Activities of Daniela AIUTO related to 2017/2275(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Towards an EU external strategy against early and forced marriages (debate) IT
Amendments (19)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas all little girls have the right to be able to live out their childhood in full, playing, benefiting from the right to education, being protected from violence, physical and psychological damage and abuse and exploitation of all kinds;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas girls, both younger and older ones, have the right to develop their full potential as citizens, as laid down in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas every year, around the world, 16 million girls between the ages of 15 and 19 give birth to a child, and as many as one million girls, at least, become mothers before reaching the age of 15;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas complications in pregnancy and childbirth are the second cause of death for girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years; whereas children who are born to teenage mothers are 50 % more likely to die in the first few days after the birth;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas every seven seconds, somewhere in the world, a girl under 15 gets married, often to a man much older than herself; whereas, to date, more than 700 million girls have married before the age of 18, of whom 250 million were married before the age of 15; whereas early and forced marriages are more frequent in poor, under-developed regions; whereas the number of early and forced marriages is increasing as the global population grows, according to a recent UNICEF report which estimates that in 2050 around 1.2 billion girls will have married before the age of 18;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas early and forced marriages very often deprive the persons concerned of the possibility to continue their studies; whereas conversely, education is an effective way of preventing early and forced marriage, allowing girls to free themselves from any form of control adversely affecting their rights;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas child-mother brides are exposed to considerable risks and difficulties during pregnancy and childbirth, particularly owing to highly inadequate or non- existent medical support, frequently resulting in maternal mortality; whereas there is an increased risk of contracting viral infections such as HIVfrequently resulting in maternal mortality;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt measures which discourage parents – be they EU citizens or not – from offering their under-age daughters as brides, both through trips to their respective countries of origin and – worse still – within the borders of the EU itself, and where necessary to punish those parents;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up specific studies based on the data collected, in order to have a clear picture of the phenomenon at EU level, with specific information for each individual Member State;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Condemns forced marriage and the constraints – in whatever form – imposed on teenage girls and girl children in Europe and the rest of the world, since practices of this kind constitute a serious violation of human rights;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission to pay special attention to respect for women’s and girls’ rights in all trade and partnership agreements with third countries;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Member States to ensure appropriate forms of protection for all victims of forced, child and early marriages, with the assistance of qualified staff such as midwives, gynaecologists, psychologists and social workers, who should be strictly female;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Reiterates that child, early and forced marriages should be regarded as a serious infringement of the fundamental rights of the children concerned, first and foremost of the right freely to express their consent and the right to their integrity and physical and mental health, but indirectly also the right to education and to the full enjoyment of civil and political rights;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – introductory part
Paragraph 8 – introductory part
8. Calls onUrges the European Union, in the context of its foreign policy and its development cooperation policy, to offerdevelop a strategic pact to submit to its partners, making use also of the ‘human rights clause’, and to that end to require that:
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point b
Paragraph 8 – point b
b. this prohibition is respected in practice once the law has entered into force, through the establishment of progressive targets that can be specifically measured;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point c a (new)
Paragraph 8 – point c a (new)
ca. specific awareness-raising programmes, targeting male and female teenage students, their teachers and educators and their parents, be implemented far and wide throughout the territory (paying special attention to rural areas and those in which this practice is harder to eradicate);
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers it importaparamount to raise awareness among the public in general and among those at risk in particular on the basis of awareness-raising campaigns and through social networks and new media as part of the fight against early and forced marriage;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the European Union to ensure that training is provided to law enforcement agencies, teachers and educators (in particular those who work with individuals at risk), so that they are better able to uphold the rightidentify cases of girls exposed to forced and early marriage, domestic violence, the risk of rape and any other practice which undermines human dignity, and that they are able to take effective action to ensure that the rights of these vulnerable individuals are respected;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to set up a European database to monitor forced marriage;