8 Amendments of Malin BJÖRK related to 2018/2046(BUD)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the EU has committed itself in the Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment to make progress in making its trade and development policies more gender- responsive in order to report on this in 2019; whereas the Parliament has adopted a resolution on Gender Equality in EU Trade Agreements that call for several new measures in the field of gender and trade that requires strong budgetary and political commitments;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas trafficking in human beings is a devastating crime that threatens society’s most disadvantaged members, mainly women and girls, exploited in the prostitution industry;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Council to systematically use gender budgeting forin all public expenditure, including when negotiating and concretising the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) with the aim of being gender-responsive and of achieving the SDGs by promoting and implementing SDG 5 on Gender Equality and gender mainstreaming throughout all SDGs;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to include concrete measures and allocate adequate financial resources to combat violence against women and girls and ensure protection of migrant and refugee women, as well as women in irregular situation, from violence; insists on targeted investments to ensure women´s rights and safety in the whole asylum procedure;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Union and its Member States to intensify their efforts to eradicate trafficking in women and girls for sexual exploitation through adequate budgetary commitments across the union and increasingly invest in victim´s rights and protection, as well as actions decreasing the demand for trafficked women and girls;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the need to counteract the shrinking space for civil society and in particular calls on the Union and the Member States to increase both the political and financial support to women’s rights organisations and women’s human rights defenders both within the Union and worldwide;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Urges the Union and the Member States to increase support to girls’ and women’s social, economic and cultural rights in partner countries; calls in this context on all parties to ensure GAP II implementation is improved based on results from annual reports;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Union to support the development of new measures that will promote and support gender equality, women´s human rights and their economic empowerment in its trade policies, and allocating adequate financial resources for these commitments;