Activities of Hannah NEUMANN related to 2021/2003(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on the EU Gender Action Plan III
Amendments (23)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the EU Gender Action Plan III (GAP III) and its ambitious and comprehensive objectives, and insists on its full implementation, policy coherence and institutional capacity across all areas of EU external action and the institutional structures of the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS); calls on the Commission and the EEAS to put proper measures in place for continuous monitoring of progress or lack thereof, accountability and transparency in implementing GAP III, as well as for reporting and communicating on achievements and gaps;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Expects the Commission, the Member States and the EEAS to systematically integrate the GAP III in all their external action, at all levels of engagement and in all relevant activities and concepts, including in policy and programming frameworks, strategies, and the Strategic Compass, as well as in its regional cooperation and in multilateral fora;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to use GAP III as a basis to enhance gender mainstreaming in their external action, to put its gender-transformative, rights-based, intersectional approach into practice, and calls on them and the EU to adopt a feminist foreign policy;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to address the problem of structural inequalities across the globe that still inhibit the development and participation of women and marginalised groups, which needs to be the basis for effectively implementing GAP III;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Expects systematic gender mainstreaming in all EU external action to remain at the top of the EU’s political agenda, also beyond the lifetime of the GAP III; emphasises the commitment of the Commission and the EEAS to protect and enable LGBTIQ persons to assert their rights around the world in the Commission’s LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Emphasises the need for a truly gender-transformative approach across all EU external action; recalls that current policies and programming tend to problematise issues touching upon the lives of women and marginalised groups (e.g. their lack of participation in foreign policy making or gender-based violence), by implicitly defining women and marginalised groups as the problem, which normalises masculine values and men as the group in power that sets the rules, rather than tackling root causes, including toxic masculinity and toxic power structures; therefore demands a shift in policy-making by addressing inequalities not simply by tackling the symptoms or treating women and marginalised groups as targets of policy, such as increasing women’s representation but also challenging men’s over-representation;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2 d. Welcomes the GAP III’s recognition of the importance of actively engaging men and boys to promote change in social attitudes and, as a result, broader structural change; highlights the need to support boys and men to adopt healthy and positive attitudes and behaviours, embrace new masculinities and challenge stereotypical gender norms, in order to continuously foster a supportive environment for gender equality, including by engaging with them as agents of change and ensuring that the GAP III yields positive results for them too;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2 e. Urges the Commission and the EEAS to focus on their own internal structures as well, starting with the equitable representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels, establishing the requirements of a gender- responsive leadership for all EU leaders and managers, and gender-sensitive recruitment processes where internal recruitment policies are adjusted through a review of job descriptions (e.g. years of experience), gender-sensitive job evaluation, and a possible mentoring programme for people transitioning into new jobs - to attract more women; calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS and to CSDP missions and operations; calls on the EEAS to also aim for gender balance at all levels of CSDP missions and operations;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2 f. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to collect relevant human resources data, disaggregated by gender, to assess numbers of nominations, short-listed candidates, selections, contract extensions, and length of deployment, among others, and track progress, as well as to conduct systematised interviews with women and people belonging to marginalised groups about their reasons for leaving posts;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2 g. Regrets that the important issue of diversity is grouped into the role of the EEAS Advisor on Gender and Diversity, and calls on the EEAS to accord the necessary importance to both gender equality and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda, as well as diversity and inclusion, and establish one role for each of these topics, each with their own resources and sufficient amount of staff; calls for the appointment of a full-time gender adviser in each EEAS Directorate, reporting directly to the EEAS Advisor and to encourage their staff to work closely with the European Institute for Gender Equality;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2 h. Encourages the Parliament to actively contribute to the GAP III through its parliamentary diplomacy and delegations, and to develop a strategy and concrete guidelines towards this end;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 i (new)
Paragraph 2 i (new)
