12 Amendments of Malin BJÖRK related to 2018/2024(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas equality between women and men is an ex ante conditionality of the Common Provisions Regulation of the current MFF 2014-2020; stresses that the annexed inter-institutional declaration, agrees to integrate, gender-responsive elements, taking into account the ways in which the overall financial framework of the Union contributes to increased gender equality (and ensures gender mainstreaming);
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas inequality is a growing problem in the EU, and whereas the Union budget must increasingly be designed to make a significant contribution to safeguarding and developing social rights, access to public welfare services and, especially health care services, education, housing, and decent working conditions, with a specific focus on improving gender equality and the situation of women and girls;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas gender-based violence against women and girls as well as LGBTQI people is a breach of fundamental rights, but remains wide spread across the EU;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the EU is in the accession process of the Istanbul Convention which is as a necessary step to improve and strengthen its work to eradicate gender- based violence across Europe, but whereas several Member States have not ratified the Convention;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms its request for increased resources to uphold women’s economic rights and girls’ rights, promote their economic independence and reduce gender inequality, including through the use of existing instruments at EU and Member State level, such as gender impact assessments; calls on the Commission and the Council to use gender budgeting for public expenditure systematically and apply gender mainstreaming in all budgetary headings, especially when negotiating the next multiannual financial framework (MFF);
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to make use of the funds available under the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund to promote gender equality through education and health services, notably SRHR services, and to invest inincluding comprehensive sexual education, counselling, treatment and care for victims of gender-based and sexual violence, and to increase funding for investments in such high-quality public care services;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Insists that the commitments to implement the Istanbul Convention and to eradicate gender-based violence against women and girls, as well as against LGBTQI people, irrespective of their residence status, needs to be translated to concrete budgetary commitments and recommendations in the forthcoming EU budget;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the EU and the Member States to include concrete measures and allocate adequate financial resources to ensure the protection of refugee women from violence, during the whole asylum procedure, by providing quality health care, separate and secure sleeping areas, sanitation areas reserved for women in transit and reception facilities, creating safe spaces, ensuring the presence of a sufficient number of female staff members, as well as providing information on rights and assistance services, specific training on detecting and preventing gender based violence for staff working in transit and reception facilities, supporting resettlement and relocation programmes, which enable safe and legal ways for asylum seekers and refugees to come to Europe, with a specific focus on vulnerable groups, such as women, girls and LGBTQI people;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the EU to promote women’s rights organisations, the civil society organisations working on and promoting gender equality issues, women’s rights, the empowerment of girls and women’s representation in decision- making through EU development aid; recalls the urgent need to increase EU funding for SRHR in order to counter the impact of the financing gap left by the US after the reinstatement and expansion of its ‘global gag rule’;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for increased budget allocation to women’s shelters which provide services to women and children victims of gender-based violence and domestic violence in order to reinforce their work of victims support, prevention and empowerment;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for the EU to ensure its gender mainstreaming targets for development aid are reached and ensure a consistency in the use of the gender markers and specific codes in all EU reporting, including to OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) that also monitor gender equality objectives in the implementation of Official development assistance (ODA);
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the EU to increase the budget allocated to civil society organisations that promote women’s rights, to strengthen the capacity of women’s rights associations in Europe and in the Global South;