16 Amendments of Hannah NEUMANN related to 2021/2209(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas since March 2020, around 194 countries have closed schools nationwide because of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting more than 1.8 billion school learners globally and cutting off their access to education and to other vital benefits that schools provide; whereas the pandemic, leading to school closures worldwide, has had an acute and long- lasting impact on the mental health of children including anxiety, fear and depressive symptoms; whereas one third of children globally do not have access to the internet;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas according to UNICEF, 1,3 billion (or two thirds) of the world's school-age children lack internet connection at home, creating a key barrier for remote learning;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the pandemic has compounded the critical situation of children in a number of conflict regions, often characterised inter alia by increasing insecurity, higher vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and attacks on educational institutions, leaving children at a heightened risk of being recruited into conflict, posing a serious violation of children's rights and international humanitarian law
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas an estimated additional 825 million children will not reach adulthood with the secondary-level skills they need for work and life by 2030; whereas millions of children and young people who regularly attended schools are not developing the skills they need to get a job, start a business and contribute to their communitiesand knowledge to achieve their full potential;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas according to UN, there are 11 million primary and secondary school learners worldwide – 5.2 million of whom are girls – at risk of not returning to education following COVID-19-related school closures5 ; whereas this situation risks undermining the results obtained in the area of girls' education and towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular those related to poverty reduction, health and well-being, quality education and gender equality; _________________ 5 UNESCO (30 July 2020), How many students are at risk of not returning to school?.
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas school closures have distinct gendered impacts with risks of widening inequalities; whereas it is estimated that school closures during crises may lead to increases in teenage pregnancy of as much as 65 %6 ; whereas girls out of school are disproportionally exposed to the risk of child marriage; whereas it is estimated that one million girls in Sub- Saharan Africa may be blocked from returning to schools once they reopen given the existence of certain policies that ban pregnant girls and young mothers from school; whereas the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child have warned that two million more cases of female genital mutilation could occur over the next decade because COVID-19 is forcing schools to close and disrupting programmes that help protect girls from these harmful practices; _________________ 6World Vision (2020), COVID-19 Aftershocks: Access Denied.
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas according to several national and regional law enforcement authorities, children out of school – in particular girls and children from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as children of minorities, rural, indigenous and migrant children, children with disabilities and children in care, among others – are disproportionally vulnerable to exploitation, child labour and domestic violence, including the witnessing of violence, online bullying and other crimes such as sexual exploitation and abuse7 ; _________________ 7Press release of 19 June 2020 by Europol entitled ‘Exploiting Isolation: Sexual Predators Increasingly Targeting Children during COVID Pandemic’.
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Urges the EU to promote a child rights-based approach to global efforts to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to education for children, and which is based on the principles of non-discrimination, best interests of the child and child participation;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that improving domestic resource mobilisation, protecting and increasing domestic expenditure on social sectors, notably education and health, lowering barriers to girl's education, and improving the quality of this expenditure is essentialmust be prioritized in national recovery plans and assistance programmes by European and International Financial Institutions worldwide; insists, in this context, on ensuring equitable allocation and financing so that marginalised children and young people especially girls and children from disadvantaged backgrounds are not left behind;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Underscores that the best interests of the child must guide all efforts to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to education and that such measures must respect the children's rights to be informed, empowered and provided with opportunities to have their voices heard and to participate on an equal footing in all decision-making processes affecting them, in their communities and in society at large;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CallsReiterates its call for a temporary waiver of the WTO TRIPS Agreement on COVID vaccines, aiming to enhance global access to affordable COVID-19- related medical products and to address global production constraints and supply shortages; calls also on the Member States to increase their contributions to the UN COVAX programme to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines for third countries in order to allow them to put national COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in place that are in line with the guidelines set by competent national public health authorities and the World Health Organization, so as to ensure a speedy return to schools;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to support the authorities of third countries in establishing risk mitigation and management plans through resilience planning; highlights the importance of developing contingency planning and crisis response plans now to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in schools and to better anticipate the impact of school closures on children, especially on the poorest and most marginalised children; in this regard, highlights the need to prioritise children in conflict region and their access to quality and free education;
Amendment 100 #
7. Calls on the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to support the authorities of third countries in proactively issuing guidance on best practices in remote learning, and in ensuring that appropriate and safe tools, curricula and technology are used and are made accessible to children from low- income families, rural, indigenous and migrant children, marginalised children and children with disabilities or learning difficulties, children in alternative care, children in places of detention, and children living in remote areas or in environments where they are deprived of liberty or where internet access is not ubiquitous; reiterates the importance ofpotential for digital learning as a great equaliser thato enables educational institutions to reach all children at speed and scale, while at the same time fostering partnerships and working with a wide range of actors from civil society as well as the public and private sectors; insists however that investment in digital learning must seek to reduce the digital divide and be context-specific, consistent with the best interests of the child and not be to the detriment of supporting basic education infrastructure and staff as well as in-person learning;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to support the governments of third countries in building stronger gender- responsive education systems accompanied by the eradication of all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls; recalls the need for girls to be able to complete their education and have access to age appropriate information and services, without discrimination, free of gender bias and with an equal opportunity to fulfil their potential;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to support the authorities of partner countries in addressing the challenges in their education systems with the aim of making them capable of withstanding future crises, and making systems more resilient, gender- responsive and inclusive, through planning for resilience, implementing learning recovery programmes and protecting educational budgets, with dedicated investments in high-quality, affordable and inclusive education, including investments in education technology, teacher training and other resources to ensure children and youth do not miss out on opportunities to enter the labour market later in life;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Deplores that the United States of America remains the last UN Member State not to have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and calls on the US administration to take urgent action in order to make this core human rights convention effectively universal;