6 Amendments of Jackie JONES related to 2019/2028(BUD)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas gender equality is a core objective of the European Union, yet remains severely underfunded. In 2019 the European Institute for Gender Equality found that just 1% of the Union’s Structural and Investment Funds have been set aside for the promotion of gender equality within the 2020 Union budget. Yet gender inequality and discrimination carries an enormous economic cost to both women and society. The World Bank estimates that around EUR 145 trillion is lost in human capital wealth as a result of gender pay inequality. In England and Wales alone, domestic violence costs approximately 33 billion dollars per year, according to UN Women in 2016;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reaffirms its request to increase resources for the Daphne-specific objective within the current REC programme and that such an increase is maintained in the Rights and Values programme; calls to ensure that funding is made available for actions aimed at combating both violence against women and traffickinggirls and human trafficking, particularly for the purpose of sexual exploitation, in the framework of the effective implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for budgetary allocations to support women’s entrepreneurship and women’s economic independence and to ensure and encourage access for women to affordable loans and equity finance through Union programmes and funds, such as COSME, Horizon 2020 and the European Social Fund;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. The European Institute for Gender Equality found in 2019 that gender mainstreaming is “treated as a theme that has little impact on the actual content of funding programmes”. Therefore calls for robust and comprehensive measures to improve gender mainstreaming efforts, including a renewed focus on the promotion of accountability and transparency in fiscal planning and an increase in gender response participation in the budget process;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence without delay, with particular regard to the Convention’s role in the protection of women and girls from violence and the resultant economic impact on victims and societies; calls on relevant Union funds to be utilised in assistance to preparations for, or continued efforts towards, implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Member States;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls for budgetary allocations to target the specific needs of different groups of women facing a diverse range of economic challenges, including but not limited to: period poverty among young girls, economic deprivation of single female pensioners and the gender pensions gap, unpaid caring duties and time poverty among mothers and female carers, and socio-economic exclusion and employment discrimination against BAME women;