53 Amendments of Julie WARD related to 2016/2219(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and to the Parliament's resolution of 27 November 2014 on the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child1a, __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2014)0070.
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 11 #
Draft opinion
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Citation 4 b (new)
Citation 4 b (new)
- having regard to the outcomes of the sixtieth session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14 to 24 March 2016,
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 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
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 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that measures to tackle gender-based violence must also address online violence, including harassment, bullying and intimidation, and work to create an online environment that is safe for women and girls;
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 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission, High Representative and Member States, to promote the role of women in conflict resolution, peace-building and reconciliation in conflict and post-conflict areas around the world;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Highlights the importance of political, diplomatic, and public support for women human rights defenders and democratic civil society activists facing persecution and human rights abuses;
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;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas millions of children around the world continue to suffer from all forms of violence, including the consequences and burden of war and its atrocitiesaccording to UNICEF's estimates 250 million children are living in countries affected by conflict, nearly 50 million children have either been forcibly displaced by violence and conflict or have migrated across borders and many continue to suffer from all forms of violence, exploitation, abuse, discrimination and poverty;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q d (new)
Recital Q d (new)
Qd. whereas, according to UNICEF, 1 in 200 children in the world is a child refugee, nearly one third of the children living outside their country of birth is a refugee and the number of child refugees doubled between 2005 and 2015;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EUSR to consult systematically with civil society, including local civil society organisations, and youth and children, and relevant international organisations ahead of his visits to third countries;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates its support for dedicated Human Rights Dialogues as a tool of the EU’s human rights policy; acknowledges that they can be an efficient tool for bilateral engagement and cooperation, provided they allow counterparts to engage on issues of substance and send meaningful political messages, rather than merely exchanging information on best practices and challenges; invites the EU to systematically include discussions on the situation of the rights of women and children's rights in all Human Rights Dialogues;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the EU Guidelines on human rights as a valuable EU human rights foreign policy tool providing practical guidance for EU delegations and for the Member States’ diplomatic representations; reiterates its call for the adoption of new EU Guidelines for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child without further delay;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Foreign Affairs Council and the VP/HR to request that the EU Heads of Mission and appropriate EU representatives (heads of EU Civilian Operations, Commanders of EU Military Operations and EU Special Representatives) report on cases of serious violation of international humanitarian law, and to promote the Code of Conduct regarding Security Council action against genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes, committing UN Member States to support action by the Security Council aimed at preventing or ending such crimes; calls for the integration of child safeguarding policies in the operations of all EU civilian and military operations in contact with children;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Recalls that criminal networks are taking advantage of the lack of safe migration channels, and of the vulnerability of women, girls and children, in order to subject them to trafficking and sexual exploitation; calls on the Member States to step up judicial and police cooperation and information sharing to combat traffickers and to prevent children from going missing;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Is deeply concerned about the growing numbers of child refugees; highlights the importance of allocating adequate resources to the protection of refugee and migrant children from violence, exploitation and abuse; stresses the importance of providing children with access to health care and education as part of EU programmes to address the root causes of migration;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Supports the swift, effective and comprehensive implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Children's Rights and Business Principles; urges all UN member states, including the EU Member States, to develop and implement national action plans; considers that trade and human rights can go hand in hand and that the business community has an important role to play in promoting human rights and democracy;
Amendment 536 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Reaffirms its condemnation of all forms of abuse and violence against women and girls, especiallyincluding female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage, as well as the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and domestic violence, and; calls on the EU and its Member States swiftly to ratify the Istanbul Convention in order to ensure coherence between EU internal and external action on violence against women and girls;
Amendment 550 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Reaffirms the urgent need for universal ratification and effective implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Child and its Optional Protocols, and requests that the EU systematically consult with relevant local and international child rights organizations and raises, in its political and human rights dialogues with third countries, the issue of State parties’ obligations to implement the Convention; welcomes the ratification of the Convention by South Sudan and Somalia; reiterates its call to the Commission and the VP/HR to explore ways and means for the EU to accede to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 554 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. Reiterates its request that the Commission propose a comprehensive Child Rights Strategy and Action Plan for the next five years, in order to prioritise children’s rights within EU exboth EU external and internal policies and to promote children’s rights, in particular by contributing to ensuring children’s access to water, sanitation, healthcare and education, including in conflict zones and refugee camps, and eliminating child labour, torture, trafficking, early and forced marriage, female genital mutilation and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 557 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
Paragraph 62
62. Requests that the EU continue to publicisromote the EU-UNICEF Child Rights toolkit ‘Integrating Child Rights in development Cooperation’ through its external delegations and to train EU delegation staff adequately in this field;
Amendment 704 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. Expresses the need for international assistance in efforts to search for and liberate women and children who still remain in the captivity of ISIS and other violent groups, and in promoting special programmes for treatment within the European Union of former captives; expresses concern over the recruitment of children by terrorist groups and their participation in terrorist and military activities; stresses the need to establish policies to guide the search for, and the liberation, rehabilitation and reintegration of these children;