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5 Amendments of Lissy GRÖNER related to 2008/2203(INI)

Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that all action for children’s rights should respect the priority role of the child’s parents and immediate family, and in particular the need to improve the position of mothers;
2008/12/05
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Condemns all forms of violence towards children: physical, psychological and sexual violence, sex-selective birth control, slavery, trafficking or sale of children or of their organs, child pornography, child prostitution and paedophilia, as well as extreme poverty, famine and armed conflict, and calls on the Commission to set up an aid programme and psychological assistance for children conceived as a result of mass rape and for their mothers;
2008/12/05
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Condemns in particular specific violations of girls’ and women’s rights, such as so-called ‘honour’ crimes, forced marriages and genital mutilation, which can never be justified and must not be tolerated in any context, and calls for efforts to improve girls' access to education to be stepped up; points out in this connection that education is a significant step in terms of protection against exploitation;
2008/12/05
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on States giving and receiving development aid to include systematically in all exchanges a health clause to protect children, who are victims of extreme poverty and affected by pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria, which are the main causes of death among children in developing countries, and calls for a gender-sensitive approach to be taken in this regard in order to tackle multiple discrimination against women and girls.
2008/12/05
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Draws attention to the particularly difficult situation of HIV-infected children, children with AIDS and AIDS orphans; condemns, in particular, the rape of women and girls in the belief that sexual intercourse with a virgin can cure AIDS, and calls on local information campaigns to eradicate this mistaken belief and thereby offer increased protection to girls in particular.
2008/12/05
Committee: FEMM