immediate measures to ensure that reception, transit and detention conditions are safe and adequate, with separate accommodation and sanitation facilities for women and families;

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take immediate measures to ensure that reception conditions are safe and adequate, with separate accommodation and sanitation facilities for women and families; points out that provision of sanitary products for all women and girls should be standard practice in assistance programmes;

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take immediate measures to ensure that reception conditions are safe, humane, and adequate, with separate accommodation and sanitation facilities for women and families;

Amendment 149 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Underlines that detention of asylum- seekers should be avoided, can only be applied where it pursues a legitimate purpose and has been determined to be both necessary and proportionate in each individual case, and can never be justified in the case of children (anyone under 18 years of age); respecting the right to seek asylum entails instituting open and humane reception arrangements for asylum-seekers, including safe, dignified and human rights-compatible treatment;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas a significant number of women presenting an asylum claim are doing so based on a fear of FGM;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Points out that involving women refugees directly and indirectly in managing the distribution of food and non-food items will ensure that the goods in question are distributed and controlled directly by adult women members of households, thereby guaranteeing that they are distributed fairly;

Amendment 151 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to equip reception hubs for refugees and asylum seekers with appropriate areas enabling them to support and look after their children;

Amendment 152 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Member States to implement or strengthen mechanisms to monitor overcrowded reception centres in the EU, in which minimum standards to mitigate gender-based violence do not necessarily apply, in order to prevent harassment of women and children from continuing also in the country of arrival;

Amendment 153 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses the need to develop alternatives to detention including engagement focused approaches which meet the needs of vulnerable groups;

Amendment 154 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses that the needs of vulnerable people such as women victims of violence and girls, in particular unaccompanied girls, should be prioritised in the reception procedures;

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Urges the Member States, if the situation in the country of origin in question still permits, to take decisions on asylum applications by persons from safe countries of origin and by persons who have entered their territory via a safe third country within 48 hours; urges, further, that asylum applications which are not supported by documentary proof of nationality and identity should be rejected as clearly unjustified or inadmissible within the same period;

Amendment 156 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Highlights the importance of equipping reception facilities with appropriate legal assistance for women in order to provide them with valuable support in terms of information and the search for family members;

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Highlights that many women asylum seekers and refugees have experienced extreme violence and that detention may exacerbate their trauma; calls for an immediate end, in all Member States, to the detention of pregnant women seeking asylum and the detention of survivors of rape and sexual violence, and for appropriate psychological support to be made available;

Amendment 158 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Highlights that many women asylum seekers and refugees have experienced extreme violence and that detention may exacerbate their trauma; calls for an immediate end, in all Member States, to the detention of ~~pregnant women seeking asylum and the detention of~~children, pregnant and nursing women and survivors of rape ~~and~~, sexual violence and trafficking;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Highlights that many women asylum seekers and refugees have experienced extreme violence and that detention may exacerbate their trauma; calls for an immediate end, in all Member States, to the detention of girls because of their status of migrant and stresses that the need of pregnant women seeking asylum and ~~the detention of~~ survivors of rape and sexual violence are more appropriately accommodated in tailored facilities;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas too many people have already lost their lives during these journeys of hope and many of them have been women;

Amendment 160 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Highlights that many women asylum seekers and refugees have experienced extreme violence and that detention may exacerbate their trauma; Highlights that detention of asylum seekers for mere administrative convenience violates the right to liberty as enshrined in art 6 of the EU Charter of Fundamental rights and calls for an immediate end, in all Member States, to the detention of pregnant women seeking asylum and the detention of survivors of rape and sexual violence;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take measures to prevent forced marriages being imposed on women and girls once they have obtained refugee status, with a view to securing safe access for men who would otherwise not be entitled to such access;

Amendment 162 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the urgent need for independent investigations by the competent Member State authorities into all allegations of abuse at places of immigration detention ~~and for access to be granted to journalists~~;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the urgent need for independent investigations into all allegations of abuse at places of immigration detention or at the borders conducted by other migrants, asylum seekers or police and border guards and for access to be granted to journalists;

