Activities of Andżelika Anna MOŻDŻANOWSKA related to 2019/2166(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the impact of intimate partner violence and custody rights on women and children
Amendments (10)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15
Citation 15
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality between women and men is a fundamental value and an objective of the EU; whereas gender-based violence is an extreme form of discrimination against women and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality between women and men ;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality is a fundamental value and an objective of the EU; whereas gender-based violenceviolence based on sex is an extreme form of discrimination against women and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, in spite of numerous instances of formal recognition and progress having been made on gender equality, between women and men, they do not enjoy the same rights in practice and social, economic and cultural inequalities persist;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas intimate partner violence refers to any act of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occurs between former or current spouses or partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares or has shared a residence with the victim; whereas intimate partner violence is one of the most prevalent forms of gender-based violenceviolence based on sex, with an estimated 22 % of women having experienced physical and/or sexual violence, and 43 % having experienced psychological violence by their partner6 ; whereas women and children are disproportionately affected by this type of violence; whereas domestic violence is a serious and often hidden social problem that can cause systematic physical and psychological trauma with serious consequences for the victims, as the perpetrator is a person the victim should be able to trust; _________________ 6FRA report of 3 March 2014 entitled ‘Violence against women: an EU-wide survey’.
Amendment 73 #
D. whereas the lockdown and social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have been associated with an exponential increase in the prevalence and intensity of intimate partner violence cases in many Member States, resulting from forced confinement within the home and making it difficult for women to access effective protection and support; whereas in spite of the prevalence of the phenomenon, intimate partner violence against women remains under-reported in the EU and there is a significant lack of comprehensive data in this regard;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, in order to address the issue of the eradication of gender-based violenceviolence based on sex, it is necessary to rely on consistent and comparable administrative data, based on a robust and coordinated framework of data collection; whereas the current available data collected by the Member States’ law enforcement and justice authorities fail to reflect the full extent of intimate partner violence, as most Member States neither collect gender- sex-segregated comparable data on gender- based violenceviolence based on sex nor do they recognise intimate partner violence as a specific offence;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Strongly recommends that Member States establish specialised courts and judicial offices, as well as appropriate laws, training, procedures and guidelines for all professionals dealing with the victims, including raising awareness of gender-based violenceviolence based on sex, in order to avoid discrepancies between judicial decisions and discrimination or secondary victimisation during judicial, medical and police proceedings, ensuring that children and women are duly heard and their protection is given priority; emphasises the need to strengthen dedicated judicial offices and child and female victim- friendly justice, limiting the excessive discretionary powers of practitioners and establishing checks on child custody procedures by qualified professional figures;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide quality, gender- sex- segregated and comparable EU-wide data on the prevalence, causes, consequences and management of intimate partner violence and custody rights, making full use of the capacity and expertise of the EIGE;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses its concern about the fact that discriminatory gender biasbias against women often leads to a lack of trust in women, in particular concerning presumed false allegations of child abuse and of domestic violence;