17 Amendments of Terry REINTKE related to 2015/2007(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to the 2014 WSIS Action Lines, which were combined with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to enhance synergies between these global strategies, including the action to empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of irrespective of irrespective of age, disability, genetic features, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, social or ethnic origin, religion or belief, economic or other status by 2030,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
— having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention),
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 b (new)
Citation 22 b (new)
— having regards to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and more specifically its objectives with regard to "Women and the Media" calling for increasing the participation and access of women to expression and decision- making in and through the media and new technologies of communication as well as promoting a balanced and non- stereotyped portrayal of women in the media,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas these developments have strong potential for the empowerment of women, allowing access to information and knowledge beyond conventional means, thereby opening up new opportunities to interact and campaign with a view to defending the rights and freedom of women and girls, and LGBTI persons;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas digitalisation has a strong impact on the consumption and distribution of media, more noticeably for younger users, opening new channels for media consumption, giving the chance for a less hierarchal media landscape, but also posing new challenges to the empowerment of women through negative, degrading and stereotyped portrayals of women;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas sexism and gender stereotyping isare an obstacle to the realisation of equality and a burden for economic development and the competitiveness of the EU, further widening the already strong digital gender gap in the field of ICT, media and information society;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the Commission and the Council to fully exploit the potential that the information society, ICT and the internet have to promote women’s empowerment, women’s rights and freedoms as well as gender equality, irrespective of age, disability, genetic features, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, social or ethnic origin, religion or belief, economic status;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to exploit and better target the Digital Agenda and the Digital Single Market Strategy with a view to addressing the severe gender gap within the ICT sector, to fostering education and training of women and girls in ICT, to increasinge the visibility of women in the digital arena, to enhancinge gender equality and participation of women through better access to funding and supporting, to systematically implement gender impact assessment and gender budgeting in its work on the Digital Agenda and the Digital Single Market Strategy and to support civil society and women’s organisations in making an inclusive internet a reality;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission to include in the upcoming Strategy for Equality between women and men 2016-2020, specific actions to support the integration and participation of women in the information society and to strongly promote women’s networks online as they are the manifestation of a self-organised, bottom- up approach to female empowerment and should receive all the support necessary for them to become long-term;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Highlights the importance new media can play in strengthening women´s participation in democratic processes; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote women´s full participation in the media, including management as well as regulatory or monitory bodies; more specifically calls on the Commission to create a European Media Monitoring group with a specific gender equality branch in order to strive for a more gender equal media realm fighting gender stereotyping and misrepresentation of women; furthermore urges the Commission to foster the creation of networks among civil society organisations and professional media organisation in order to empower women to take an active part and recognize the specific need of women in media;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to safeguard fundamental workers’ rights and the social protection of employees and to combat precarious working conditions; urges the Commission to propose, and the Member States to further develop, new protection mechanisms adapted to the working and career patterns shaped by digitalisation, paying particular attention to the situation of women; highlights the importance of collective bargaining at all levels especially in branches which are strongly effected by digitalisation in order to ensure the principle of equal pay for equal work as well as safeguard working space quality and working space security in times of digitalisation; points out that necessary general framework conditions have to be found in order to safeguard the protection of personal employee data;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States, as well as businesses, to promote gender equality in ICT by collecting gender-aggregated data on the use of ICT, developing targets, indicators and benchmarks to track the progress of women's access to ICT and promote best practice examples of ICT companies;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to support and promote a digital entrepreneurial culture for women, promote and financially support a European networking and mentoring platform for women and further strengthen the role of women in existing programmes; encourages Member States but also companies to create diversity policies that go beyond focusing on the recruitment of women in order to promote sustainable economic development and leadership;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Calls on the Commission to propose legislation to address sexism and gender stereotypes in education and the media, as part of the recast directive on equal treatment;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22 b. Calls on the Commission to develop a code of conduct for its own communications and the communication of the EU agencies in order to foster the empowerment of women and fight stereotypes and sexism;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22 c. Calls on the Commission to prepare as soon as possible the necessary steps for ratification by the European Union of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, this being without prejudice to the EU responsibility to consider all necessary actions to end and prevent violence against women in all Member States, and to promote the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the Member States; calls on the Member States to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Welcomes the proposal made by the Commission to include in its post-2016 Strategy on Trafficking in Human Beings provisions on prevention, assistance to victims, safe-return and reintegration, as well as the role of the internet; underlines that the phenomena of cyber-harassment and cyber-stalking should also be addressed;