Activities of Kostadinka KUNEVA related to 2017/2127(INI)
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Implementation of the European Disability Strategy (debate) EL
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POSITION IN FORM OF AMENDMENTS on implementation of the European Disability Strategy
Amendments (35)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ETS No. 5, 1950) and its Protocols),
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
– having regard to the European Social Charter (ETS No. 35, 1961, revised in 1996, ETS No. 163),
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
– having regard to the Recommendation Rec(2002)5 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States of the Council of Europe on the protection of women against violence and Recommendation CM/Rec(2007)17 on gender equality standards and mechanisms,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 d (new)
Citation 1 d (new)
– having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (‘CEDAW’, 1979) and its Optional Protocol (1999),
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 e (new)
Citation 1 e (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament Directorate General for Internal Policies for the Union study titled ‘Discrimination Generated by the Intersection of Gender and Disability’,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas over 80 million persons with disabilities are living in the EU who are in urgent need of an accessible and unprejudiced environment; whereas one in four Europeans has a family member with a disability; whereas, there are approximately 46 million women and girls with disabilities in the EU, comprising about 16 % of the total female population of the EU;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas 75% of people with severe disabilities do not have the opportunity to fully participate in the European labour market; whereas the proportion of employed women in the EU-28 who had a long-standing health problem and/or a basic activity difficulty and who reported that they had used some kind of assistance at work was higher than the equivalent proportion for men. whereas, women with disabilities are in a greater poverty risk and therefore the barriers set for their participation and inclusion to labour market, education schemes and social life must be urgently lifted;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
A c. whereas multiple discrimination of different forms and shapes on grounds of gender and disability persists and their onset leads to social (such as lower self- esteem, economic reliance, social isolation), educational (such as high illiteracy rates, lower educational attainment especially for women) and labour market exclusion (lower participation in the labour market, tendency to hold low paid, temporary or precarious work) causing further stress and psychological burden for persons with disabilities, their families and carers;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
A d. whereas, Article 9 of UNCRPD recognises that appropriate measures must be taken to ensure girls and women with disabilities enjoy real access to the physical environment, transportation, information and communications, including information and communication technologies and to other facilities and services open or provided to the public, both in rural and urban areas;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
A e. whereas, women with disabilities have lower incomes and often do not own a vehicle and live longer than their male companions, there is an increased need to promote neighbourhood proximity, pedestrian, building and housing adjustments in order to reduce the factors that contribute to the exclusion of them to socio-economic, education and labour life of their; whereas, well-designed built-in environment in all public sphere related activities and services would enable and encourage women, and especially women with disabilities, to participate in the socio-economic life;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
A f. whereas, female passengers outnumber male passengers in public transportation and taking into consideration that women often have more complex transportation patterns as many care for dependant family members; whereas safe accessibility to transportation and to services and products related to transportation should be easily accessible to people with disabilities in order to ensure that they can enjoy independent mobility
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
Recital A g (new)
A f. whereas, women and girls with disabilities often suffer from lack of information and protection of their sexual and reproductive rights and have limited or no access to services and products that would enable them to fully enjoy those rights;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
Recital A h (new)
A h. whereas, support, protection, communication, care and health services, such as the ones connected to primary health, violence against women, childcare, motherhood, female sexual and reproductive rights, should be fully accessible in all languages, forms and formats by all women, and especially by women and girls with disabilities;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A i (new)
Recital A i (new)
A i. whereas, health services personnel should be adequately trained in terms of disability sensitive issues so that it will be possible to better address the needs of people with disabilities; whereas employing persons with disabilities in health service units will allow patients with disabilities to better accommodate themselves and feel that someone can understand and address their needs; whereas having people with disabilities to work in public services, as the health care services, would also serve as motivation to people with disabilities;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A j (new)
Recital A j (new)
A j. whereas articipation of citizens with disabilities, and especially women who are often under-represented in political and public life and marginalised, is a matter of dignity and further actions on the basis of Article 16 UNCRPD should be taken;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A k (new)
Recital A k (new)
A k. whereas, despite the numerous international Conventions and European Law provisions, as well as the current European Disability Strategy in place, still the citizen and social rights of persons with disabilities are not fully enjoyed by them as, for example, are not given fair and equal possibilities to participate in the political social and economic life; whereas women and girls with disabilities remain at the margins of decision-making and progress and gender equality;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A l (new)
Recital A l (new)
A l. whereas, tthe prevalence of disability in the European Union is higher among women than among men; women with disabilities are faced with multiple discrimination, facing substantial obstacles in realising their basic rights and freedoms such as physical, emotional, economic, intimate partner violence, violence at the hands of caregivers, sexual and institutional violence, discrimination in access to education and employment, which can lead to social isolation and psychological trauma; women are also disproportionately affected by disability as carers of family members with disabilities and experience discrimination by association more frequently than men;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A m (new)
Recital A m (new)
