22 Amendments of Mikael GUSTAFSSON related to 2012/2047(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
– having regard to Articles 2, 3 and 17 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 3 September 2008 on how marketing and advertising affect equality between women and men
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas sexualisation of girls is a broad and increasing problem and is harmful to girls, and should be regarded as a public concern;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas marketing and advertising through different types of media is omnipresent in our daily life and bear a significant responsibility for the phenomenon of the sexualisation of girls;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the best interests of children must be the primary concern in making decisions that may affect them; whereas article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is commonly known as the Best Interest Article and says: "In all actions concerning children whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interest of the child shall be a primary consideration."
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas girls rights to their own bodies and sexuality should not be dictated by commercial interests and consumerism;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas clothing manufacturersdifferent industries, like the clothing industry offer girls scaled-down versions of clothing appropriate for grown women, which leads to a situation in which they are perceived by the outside world as being more grown -up than they actually are, and the alcohol industry (calling itself "thin-dustry") targets girls with special products like "skinnygirl cocktails", promoting a sexualised body image that leads to eating-disorders and other harmful behaviour of girls;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that parents as the first source of authority and the persons closest to their children should influence the shaping of children's attitudes towards the issues of gender, gender equality and sexuality, and also support them in coping with and placing eroticised imagery and content in a broader context;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Alerts parents not toand legal guardians to include and promote a healthy self-esteem and body image in their upbringing methods, and absolutely to avoid heightening the self- objectification of girls through their behaviour by encouraging girlsthem to participate in beauty contests, to attach undue importance to appearance, andor at a later stage, by permitting themaking use of cosmetic surgery in order to improve self- esteem;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that a particular effort is called for to make parents, carers and teachers aware that computer games arethe entire public space is full of sexualising content, that children using themoften computer games, musical video clips and advertising aimed at children manifest increased levels of aggression, that sexual violence patterns are perpetuated and that thend objectification of women increases exponentiallyand girls;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends the introduction into school curricula, in cooperation with parents and under their control, of a subject entitled: ‘Preparation for family life with elements of professionals like school doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and pedagogues, of a subject entitled: ´sexual education’', which will prepare young girls and boys to develop healthy, respectful and emotionally satisfying relationships, educating them about contraceptives and sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. recommends the introduction of self- defence and assertiveness training programmes into the school curricula in order to prevent sexual assault and other acts of interpersonal violence aimed at girls;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for appropriate preparation of teachers through essential training in the area of gender equality, detection of and reaction to various types of abuse connected therewith and to sexual violence against girls;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the teachers and educational bodies in the Member States to strive for achieving a right balance between concerns about the sexualisation of girls and its negative consequences on one hand, and ensuring a positive view of sexuality and sexual and reproductive health and rights for girls, on the other hand, when defining the contents and objectives of their "sexual education" programmes;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that staff providing psychological support in schools should be appropriatefessionally prepared to deal with issues around sexuality e.g. sex and relationships, sexual and reproductive health and rights, notably access to contraceptives, but also problems related to sexualisation;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the governments of Member States to engage in dialogue with internet service providers, consumer organisations, social organisations and parents' organisations, the mass media and advertising companies, in order to define the sexualisation effect and its impact on child development, and to influence cultural standards concerning sexual behaviour and attitudes;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls upon the governments of Member States to establish cooperation with internet service providers in order to block access to websites promoting anorexia (‘pro-ana’) and bulimia (‘pro-mia’) and to delete or, where that is not possible, to block websites containing child pornography; but by insuring that the principle of legal certainty is fully respected and that free access to information related to these issues is authorised;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls upon governments of Member States to establish cooperation with Internet service providers in order to eradicate any marketing online that is sexualising and objectifying women as well as marketing practices of any industry that is targeting children;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. EStrongly encourages Member States to give primary consideration to the best interest of the child when making policy decisions with regard to marketing, following the principle that no marketing should display girls and women in sexualised and objectified ways, and to draw on good practices and solutions devised for example in the United Kingdom and to ensure by appropriate legal measures, that parents' organisations' views as well as the views of youth organisations on child welfare are taken into account where binding standards n it comes to regulating the advertising industry are concerned;; .
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States to look into the possibilities of prohibiting publicity aimed at children;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Encourages Member States to rigorously ban products and goods that are harmful to children but still target them and to establish cooperation with manufacturers of goods intended for children, includinglike clothing and toys, in order to develop a code of best practice that provides for child welfare and promotes high ethical standards with a clear resistance to gender stereotypes;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Encourages the Commission to promote and propagate good practices and standards of legal regulations already individually developed in certain EU countries, such as the United Kingdom and France, arising from an awareness of the problem and a well- developed sense of social corporate responsibility, and involving the introduction of self- regulation, for example;