16 Amendments of Ernest URTASUN related to 2017/2275(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas forced marriage is a violation of the human rights enshrined in international conventions, and which form part of the core principles embodied in the European Union as an area of security, freedom, and justice; whereas child, early and forced marriage perpetuates other violations of human rights that disproportionately affect women and girls;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas it is in practice hard to distinguish forced marriage from the so- called arranged marriage; whereas forced marriage is a form of violence against women that, as such, affects women because of their sex and cannot be justified on any cultural or religious grounds and should in no case be tolerated;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas child, early and forced marriages very often results in school drop-out, depriving women and girls of their basic rights;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas many cases of forced marriage are not reported or they are reported to private organisations and NGOs rather than to public authorities; whereas when cases are reported to national authorities, no consistent data collection system exists at Member State level, even though this is urgently needed;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas deep-rooted gender inequalities and stereotypes, harmful practices, perceptions, customs, and discriminatory norms are root causes of child, early and forced marriage; whereas this increases the risk of women and girls being exposed to discrimination and gender-based violence during their lives;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas child, early and forced marriages have grave consequences on women and girls´ sexual and reproductive health and rights, including high rates of maternal mortality, unwanted pregnancies, low levels of family planning and sexual education and a higher risk of viral infections;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines the importance of awareness-raising and education as powerful tools to prevent the occurrence of child, early and forced marriages; stresses the need to address the root causes of child marriage, including gender inequality, poverty and lack of social and economic opportunities;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises thatCalls on the EU shouldto play a major role on this human rights violation and calls on the European External Action Service and the Commission to put forward a specific strategy with a view to determining what steps need to be taken to combat early and child marriage and other practices harmful to girls, and what objectives should be set and funding earmarked expressly for that purpose in order to achieve the overall aim of eradicating the above forms of marriage by 2030, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (target 5.3); calls on the Commission and EEAS to include in the strategy the need to address gender stereotypes, discriminatory social norms and harmful practices that contribute to the acceptance and continuation of the practice of child, early and forced marriage;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on all Member States to ensure access to justice and accountability mechanisms and remedies to ensure the implementation of laws prohibiting child, early and forced marriage;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to draw up an action plan to help combat child, early, and forced marriage in the context of the EU’s relations with non- member countries, particularly in the fields of foreign policy, development policy and trade policy, not least by making use of the ‘human rights clause’;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to prevent and combat all forms of violence against women and girls, including child, early, and forced marriage and to put in place the adequate service and measures to prevent, protect and support victims while providing greater support and funding for those NGOs working for the elimination of these practices;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Member States to guarantee migrant women and girls an autonomous residence permit which is not dependent of the status of their spouse or partner, in particular for victims of physical and psychological violence including forced or arranged marriages, and to guarantee that all administrative measures are taken to protect them, including effective access to assistance and protection mechanisms;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Proposes the express inclusion of forced marriage as a form of trafficking in human beings in Article 2 of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims, and to develop a shared policy and common definition of forced marriage which should be used consistently at national and European level in policies, civil and criminal law provisions on forced marriage;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls once again on Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia and United Kingdom to ratify the Istanbul Convention and reminds that in line with the requirements of this Convention, when victims are brought into another country and as a result of the forced marriage they have lost their right to reside in the EU, they should be granted effective ways to return to the EU Member States and regain their residence status;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure the effective implementation of the EU Victims’ Directive in particular by improving access for victims of violence against women to general and specialised victim support and to put in place effective reporting mechanisms to encourage victims of forced marriage to report the offence while respecting the anonymity and confidentiality of victims as well as preventing further stigmatisation;