A m. whereas gender equality was not horizontally mainstreamed in European Disability Strategy 2010-2020; whereas the TFEU requires the Union to combat discrimination based on disability when defining and implementing its policies and activities (Article 10) and gives it the power to adopt legislation to address such discrimination (Article 19); whereas Articles 21 and 26 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union explicitly prohibit discrimination on the grounds of disability and calls for equal participation of persons with disabilities in society; whereas equal treatment can be assured by applying positive measures and policies for women with disabilities and mothers of children with disabilities; whereas, including a gender perspective dimension to the expected post 2020 European Disability Strategy will contribute to an integrated approach to eliminating further discrimination to women and girls with disabilities;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Reiterates that all persons with disabilities have the right to fully enjoy their rights and their inclusion and participation in the society;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Highlights the fact that the inclusion of persons with disabilities is a fundamental human rights issue that has to be properly addressed on European level;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Urges the Commission to come forward with a consolidated, cohesive and holistic approach, that incorporates the UNCRPD Concluding Remarks and suggestions, for a post 2020 European Disability Strategy;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Asks for a genuine structured dialogue between the EU and organisations representing persons with disabilities, when drafint the post 2020 European Disability Strategy;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Denounces the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; reiterates its call on the Council to do so as soon as possible;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. Denounces the fact that the EU institutions have not yet adopted a comprehensive and trully non- discriminatory recruitment, retention and promotion policy, including temporary positive measures, in order to increase actively and substantially the number of officials or staff and trainees with disabilities, including psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in line with Directive 2000/78/EC Article 5;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1 g. Underlines the need to facilitate the effective participation and freedom of expression of persons with disabilities at public events and meetings hosted by the institutions or held on their premises by providing captioning and sign-language interpretation, documents with Braille- printing and in easy-to-read formats;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1 h. Regrets that the standing European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 has failed to adopt effective legislative acts, measures and policies in order to tackle the segregation and rejection of women with disabilities in the labour market, political life, schools and learning environments;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1 i. Highlights the need to ensure in all EU Member - States accessible health and care services, as well as the support they need, so as to facilitate their social inclusion; highlights the fact that equal opportunities can only be achieved if the right to inclusion and participation is granted at all levels and types of life;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 j (new)
Paragraph 1 j (new)
1 j. Points out that the current European Disability Strategy has not properly addressed the impacts that the crisis has on people with disabilities and has not achieved to improve their daily life and facilitate their inclusion in all aspects of the socio-economic life. Highlights the fact that there were technical and financial shortcomings of special programmes addressed to people with disabilities, particularly in the Member States affected by the crisis, and calls on the Commission to examine how funding and implementation of such programms can be improved;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 k (new)
Paragraph 1 k (new)
1 k. Deplores wholeheartedly the disastrous conditions in which persons with disabilities have been found to be placed in some Member States, especially those under Financial Memorandum Programs, and calls on the European Commission to comply with the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 3 thereof, which bans inhuman and degrading treatment and to withdraw imposed measures on the Member-States that affect the lifes of people with disabilities;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 l (new)
Paragraph 1 l (new)
1 l. Urges the EU institutions to make their internet-based content and apps, including their intranets and all essential documents and audiovisual content, accessible while equally ensuring physical accessibility of their buildings;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 m (new)
Paragraph 1 m (new)
1 m. Reiterates the urgent need to address the issue of violence against women and girls with disabilities in public, private and institutional environments; Welcomes the decision of the Council for the EU to become a party to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention) as a further step in combating violence against women and girls with disabilities, yet denounces the fact that the Council decided to limit accession to two sectors, the cooperation in judicial matters and matters of refugees and asylum-seekers and non-refoulment;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 n (new)
Paragraph 1 n (new)
1 n. Urges the Commission to come forward with a consolidated proposal within the post 2020 European Disability Strategy and to adopt effective measures in order to prevent violence against women and children with disabilities which target families, communities, professionals and institutions; Highlights the important role that the educational institutions, such as schools, play in promoting social inclusion and points the need for a gender-mainstreamed educational policy to be adopted across EU Member States;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 o (new)
Paragraph 1 o (new)
1 o. Urges the Member States to adopt measures to ensure that all healthcare and services provided to women with disabilities, including all sexual and reproductive health and mental healthcare and services, are safely accessible and based on the free and informed consent of the individual concerned;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 p (new)
Paragraph 1 p (new)
1 p. Emphasises that women and girls with disabilities, including those from marginalised and vulnerable groups, such as women-refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, Roma and LBTI are facing multiple discriminations, and therefore must be enabled and empowered to participate in political life and decision- making processes in order to ensure that their interests and rights are expressed, supported and protected, ensuring a genuine grassroots gender perspective; calls on the Member States to provide adequately adapted services and facilities that would empower their active involvement and participation, and to invest in assistive and adaptive technologies and e-inclusion;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 q (new)
Paragraph 1 q (new)
1 q. Underlines that in order to achieve autonomous and independent living for persons with disabilities, especially women, indivually and personally provided assistance is a mean that would support them and their families, enabling them to access workplace, educational and vocational training institutions, and supporting them in the event of pregnancy and motherhood;