20 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2015/2229(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in countries where capital punishment is practised, methods that are equivalent to torture (such as stoning to death) and involve bodily humiliation (such as public hanging) are used to execute women, in order to intimidate other women;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas many women and girls are denied access to high-quality education and many are forced to abandon their studies when they marry or have children;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Ba. whereas three-fifths of the billion people living below the poverty line are women1 a; __________________ 1a Source: http://www.aidos.it/files/1226588271Front es_Introduzione.pdf
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas women and girls account for two-thirds of the 960 million people around the world who are illiterate1 a; __________________ 1a Source: http://www.aidos.it/files/1226588271Front es_Introduzione.pdf
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the surge in terrorism and armed conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has led to a significant increase in these forms of violence, with rape and enslavement of women and girls being used systematically as a weapon of war, and trafficking in human beings, especially women and children, as a source of financing terrorist activities; whereas the participation of women in peacebuilding processes and democratic reform is critical to their success;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the participation of women in peacebuilding processes and democratic reform is critical to the success of those processes;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas, according to UNICEF, more than 500 000 women die in childbirth each year around the world1 a; __________________ 1a Source: http://www.unicef.org/factoftheweek/inde x_52778.html
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas women continue to be trafficked for prostitution, in most cases under conditions tantamount to slavery, as their identity papers are taken away and they are told that, if they attempt to rebel, harsh reprisals will be taken against their families;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas in sometill too many countries around the world women still do not enjoy the same civil and political rights as men;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates that religious, cultural and traditional differences can never justify violenceany form of violence, in particular against women and girls, such as female genital mutilation (FGM), early and forced marriages, domestic violence and, honour killings and other forms of torture, such as those that occur when sentences to death by stoning are carried out;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that, with a view to ensuring that women play a leading role in decision-making and peace efforts, they must be given free and proper access to higher education, on a par with men, and action must be taken to prevent them being forced to abandon their studies, as they often are when they get married and have children;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the EU to ensure that fundamental human rights safeguards, in particular for women and girls, are written in to its economic and trade agreements with third countries, and to review such agreements in cases where those rights are not upheld;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Deplores the fact that in some third countries marriages between adults and minors are legal and in some cases involve brides under the age of nine (child brides);
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Regards under-age marriages as fundamental human rights violations that affect all aspects of the lives of the girls involved, jeopardising their education and thus limiting their prospects, endangering their health and increasing the risk of them suffering violence and abuse;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Draws attention to the need for women to be afforded proper health care, free of charge, during childbirth, in order to reduce the still extremely high number of mothers and babies who die in childbirth in many third countries as a result of inadequate or non-existent health care;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Deplores the fact that in some countries extreme and fundamentalist laws and social, cultural and religious ideologies are preventing women from taking up certain occupations, forcing them to dress in a way that is humiliating for them as women and as human beings and placing restrictions on them engaging in everyday activities and conduct that are open to men (for example, driving and cycling);
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the EU to promote, in its relations with third countries, protection for women who decided to adopt customs and traditions other than those of the societies and families from which they come, so that they may become fully empowered and free to make their own choices;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Deplores the fact that in some third countries homosexuality is a crime, and one that is in some cases punishable by death;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Points out that even in the West women are no strangers to violence, much of it domestic violence at the hands of their partners, or to labour and pay discrimination;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Calls for the EU to pay proper attention to, and step up protection for, women migrants, and to give them the assistance they require and protect them against human trafficking and exploitation for prostitution by criminal organisations, which occur all too frequently;