43 Amendments of Malin BJÖRK related to 2016/2009(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) of 18 December 1979,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas family reunification, although a basic human right, is systematically delayed and even violated, and whereas women and children are the first victims of this right being denied or delayed;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas Roma women are often exposed to multiple and intersectional discrimination on grounds of gender and ethnic origin, and have limited access to employment, education, health, social services and decision-making; whereas discrimination can occur within mainstream society in a context of growing anti-Roma racism, but also within the women’s communities by reason of their sex;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines the need to combat anti-Roma racism at every level and by every means, and stresses that this phenomenon is an especially persistent, violent, recurrent and commonplace form of racism; calls on the Member States to further strengthen the fight against anti- Roma racism and support the empowerment of Roma women as part of their National Roma Integration Strategies promoting best practices;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Is concerned that in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States; these movements challenge existing achievements in the area of women´s rights and gender equality, and aim at blocking laws and policies protecting LGBTI people against hate crime and discrimination;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to recognise the fundamental right to universal access to health, in particular the full range of sexual and reproductive health services including safe and legal abortion, and to decriminalise abortion and the performing of abortion care;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Underlines that the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all women and girls must be respected, including their right to their bodies and sexuality and to be free of coercion, discrimination and violence;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Urges the EU and the Member States to mobilise the necessary means and tools to fight trafficking and sexual exploitation and to reduce prostitution markets as they fuel exploitation, which violates women’s and girls’ fundamental rights;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Calls on the Member States to acknowledge the problems of surrogacy which constitutes an exploitation of the female body and her reproductive organs, and emphasises that women’s bodies are regarded as commodities on the international reproductive market, and that the surrogacy industry exploits vulnerable women, primarily from the global south;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and gender-based violence and to present a comprehensive strategy on violence against women and girls and gender-based violence;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recognises that the average age of entering into prostitution is between 13-14 years old, and that prostitution and sexual exploitation are highly gendered issues and a form of gender-based violence, contrary to human rights principles, among which gender equality is a core principle;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Member States to implement laws and policies that target perpetrators directly to reduce demand for sexual exploitation while decriminalising individuals in prostitution and providing them with support services, including high quality social, legal and psychological assistance for those who wish to exit prostitution;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. CRegrets in this context that no EU gender equality strategy 2016-2020 was adopted and, echoing the Council Conclusions on Gender Equality of the 16th of June 2016, calls on the EC to enhance the status of its Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016- 2019 by adopting it as a Communication; condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls for further action to push for the harmonisation of criminal law across the EU in order to combalose the legislative gaps that still exist against homophobiac, biphobiac and transphobiac hate crimes;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that children and young people can enjoy their right to seek, receive and impart information related to sexuality, including sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, in an age- appropriate and gender sensitive manner;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Member States to introduce gender-sensitive educational programmes as well as actions on girl´s and women’s rights, gender equality, gender identities and gender relations at all levels of educational systems; calls also for the necessity of peace, anti- discrimination and anti-racism education for both girls and boys in schools at an early stage;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Acknowledges the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s report on the fundamental rights of intersex people and the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner on human rights’ issue paper on human rights and intersex people; calls on the EU and Member States to take measures to protect and respect the fundamental rights of intersex people;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Encourages the responsible committees within the European Parliament to look into the issue and propose an own-initiative report regarding the protection of human rights of intersex people in the EU;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, as well as LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortions;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises the urgent need to open immediate legal, safe asylum routes, in order to avoid trafficking networks as well as to enable women, children, elderly and persons with disabilities to seek refuge without risking their lives;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses that undocumented migrant women and girls should have full access to their basic fundamental rights and channels for legal migration should be developed;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Firmly opposes the use of detention of refugees, including pregnant women, children and breastfeeding mothers;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls for the strengthening of the rights to family reunification across the EU, as well as for improving the implementation, with swifter and less costly processes;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas family reunification, although a basic human right, is systematically delayed and even violated, and whereas women