7 Amendments of Jordi SOLÉ related to 2017/2122(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
1. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the EU Plan of Action on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development is one of the fundamental tools of the EU to improve gender equality in third countries and therefore believes that GAP2 should take the form of a Commission communication; calls on the Commission to take into account EP’s resolution on the renewal of the GAP;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Strongly condemns the reinstatement and expansion of the Global Gag Rule and its impact on women’s and girls’ global health care and rights; reiterates its call on the EU and its Member States to fill the financing gap left by the US in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights, using both national as well as EU development funding.
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Member States to take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants, refugees and asylum seekers such as legal counselling, access to health, safe spaces for women and children and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortions.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Stresses the need for family reunification procedures to afford individual rights for women and girls joining their families in the EU, in order not to have to depend on a possibly abusive relationship with the male family member for access to health, education or work.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls on the EEAS to raise and promote global awareness on LGBTI rights through the EU external actions in order to end the discrimination they face on a daily basis.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Points out that the rates of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion are higher amongst women and asks the Commission to increase its efforts in implementing measures to combat poverty and social exclusion as part of its development policies.