Activities of Mikael GUSTAFSSON related to 2011/2185(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World and the European Union’s policy on the matter including implications for the EU’s strategic human rights policy
Amendments (4)
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to review and significantly improve the provisions for gender equality in external relations in the proposal for a new Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for an increased focus and financing of programmes aiming to ensure access to education for all girls, bearing in mind that keeping girls in education is a corner stone to build more gender equal societies, to promote economic independence of women, and to reduce sexual exploitation of girls and women worldwide;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Underlines that working towards increased access to sexual and reproductive rights and health services is an important pillar of safeguarding women’s human rights, in this context calls on the EU to step up its work to meet the Millennium Development Goals in terms of improving maternal health, including through access to information, modern contraception, and a range of reproductive health services; insists that the Commission pursue this aim in all its international development policy actions;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to help tackle ‘selective abortion’, as the image of a daughter as a burden and a son as a financial provider remains pervasive in many societieswork to prevent gender-biased sex selection, not through any restrictions in access to reproductive health services and technology, but through intensified efforts to end the structural discrimination of women and girls, including abolishing sex discriminatory legislation, empowering women and girls through education, addressing policies on inheritance, dowry, financing old age and other personal security issues, policies for the determination of surname, etc.;