Activities of Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA related to 2015/2229(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Annual report on human rights and democracy in the world 2014 and the EU policy on the matter (debate) ES
Annual report on human rights and democracy in the world 2014 and the EU policy on the matter (debate) ES
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2014 and the European Union’s policy on the matter
Amendments (14)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need to ensure that the post- 2015 d2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development agenda and all its future implementation and monitoring measures are underpinned by the human-rights-based approach (HRBA) and the eradication of poverty, reduction of inequalities and social exclusion and include, inter alia, women’s rights, minority rights, children’s rights, good governance, the fight against corruption and democracy;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that children are particularly vulnerable in the current refugee and migrant crisis and specially when unaccompanied and that conflicts and instability have uprooted millions of children across several countries around Europe; calls on the Member States to take into account the best interest of the child in all procedures and ensure protection for children and particularly access to safe water, food, health care and education;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas despite the clear obligation to respect, protect and fulfil rights related to women´s and girl´s sexual and reproductive health and rights, violations remains frequent, and widespread in many States;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the EU to maintain and honour its role as a leading defender of human rights in the world, by the effective, consistent and considered use of all available instruments for the promotion and protection of human rights and its defenders and the effectiveness of our development aid policy; in this regard, remembers that goal 16 claims "to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels";
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas in some countries around the world women still do not enjoy the same civil and political rights as men, including the right of assembly as men and they are also poorly represented in local and national decision-making bodies;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas women and girls from cultural, traditional, linguistic, religious, gender or sexual orientation minority groups experience multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination based on both their minority status and their gender;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates that religious, cultural and traditional differences can never justify discriminations and violence against women and girls, such as female genital mutilation (FGM), early and forced marriages, domestic violence and honour killings;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Strongly condemns the continued use of rape against women and girls as a weapon of war; stresses that more needs to be done to ensure respect of international law and access to health and psychological care of woman and girls abused in conflicts, including safe and legal abortion for victims of war rape; calls on the EU, Member States, international organizations, and civil society to increase cooperation to raise awareness and combat impunity;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Deplores the high rate of impunity for offenders of gender-based violence in a large number of countries; asks the EEAS to exchange good practices with third countries on law-making procedures and training programmes for police and judicial personnel, to integrate gender based violence interventions in the EU humanitarian actions and to prioritise EU humanitarian actions targeting gender based violence and sexual violence in conflict;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Deplores that in some countries the criminalisation of abortion still persist in cases of victim of rape and abuses in armed conflicts; Stresses that unsafe abortion is also a major cause of maternal mortality and morbidity;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Urges all actors involved in conflicts to provide to the victims all necessary health care, including abortions, with no distinction based on sex in all circumstances and irrespective of local laws, as foreseen by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Deplores the fact that women and girls are the most affected by extreme poverty, while it is factually proven that investment in women and girls and empowering them through education is one of the most efficient ways of combating poverty;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the efforts made by EEAS in third countries to step up the implementation of obligations and commitments to women’s rights made in CEDAW, under the Beijing Platform for Action, in the Cairo Declaration on Population & Development in the post- 2015 development agenda;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Welcomes the reviewed EU humanitarian aid policy which allows women and girls raped in armed conflict access to safe abortion services under International Humanitarian Law; stresses the need for rapid implementation of this reviewed policy;