Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2021/2254(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas – towards stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040
Amendments (30)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy effective equal rights, economic independence and professional fulfilment; whereas precarious employment should therefore be eradicated through the mandatory application of the principle that for every existing job another permanent post should be created, and by recognising and enhancing the right to jobs with rights;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas migrant women are at major risk of labour exploitation, discrimination, lacking access to social services and legal protection and being subject to physical, psychological, economic and sexual abuse;
Amendment 16 #
Ac. whereas the right to housing should be safeguarded in practice by guaranteeing that citizens and families have adequate housing which meets their needs and secures their well-being, privacy and quality of life, thereby helping to achieve social justice and cohesion and tackle social exclusion and poverty;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas there is a need for multidimensional political solutions, integrating measures to prevent precarious work and promote jobs with rights, working hours and work-life balance; whereas a public network of crèches, care homes, health care, care for people with disabilities and other needs, a public social security system and differentiated work organisation practices, at the request of women, are essential to achieve this;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas undocumented workers or those staying illegally are often employed under less favourable working conditions than other workers and whereas some employers are therefore induced to recruit labour in the above categories in order to gain an unfair competitive advantage: whereas EU migration policies are adding to the vulnerability of, and failing to protect, undocumented migrant women victims of violence, who, for the most part, do not seek help;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas women farmers have a significant presence in family farming, and are therefore particularly affected by the low prices paid to producers, specifically the prices imposed by large distribution chains;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas young people are one of the social groups most affected by the current deterioration in the labour market, being more exposed to unemployment, precarious employment and low wages, even though they have higher levels of education than previous generations;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas it is essential that the CAP guarantee more sustainable and democratic models of production and consumption, enhancing the role of small and medium-sized holdings and family farming;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas cuts in public budgets resulting from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of the measures contained in ‘economic governance’ and financial adjustment programmes, are causing and will continue to cause increasing gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies and, consequently, increasing the feminisation of poverty, and a change in policy is therefore required;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas there is a need to adopt forms of intervention in the supply chain in the event of serious imbalances, such as the setting of maximum intermediation margins, in order to promote a fair and appropriate distribution of added value along the food supply chain; whereas there is a need to adopt a quota system for domestic production, with imports becoming a substitute for domestically produced items;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas small and medium-sized farms and family farms suffer discrimination in the distribution of CAP aid, which particularly affects women farmers;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Cf. whereas in recent months women farmers have also been the target of speculation in the prices of factors of production (seeds, pesticides, fertilisers, fuel, energy, machinery);
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the importance of making it genuinely possible to combine work, private and family life, which will have the positive effect of increasing the participation of women from all sections of society in social and political life;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasises the need for a policy to regulate markets, particularly in the dairy and wine sectors, and to ensure preferential support for small and medium-sized farmers, with modulation and capping of aid; to promote the flow of production and consumption of food produced as locally as possible; to promote the most sustainable systems of production;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Recommends the creation of a public agricultural insurance scheme, financed from the EU budget, to be mobilised in the event of (increasingly frequent) extreme weather events or disaster situations, providing an adequate level of protection for all farmers; to counteract the human desertification of the rural world, urges the Commission to protect small and medium-sized farming and family farming, as they are normally associated with high-quality, sustainable production models that are capable of ensuring social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Calls on the Commission to undertake to regulate the prices paid to producers and, in particular, to prohibit contracts being concluded at prices below production cost and to combat speculation in the costs of factors of production;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Calls for a position that enables fairer distribution of EU aid under the CAP among countries, producers and products.
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the introduction of public transport policies, and, in particular, the development and improvement of public transport services, on a basis that takes account of equality between men and women, thus enabling women to be more active in the labour market and in searching for work by making them truly mobile;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Maintains that states and employers have to assume greater responsibility for generational replacement and maternity and paternity rights, implying that women must have the right to be both mothers and workers without forfeiting labour rights;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls for the expansion of the public network of day nurseries, crèches and public recreational activities for children, and the development of the public support network for the elderly and a public network of community hospitals;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses the right of the elderly to economic security, through a decent pension, and to housing conditions and family and community life which respect their personal autonomy and avoid and overcome isolation or social marginalisation; calls for the creation of a quality network of facilities providing support for the elderly, accessible to all citizens regardless of their socioeconomic status, particularly day centres, residential homes and home help; stresses their right to have access to quality public health services allowing universal access to a healthy ageing process;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Calls on the Member States, in their national action plans, to eliminate domestic violence, to lay down the obligation of supporting undocumented migrant women in exactly the same way as women staying legally, without any requirement for institutions to report such cases to the authorities;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Calls on the Member States to implement policies aimed at regularising the situation of immigrant workers, enabling them to enjoy their labour, social, cultural, civil, and political rights, as is necessary in order to stamp out unacceptable instances of overexploitation;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Calls on the Member States to take on responsibility for guaranteeing the right to housing for everyone, in particular by launching housing programmes for less well-off citizens, providing incentives for promoting controlled-cost housing, constructing social rented housing, promoting and financing self-building programmes, supporting the cooperative sector, launching effective and non-speculative credit policies and regulating a non- speculative rental market;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that the situation of women in rural areas is heavily influenced by the agricultural situation and that unfair measures under the Common Agricultural Policy have resulted in the increasing abandonment of small and medium-sized holdings and family agriculture; stresses the need to increase support in order to maintain family agriculture and ensure rural development, with particular emphasis on the work of women, including women migrants who work in agriculture;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Member States to close the gender pay gap and the pensions gap; points out that pensions should be upgraded to provide a fair income that allows people to live in dignity and can never be below the poverty line; stresses the need to defend public, solidarity-based and universal social security systems that guarantee decent pensions for all;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Urges the Member States to implement specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Urges the Member States to guarantee that women can exercise their rights in all areas of society, prohibiting and penalising all forms of discrimination;