Amendment 164 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the urgent need for independent investigations into all allegations of abuse at places of immigration detention and for access to be granted to journalists and civil society organisations;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the urgent need for independent investigations into all allegations of ~~abus~~sexual abuse and gender based violence at places of immigration detention and for access to be granted to journalists;

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges all Member States to reduce maximum limits to the duration of detention prior to removal to below the limit stipulated in the Return Directive; considers that prolonged detention disproportionately harms vulnerable groups;deleted

Amendment 167 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges all Member States to ~~reduce maximum limits to the duration of detention prior to removal to below the limit stipulated in the Return Directive~~close all detention centres; considers that ~~prolonged~~ detention disproportionately harms vulnerable groups;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges all Member States to ~~reduce maximum~~keep limits to the duration of detention ~~prior to removal to below~~to the limit stipulated in the Return Directive; considers that prolonged detention disproportionately harms vulnerable groups;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges all Member States to reintroduce maximum limits to the duration of detention prior to removal towhich are below the limit stipulated in the Return Directive; considers that prolonged detention disproportionately harms vulnerable groups;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas there is a great degree of gender inequality for asylum applicants across the European Union; whereas women constitute on average one third of people who apply for asylum;

Amendment 170 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. When women asylum-seekers are detained, facilities and materials are required to meet women's specific hygiene needs, the use of female guards and warders should be promoted, all staff assigned to work with women detainees should receive training relating to the gender-specific needs and human rights of women;

Amendment 171 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Stresses the need for LGBTQI sensitive reception facilities across all Member States; highlights that violence against LGBTQI individuals is common in reception facilities;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Women asylum-seekers in detention who report abuse are to be provided immediate protection, support and counselling, and their claims must be investigated by competent and independent authorities, with full respect for the principle of confidentiality, including where women are detained together with their husbands/partners/other relatives. Protection measures should take into account specifically the risks of retaliation;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Women asylum-seekers in detention who have been subjected to sexual abuse need to receive appropriate medical advice and counselling, including where pregnancy results, and are to be provided with the requisite physical and mental health care, support and legal aid;

Amendment 174 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Calls for all detention of children in the EU to stop, and for parents to be able to live with their children in appropriate tailored facilities awaiting their asylum decision;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission, Member States, and local authorities to work together with civil society and human rights organisations to alleviate the plight of refugees surviving in makeshift conditions, particularly in respect of vulnerable women and girls;

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Invites the Member States, keeping in mind the humanitarian urgency and the need to temporarily create shelter for immigrants, to decide on the temporary suspension of Protocol Nr 6, thus facilitating the temporary use of the unused EU-Parliament premises in Strasbourg unhindered by parliamentary business, which could transitionally take place in Brussels;

Amendment 177 #

Barbara MATERA, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of women refugees and asylum seekers, including language classes, lifelong learning and training; stresses the importance of widening access to higher education for women refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;deleted

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of women refugees and asylum seekers, including language classes, lifelong learning and training; stresses the importance of widening access to ~~higher~~ education for women ~~refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad~~and girls refugees;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of ~~women~~all economic refugees and asylum seekers, including language classes, lifelong learning and training; stresses the importance of widening access to higher education for ~~women refugee~~all economic refugees and asylum seekers; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas women and men seeking asylum ~~have specific protection needs which require that the implementation of all asylum policies be gender sensitive~~and economic migrants have specific needs, and Member States are therefore invited to meet, as far as current circumstances allow, the specific needs of women, men, children and families in the context of asylum policies;

Amendment 180 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of women refugees and asylum seekers, including language classes, lifelong learning and training; calls on the Commission, Member States and local authorities to guarantee the right of refugee girls to access statutory education; highlights the importance of informal, non-formal education and cultural exchange in including and empowering young women and girls; stresses the importance of widening access to higher education for women refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of women refugees and asylum seekers, including language classes, lifelong learning and training, and a presentation on the gender equality values advocated in the various Member States; stresses the importance of widening access to higher education for women refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;

