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Activities of Pina PICIERNO related to 2021/2035(INL)

Plenary speeches (1)

Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (debate)
2021/09/15
Dossiers: 2021/2035(INL)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT with recommendations to the Commission on identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU
2021/07/22
Committee: FEMMLIBE
Dossiers: 2021/2035(INL)
Documents: PDF(243 KB) DOC(95 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Diana RIBA I GINER', 'mepid': 197832}, {'name': 'Malin BJÖRK', 'mepid': 124992}]

Amendments (70)

Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
– having regard to Articles 8 and 10, Article 19, Article 83(1) and Article 225 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 5 march 2020 entitled "A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025",
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 24 June 2020 entitled "EU Strategy on victims' rights (2020- 2025)",
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 25 November 2020 entitled "EU Gender Action Plan (GAP) III",
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 d (new)
– having regard to Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 e (new)
– having regard to Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 f (new)
– having regard to Directive 2012/29/EU on establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 5 “Gender Equality”,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 29 #
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 30 #
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on the gender perspective in the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis period,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
– having regard to the EU LGBTIQ Strategy 2020-2025,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 b (new)
– having regard to the EU Strategy on victims' rights 2020-2025,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 c (new)
– having regard to the EU strategy on the rights of the child,
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) defines gender- based violence ias violence directed against womea person because they are women and it affects women disproportionatelyof their gender; whereas both women and men experience gender- based violence, at the same time highlighting that the overwhelming majority of victims are women and girls; whereas LGBTI persons are also victims of gender-based violence because of their gender, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics; whereas gender- based violence is rooted in gender stereotypes, patriarchal structures and power asymmetries;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) defines gender- based violence against women as any form of violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas gender-based violence is the most severe manifestation of gender- based discrimination; whereas it is a violation of human rights, such as the right to physical integrity and the right to security;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas gender-based violence includes many types of violence, including domestic violence; whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), similarly to the Istanbul convention, defines domestic violence as all acts of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occur within the family or domestic unit, irrespective of biological or legal family ties, or between former or current spouses or partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares or has shared the same residence as the victim: recognises that domestic violence affects women disproportionately, and that men may also be victims of domestic violence;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas gender-based violence in the form of cyberviolence, including online harassment, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, sexist hate speech, revenge pornography, deep-fakes, is a transnational crime that disproportionally affects women and girls;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality defines femicide as the killing of women and girls because of their gender; whereas it can take different forms such as the murder of women as a result of intimate partner violence, killing of women and girls because of their gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics, as well as female and intersex genital mutilations and so called "honour killings";
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas according to a EU Fundamental Rights Agency's survey published in 2014, an estimated 33% of women in the EU have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15, while 8% had experienced it in the year before the interview; whereas more recent figures are not available;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas no real progress can be made on gender equality without an intersectional approach;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the expression ‘in all their diversity’ in this report states the position that women, men and non-binary people fall into heterogeneous categories, including but not limited to in relation to their sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinions, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics, migratory status or socio-economic status; whereas it affirms the commitment to leave no one behind and achieve a gender-equal Europe for everyone;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality estimates that the total cost of gender-based violence to the European Union is about 290 billion euros in loss of economic output, services, and physical and emotional impact on the victim; whereas this is a very significant loss to the EU economy that exceeds the estimated annual costs of particularly serious crimes such as organised crime and illicit drug trafficking;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas combating gender-based violence is a key priority of the EU Gender Equality Strategy and of the European Union's external action; whereas Union action aiming to eradicate violence against women and girls and other forms of gender-based violence demands that the Commission pursue several parallel avenues;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Condemns all forms of violence against women and girls in all their diversity and other forms of gender-based violence, such as violence against LGBTI persons, and deplores the fact that women and girls continue to be exposed to psychological, physical, sexual and economic violence, including sexual exploitation and trafficking in human beings, both online and offline;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Condemns all forms of violence against women and girls in all their diversity and other forms of gender-based violence, such as violence against LGBTI persons, and deplores the fact that women and girls continue to be exposed to psychological, physical, sexual and economic violence, including sexual exploitation and trafficking in human beings, both online and offline;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 139 #
