BETA

40 Amendments of Annika BRUNA related to 2019/2169(INI)

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas structures and stereotypes ~~throughout the world~~and the increasing application of Islamic law in a large number of countries and segments of societies perpetuate inequality throughout the world, and whereas overcoming these structures and stereotypes will advance gender equality; whereas a strong women’s rights movement is needed to uphold democratic values, fundamental rights and women’s rights in particular, and whereas threats to women’s rights also represent threats to democracy;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the EU has adopted important legislation and provided key impulses to achieving gender equality; whereas, however, these efforts have slowed down in recent years, while movements opposing gender equality policies and women’s rights have flourished; whereas these movements are attempting to influence national and European policies;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas European countries, in view of their spiritual and civilisational heritage, have a duty to defend equality between men and women, while preserving their respective differences and original features, which constitutes an essential foundation for the development of individuals; whereas in this connection all so-called gender theories, as well as any desire to make the gender identity of individuals indeterminate should be rejected and resisted;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas violence against women in all its forms is a violation of human rights and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality; whereas a life free from violence is a prerequisite for equality; whereas disinformation campaigns on gender equality also focus on the issue of violence against women~~, as has been seen in relation to the Istanbul Convention~~;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas traditional gender roles and stereotypes still influence the division of labour at home, in education, at the workplace and in society; whereas unpaid care work, mostly carried out by women, contributes to the gender pay and pension gap; whereas work-life balance measures, such as the Work-life Balance Directive, are important first steps, but need to be complemented by further measures in order to involve more men in unpaid work and to foster the equal earner – equal carer model;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas men and women, who play complementary roles in maintaining families, should be able to benefit from measures designed to ensure that the task of educating children takes place under the best possible conditions; whereas also the educational role played by mothers in particular during childhood should be recognised, valued and benefit as far as possible from appropriate financial and fiscal provisions;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the participation of women in the labour market does not secure their equal participation in decision-making and therefore limits women’s potential to change economic, political, social and cultural structures;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas poverty in Europe disproportionately affects women, in particular single mothers, women with disabilities, and the elderly~~, migrant and ethnic minority women~~;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the impact of climate change is experienced differently by women, as they are more vulnerable and face higher risks and burdens for various reasons; whereas gender equality and the inclusion of women in decision-making is a prerequisite for sustainable development and the efficient management of climate challenges; whereas all climate action must include a gender- and an intersectional perspective;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas access to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, and to sex and relationship education, as well as access to sexual ~~and reproductive~~ healthcare, are essential to achieving gender equality;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas women should be able, if they so wish and provided that they have the same skills, to have access to the same positions of responsibility, with the same pay, as men;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

Kb. whereas the personal and professional objectives of women and men are often different, and whereas for the majority of posts efforts to achieve equal representation are counterproductive, as women and men do not have the same aspirations, with some occupations attracting a majority of women or a majority of men;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the adoption of the Commission communication entitled ‘A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025’, delivered on time within the first 100 days of the new Commission, as a strong sign for political engagement with European gender equality policies and as a decisive, clear and ambitious policy framework to counter attacks on women’s rights and gender equality; underlines the importance of the chosen dual approach, consisting of targeted measures and the consistent application of gender mainstreaming and intersectionality as cross-cutting principles, and welcomes the strong link between the areas of work and the elimination of stereotypes, gender biases and discrimination;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

~~2. Welcomes the announcement of several complementary strategies and calls for a strategic framework to connect them, and for an intersectional approach to be adopted in all of them;~~deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. The main objectives of gender equality policies are: - to combat violence and inequality caused in particular by social standards dictated by religious and community groups hostile towards the respect to shown women that is inherent in European civilisation; - equal pay for men and women for equal work and equal skills; - economic support for mothers and pregnant women; - to increase pension rights for women who have raised their children; - to fight domestic violence;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Regrets that the strategy remains vague on the issue of timelines for several, highly welcomed, measures; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish concrete timeframes and additional targeted actions, as well as guidelines on how to implement the intersectional approach effectively;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Demands that equality between men and women be an essential element of Union policies, while deeply respecting mutual differences and complementarities between men and women, and calls to this end for European funds to be used to target specific actions to support citizens and not just to promote ideological campaigns, whose sole objective is to develop new gender models;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Supports the Commission’s plan to continue pushing for the EU-wide ratification of the Istanbul Convention; underlines, in this context, the need for specific measures to address the existing disparities between Member States; draws attention, however, to the fact that several attempts to convince reluctant Member States have already failed; warmly welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s intention to propose measures in 2021 to achieve the objectives of the Istanbul Convention if the EU’s accession remains blocked; calls for preparatory actions for the launch of additional legally binding measures to eliminate violence against women; very much welcomes the planned extension of definitions of areas of particularly serious crime under Article 83(1) of the TFEU, but calls for the inclusion of all forms of gender-based violence, in order to take a proactive approach and lay the groundwork for an EU directive on this issue;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for violence against women to be punished with the most severe criminal penalties; insists that a ban be imposed under press laws on the use of the term 'honour crime' employed in some European societies to describe the murder of young girls who refuse to bow to the demands of Islamic law;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the plan to table an additional recommendation on the prevention of harmful practices, and to launch an EU network on the prevention of both gender-based and domestic violence; ~~requests that the definitions and goals of the Istanbul Convention be applied and that women’s rights and civil society organisations be involved on a continuous basis~~declares resolutely that the application of Islamic law today constitutes the most important factor increasing violence against women in the world, including in the Member States of the European Union with a significant Muslim population;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the plan to table an additional recommendation on the prevention of harmful practices, and to launch an EU network on the prevention of both gender-based and domestic violence; ~~requests that the definitions and goals of the Istanbul Convention be applied and that women’s rights and civil society organisations be involved on a continuous basis;~~

