Activities of Stefan ECK related to 2014/2204(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Ebola Crisis: the long-term lessons and how to strengthen health systems in developing countries to prevent future crises
Amendments (20)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women are not only more likely to be infected but their education, healthcare, food security and livelihood are also suffering;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas gender activists and women's advocacy groups in the most affected countries urged leaders to address the disproportionate effect of Ebola on the female population;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas women dominate the informal economic sector, which has been hard hit;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas women, who rely on market trade, micro-credit schemes and agricultural work, are experiencing a severe loss of income;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas food and crop production suffered severe interruptions, food prices are much higher and food security is a serious concern;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas women are the primary care- givers at home and in the community in most of African societies and that it is sisters, daughters, aunts, mothers and grandmothers who have cared the most for relatives infected with Ebola putting themselves at great risk;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the widespread confusion and the prevailing misunderstanding about the causes and consequences of Ebola that perpetuated the spread of the virus;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas families who eat bushmeat and hunters who touch infected wild animals or their blood are rarely aware of any risk associated with consumption and processing;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas it is mostly women who perform the funeral rituals when their relatives die of Ebola;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas in households where children have been orphaned, it is likely that girls will have to drop out of school to assume the role of the care-giver;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas women who are too afraid of contamination stop seeking medical care and family planning services;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital D d (new)
Recital D d (new)
Dd. whereas Ebola infections in Africa have been associated with hunting, butchering and processing meat, "bushmeat", from infected wild animals such as bats and monkeys;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes women are more likely to allow their families to be cared for by trained professionals and may persuade their male relatives to avoid bushmeat hunting, eating or handling or, should it be impossible, to cook it thoroughly;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the European Union and the Member States to fund training programmes specifically designed for women to raise awareness of the disease;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that women empowerment should involve women in designing projects and decision-making locally, as building human capacity now, especially for women and girls, will help reconstruct their societies;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Suggests organisations working to combat the Ebola outbreak to employ various modes of communication - including community dialogue, radio and television where available - to involve women in the effort to raise public awareness about the disease;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the need to recognise and address the gender dimensions of this type of sanitary crisis, for both the emergency response and for longer-term reconstruction.
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b Urges public authorities to take into account that gender dynamics might help save lives through, among other things, targeted messages to women about the importance of using protective measures in and outside home.
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Underlines this is the right moment for an EU policy switch that would easily provide affordable vegetarian protein for diets in developing countries while reducing the consumption of risky bushmeat.
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Recommends the European Union to finance women's education and training programmes to help them to replace bushmeat by affordable and less risky protein sources including soya-based food.