Activities of Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP related to 2023/2068(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime
Amendments (12)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender-basedsexist hate speech and hate crimes disproportionately affect women1 ; whereas young women and women in the public sphere are targeted by hate speech in particular; whereas womenare forms of violence against women and girls that perpetuate and exacerbate gender inequality1; whereas young women and women in the public sphere, particularly politicians, women in the media and human rights defenders, are targeted by hate speech; whereas there has been a marked increase in anti- LGBTIQ hate crime and hate speech in Europe and gender biases and other stereotypes are among the main drivers1a; whereas women and LGBTIQ+ people facing intersectional discrimination experience exacerbated hate speech and hate crimes; _________________ 1 Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy, ‘Combating Sexist Hate Speech’, 2016. 1a EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020- 2024, 2020 - Council of Europe, Combating rising hate against LGBTI people in Europe, 2022
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas hate speech directed against women increases in emergencies and during conflicts; whereas it can even incite conflict-related sexual violence and atrocity crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes);
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas multiple factors, such as patriarchal societal structures, structural discrimination, unequal power relations and, gender stereotyping and gender biases, fuel hate speech and hate crimes against women;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas sexist hate speech and disinformation are used both offline and online; whereas it can lead to self- censorship and digital exclusion, resulting in the silencing of women, because of the inability to fully participate and express themselves online out of fear of violence and abuse, excluding them from public debates they would like to be part of1a; _________________ 1a GREVIO General Recommendation No. 1 on the digital dimension of violence against women adopted on 20 October 2021.
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas anti-gender movements are internationally connected and spread rhetoric, particularly through the use of online tools, against anyone who does not fall under the norms of the heteronormative, patriarchal society as is the case with the ongoing campaigning against the so-called ‘gender ideology’ ; whereas these movements have the purpose of creating and perpetuating discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics, thereby violating fundamental rights; whereas the rhetoric propagated by anti- gender movements actively contributes to marginalisation, stigmatisation, exclusion and violence;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas hate speech often starts as an act of bias, which can then lead to motivated violence; whereas hate speech and hate crimes have an enormous psychological and physical impact on individual women and LGBTIQ+ people who are seen as transgressing traditional gender roles and a detrimental impact on communities and society as a whole;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Condemns all forms of hate speech and hate crimes including those committed against women and girls and LGBTIQ+ persons; condemns the actions of anti-gender and anti-feminist movements in Europe and worldwide that aim to overturn existing laws and public policies on women’s rights and LGBTIQ+ rights;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to include an explicit definition of gender-basedsexist hate speech and hate crimes when legislation is proposed; , recognizing that they are specific forms of violence against women and girls; urges also the Commission to include sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics as discrimination grounds specifically covered;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls the need to address the underlying causes of hate speech and hate crimes against women and girls and LGBTIQ+ people and emphasises the importance of adopting comprehensive measures, including mandatory, recurrent and effective capacity-building targeting professionals likely to come into contact with victims to prevent and minimise the risk of hate speech and hate crimes, as well as measures to ensure protection, access to justice, specialised support services and reparation to victims, all of them fully adapted to the particularities of these crimes;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the regular availability and comparability of quality, disaggregated data on all forms of hate speech and hate crimes at Union and national level and to harmonise data collection systems among Member States through cooperation with Eurostat, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and the EIGE; stresses that Member States need to collect accurate disaggregated data on hate speech and hate crimes against women and LGBTIQ+ persons, to interrelate the factors and multiple layers of deprivation, disadvantage and discrimination that make them vulnerable to hate speech and hate crime;