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the plan to table an additional recommendation on the prevention of harmful practices, and to launch an EU network on the prevention of both gender-based and domestic violence~~; requests that the definitions and goals of the Istanbul Convention be applied and that women’s rights and civil society organisations be involved on a continuous basis~~ without causing an increase in the EU budget;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Urges the Commission to present the long-awaited EU strategy on the eradication of trafficking in human beings and underlines the need for a clear gender focus, as women and girls are the most affected and are trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation; insists on the importance of including measures and strategies to reduce demand; demands that surveys be carried out among the chancelleries and diplomatic representations to the European Union of countries known to be practising slavery in order to verify whether such practices are not covered by the immunity conferred on them;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Urges the Commission to present the long-awaited EU strategy on the eradication of trafficking in human beings and underlines the need for a clear gender focus, as women and girls are the most affected and are trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation and organ trafficking; insists on the importance of including measures and strategies to ~~reduce demand~~put an end to human trafficking;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Welcom~~Notes the announcement of a new EU-wide survey on the prevalence and dynamics of violence against women;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses that the promotion of uncontrolled migration flows leads to serious violations of the rights of women who are often exploited and discriminated against by transnational and transcontinental criminal organisations operating in the area of human trafficking;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Supports the revision of the Barcelona targets; calls for financial support for and the sharing of best practices among Member States which have not yet achieved the targets; welcomes, furthermore, the development of guidance for Member States on tackling financial disincentives in relation to social, economic and taxation policies;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to table binding measures on pay transparency by the end of 2020; points out, however,~~Points out that the issue of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value across different occupational sectors still needs to be addressed; strongly recommends the inclusion of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value between women and men, which could be defined as follows: ‘Work shall be deemed of equal value if, based on a comparison of two groups of workers which have not been formed in an arbitrary manner, the work performed is comparable, taking into account factors such as the working conditions, the degree of responsibility conferred on the workers, and the physical or mental requirements of the work’; points out that gender-neutral job evaluation tools and classification criteria need to be developed for this purpose;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Urges the Commission to campaign for more women in economic decision-making positions by highlighting the economic and societal advantages thereof, and sharing best practices, in order to break the deadlock on the Women on Boards directive;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

~~13. Welcomes the support for gender parity in~~ delected ~~bodies such as the European Parliament and stresses that it must serve as a role model in this regard;~~

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Regrets the underrepresentation of women in the ICT sector, and points out the risk of this reinforcing and reproducing stereotypes and gender bias through the programming of AI and other programs; calls for technologies and AI to be transformed into tools in the fight to eradicate gender stereotypes and to empower girls and women to enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and ICT fields of study and to stay on these career paths;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates the importance of gender mainstreaming as a systematic approach to achieving gender equality; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s newly established task force on equality; underlines the importance of transparency and the involvement of women’s rights and civil society organisations; urges the Commission to incorporate provisions making the consideration of inputs from the task force compulsory for Directorates- General;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Urges that gender mainstreaming be incorporated into EU environmental and climate policies, such as the Green Deal, that financial and institutional support, gender expertise and strong policy measures to encourage the equal participation of women in decision-making bodies and national- and local-level climate policy be guaranteed, and that recognition and support be given to women and girls as agents for change; calls on the European authorities to treat the climate issue with all the seriousness it deserves and to avoid recourse to media figures, in particular minors, whose independence and credibility are open to question on this account;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Notes that tax policies have varying impacts on different types of households; stresses that individual taxation ~~is instrumental in terms of achieving tax fairness for w~~can have positive consequences in order to help parents, and more particularly mothers, carry out their educational tasks at homen;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Reiterates the need for a regular exchange between Member States and the Commission on gender aspects in health, including guidelines for comprehensive sex and relationship education, gender- sensitive responses to epidemics and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); calls on the Commission to include SRHR in its next EU Health Strategy, and to support Member States in providing high-quality and low-threshold access to healthcare services;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Deplores the fact that such a remarkable and courageous personality as Taslima Nasrin had to flee Germany and then Sweden to take refuge in the United States and India; calls on the aforementioned Member States of the European Union to make amends for the harm she has suffered and to provide her with diplomatic protection;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Deplores likewise the fact that Ayaan Hirsi Ali, even though of Dutch nationality, was forced to emigrate to the United States, where she received American nationality, after the refusal of her own government to ensure her protection; calls on the Member States of the European Union to make amends for the harm she has suffered and to provide her with diplomatic protection;

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Demands support for women’s rights defenders and women’s rights organisations in the EU and worldwide; calls for continuous monitoring of the state of play in relation to women’s rights and disinformation on gender equality policies in all Member States and for an alarm system to highlight regression; calls on the Commission to support studies analysing the impact of attacks and disinformation campaigns on women’s rights and gender equality, and calls on the Commission to analyse their root causes, developing fact checks and counter-narratives;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls for coherence between and the mutual reinforcement of the EU’s internal and external policies on the principles of gender mainstreaming and gender equality, countering gender stereotypes and norms, as well as harmful practices and discriminatory laws, through external relations;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM

Annika BRUNA, Virginie JORON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to ensuring the inclusion of a specific chapter on trade and gender equality in the modernised Association Agreement with Chile, and to promoting and supporting the inclusion of such chapters in all further EU trade and investment agreements;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: FEMM