Activities of Gilles LEBRETON related to 2019/2166(INI)
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Amendments (7)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality between men and women is a fundamental value and an objective of the EU; whereas gender-based violenceviolence based on a person's sex is an extreme form of discrimination against women and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality of the sexes;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, in spite of numerous instances of formal recognition and progress having been made on gender equality of the sexes, women and men do not enjoy the same rights in practice and social, economic and cultural inequalities persist;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, in order to address the issue of the eradication of gender-based violenceviolence based on a person's sex, it is necessary to rely on consistent and comparable administrative data, based on a robust and coordinated framework of data collection; whereas the current available data collected by the Member States’ law enforcement and justice authorities fail to reflect the full extent of intimate partner violence, as most Member States neither collect gendersex- segregated comparable data on gender- based violenceviolence based on a person's sex nor do they recognise intimate partner violence as a specific offence;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, in principle, shared custody and unsupervised visits are desirable in order to ensure that parents enjoy equal rights and responsibilities, as well as to safeguard the best interests of the child; underlines, however, that intimate partner violence is clearly incompatible withcan justify the withdrawal of shared custody and care, owing to its severe consequences for women and children, including the risk of extreme acts of femicide and infanticide; stresses that when establishing the arrangements for custody allocation and visitation rights, the protection of women and children from violence and the best interests of the child must be paramount and should take precedence over other criteria; stresses, therefore, that awarding exclusive custody to the non-violent partner, most frequently the mother, often represents the best alternative in order to prevent further violence and secondary victimisation of the victims;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Strongly recommends that Member States establish specialised courts and judicial offices, as well as appropriate laws, training, procedures and guidelines for all professionals dealing with the victims, including raising awareness of gender-based violenceviolence based on a person's sex, in order to avoid discrepancies between judicial decisions and discrimination or secondary victimisation during judicial, medical and police proceedings, ensuring that children and women are duly heard and their protection is given priority; emphasises the need to strengthen dedicated judicial offices and child and female victim- friendly justice, limiting the excessive discretionary powers of practitioners and establishing checks on child custody procedures by qualified professional figures;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide quality, gendersex- segregated and comparable EU-wide data on the prevalence, causes, consequences and management of intimate partner violence and custody rights, making full use of the capacity and expertise of the EIGE;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses its concern about the fact that discriminatory gendersex bias often leads to a lack of trust in women, in particular concerning presumed false allegations of child abuse and of domestic violence;