Amendment 182 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of women refugees and asylum seekers, including literacy programmes, language classes, lifelong learning and basic training; stresses the importance of widening access to higher education for women refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;

Amendment 183 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of women refugees and asylum seekers, including language classes, lifelong learning and training; stresses the importance of widening access to ~~higher~~ education for women and girls refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses that true and full integration is the only possible way to ensure that women fleeing from war zones and violence have a decent life and all the efforts of the international community must be geared towards achieving that aim;

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on all Member States and the Commission to allocate economic resources to tackle structural discrimination in the labour and housing market, and to secure the right to work, regardless of legal status, including for asylum seekers awaiting the outcome of their asylum claims; stresses that social inclusion and integration is hindered by the widespread structural discrimination against women and girls of colour across all Member States;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to make funding and other resources available for civil society and human rights organisations that provide assistance, promote inclusion, and monitor the situation of refugees and asylum seekers in the EU, particularly in respect of addressing the barriers and vulnerabilities experienced by women and girls;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to give women leaders who were persecuted in their countries of origin and are now refugees assurances that they can carry on their political and social activities in favour of women’s rights and gender equality in safety in the EU;

Amendment 188 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Invites the Member States and the Commission to document in greater detail cases of discrimination and violence against Christian refugees;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Points out that in order to achieve full and complete integration, women must be in a position freely to make informed choices about the way they want to be and the habits and customs they wish to adopt, without any external impositions or constraints that limit their freedom;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas women seeking asylum have specific protection needs and different concerns than men which require that the implementation of all asylum policies and procedures, including the assessment of the asylum claims, be gender sensitive and individual;

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights the critical importance of accessible ~~childcare~~, high-quality childcare and care for other dependants in enabling the economic and social empowerment of women refugees;

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights the critical importance of accessible childcare in enabling the economic and social empowerment of women refugees; urges the Member States to set up crèches with a wider social mix, so as to help women refugees while increasing the number of places available for the population as a whole;

Amendment 192 #

Mary HONEYBALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Encourages Member States to make use of the Structural and Investment Funds in addition to the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund to promote refugees' integration into the labour market, with a particular focus on childcare;

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls for swifter, more efficient family reunification procedures, without financial or maintenance requirements, and without the requirement of permanent residency, and the collection of gender- disaggregated data on decisions relating to family reunification; stresses the importance of access to legal aid in family reunification cases; emphasises that without family reunification there is no possibility for integration, since ones family is left behind in distress;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Stresses that full access to the right to free public quality education, health care services, especially sexual and reproductive health and rights, employment and housing that meets the needs and abilities of migrant and refugee women and girls should be guaranteed by the hosting countries; emphasises that welfare policies are key to integration;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Invites the Member States to introduce quicker and more effective procedures for returning asylum seekers whose applications have been turned down;

Amendment 196 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

~~19. Believes that mutual recognition of positive asylum decisions would enable better opportunities for jobs, integration and family reunification;~~deleted

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

~~19. Believes that mutual recognition of positive asylum decisions would enable better opportunities for jobs, integration and family reunification;~~deleted

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on the Member States to supervise the inclusion of women in the labour market, to prevent situations that might foster any undeclared employment of those women, also in view of their greater vulnerability once they have been granted asylum or refugee status;

Amendment 199 #

Mary HONEYBALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls for comprehensive and adequately resourced programmes to address the unmet short and long term health needs of women refugees, including psychosocial and trauma counselling;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5

– having regard to the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and to General Recommendation No. 32 (2014) of the CEDAW Committee on the gender related dimensions of the refugee status, asylum, nationality and the statelessness of women,

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas women seeking asylum have specific protection needs which require that the implementation of all asylum policies be gender sensitive; whereas FGM and other violence- related asylum claims should be dealt with in a way that protects women from secondary victimisation during the asylum procedure;

