21 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2017/2194(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Union and its Member States must be at the forefront of the empowerment of women and girls, and whereas they have a duty to decisively promotework towards the achievement of full gender equality in the Union, as well asnd to promote this goal in all external relations;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the lack of reaction against gender inequality strengthens traditional gender roles and puts at risk current and future achievements in this field; whereas addressing traditional gender power relations and traditional norms and beliefs is key to ensuring women´s empowerment and poverty eradication;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas women´s participation in the labour market in rural areas includes a wide scope of jobs that goes beyond conventional agriculture;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas women account for a substantial proportion of the agricultural labour force and are more active than men in the informal rural economy, with the consequent lack of labour standards; whereas rural women are often performing unpaid care work; whereas rural women’s work is often hidden and is not reflected in the number of women who are farm owners, yet whereas they are key actors in achieving the transformational economic, environmental and social changes necessary for sustainable development;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the provision of adequate public services including health, education and care are essential for women as they ensure a fair distribution of work, family and care responsibilities;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas rural women encounter numerous difficulties in accessing adequate public or affordable health services owing to limited mobility and a lack of access to transport or means of contacting transport (for example, a mobile phone); whereas there is a need for comprehensive health services which address the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of rural women (for example, to respond to gender-based violence); whereas access to sexual and reproductive health rights and education is more limited in rural areas;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas there is a direct link between gender inequality and environmental degradation;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas climate change has a particular impact on rural women for various reasons such as unequal access to resources, education, land rights and social and cultural norms; whereas rural women are also powerful actors of change towards a more sustainable and ecologically-sound agriculture and can play an important role in the creation of green jobs;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas providing equal access to women farmers to land and other productive resources is key to achieve gender equality, food security and effective climate policies;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) call on the Member States to invest in women’s and girls’ access to education and vocational training and also to ensure accessibility and availability in rural areas, with particular focus on science, technology, engineering, maths and innovation, as these areas are important tools for achieving the Sustainable Development Goalskey to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; calls on Member States to fight gender stereotypes in education in order to ensure that women have the same opportunities and freedom of choice on the career they want to pursue;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) safeguard the right to aand access to a free and high quality healthcare which takes into account factors which are different to those concerning men and is adapted to the needs of rural women and girls, particularly with regard to sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point m a (new)
(ma) condemn all forms of Violence Against Women and ensure that victims living in rural and remote areas are not deprived of equal access to assistance;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) facilitate the transition of rural women from the informal to the formal economy, and recognise that women in rural areas work in a variety of fields and are often drivers of change towards sustainable and ecologically-sound agriculture, food security and the creation of green jobs;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) guarantee the protection and safetyarticipation of rural women and girls in decision-making regarding the planning and response of all stages of disasters and other crises, from early warning to relief, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction; guarantee their protection and safety in case disasters and other crises take place;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) invest in the development and maintenance ofprovide good quality infrastructure, and free and high quality public services accessible to rural women and invest in their development and maintenance;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) recognise and support the active role of women in rural areas and their contribution to the economy as entrepreneurs, heads of family businesses and promoters of sustainable development;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w
Paragraph 1 – point w
(w) facilitatensure rural women’s access to ownership rights, in particular of farm holdings and inheritance of land, which is an important tool for their economic empowerment;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) facilitatensure rural women’s access to productive resources, markets, marketing facilities and financial services; promote local and regional markets – including food markets – which are places where women generally have more opportunity to sell their products directly, leading to greater economic empowerment;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point y
Paragraph 1 – point y
(y) develop employment policies, services and programmes to address the precarious situation of rural women, who often work in the informal sector and who can face many forms of discrimination based on sex, age, ethnicity, race or disability;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z
Paragraph 1 – point z
(z) establish programmes to help women’s membership of various social protection systemsensure that women receive full social security coverage which couldwill have an impact on their future retirement situation and thus reduce the pensions gap;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a a
Paragraph 1 – point a a
(aa) develop statisticscollect gender-disaggregated data on the values, situations, conditions and needs of rural women such as access to employment, presence of women in the informal sector, access to health services and cases of gender-based violence to allow adequate policies to be drawn up;