7 Amendments of Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU related to 2020/2118(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressures on public health systems and the lockdown measures have further restricted access to sexual and reproductive health services and this jeopardises the health of women;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need to support the actions of the FAO and the WFP aimed at mitigating hunger and loss of livelihood and building up resilient food systems, such as those to set up a global data facility for the provision of swift information on humanitarian needs, to provide food production assistance and access to food, to organise cash transfers and in-kind food distribution and school meals, to stabilise food systems, and to ensure the functioning of local food markets, value chains and systems while focusing on smallholder farmers by implementing sanitary measures in order to prevent the transmission of COVID-19;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that access to water and soap is essential in enabling hand hygiene and slowing the spread of COVID-19 and other diseases; points out that many health centres and households but also schools are not equipped with hand- washing facilities; urges Team Europe to make access to WASH services in partner countries a priority in the response to COVID-19 and the preparation for future health threats and to allocate adequate funds for those services;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the especially severe consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns and the collateral damage that has been suffered by women, girls and children, in particular the rise in gender-based violencerestricted access to sexual and reproductive health services, the rise in gender-based violence and early and unwanted pregnancies, but also the exposure of women to COVID-19 due to their disproportionately high representation in the global health workforce; calls for action to counterbalance the disproportionate care burden borne by women and any potential roll-backs in safety, health, emancipation, economic independence and empowerment, and education, through specific programmes such as the spotlight initiative and the Gender Action Plan III and by re- focusing European support; calls for meaningful participation of women in the decisions that impact their health and working lives; underlines the need to include the gender perspective in the EU’s COVID-19 response, to advocate for inclusive decision-making bodies and collect sex- and age-disaggregated data for gender analysis;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented numbers of pupils missing out on months of schooling, constituting a major set-back to efforts in the education sector especially with regard to girls’ and women’s education, including sex education; urges governments to use school closures only as a measure of last resort in the fight against the pandemic; presses for education to be kept as a spending priority in EU development policy and for due consideration to be given to the social function of schools; urges governments, in this context, to prioritise support for the most marginalised children and their families; recommends that EU countries share their approaches to keeping up teaching even in times of crisis and asks the EU and its Member States to exploit the potential of remote and digital learning in their international support programmes;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of universal health coverage and assisting and exchanging best practice with partner countries in identifying vulnerabilities, building up prevention and crisis response mechanisms as well as protecting critical infrastructure in order better to deal with future systemic shocks of all kinds, especially health threats and the consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Points out that pandemics are often of zoonotic origin; underlines, therefore, the need to support education programmes regarding the dangers of hunting and trading in wild animals as well as the stricter protection of ecosystems and habitatsstresses that, in the communication on the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030, the EU undertakes to step up ‘its support to global efforts to apply the One Health approach, which recognises the intrinsic connection between human health, animal health and healthy resilient nature’; underlines, therefore, the need to support education programmes regarding the dangers of hunting and trading in wild animals as well as the stricter protection of ecosystems and habitats; calls for increased support for partner countries in preventing poaching and the trafficking of wild animals, ensuring in particular that local communities are involved in wildlife protection;