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Emphasises the important positive role that social enterprises and alternative business models such as mutuals and cooperatives can play in economically empowering women refugees and integrating them into labour markets, as well as the social and cultural spheres;

Amendment 201 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Encourages the sharing of best practice amongst Member States on the involvement of grassroots community- based organisations in representing the views of refugee and asylum-seeking women to policymakers, as well as direct participation by women and girls themselves;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Encourages the sharing of best practice amongst Member States on the involvement of community-based organisations as well as refugees themselves in representing the views of refugee and asylum-seeking women to policymakers;

Amendment 203 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Takes the view that local and regional authorities play a vital role in the inclusion of women refugees and asylum seekers, especially with regard to their inclusion in the labour market; encourages those authorities to foster dialogue and debate between women refugees and local women;

Amendment 204 #

Aldo PATRICIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Points out that every Member State has entered into commitments within the United Nations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas women and girls seeking asylum have specific protection needs which require that the implementation of all asylum policies be gender sensitive;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the UNHCR has estimated that 71% of female EU asylum applicants from FGM- practicing countries are thought to be survivors of FGM;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the integration process and rights of migrant women are undermined when their legal status is dependent upon their spouse;

Amendment 24 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the relevant acts making up the Common European Asylum System must be ~~transposed and implemen~~repealed as the only legitimated in ~~accordance with~~ternational law is the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and other relevant instruments;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the treatment of women and girls seeking asylum across Member States ~~is inconsistent~~differs hugely, and very significant shortcomings remain;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the main countries of asylum for women and girls coming from FGM- practicing countries are Germany, Sweden, France, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Norway and Denmark;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas women ~~seeking asylum a~~refugees and asylum seekers are often subjected to multiple forms of discrimination and are more vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence in their countries of origin, transit and destination; whereas unaccompanied women and girls, women heads of household, pregnant women, the disabled and the elderly are particularly vulnerable;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas many women travelling with children do not reach their intended destinations, thus leaving their own children alone and defenceless, with nobody to turn to for support;

Amendment 29 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas women refugees not only face threats to their personal safety (long and dangerous journeys into exile, harassment, official indifference and, frequently, sexual abuse and violence, even once they have reached a place that seems safe and the resulting social stigmatisation), but are also responsible for the physical safety, welfare and survival of their families;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission communication of 27 May 2015 entitled 'EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling (2015 – 2020)',

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas many refugees who have arrived in Europe live in makeshift conditions in camps or on the streets, and women and girls are especially vulnerable;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas criminal networks are taking advantage of regional instability and conflict and the vulnerability of women and girls trying to flee in order to exploit them through trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitation, which the free movement of people across the EU has provided the perfect environment for;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas criminal networks are taking advantage of the lack of safe passage into the EU for asylum seekers and refugees, regional instability ~~and~~, conflict and the vulnerability of women and girls trying to flee, in order to exploit them through trafficking~~, prostitution~~ and sexual exploitation;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas criminal networks are taking advantage of regional instability and conflict and the vulnerability of women and girls trying to flee in order to exploit them through trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitation; whereas the current EU policies on closing borders further exacerbates this situation, and in extension supports the criminal networks;

Amendment 34 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas women who are subjected to violence and trafficking are more exposed to the risk of sexually transmitted diseases;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported instances of violence and abuse, including sexual violence, against refugee women and children, ~~particularly~~throughout their journey and including in overcrowded reception centres in the EU;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas very often, reception hubs do not contain any internal areas that are suitable for mothers housed there who have to support and look after their children; whereas, in addition, legal assistance facilities do not give adequate support in providing information and helping in the search for family members;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the most basic needs to prevent gender based violence, which are separate bathrooms, showers and sleeping arrangements for women, are not met in reception nor transit facilities across the European Union;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas, as part of its winter response activities, UNICEF has drawn up emergency plans to deal with the constantly growing requirements of children and women and the sudden changes in migration routes;

