15 Amendments of Daniela AIUTO related to 2014/2015(INI)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the economic crisis and austerity measures have disproportionately affected women, particularly young women and women suffering from multiple discriminationby exacerbating poverty and excluding them increasingly from the labour market;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the Barcelona objectives are an excellent tool for achieving real gender equality, and all Member States must set out to reach them as soon as possible;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas as a result of a lack of high-quality childcare facilities and services at affordable prices, mothers are increasingly forced to choose between working part-time and giving up their jobs to take care of their children, with repercussions on the family income and pension savings;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas more than half of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner, relative or family member15; whereas 33 % of women in the EU have experienced physical and or sexual violence and 55 % have been sexually harassed, both in public and in the workplace; __________________ 15 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/crime/data base.
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas the phenomenon of femicide is sharply rising in some Member States, such as Italy, with an increasing number of cases being recorded;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)
Recital R a (new)
Ra. whereas one of the main aims of human trafficking is sexual exploitation, and the women who fall victim to it are forced to live a life of imprisonment and tyranny through everyday violence, both physical and psychological;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas sexual and reproductive health anhealth and the associated rights are fundamental rights and an essential element of gender equality and self-determination; and whereas they should be included, as basic human rights, in the EU Health Strategy in order to ensure coherence between the EU’s internal and external fundamental rights policies;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Strongly deplores the austerity policies driven forward by the European Union, which, together with the economic crisis, are drastically slowing down the process of achieving gender equality, and subsequently marginalising women in society and the workplace;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor the rights of female workers, who increasingly work in low-paid jobs and are victims of discrimination;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Congratulates the Member States which have achieved both Barcelona objectives; encourages Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Finland, Italy, Malta and Estonia to achieve the other target, and calls on Poland, Croatia and Romania, where both targets remain far from being achieved, to step up their efforts in providing formal child care to contribute to striking a better balance between the private and professional lives of female workers;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Member States to prevent and combat forms of domestic violence, which, in the majority of cases, leads to the death of the victims, mostly women; an increasingly common phenomenon in which the victims are reluctant to report violence because it is inflicted by husbands, boyfriends or members of their own family;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Strongly reiterates that gender- based forms of violence and discrimination, such as: rape and sexual violence, sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, arranged marriages, and domestic violence grossly impair human dignity, and therefore calls on the Member States to adopt more effective measures aimed at effectively preventing and repressing these phenomena;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Repeats its calls on the Member States to put an immediate end to the detention of children, pregnant and nursing women and survivors of rape, sexual violence and trafficking, and for appropriate psychological and health support to be made available, provided by professional figures such as female psychologists, social workers, nurses and doctors who have been suitably trained for such emergencies; recalls that timely support for refugee victims of gender- based violence should be provided at all stages of the migration process;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to both financially and logistically support Member States that combat human trafficking, in particular Italy and Greece, which, in the wake of the current migrant crisis, have found themselves on the front line in tackling this emergency;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates that women must have control over their sexual and reproductive rights; supports, accordingly,Calls for the adoption of measures and actions to improve women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and to inform them fully about their rights and the services available;