40 Amendments of Virginie JORON related to 2019/2169(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas structures and stereotypes throughout the worldand the increasing application of Islamic law in a large number of countries and segments of societies perpetuate inequality throughout the world, and whereas overcoming these structures and stereotypes will advance gender equality; whereas a strong women’s rights movement is needed to uphold democratic values, fundamental rights and women’s rights in particular, and whereas threats to women’s rights also represent threats to democracy;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas European countries, in view of their spiritual and civilisational heritage, have a duty to defend equality between men and women, while preserving their respective differences and original features, which constitutes an essential foundation for the development of individuals; whereas in this connection all so-called gender theories, as well as any desire to make the gender identity of individuals indeterminate should be rejected and resisted;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas violence against women in all its forms is a violation of human rights and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality; whereas a life free from violence is a prerequisite for equality; whereas disinformation campaigns on gender equality also focus on the issue of violence against women, as has been seen in relation to the Istanbul Convention;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas men and women, who play complementary roles in maintaining families, should be able to benefit from measures designed to ensure that the task of educating children takes place under the best possible conditions; whereas also the educational role played by mothers in particular during childhood should be recognised, valued and benefit as far as possible from appropriate financial and fiscal provisions;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas poverty in Europe disproportionately affects women, in particular single mothers, women with disabilities, and the elderly, migrant and ethnic minority women;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas access to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, and to sex and relationship education, as well as access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, are essential to achieving gender equality;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas the personal and professional objectives of women and men are often different, and whereas for the majority of posts efforts to achieve equal representation are counterproductive, as women and men do not have the same aspirations, with some occupations attracting a majority of women or a majority of men;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The main objectives of gender equality policies are: - to combat violence and inequality caused in particular by social standards dictated by religious and community groups hostile towards the respect to shown women that is inherent in European civilisation; - equal pay for men and women for equal work and equal skills; - economic support for mothers and pregnant women; - to increase pension rights for women who have raised their children; - to fight domestic violence;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Demands that equality between men and women be an essential element of Union policies, while deeply respecting mutual differences and complementarities between men and women, and calls to this end for European funds to be used to target specific actions to support citizens and not just to promote ideological campaigns, whose sole objective is to develop new gender models;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for violence against women to be punished with the most severe criminal penalties; insists that a ban be imposed under press laws on the use of the term 'honour crime' employed in some European societies to describe the murder of young girls who refuse to bow to the demands of Islamic law;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the plan to table an additional recommendation on the prevention of harmful practices, and to launch an EU network on the prevention of both gender-based and domestic violence; requests that the definitions and goals of the Istanbul Convention be applied and that women’s rights and civil society organisations be involved on a continuous basisdeclares resolutely that the application of Islamic law today constitutes the most important factor increasing violence against women in the world, including in the Member States of the European Union with a significant Muslim population;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the plan to table an additional recommendation on the prevention of harmful practices, and to launch an EU network on the prevention of both gender-based and domestic violence; requests that the definitions and goals of the Istanbul Convention be applied and that women’s rights and civil society organisations be involved on a continuous basis;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the plan to table an additional recommendation on the prevention of harmful practices, and to launch an EU network on the prevention of both gender-based and domestic violence; requests that the definitions and goals of the Istanbul Convention be applied and that women’s rights and civil society organisations be involved on a continuous basis without causing an increase in the EU budget;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to present the long-awaited EU strategy on the eradication of trafficking in human beings and underlines the need for a clear gender focus, as women and girls are the most affected and are trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation; insists on the importance of including measures and strategies to reduce demand; demands that surveys be carried out among the chancelleries and diplomatic representations to the European Union of countries known to be practising slavery in order to verify whether such practices are not covered by the immunity conferred on them;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to present the long-awaited EU strategy on the eradication of trafficking in human beings and underlines the need for a clear gender focus, as women and girls are the most affected and are trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation and organ trafficking; insists on the importance of including measures and strategies to reduce demandput an end to human trafficking;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. WelcomNotes the announcement of a new EU-wide survey on the prevalence and dynamics of violence against women;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that the promotion of uncontrolled migration flows leads to serious violations of the rights of women who are often exploited and discriminated against by transnational and transcontinental criminal organisations operating in the area of human trafficking;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to table binding measures on pay transparency by the end of 2020; points out, however,Points out that the issue of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value across different occupational sectors still needs to be addressed; strongly recommends the inclusion of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value between women and men, which could be defined as follows: ‘Work shall be deemed of equal value if, based on a comparison of two groups of workers which have not been formed in an arbitrary manner, the work performed is comparable, taking into account factors such as the working conditions, the degree of responsibility conferred on the workers, and the physical or mental requirements of the work’; points out that gender-neutral job evaluation tools and classification criteria need to be developed for this purpose;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges that gender mainstreaming be incorporated into EU environmental and climate policies, such as the Green Deal, that financial and institutional support, gender expertise and strong policy measures to encourage the equal participation of women in decision-making bodies and national- and local-level climate policy be guaranteed, and that recognition and support be given to women and girls as agents for change; calls on the European authorities to treat the climate issue with all the seriousness it deserves and to avoid recourse to media figures, in particular minors, whose independence and credibility are open to question on this account;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that tax policies have varying impacts on different types of households; stresses that individual taxation is instrumental in terms of achieving tax fairness for wcan have positive consequences in order to help parents, and more particularly mothers, carry out their educational tasks at homen;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Deplores the fact that such a remarkable and courageous personality as Taslima Nasrin had to flee Germany and then Sweden to take refuge in the United States and India; calls on the aforementioned Member States of the European Union to make amends for the harm she has suffered and to provide her with diplomatic protection;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Deplores likewise the fact that Ayaan Hirsi Ali, even though of Dutch nationality, was forced to emigrate to the United States, where she received American nationality, after the refusal of her own government to ensure her protection; calls on the Member States of the European Union to make amends for the harm she has suffered and to provide her with diplomatic protection;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21