Amendment 39 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas girls fleeing conflict and persecution are at a heightened risk of rape, sexual and physical abuse, forced prostitution, child, early and forced marriage;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

- having regard to Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third country nationals,

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas girls and women are often obliged to enter into forced marriages for the purpose of securing easy, safe access for men who would otherwise not be entitled to such access and could not be regarded as refugees or asylum-seekers;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas women and girls seeking refuge in the EU often flee from regimes that are oppressive towards women, do not recognise equality of women with men, tolerate violence against women, abuse, child, early and forced marriages;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas separation from family members, including when detained, exposes women and children to greater risks;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas women who migrate to different cultural and social environments than the one to which they belong often do not have the freedom to make informed choices in adopting a new lifestyle that suits their expectations and preferences;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas family reunification, although a basic human right, is systematically delayed and even violated, and whereas women and children are the first victims of this right being denied or delayed;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

Ib. whereas women are often forced to accept undeclared work in degrading conditions so that they can stay in their country of arrival;

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)

Ic. whereas women and girls are entitled to have their own independent status from a legal and paperwork standpoint;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas, for many women, even obtaining asylum does not mean true salvation and genuinely achieving a decent life, and women are often subjected to abuse;

Amendment 48 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas deportation, including the threat of deportation for undocumented migrants, is extremely traumatising and further exacerbates the vulnerability of women refugees;

Amendment 49 #

Aldo PATRICIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas Sustainable Development Goal No 5 seeks to achieve gender equality and improve living conditions for women by 2030;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 b (new)

- having regard to Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas FGM contravenes human rights and is a breach of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; whereas the European Court of Human Rights has issued rulings halting the expulsion of girls in danger of being forced to undergo genital mutilation, in view of the irreparable harm likely to be done to their physical and psychological health;

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whilst winter is coming, Member States are witnessing a pressing problem with the housing of immigrants, public infrastructures are at its limits and some governments are devising new laws to expropriate private property for refugee housing, the EU-Parliament could offer its concrete help by making available its unused premises in Strasbourg for temporary migrant housing;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

Kb. whereas Fortress Europe policies, such as the ever increasing border controls, the building of fences and walls, make the border crossings and attempts to seek refuge in Europe increasingly dangerous and even deadly, and whereas women and children, elderly, and persons with disabilities, consequently often are left behind;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

Kb. whereas the EU-Parliament has at its disposal a fully equipped infrastructure in Strasbourg, which is only used 48 days per year for parliamentary business, including 750 single rooms, each fully equipped with a bed, shower and WC, and fully operational restaurants/canteens; whereas empty offices of officials can be used for individual counselling services and meeting rooms could serve for classroom language teaching as well as information/training sessions;

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)

Kc. whereas climate change is currently, and will continuously be, responsible for migration; whereas women who are employed within climate sensitive sectors, i.e. the agricultural sector are severely vulnerable;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

~~General recommendations~~deleted

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Invites the Member State governments, when dealing with the refugee crisis, to focus on the genuinely important problems;

Amendment 57 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that, to improve the security and safety of women refugees, safe and legal routes to the EU must be made available for those fleeing conflict and persecution; believes that legislation and policies relating to irregular migration should never prevent access to EU asylum procedures;deleted

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that, to improve the security and safety of women ~~refugees,~~and girls refugees, Member States should use all safe and legal routes to the EU ~~must be made~~ available for receiving those fleeing conflict and persecution; stresses in particular that more Member States should participate to the EU Resettlement Programmes; believes that legislation and policies relating to irregular migration should n~~ever~~ot prevent access to EU asylum procedures;

Amendment 59 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that, to improve the security and safety of women refugees, safe and legal routes to the EU must be made available for those fleeing conflict and persecution, taking into account the gender issue in the various transit countries; believes that legislation and policies relating to irregular migration should never prevent access to EU asylum procedures;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)

