21 Amendments of Katarina BARLEY related to 2021/2003(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the strong commitment of both the European Commission and EEAS to gender equality and women empowerment worldwide and to implement a feminist EU external agenda, reflected by the upgrade of the Gender Action Plan from a working document to a Joint Communication;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Welcomes the inclusive nature of the consultation process undertaken to inform the drafting of the EU GAP III and the reflection of recommendations provided by Member States, EU gender focal points, and especially women’s rights civil society organisations (WCSOs) in the EU GAP III;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Supports GAP III ambition to make gender equality a key priority of all EU external policies and actions; underlines the need to ensure gender mainstreaming in all external policy fields, notably CFSP, the EU trade policy, enlargement policy, neighbourhood policy, development policy, humanitarian aid and CSDP;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Welcomes GAP III as an important contribution for the EU to work towards a gender-equal word and to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 5;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to use GAP III as a basislueprint to enhance gender mainstreaming in their external action, to put its gender-transformative, human rights-based, intersectional approach into practice, and to adopt and implement a feminist foreign policy; stresses the need to put experiences of women and girls facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and marginalization at the heart of policy-making and to increase the involvement of women in needs assessments, planning, decision-making and implementation processes;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to counter any forms of discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, class, religion, disability or age, as part of EU external action; welcomes the intersectional perspective in GAP III;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the systematic implementation of rigorous gender analysis, gender-disaggregated data collection, gender budgeting and gender impact assessments, as well as for mandatory training on gender equalit to inform the design of all EU and EU Member States external financing, as well as their engagement in policy dialogues; encourages in line with GAP III the earmarking of resources to conduct sector-specific gender analyses where they are lacking; welcomes the specifications for mandatory training for all EU personnel at HQ, in EU Delegations, in Member States Embassies or deployed in CSDP missions and operations, on gendere quality, including pre-deployment and pre-posting training; stresses the need to invest in knowledge, resources and in-house expertise on gender equality in EU Delegations to be able to implement GAP III adequately;
Amendment 65 #
4 a. Welcomes the strong focus of GAP III on combatting all forms of violence against women and girls, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic; calls on the eradication of female genital mutilation and the eradication of all gender-based violence to be systematically addressed in the EU political dialogues with third countries; reiterates support to the EU- UN Spotlight Initiative; urges all EU Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention; calls on the EEAS to put the ratification of the Istanbul Convention high on the agenda of its Political Dialogue with Council of Europe partner countries; encourages other countries to express their interest to accede to it; urges the EU to exercise all possible leverage for the perpetrators of mass rapes in warfare to be reported, identified, prosecuted and punished in accordance with international criminal law;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Stresses the importance to ensure universal access to SRHR and welcomes GAP III strong commitment to it; underlines the need to focus on all age groups, including girls and younger women, and provide relevant information, education and access to them;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the need to tackle the shrinking space for civil society, to strengthen the capacity-building of WCSOs and to closely consult with organisations fighting, in particular, for the rights of women, girls and marginalised groups, and with women’s rights defenders; welcomes the focus on women’s participation in civic life in the GAP III; highlights the worrying development that highly organised and well-funded movements and organisations, such as Ordo Iuris, work to weaken women’s rights, LGBTQI* rights and civil society participation to undermine the rule of law and reinforce or increase their power; strongly encourages the Commission and EU Member States to earmark firm commitments for financing women’s rights organizations and feminist movements as key drivers of transformational and sustainable change towards gender equality;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the integration of the Women, Peace and Security framework in GAP III; insists on the inclusion of women and marginalised groups in conflict resolutionmeaningful inclusion and more balanced representation of women and marginalised groups from the grassroots level in conflict prevention, mediation, conflict resolution, political processes and peace negotiations, across all tracks;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the GAP III objective to work towards securing the empowerment of girls and women, their education and their economic and social rights, particularly put at risk because of the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the introduction of country-level implementation plans (CLIPs) and the improvement of the reporting process for EU Delegations; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to take full ownership of gender-sensitive country reporting and gender mainstreaming at all program and policy levels, including by using gender analysis to inform the planned CLIPs and by requiring delegations to set clear indicators and targets within CLIPs;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Underlines the need to ensure that all EU external financial instruments, notably NDICI and IPA III, contribute to the GAP III objectives;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expects specific and measurable baselines, indicators, actions and targets to be added to the joint staff working document on the objectives and indicators to frame the implementation of the GAP III (SWD(2020)0284), as well as road maps and timelines for all objectives, and sanctions in case of non-fulfilment; calls for all GAP III indicators to be disaggregated.
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Urges the EU to lead by example and significantly improve the gender balance of leadership and management positions, notably in the EEAS Headquarters, for Heads of EU Delegations and EU Special Representatives;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Welcomes GAP III focus on young people as drivers of change and calls for the meaningful involvement of young people, women and men, into the conception and implementation of actions; welcomes GAP III’s increased attention to men and boys, gender relations and an improved approach to tackle root causes of gender inequalities through specific objectives and indicators; emphasizes the importance of creating practical ways to involve men and boys as agents of change regarding discriminatory social norms, gender stereotypes, and gender-drivers of conflict in the implementation of GAP III through setting additional indicators and targets related to men and boy's engagement;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Welcomes the reference made in GAP III to the potential of the EU accession process to promote gender equality in candidate and potential candidate countries; calls on the European Commission and the EEAS to further use the accession negotiations as a leverage to make enlargement deliver for women;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8 d. Welcomes that GAP III takes into account the situation of migrant women and girls; calls on particular attention to be paid to the situation of women and girls on the move, on migration routes or camps, specifically calls for their access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), SRHR and to maternal health; stresses the importance of gender-sensitive reintegration programs for internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees after their return to their home and gender-sensitive work with traumatised girls and women;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8 e. Welcomes the GAP III objective to support gender equality through the EU trade policy; calls on the Commission, the Council and the EEAS to promote and support the inclusion of a specific gender chapter in all EU trade and investment agreements, and to ensure that it specifically foresees the commitment to promote gender equality and women empowerment;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8 f. Welcomes that GAP III emphasises the gender dimension of environmental degradation and climate change and reiterates the EU’s commitment to act on it;