2 i. Appreciates the commitment to fighting gender-based violence and extending sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); emphasises the importance of systematically supporting the universal access to SRHR around the globe, including access to safe and legal abortion, contraception and sexuality education; highlights the need to take age into account in SRHR-related actions in line with an intersectional approach, by ensuring accessible, youth-friendly information and services;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to prevent and counter any forms of discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, class, religion, disabilitygender expression and sex characteristics, class, caste, religion, disability, physical appearance, or age, as part of EU external action;
Amendment 62 #
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 equality, with special attention to middle and upper management of the EEAS HQ, Heads of EU Delegations, and Heads/ Commanders of CSDP missions and operations, and including on harassment; calls for a zero tolerance policy with regards to sexual and gender-based violence; recalls that this commitment is included in the GAP III and that a commitment to establish an EU-wide policy on sexual harassment has already been made in the WPS Action Plan, without any progress so far;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the need to tackle the shrinking space for civil society and to closely consult with organisations fighting, in particular, for the rights of women, girls and marginalised groups, including girl- and youth-led feminist organisations, groups and movements; encourages their inclusion in the programming and reporting process, as well as regular, structural exchanges with them, and calls for sustainable funding of civil society, as one of the main actors holding the EU to account for the implementation of GAP III; cautions of the current approach of mainly funding larger or well-established organisations, making it extremely difficult for new and smaller organisations to receive funding, while new actors could bring innovative and novel approaches to the status quo;
Amendment 79 #
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 resolutionprevention and resolution, mediation, and peace negotiations, across all tracks; calls on the EEAS to undertake systematic conflict analysis with an integrated gender perspective based on gender analysis and gender-inclusive conflict analysis, in particular on CSDP missions and operations, and activities under the European Peace Facility; stresses the need for sufficient resources to build and strengthen EU expertise and capacity to conduct risk and conflict analyses with an integrated gender perspective, which should involve paying specific attention to gender equality and ensuring the meaningful participation of women and marginalised groups;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls for ending impunity for perpetrators of attacks against women human rights defenders (WHRDs), including women environmental defenders, women peacebuilders and others working for gender equality and the rights of women and marginalised groups; calls for resources, including funding, to be allocated to their security and safety in order to ensure that they can be operational; calls to investigate private sector harassment of WHRDs;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the introduction of country-level implementation plans (CLIPs); insists that all CLIPs be made public and translated into local languages to ensure more effective monitoring of progress or lack thereof, as well as better include a focus on girls and young women; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to take full ownership of gender- sensitive country reporting and gender mainstreaming, avoid outsourcing the work on gender equality to third parties, and establish the necessary expertise and capacity within their services, and ensure that also the multilateral EU Delegations present a plan for their implementation of GAPIII;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the EEAS to enforce the GAP III commitment of one full-time gender focal point in EU Delegations and one gender adviser in all civilian and military CSDP missions and that those should report directly to the senior leadership of the EU Delegations and missions/operations respectively, and to provide training to Member State embassies and EU Delegations on GAP III;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Calls on the EU Delegations in relevant countries to involve other EU and Member States actors in drafting and implementing of CLIPs and to build local action coalitions to pro-actively foster the implementation of GAP III and make it a whole-of-EU exercise;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Recalls that women and girls are disproportionately affected by conflict and climate change, due to cultural and structural gender inequalities, and recalls that climate change and conflicts create compounding gendered risks; therefore calls on the EEAS, the Commission and the Member States to support gender mainstreaming in climate change policy- making at national and international level and in all actions related to the European Green Deal, including by improving the representation of women and marginalised groups, appointing national gender focal points for climate negotiations, and monitoring the interplay of gender equality and climate change;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expects specific and measurable baselines 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 to include in the GAP III additional measures and diversity indicators and targets to ensure the implementation of the intersectional principle.
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls for a focus on results and strengthening accountability towards EU citizens by publicly reporting on the qualitative and quantitative results of the GAP III and assess its impact at country, regional and international level, develop an approach to monitoring which allows it not just to track deliverables but to track social dynamics and how they may have changed as a result of the programmes implemented under GAP III; calls for an independent evaluation, possibly conducted by civil society; welcomes the commitment to a mid-term evaluation of the GAP III, and calls on the Commission and the EEAS to engage in an annual debate with the Parliament to take stock of advancements or lack thereof;