- having regard to Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection,

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Emphasises the urgent need to open immediate legal, safe asylum routes, in order to avoid smuggling networks as well as to increasingly enable women, children, elderly and persons with disabilities to seek refuge without risking their lives;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Insists it is for individual Member States to decide refugee and asylum policy in compliance with the Geneva Convention; Furthermore calls for Member States to be allowed to impose their own border controls and immigration system;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Takes the view that the problem of women refugees and asylum seekers should be addressed at EU level, with responsibilities and costs to be shared by all 28 Member States and not just the countries of first arrival;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Emphasises the importance of women refugees being registered individually and issued with the documents which guarantee their personal safety, freedom of movement and access to essential services, as required by the UNHCR;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Stresses that the principle of gender parity should be observed in coordination committees and any other kind of body representing refugees, whether in urban or rural areas, and in the refugee camps, including in areas to which refugees are returned, so as to ensure that the rights of women refugees and asylum seekers are upheld and their needs are met;

Amendment 66 #

Barbara MATERA, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

~~2. Reiterates its call for all Member States to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (Istanbul Convention);~~deleted

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Reiterates its call for all Member States and the European Union to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (Istanbul Convention);

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Urges Member States to guarantee that women who have been victims of gender violence receive advice and therapy to help them overcome the trauma they have suffered;

Amendment 69 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Expresses its deep concern at reports that women and children are engaging in survival sex to pay smugglers to continue their journey to seek asylum in the EU; reemphasises that safe and legal routes to Europe is key to effectively prevent this reality;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 b (new)

- having regard to Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third country national or a stateless person,

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Regrets the lack of solidarity amongst EU member states;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Is deeply concerned about the repressive policies of the EU regarding migration and asylum, which has resulted in numerous deaths, push backs and grave human rights violations at the EU external borders;

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Urges the EU to add a gender sensitive perspective when establishing a complaint mechanism within the office of the Frontex Fundamental Rights officer, to address human rights violations committed by Frontex, Member States and officers of third counties when cooperating with Frontex, as recently adopted by the EP in the Special report of the European Ombudsman in own- initiative inquiry concerning Frontex (A8- 0343/2015);

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for targeted measures to ensure the full integration of women refugees and asylum seekers, by preventing all forms of exploitation, abuse, violence and trafficking;

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the EU institutions to make it possible for the Member States to reintroduce border checks immediately;

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that all EU migration and asylum policies and measures should take into account gender in their design, implementation and evaluation;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on the EU institutions to make it possible for Member States to turn away asylum seekers from safe third countries or safe countries of origin and reintroduce a visa requirement for nationals of the countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia);

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Notes with the utmost distress that current EU responses relating to refugees focuses on more militarized and closed borders; demands a stop to these policies, and shifting the policy focus on how the EU can ensure the reception and integration of the increasing number of person fleeing persecution and war;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Urges that asylum applications should be submitted in the EU Member State embassies in the asylum seekers’ countries of origin, and dealt with by the relevant national authorities, or in centralised reception centres to be set up under the auspices of the EU or the UNHCR;

Amendment 79 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Urges the EU institutions to extend the list of safe countries of origin to include those States which have concluded either a partnership and cooperation or an association agreement with the EU and which have signed the Geneva Convention on Refugees;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)

- having regard to United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) 1325 and 1820 on women, peace and security,

Amendment 80 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3e. Urges the Member States to allocate asylum seekers only benefits in kind and to give them cash only once they have been granted asylum, and to allocate unsuccessful asylum seekers benefits in kind for a limited period only; urges the Member States and the EU institutions to implement legislative measures in this area as quickly as they did parliamentary decisions concerning measures to save the euro;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 f (new)

3f. Urges the Member States worst affected by the asylum crisis to exercise their right not to implement the EU distribution scheme until such time as those Member States which are leaving a small number of other Member States to bear the full cost of the asylum process abandon this unlawful stance; urges that all asylum-related additional costs should be borne by those Member States which have not complied with the third-country rule and the rules governing the registration of persons;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 g (new)

3g. Offers its concrete help for women migrants by making available its unused premises in Strasbourg for temporary migrant housing, as flagship project and in order to protect them against sex based violence;

