19 Amendments of Julie WARD related to 2018/2098(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions and policies
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-Ab. whereas, in cases of armed conflicts, women and children, including women and child refugees, are among the most vulnerable groups in society;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-Ac. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are grounded on basic human rights and are essential elements of human dignity; whereas furthermore, these have not yet been secured in all parts of the world, including the parts of the EU;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A d (new)
Recital -A d (new)
-Ad. whereas gender-based violence is one of the world’s most widespread human rights violations, affecting all levels of society, regardless of age, education, income, social position or country of origin or residence, and representing a mayor barrier for reaching gender equality;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A e (new)
Recital -A e (new)
-Ae. whereas the EU Strategy for equality between men and women provides for the integration of gender equality into the EU’s trade policy and foreign relations policy;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that equality between men and women is a core principle of the EU as referred to in Art 3 (3)TEU, and its member states, and its promotion, via gender mainstreaming, also in other countries around the world through its external policies, is one of its principle objectives;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that the EU Plan of Action on Gender equality and Women’s empowerment in development is one of the fundamental tools, of the EU to improve gender equality in third countries; calls on the Commission to take into account the European Parliament’s Resolution of 7 May 2018 on the "Implementation of the Joint Staff Working Document (SWD(2015)0182 - Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Transforming the Lives of Girls and Women through EU External Relations 2016-2020";
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses the need to reinforce the role of the EU delegations as well as the European External Action Service Principle Advisor on Gender by ensuring a specific budget dedicated to her area of competences;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. HStresses the importance of viewing access to health as a human right; highlights the need to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive healthcare servic and rights, including measures, to ensure that women receive the recommended natal care and to prevent child and maternal mortalityfreely control their bodies and lives, have access to family planning, to adequate feminine hygiene products and receive the recommended natal care and to prevent child and maternal mortality; highlights that safe abortion services are important elements to save women’s lives and contribute to avoid high-risks births and reduce infant and child mortality stresses the importance of access to adequate gender-sensitive mental health services, particularly in conflict and post-conflict situations;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Finds it unacceptable that women’s and girls’ bodies , specifically with respect to their sexual and reproductive health and rights, still remain an ideological battleground; calls for the EU and the MS to recognize the inalienable rights of women and girls to bodily integrity and autonomous decision making and condemns the frequent violation of women’s SRHR, including the denial of access to family planning services, affordable contraception and safe and legal abortion services;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. CStresses that the focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment is explicit across all of the SDGs; calls on the Member States to reinforce the implementation of policies that empower girls and women, combat poverty and social exclusion and within the framework of SDG 5 and the ILO's 2018 'Women at Work' initiative, focus on providing women and girls with equal access to higher education and training, decent work and equal pay, equal access to financial services and representation in economic and political decision-making processes;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the joint efforts and investments of the EU, together with the UN, in launching the 'Spotlight Initiative', aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, while reiterating that women and LGBTIQ+ people, in particular trans people, around the globe remain the most vulnerable to domestic violence, mobbing, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, child and forced marriage, rape as a weapon of war and economic discrimination;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Condemns all forms of violence against women and girls and gender- based violence, including trafficking in human beings, forced marriage, sexual exploitation, honour crimes, female genital mutilation, and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Member States who have not yet done so, and the EU to speed up negotiations on the ratification and implementation of the Istanbul Convention; calls for not abusing the Istanbul Convention, which is the first legally binding international instrument seeking to prevent and combat violence against women, and has no hidden agenda, for ideological fights by wilful misinterpretation and spreading myths; underlines that religious, cultural, traditional differences or any other circumstances cannot justify discrimination or any form of violence;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recognises the need to address the particular situation faced by women facing multiple discriminations such as gender identity, race, class, (dis)ability or migration status; calls on the European External Action Service and the Member States to design and evaluate foreign policies from both a gender-sensitive and an intersectional perspective;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Emphasises the importance of including women, young people, and LGBTIQ+ people in peace and reconciliation processes, and the important role that the arts and intercultural dialogue can play in this respect as indicated in the Joint Communication of the European Commission and the High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy “Towards and EU strategy for international cultural relations”;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Stresses the importance of addressing the specific needs faced by widows of all ages in conflict and post- conflict areas, in particular their need for financial and psychological support; and recognises the prominent role they should play in peace and reconciliation processes;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Highlights the need for the EU to politically and financially support independent civil society organisations and ensure the protection of human rights defenders under attack; notes that women’s rights organisations and defenders are specifically targeted and suffer particularly from the shrinking civic space; calls the EU to take into account the specific protection needs that women human rights defenders have;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the EU to combat gender- based violence in its activities with third countries and within its Member States, to the best of its abilities and using all instruments available;