1d. Underlines that men’s violence against women starts with boy’s violence against girl’s, considers therefore that preventive measures must start at an early age;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Insists that the definition of “women” when addressing violence against women must include girls under the age of 18;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that violence against women and other forms of gender-based violence are the result of the unequal distribution of power, patriarchal structures, and gender stereotypes, that have led to domination over and discrimination against women and LGBTI persons by men; underlines that this situation is aggravated by social and economic inequalities;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that violence against women and other forms of gender-based violence are the result of the unequal distribution of power, patriarchal structures, and gender stereotypes, that have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men; underlines that this situation is aggravated by social and economic inequalities; highlights that these inequalities and power unbalances have a transversal and global nature, common to the whole territory of the European Union, and not limited to specific Member States;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that violence against women and other forms of gender-based violence are the result of the unequal distribution of power, resources, patriarchal structures, and gender stereotypes, that have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men; underlines that this situation is aggravated by social and economic inequalities;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines that rigid gender and masculinity norms based on patriarchal stereotypes contributes to discrimination and subjugation of women, as well as adversely affect men’s and boy’s health and lives, contributes to the invisibility of violence suffered by men as well as hinders rehabilitation of male perpetrators;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Underlines that rigid gender norms lead to increased exposure to gender-based violence for anyone who does not conform to them; deplores the high instances of violence targeting trans women, trans men, trans feminine, intersex and non-binary people;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Recognises that progress toward equality has occurred thanks to the hard fought feminist struggle against the global oppression of women and girls;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the wide range of psychological impacts that gender-based violence has on victims, including and witnesses, including feeling unsafe or vulnerable, stress, concentration problems, anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder, lack of trust and of sense of control; recalls that gender- based violence also has a social and economic impact;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the ‘Istanbul Convention’) remains the international standard and a key tool for the eradication of gender- based violence by following a holistic and coordinated approach that places the rights of the victim at the centre and addresses the issues from a wide range of perspectives; points out that the Istanbul Convention should be understood as the minimum standard to eradicate gender- based violence and that the European Union should pursue even more decisive and effective actions in this regard; recalls that such new legislative measures should in any case be coherent with the rights and obligations set by the Istanbul Convention and should be complementary to its ratification;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Denounces the fact that the combat against gender-based violence is negatively affected by the attack on women’s rights and gender equality; condemns the actions of anti-gender and anti-women movements in Europe and worldwide that aim to overturn existing laws on women’s rights and LGBTI+ rights; , Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and LGBTI+ rights, thus endangering the respect of human rights and of the Rule of Law in the whole European Union;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Denounces the fact that the combat against gender-based violence is negatively affected by the attack on women’s and girl´s rights and gender equality; condemns the actions of anti-gender and anti-women movements in Europe and worldwide that aim to overturn existing laws on women’s rights and LGBTI+ rights;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights that due to the lockdown and social distancing measures there has been a worrying increase in gender-based violence, including domestic violence, physical and psychological violence, coercive control and cyber- violence across the whole European Union during the COVID-19 pandemic;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses that there are substantial differences in the legal definition and treatment of gender-based violence across the Member States; points out that this greatly hampers the European Union's legislative actions against gender-based violence, including the Victims' Rights Directive, the Trafficking Directive and the European Protection Order;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Insists on actions to prevent gender- based violence by addressing the underlying causes, including counteracting sexism, gender stereotypes and patriarchal values; underlines the need for gender equality to have a central place in education and the need for awareness- raising campaigns; recalls the Commission’s proposal in the Gender Equality Strategy for an EU-wide campaign on gender stereotypes and calls on Member States to fully support and implement the initiative when launched;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that access to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, and to sexuality and relationship education, as well as access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights, including family planning, contraceptive methods, and safe and legal abortion, are essential to achieving gender equality and eliminating gender- based violence;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Regrets the lack of research and knowledge on boy’s violence against girl’s, as knowledge forms the foundation for effective policy and law-making, therefore calls on the establishment of a knowledge hub on violence against girls in the EU by relevant EU institutions such as Eurostat, EIGE;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls for effective prevention of gender inequality and gender-based violence, including educational measures directed towards, and implemented with, young people, as well as ensuring that all young people benefit from comprehensive sexual, reproductive, health, rights and relationship education;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the need for targeted policies to address the situation of survivors who experience intersectional forms of discrimination, such as women refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, indigenous women, racialised women, women from religious and ethnic minorities, lesbian, bisexual and trans, trans and intersex women, elderly women and women with disabilities, as well as non- binary persons;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Emphasises the necessity of using an intersectional approach in policy and law making, and adding specific and measurable undertakings, including relating to groups protected from discrimination by EU law and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that violations of sexual and reproductive rights are a form of violence against women and girls, including the denial of safe and legal abortion care, are a form of violence against women and girls; stresses that girls' and women's autonomy and ability to free and independent decisions about their bodies and lives are preconditions for their economic independence and thus for gender equality and the elimination of gender- based violence;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that violations of sexual and reproductive rights are a form of violence against women and girls, as well as transgender and non-binary persons, as reflected in the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Insists that all legislation on sexual offences must be based on consent; insists that only voluntary sexual acts should be considered legal;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Concerned about the sexualisation of children, especially sexualisation of girls by adult men; considers it imperative to enhance the protection provided under criminal law concerning sexual offences against children; calls on Member States and the commission to adopt the view to criminalise sexual offences where the perpetrator displays negligence with regard to the child's age;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)
