Activities of Soraya POST related to 2016/0062(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate) SV
Amendments (21)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17
Citation 17
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 (new)
Citation 17 (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which calls for the EU to become a party to the Istanbul Convention as a further step in combating violence against women and girls with disabilities;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the EU; whereas the right to equal treatment and non-discrimination is a fundamental right enshrined in the Treaties and should apply in legislation, practice, case law and daily life; whereas gender- based violence is both a cause and a consequence of inequalities between women and men,
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the security policies of Member States often are focused on national and military issues, the Istanbul Convention raises gender sensitive aspects of security, that of personal integrity and personal freedom; these aspects of security are the most important and in acute need to be addressed and resolved;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas Member States have to acknowledge that once violence has occurred, the society has failed its first and foremost duty of protection and the only means left is reactive measures such as compensating victims and persecution of criminals;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas violence against women and gender-based violence are widespread in the EU and is to be understood as an extreme form of discrimination and a violation of the human rights; whereas further measures are needed to encourage women who have been the victims of violence to report their experiences and seek assistance, and to ensure that they receive appropriate support in line with their needs and that they are informed about their rights;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights report entitled ‘Violence against women: an EU- wide survey’, published in March 2014, shows that one-third of all women in Europe have experienced physical or sexual acts of violence at least once during their adult lives, 20 % have experienced online harassment, one in twenty have been raped and more than one-tenth have suffered sexual violence involving the use of force;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas citizens and residents in the Union are not equally protected against gender-based violence, due to differing policies and legislation across Member States, as regards among other the definition of offences and the scope of the legislation, and are therefore vulnerable to such violence;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the victims of violence come from a diverse background, an extremely wide majority (95%) of the perpetrators are men, often young men;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas certain women such as women and girls with migrant background, undocumented migrant women, refugee women and asylum seekers, women and girls with disabilities, lesbian, transgender women and girls, intersex women and girls, Roma women and girls, young women and elderly women, homeless women, black women and Muslim women face greater risk of violence because of motives fuelled by sexism coupled with racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia and intersexphobia as well as discrimination based on age, disability, ethnicity or religion; whereas those women facing intersectional and multiple forms of discrimination may have specific needs and this entails that they should be granted special protection;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas militarism and military institutions do not create long-term, sustainable and real peace, but rather contribute to a culture of violence closely linked to the view of masculinity; and military investments take resources from social investments, as increased military budgets will reduce welfare investments;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. whereas the military expenses in Europe amounted to 334 billion dollars in 2016 according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; which constitutes 20 % of the global military expenses and an increase of 2.8% since 2015;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that women and girls are often exposed to domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape, forced marriage and other forms of violence, which constitute a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girlspsychological and physical violence, stalking, sexual violence, rape, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, forced abortion and forced sterilisation, and other forms of violence, which constitute a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girls; stresses that the Istanbul Convention ensures that culture, custom, religion, tradition or so-called “honour” cannot be a justification of any acts of violence against women;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that forced pregnancy is defined as a crime against humanity in the article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court of 17 July 1998 and is a gender-based violence against women, that constitute a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girls;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Strongly affirms that the denial of safe abortion amounts to a serious breach of human rights and an extreme form of violence against women; calls for the right to abortion to be considered as a Fundamental right at the EU level;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point f
Paragraph 5 – point f
(f) To make sure that the Member States enforce the Istanbul Convention and allocate adequate financial and human resources to preventing and combatingfor wide spread proactive measures to prevent violence against women and gender-based violence and to the protection and compensation of victims;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point f a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point f a (new)
(fa) To ask the Member States and the Commission to put military expenses in Member States in comparison to financial resources directed to the work with violence against women and gender-based violence;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point i a (new)
(ia) To take into account significant incidents of violence against women and domestic violence when determining custody and visitation rights;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point j a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point j a (new)
(ja) To encourage Member States to implement policies that aim to build societies free from violence of any kind and to use the Istanbul Convention in this manner;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point j b (new)
Paragraph 5 – point j b (new)
(jb) To ensure that the proactive measures against violence acknowledge the gender based reality where the absolute majority of perpetrators are men; to encourage Member States to work with evidence-based violence-reducing tactics to target this problem;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point k
Paragraph 5 – point k
(k) To implement the provisions of the Istanbul Convention on migration and asylum, taking into account the fact that migrant women, whether properly documented or not, and women asylum- seekers are particularly vulnerable to gender-based violence and that gender- based violence may, including female genital mutilation, can be recognised as a form of persecution uander the terms of that the victims can thus avail themselves of the protection offered by the 1951 Refugee Convention; to ensure that Member States respect a gender- sensitive approach in all asylum and reception procedures;