32 Amendments of Maria ARENA related to 2016/2219(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees,
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women and girls in many parts of the world are continuing to be subjected to gender-based violence, including rape, enslavement, human trafficking, forced marriage, honour crimes, female genital mutilation (FGM), and cruel and inhuman punishments amounting to torture, a situation which violates their fundamental rights to life, liberty, justice, dignity, and security, as well as their rights of protection from physical and mental injury and of self- determination in sexual and reproductive matters;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas during armed conflicts female and child refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless persons are among the most vulnerable groups in society, and whereas the risks to teenage girls displaced in times of humanitarian crises are significantly heightened;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas some European countries have in recent years been taking a less tolerant attitude to migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers; whereas the EU has to lead by example and follow a consistent line in its internal and external policies; and whereas Member States must transpose European legislation to the national level;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the EU gender equality strategy already provides for gender mainstreaming in EU commercial policy;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas economic empowerment of women is a way to widen and enhance the actual exercise of their fundamental rights;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Maintains that violence against women and gender-based violence constitute a violation of fundamental rights and an extreme form of discrimination, which is at once the cause and the consequence of gender inequalities within and outside the EU;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Welcomes the proposal put forward by the Commission on 4 March 2016 for the EU to accede to the Istanbul Convention, the first legally binding international instrument seeking to prevent and combat violence against women; believes that this will lend greater effectiveness and coherence to EU internal and external policies and strengthen the EU’s responsibility and role in combating violence against women and gender-based violence at international level; urges the Commission to do its utmost to enable the EU to sign and conclude the Convention, while also encouraging the 14 Member States which have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention and ensuring that the Convention is properly implemented;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a global commitment to ensure the safety of women and girls from the start of every emergency or crisis, by adequately addressing the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, raising awareness, ensuring the prosecution of the perpetrators of such violence and ensuring that women and girls have access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health services, including safe and legal abortion, particularly for victims of war rape;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges all the Member States to step up the implementation of the obligations and commitments related to women’s rights arising from the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, part of the Beijing Platform for Action, and to support civil society organisations working to promote gender equality;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Considers it intolerable that the bodies of women and girls, and in particular their sexual and reproductive health and rights, should be continuing to this day to be an ideological battleground, and urges the EU and its Member States to recognise the inalienable rights of women and girls to protection from physical injury and to take decisions freely, not least as regards the right of access to voluntary family planning and safe and legal abortion (under Article 16 of the CEDAW women have the right to choose the number and spacing of their children and to have access to the information, education, and means enabling them to exercise that right) and the right to be free from violence, including female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage, and marital rape;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points to the need for continuity in the education of children, young people, and women in refugee camps and conflict zones;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for support to be given with a view to implementing vocational education for women and enabling them to attend higher education courses in science and technology, for gender equality training programmes to be devised for education professionals, and for steps to be taken to prevent stereotypes from being conveyed through curricula and teaching materials;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Points to the need to support the education of adults, especially women, and of children in hospital;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Points to the vulnerability of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, especially those who are women, young people, or members of marginalised groups, and to the urgent need to develop proper safe legal channels for migration, while guaranteeing access to family reunification and psychological support and allowing humanitarian visits;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Calls for access to justice to be improved for women in conflict and post- conflict situations and for efforts to be intensified with a view to combating impunity and increasing accountability, employing every means necessary to that end;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Maintains that the authorities must undertake to pursue education campaigns aimed at men and younger generations, with a view to involving men and boys as partners while preventing and gradually eliminating all types of gender- based violence and promoting women’s empowerment;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points to the need to ensure that health professionals, police forces, prosecutors, judges, diplomats, and peacekeepers, both within the EU and in non-member countries, are properly trained to help and support victims of violence, especially women and children, in conflict situations and operations on the ground;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Points out that gender equality is not confined to men and women, but must encompass the whole LGBTI community;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Points to the need to mainstream gender issues more strongly into EU humanitarian aid;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the importance of strengthening women’s role in conflict prevention and in promoting human rights and democratic reform, and of supporting the systematic participation of women as a vital element in peace processes and post-conflict reconstruction;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Believes that women should play a greater role in the processes and national and international institutions involved in the maintenance of peace and security;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls for investment in women and young people, since this is an effective way to combat poverty and female poverty in particular;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Points to the importance of continuing to combat the gender pay gap and of speeding up the process for reaching the Commission’s percentage targets for women in top-level positions;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5f. Rejects any laws, regulations, or government pressure imposing undue restrictions on freedom of expression, especially for women and other gender categories;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5g. Deplores the fact that women are underrepresented in economic, political, and social decision-making; considers women’s representation in political, economic, and social decision-making to be a fundamental rights and democracy issue; recommends that parity systems and gender quotas be introduced as lawful temporary means of promoting women’s participation in political bodies and the democratic process, especially as candidates, and that legislation be passed to enable the same goal to be achieved by large public and private companies;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 h (new)
Paragraph 5 h (new)
5h. Urges the Member States, the Commission, and the EEAS to focus on the economic and political emancipation of women in developing countries by promoting their involvement in business and in the implementation of local and regional development projects;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 i (new)
Paragraph 5 i (new)
5i. Urges that gender equality and human rights be included in national human rights strategies and political and trade dialogues with countries outside the EU;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 j (new)
Paragraph 5 j (new)
5j. Encourages women to become actively involved in trade unions and other organisations, as this will do much to introduce gender aspects into working conditions;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 k (new)
Paragraph 5 k (new)
5k. Calls for legally binding human rights clauses, with particular reference to the rights of women and other gender categories, to be included in all EU trade agreements with non-member countries; calls for conformity with EU core values to be made a criterion for budget support;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 l (new)
Paragraph 5 l (new)
5l. Calls for the rights of older people, and older women in particular, to be strengthened by combating all forms of discrimination and helping them to live decent, secure lives as full members of society;