Activities of Hannah NEUMANN related to 2019/2167(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Gender Equality in EU’s foreign and security policy (debate)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on Gender Equality in EU’s foreign and security policy
Amendments (21)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Underlines that the principle of equality between women and men is a core value of the EU and gender mainstreaming is thus to be implemented and integrated in all EU activities and policies; stresses that the EU should aim at bringing about a world in which all people, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race and ability can live peacefully, enjoying equal rights, and have the same opportunity to realise their potential;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Welcomes that countries such as Sweden, France, Canada and Mexico have recently adopted and implemented frameworks to advance towards a feminist foreign policy, that Denmark, Switzerland and Norway have a strong gender equality focused foreign policy and that Spain, Luxembourg, Cyprus and Germany have announced their intent to make gender equality a priority of their foreign policy; further welcomes that the new EU Commission has made gender equality one of their key priorities across all policy areas;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the EEAS, the Commission and the EU Member States to systematically integrate gender mainstreaming into the EU’s foreign and security policy; including in multilateral fora and in all political and strategic dialogues, human rights dialogues, policy formulation and programming, country level human rights strategies, public statements, global human rights reporting as well as in the monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recommends for the GAP III to be accompanied by clear, measurable, time- bound indicators of success, including an allocation of responsibility for different actors and with clear objectives in each partner country, developed with the partner country and CSOs;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the VP/HR to make substantial and highly visible progress on gender equality in terms of leadership and management, staffing, training, financial resources and organisational hierarchy; calls in this regard for mandatory training on gender equality and to ensure political and operational commitment to implement effective and transformative gender mainstreaming; calls in this regard for mandatory training on gender equality for all middle and upper managers of the EEAS, and Heads/Commanders of CSDP missions and operations;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Regrets the considerable gender gap in the EEAS, where women account for 31.3% of middle-management positions and for 26% at the level of senior management; welcomes the VP/HR commitment to reach 40% of women in management positions by the end of his mandate; regrets however that last appointments he made resulted in a structure of only male Deputy Secretary- generals;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Welcomes the EEAS Gender and Equal Opportunities Strategy 2018-2023 but regrets the lack of specific and measurable objectives; calls for its update in order to include concrete and binding goals regarding the presence of women in management positions; regrets likewise the absence of diversity targets and of overall diversity in the EU institutions, especially regarding race, ability and ethnic backgrounds; stresses the need for gender-responsive recruitment procedures, including by the European Personnel Selection Office, which do not further accentuate gender inequalities in the institutions;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that not a single one of the 12 civilian CSDP missions is headed by a woman and that out of 70 Heads of Mission so far only 6 have been women; calls on the VP/HR to draw up a gender strategy for CSDP missions with specific targets; calls on EU Member States to fulfil their Commitment 16 of the Civilian CSDP compact by actively promoting the presence of women at all levels and based on increased national contributions; regrets that since the establishment of the compact, the number of women personnel has decreased;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that developing and using gender analysis and the systematic integration of a gender perspective constitutes one of the foundations of effective and lasting conflict prevention and resolution, stabilisation, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, governance and institution building; regrets that the dominant narrative around women is one of victimization that deprives women of their agency and erases their capacity as agents of change, with an increasing body of evidence illustrating that women’s meaningful participation in peace processes plays a significant role in determining its durability and success, since they are likely to put on the table issues such as political reform, implementation and social inequalities; reminds that between 1988 and 2018 women constituted 13% of negotiators, 3% of mediators and only 4% of signatories in major peace processes;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Is deeply disturbed at the fact that sexual violence has increasingly become part of the broader strategy of conflict and a tactic of war; stresses that the EU should support efforts aimed at ending impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence against women;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recognises the fact that humanitarian crises intensify sexual and reproductive health and rights related challenges and recalls that in crisis zones, women and girls are particularly exposed to sexual violence, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual exploitation and unwanted pregnancies;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Welcomes