and children are the first victims of this right being denied or delayed;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the EU to adopt an approach where human, labour, consumer and environmental rights should guide transnational and national trade and investment, not the other way around;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out to the urgent need of facilitating family reunification; condemns in this respect all changes in national legislations that have led to restricting the right to family life of persons fleeing persecutions and its dramatic consequences for families being separated and at risk of death or starvation in countries of origin and transit, and at risk of segregation and abandonment in detention centres located in EU member countries;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Whereas the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe expressed in the issue paper "the right to leave a country" that the right to leave a State belongs not only to citizens of a particular state but also to foreigners; whereas States are not entitled to place obstacles in the way of foreigners leaving their countries irrespective of where the foreigners seek to go;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Highlights the double discrimination that migrant women face, as both migrants and as women, and the special circumstances that they may face in detention or reception centres, such as physical safety and harassment concerns, and their need for access to feminine hygiene supplies, privacy, and reproductive healthcare;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Recalls that Article 3 of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child provides that all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. Calls therefore on Member States to the abolish of all forms of detention of minors;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take the necessary measures to provide information and ensure transparency concerning the detention of migrants and asylum-seekers in numerous Member States, including access to NGOs and journalists;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises the urgent need to open immediate legal, safe asylum routes, in order to avoid trafficking networks as well as to enable women, children, elderly and persons with disabilities to seek refuge without risking their lives;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that undocumented migrant women and girls should have full access to their basic fundamental rights, such as health care including sexual and reproductive health care;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Firmly opposes the use of detention of all migrants;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls for the strengthening of the rights to family reunification across the EU, as well as for improving the implementation, with swifter and less costly processes;
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on Member States in which the exploitation of victims of trafficking in human beings has taken place to offer adequate and necessary gender-sensitive medical treatment based on individual needs, paying special attention to victims of trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation;
Amendment 607 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Is concerned that in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States; these movements challenge existing achievements in the area of women´s rights and gender equality, and aim at blocking laws and policies protecting LGBTI people against hate crime and discrimination; notes that these movements are often overlapping with racist and xenophobic movements;
Amendment 679 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Underlines that the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all women and girls must be respected, including their right to their bodies and sexuality and to be free of coercion, discrimination and violence;
Amendment 681 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18 b. Calls on the EU and the Member States to recognise the fundamental right to universal access to health, in particular the full range of sexual and reproductive health services including safe and legal abortion, and to decriminalise abortion and the performing of abortion care;
Amendment 684 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18 c. Calls on the Member States to implement laws and policies that target perpetrators directly to reduce demand for sexual exploitation while decriminalising individuals in prostitution and providing them with support services, including high quality social, legal and psychological assistance for those who wish to exit prostitution;
Amendment 766 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Calls on the Member States to introduce gender-sensitive educational programmes as well as actions on girl´s and women's rights, gender equality, gender identities and gender relations at all levels of educational systems; calls also for the necessity of peace, anti- discrimination and anti-racism education for both girls and boys in schools at an early stage;
Amendment 964 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46 a. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence in the EU against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people (LGBTI);
Amendment 966 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 b (new)
Paragraph 46 b (new)
46 b. Welcomes the fact that some EU Member States have extended the protection granted to victims of discrimination based on other grounds, such as sexual orientation or gender identity, when implementing the Framework Decision; calls on the Commission to start a dialogue with those Member States whose legislation does not cover homophobic and transphobic hate motives, aimed at filling the remaining legislative gaps.
Amendment 969 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 c (new)
Paragraph 46 c (new)
46 c. Reiterates that any legal recognition procedure which imposes forced sterilisation on transgender people is violating human rights standards; welcomes the recent adoption by a number of Member States of new legal gender recognition procedures more respectful of the fundamental rights of trans people; Calls on the European Commission to strengthen peer-learning among Member States to ensure their practices are in line with human rights standards.
Amendment 971 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 d (new)
Paragraph 46 d (new)
46 d. Deplores the fact that transgender people are still considered mentally ill in the majority of Member States and calls on respective states to review national mental health catalogues, while ensuring that medically necessary treatment remains available for all trans people;