Activities of Sira REGO related to 2021/2243(INI)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on intersectional discrimination in the European Union: the socio-economic situation of women of African, Middle-Eastern, Latin-American and Asian descent
Amendments (19)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the precarious situation faced by migrant domestic workers is an example whmajority of women of African, Middle-eastern, Latin-American and Asian descent in Europe work in low paying jobs, especially migrant domestic workers whose precarious situation renderes the intersectionality of race, gender, socioeconomic status and nationality vis visible; whereas the dependency of a resident permit to a spouse or an employer exposes migrant women to other risks such as gender- biased violence and institutional discrimination;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas racialised women face obstacles in accessing the labour market and as a result predominantly engage in occupations with a higher risk of developing occupational diseases, such as musculoskeletal disorders;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas racialised women, including women of African descent are more likely to have their symptoms dismissed by medical providers, whereas the medical education in many European countries does not address diseases and symptoms that affect women of African, Middle-Eastern, Latin-American and Asian descent;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas in some European countries, Black women are four times as likely, and Asian Women twice as likely to die in childbirth then white women, and women of African descent have a higher risk of dying of life threatening diseases even if those diseases are less prevalent among them 1a; _________________ 1a https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.100 2/ijc.32726
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas in some Member States, Roma women still experience ethnic segregation in reproductive health care setting, facing exacerbated forms of verbal, physical, and psychological violence and harassment during childbirth; reminds that Romani women have been subjected historically to systematic practices of forced and coercive sterilisation in the EU;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas women who face multiple discrimination are at a higher risk of having their children taken into state custody and being denied adequate financial support in order to raise their children;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. whereas intersecting types of discrimination can have a serious impact on the life of survivors of gender-based violence such as female or intersex genital mutilation, for example by limiting or impeding their access to the prevention, support and protection services they need as a result of a combination of types of discrimination and cultural and linguistic barriers;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital B h (new)
Recital B h (new)
Bh. whereas lesbophobia must be understood as violence at the intersection of homophobia and misogyny, constituting a type of violence with its own roots, patterns, modes and consequences formed by this intersectional experience; whereas one in six (16%) lesbian or bisexual women reported episodes of discrimination when accessing healthcare or social services;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital B i (new)
Recital B i (new)
Bi. whereas women with disabilities encounter physical and other barriers in their daily lives, which discriminate against others and therefore limit the proper development of their rights;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CRecalls the long-standing call of the Parliament for the Anti- Discrimination Directive that has been blocked in Council since 2008; calls on forthcoming presidencies of the Council to make equal treatment and the fight against discrimination a key priority and to adopt without delay the Anti-Discrimination Directive; stresses that this directive presents a unique opportunity to addressin all its forms a key priority to break the deadlock; calls for the adoption of a new Equality legislative framework combating intersectional discrimination, in fields other than employment and occupcluding in its structural and institutional forms, to move away from a single-axis individual approach and address systemic discrimination;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States and EU Institutions to implement implicit bias and sensitisation trainings of senior leaders within its institutions, including in judicial institutions, asylum processing and intake centres, police, education, healthcare professionals and other civil servants, and address the effects of implicit biases on decisions, actions and interactions generated due to persisting stereotypes and the under representation of certain groups in these areas;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for a thorough analysis of EU migration and asylum policies to address the intersectional discrimination experienced by women; recalls the need to provide protection to all women fleeing from a situation of abuse, irrespective of their status, and calls to end the dependency of a resident permit to a spouse or an employer in order to protect women from abuse;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Urges the Member States that have not yet done so to ratify ILO Convention 189 so that domestic workers may enjoy the rights and recognition of their work and their contribution to the global economy that this convention establishes;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Encourages Member States to ensure accessible and transparent legal gender recognition procedures, based on self-determination and in line with WHO ICD-11, and to legally recognize trans, non-binary and intersex persons, without the need for medical or psychological diagnoses of any kind, or the need for medical treatment, thus contributing to their depathologization as established by the WHO; stresses the importance of this legislation being applied to all persons, including migrants in an irregular administrative situation;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Urges Member States to ban intersex genital mutilation and to ensure that intersex infants are not subjected to non-vital medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Calls on Member States to grant protection to all lesbian, bisexual, trans and intersex women seeking safety in the European Union;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure the right to housing of low-income households, which are often those of women from African, Middle-Easter, Latin-American and Asian descent, through the allocation of an EU budget allocated to renovation in the areas of housing and energy specifically supporting low-income households;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Notes that access to health can be impaired by the compounded effect of intersectional discrimination: calls on the Member States to ensure universal health coverage and to urgently remove the barriers that exist to healthcare for all, including undocumented migrants;