12 Amendments of Jana TOOM related to 2020/2035(INL)
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas according to the European Insitutue for Gender Equality, seven out of 10 women have experiences cyber stalking; whereas stalkerware is software which facilitates abuse by allowing monitoring of the person’s device without his or her consent and without making the monitoring activity known to the owner of the device as well as staying hidden; whereas stalkerware is legally available for use and purchase in the European Union, often marketed as parental control software;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to promote awareness raising, to implement national criminal justice laws and specific policies and programmes to prevent gender-based cyberviolence and to fight against impunity for those who commit such acts; emphasises the importance of increasing investment in investigating the scale and impact of the phenomenon of gender-based cyberviolence;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Recalls that gender stereotypes are at the core of gender discrimination; stresses that the portrayal of gender stereotypes in the media as well as through advertising has a negative impact on gender equality; calls on media outlets and companies to strengthen self- regulatory mechanisms and codes of conduct to condemn and combat sexist imagery, language, practices and gender stereotypes;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Stresses that education starting at an early age is of utmost importance to combat gender discrimination and gender-based violence; recalls that the language, curriculum and books used in schools can reinforce gender stereotypes; calls in this regard on Member States to develop strategies to combat gender stereotypes in education through pedagogical training, review of curricula, materials and pedagogical practices; notes that education in digital skills such as cyber hygiene and netiquette are essential to ensure early understanding of transfer of the social rules of the offline world into the online world; calls on Member States, in collaboration with education and training centres, to identify existing digital skills gaps amongst minors and incorporate a comprehensive digital skills education plan into curricula;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls that gender stereotypes are at the core of gender discrimination and are one of thHighlights that women and girls face mainy barriers to the entry of women and girls in the ICT and digital fields; stresses the need to tackle the gender gap in the ICT sector through education, awareness-raising campaigns and the promotion of the representation of women in the sector;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the need toCalls on the Member States to ensure protection, support and ensure, equal access to justice, and reparation for victims of gender-based cyberviolence;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Encourages the Member States to cooperate with technology companies to adopt additional measures related to reporting of cyberviolence, secure online safety and women’s privacy online, including the development of tools to eliminate abusive and harmful online content as well as appropriate redress mechanisms;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Strongly reaffirms its commitment, as it has previously expressed, to tackle gender-based violence and to the need to have a comprehensive directivelegal framework covering all its forms as the best way to put an end to gender-based violence;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
Annex I – Recommendation 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
- digital education, literacy and skills, cyber hygiene and netiquette, including in the school curricula, in order to promote an enhanced understanding of digital technologies, communication skills and the empowerment of users, to improve digital inclusion, to ensure the respect for fundamental rights, to eliminate any gender inequality in access to technologies and to ensure gender diversity in the technology sector, particularly in the development of new technologies, including training for teachers;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 7 a (new)
Annex I – Recommendation 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 7 a (new)
- regulation of software development of monitoring applications and include at least in the criteria for development: no software program should engage in monitoring or surveillance without: (i)the user’s consent; (ii)persistent notification to that user; and (iii)clearly marked icons on the user’s device that highlight both the software’s presence and its functionality; marketing software which does not fulfil these criteria should be prohibited;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 6 – paragraph 1
Annex I – Recommendation 6 – paragraph 1
The Commission and Member States should collect and publish disaggregated and comparable data on gender-based cyberviolence, in particular on the different forms of gender-based cyberviolence, not only based on law enforcement reports but also on women’s experiences. The FRA should conduct new extensive EU-wide research on all forms of gender-based cyber violence, based on the most recent EU data to provide an accurate response to violence against women.