10e. Emphasises that women engaged in the sex industry, including in prostitution, due to poverty, discrimination or other types of distress, experience sexualised violence and abuse on a daily basis;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers that domestic violence is not only a crime against the victim of violence but should also be considered a crime against any child who witness it, especially due to the long lasting negative effects on the child’s wellbeing and development;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on Member States to take all necessary measures to promote the protection of women and girls in all their diversity and all survivors of gender-based violence against all forms of violence, including by paying greater attention to the needs of survivors who experience intersectional forms of discrimination and violence;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines the obligation on Member States to ensure that there is support and services for survivors of gender-based violence; recalls the importance, in that context, of support to independent civil society and women’s and specialised shelter organisations;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure information to victims and perpetrators of gender-based violence is available in all EU languages, with the aim to ensure rights of victims are upheld when exercising their fundamental right to freedom movement within the EU;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Considers the widespread impunity for sexual offences to be a serious impairment to gender equality and the fight against gender-based violence;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to step up their work in order to ensure that victims have access to justice, including restorative justice, and to guarantee that the rights of the victim are placed at the centre in order to avoid discrimination, traumatisation or revictimisation during judicial, medical and police proceedings; underlines with concern that most Member States still have issues with complete/correct transposition and/or practical application of the Victim’s Rights Directive, as reflected in the Commission’s Strategy on victim’s rights, and calls on their due diligence for its complete and correct transposition;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to improve the resources and training of practitioners, law enforcement officers, judicial staff and all other professionals dealing with victims of gender-based violence; calls on Members States to ensure that victims have the right to state- funded legal aid before and during legal proceedings;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that gender-based violence is a serious crime and a widespread violation of fundamental rights in the Union which needs to be addressed with greater efficiency and determination on a common basis; stresses that gender-based violence is the result of a patriarchal society that has a cross-border dimension; points, in particular, at the growing anti- gender and anti-women movements, which are well organised and have a cross-border nature, and which therefore call for a coordinated EU response;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Considers minimum standards on gender-based violence a precondition for the free movement of people within the EU; considers lack of access to adequate protection from gender-based violence a violation of human rights, specifically affecting women and girls;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that the special need to combat violence against women and girls and other forms of gender-based violence on a common basis also results from the need to establish minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions, including a common definition of gender-based violence;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that the special need to combat violence against women and girls in all their diversity and other forms of gender-based violence on a common basis also results from the need to establish minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Considers that the cross-border dimensions of cyber violence against women and girls needs a common Union response;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on gender-based violence that implements the standards of the Istanbul Convention and includes the following elements: prevention, including through gender-sensitive education programming directed at both girls and boys in all their diversity, and empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity; support services and protection measures for survivors; combating all forms of gender-based violence, including violations of women’s, transgender's and non-binary persons' sexual and reproductive health and rights; and minimum standards for law enforcement;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on gender-based violence that implements the standards of the Istanbul Convention and includes the following elements: prevention, including through gender-sensitive education programming directed at both girls and boys, and empowerment of women and girls; ensuring information provided in all relevant languages; support services and protection measures for survivors; combating all forms of gender-based violence, including violations of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights; and minimum standards for law enforcement;
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recital 5
(5) Gender-based violence is violence directed against womea person because they are women and it affects women disproportionatelyof their gender; gender-based violence against women is any type of violence directed against women because they are women or affects women disproportionately. Both women and men experience gender-based violence, however the vast majority of victims are women and girls. LGBTI persons are also victims of gender-based violence because of their gender, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics. Gender- based violence is rooted in gender stereotypes, patriarchal structures and power asymmetries.
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Considers minimum standards on gender-based violence a precondition for the free movement of people within the EU; considers lack of access to adequate protection from gender-based violence a violation of human rights, specifically affecting women and girls.
2021/06/08
Committee: LIBEFEMM