Amendment 83 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

GThe gender dimension of refugee status determination

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

~~4. Calls for a new, comprehensive set of EU-wide gender guidelines to be adopted as part of wider reforms to migration and asylum policy;~~deleted

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Calls for a new, comprehensive set of EU-wide gender guideli~~Invites the Member States to adopt comprehensive guidelines on controlling and limiting the number of foreigners ~~to be adopted as part of wider reforms to migration and asylum policy~~entering the EU, taking the ability to absorb new arrivals and to integrate into society and the economic and the labour market interests of the individual EU Member States into account;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for a new, comprehensive set of EU-wide gender guidelines to be adopted as part of wider reforms to migration and asylum policy, which take full account of the social, cultural and political dimensions of persecution and relate to both substantive and procedural issues;

Amendment 87 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for a new, comprehensive set of EU-wide gender guidelines to be adopted as part of wider reforms to migration and asylum policy that also includes reception and integration measures;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on all Member States to adopt asylum procedures and develop training programmes which are sensitive to the needs of women with multiple marginalised identities including LGBTI women; urges all Member States to combat harmful stereotypes about the behaviour or characteristics of LGBTI women and to fully apply the Charter of Fundamental Rights in respect of their asylum claims;

Amendment 89 #

Mary HONEYBALL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Julie WARD, Marc TARABELLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Highlights that gendered forms of violence, including but not limited to FGM, forced marriage, domestic violence, rape and sexual violence and so-called honour crimes, constitute persecution and this should be reflected in new gender guidelines;

Amendment 9 #

Aldo PATRICIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)

- having regard to Resolution A/RES/70/1 of the United Nations General Assembly, through which the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted,

Amendment 90 #

Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to amend Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection with a view to adding more gender disaggregated data categories, particularly in relation to stages in the asylum process after an initial decision has been made;deleted

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to ~~amend Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Community~~thoroughly gather statistics on migration and international protection with a view to adding more gender disaggregated data categories, particularly in relation to stages in the asylum process after an initial decision has been made;

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges ~~the Commission to develop interpretative guidelines on FGM which give full consideration to~~Member States to adopt a zero- tolerance policy towards FGM and to take in to account the UNHCR Guidelines on gender-based persecution and Guidance Note on FGM ~~and which clearly outline Member States’ obligations~~;

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the Commission to develop interpretative guidelines on FGM which give full consideration to the UNHCR ~~Guidelines on gender-based persecution and Guidance Note on FGM and which clearly outline Member States’ obligations~~with particular focus on identifying and communicating with vulnerable asylum seekers; stresses that FGM survivors may have difficulty in expressing their trauma around FGM;

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the Commission to develop interpretative guidelines on FGM which give full consideration to the UNHCR Guidelines on gender-based persecution and Guidance Note on FGM and which clearly outline Member States’ obligations; calls on Member States to take measures to ensure that all forms of violence against women, including FGM, can be recognised as a form of persecution and that the victims can thus avail themselves of the protection offered by the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, in line with Article 60 of the Istanbul Convention;

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Urg~~Invites the Commission to develop interpretative guidelines on FGM which give full consideration to the UNHCR Guidelines on gender-based persecution and Guidance Note on FGM, and ~~which clearly outline Member States’ obligation~~urges the Member States to apply these guidelines;

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission, in view of the situation described, to review the increased funding for and wider scope of the Daphne and Odysseus programmes and to assess whether these programmes could be adapted to the current situation, in order to protect women refugees;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Not~~Opposes the Commission’'s proposal to establish a common EU list of safe countries of origin; ~~demands that all appropriate steps be taken to ensure that this approach is consistent with the principle of non-refoulement an~~believes that only the Member States should thatve the rights of women, children and other vulnerable groups are not undermined; calls for gender differentiation to be applied; believes that claims based on fear of gender-based violence or discrimination should never be subject to accelerated asylum procedures to decide asylum applications in compliance with the Geneva Convention;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

Amendment 99 #