the EU decision to renew the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy and calls for gender mainstreaming and targeted actions for gender equality and women’s rights, including SRHR, to be included in the implementation phase of the Action Plan;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the VP/HR, the EEAS and the Member States to ensure full implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders and to adopt an annex aiming to recognise and develop additional strategies and tools to better and more effectively respond and prevent the specific situation, threads and risk factors faced by women’s human rights defenders; calls for the immediate introduction of a gender perspective and specific measures to support WHRD in all programmes and instruments aiming to protect Human Right Defenders;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the EU Strategic Approach to Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and the EU Action Plan on WPS adopted in 2019; regrets, however, that translating this policy commitment into action remains a challenge; regrets that many EU staff members have not integrated WPS as part of their work and that this agenda is seen as one that can be applied at their discretion and with the objective of improving the effectiveness of missions, but not as way to ensure women’s rights and gender equality on its own;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the work done by the EEAS Principal Advisor on Gender; regrets, however, the limited capacity of this role and calls for the advisor to report directly to the VP/HR; that the EU Task Force on Women, Peace and Security has carried out until now, including by ensuring the participation of relevant civil society organisations in its discussions; welcomes the work done by the EEAS Principal Advisor on Gender; regrets, however, the limited capacity of this role and calls for the advisor to report directly to the VP/HR; calls on the VP/HR to form an organisational division within the EEAS on gender equality and the WPS agenda and to have a full-time gender advisor in each EEAS Directorate, reporting directly to the Principal Advisor;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of National Action Plans for the implementation of the WPS agenda; welcomes that almost all EU Member States will have their National Action Plans on the UNSC Resolution 1325 by the end of the year; regrets however that only one of them includes an allocated budget for implementation; calls on EU Member States to include in this context allocated budget for their implementation and to develop national parliamentary supervising mechanisms as well as to introduce quotas for the participation of women in control, evaluation, and supervising mechanisms;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes that all civilian CSDP missions count now with a gender adviser; regrets however that this is not the case with military CSDP missions; encourages EU Member States to put forward candidates for the existent vacancies; calls to ensure that all EU- deployed military and civilian personnel are sufficiently trained on gender equality and WPS, specifically on how to integrate a gender perspective into their tasks;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls for an update of the Upgraded Generic Standards of Behaviour for CSDP Missions and Operations to include the principle of zero-tolerance to non-action for EU leadership and management regarding sexual and gender-based violence;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls on the EU delegations to monitor the backlash against gender equality and the tendencies of shrinking space for civil society and to take specific steps to protect them; urges the European Commission, EEAS, EU Member States and Heads of EU Delegations to ensure political and financial support to independent local civil society, including women’s organisations, and human rights defenders and make cooperation and consultation with them a standard element of their work;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recognises that gender equality is a prerequisite for efficient management of climate challenges and that in order to achieve a fair and just transition which leaves no one behind all climate action must include a gender and an intersectional perspective; regrets that only 30% of climate negotiators are women and reminds that meaningful and equal participation of women in decision making bodies and EU, national and local level climate policy and action is vital for achieving long-term climate goals; asks the EU and its Member States to ensure access of women’s organisations to international climate funds.
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Is deeply concerned by the unprecedented toll the Covid-19 crisis takes on gender equality advances worldwide in terms of the unequal partition of both domestic and public care work, with women making up around 70% of the global health workforce, the worrisome spike in gender-based violence, partially due to extended periods of confinement, and a constrained access to reproductive and maternal health; stresses that adequate funding must be made urgently available to ensure that women’s organisations, human rights’ defenders and peacebuilders have full and unhindered access to quality technology in order to enable their meaningful participation in decision-making processes during the COVID19 crisis; emphasises the need for the VP/HR and the Commission to acknowledge the necessity of human security, encompassing all aspects of the EU Strategic Approach to WPS; stresses the need to ensure that the implementation of the EU’s Global Response to COVID-19 is not gender blind and calls for it to address the specific needs of women and other marginalized groups appropriately as well as to ensure their involvement in the whole programming cycle;