51 Amendments of Barry ANDREWS related to 2022/2049(INI)
Amendment 1 #
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- having regard to Articles 2 and 3(1) ofthe Treaty on European Union (TEU), and Articles 8 of the Treaty on theFunctioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 2 #
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- having regard to the European Pillar ofSocial Rights and, in particular, its principles 2, 3, 11 and 17,
Amendment 3 #
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- having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women(CEDAW) of 18 December 1979,
Amendment 5 #
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- having regard the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989
Amendment 6 #
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- having regard to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995;
Amendment 8 #
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- having regard to its Resolution of 7 July 2022 on the US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and women’s heath in the EU
Amendment 10 #
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- having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (‘Istanbul Convention’),
Amendment 12 #
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- having regard to its resolution of 23 October 2020 on Gender Equality in EU’s foreign and security policy,
Amendment 13 #
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- having regard to the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2021
Amendment 14 #
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- having regard to its resolution of 7April 2022 on the EU’s protection of children and young people fleeing the war in Ukraine,
Amendment 15 #
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- having regard to its resolution of 5 May2022 on the impact of the war against Ukraine on women,
Amendment 16 #
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- having regard the joint communication of the Commission and the High representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy entitled ‘EU Gender Action Plan (GAP) III – An ambitious agenda for gender equality and women’s empowerment in EU external action’ (JOIN(2020)0017), having regard to the Resolution on the impact of the war against Ukraine on women of 5 May 2022,
Amendment 17 #
- having regard to its report of 22 June 2022 on intersectional discrimination in the European Union: the socio-economic situation of women of African, Middle-Eastern, Latin-American and Asian descent,
Amendment 18 #
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Recital A (new)
Recital A (new)
A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the EU; whereas the right to equal treatment and non-discrimination is a fundamental right enshrined in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and should be fully respected; whereas the right to the integrity of the person is paramount under Article 3 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; whereas gender mainstreaming and intersCectional approach should therefore be implemented and integrated as a horizontal principle in all EU activities and policies;
Amendment 20 #
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Recital C (new)
Recital C (new)
C. whereas theCOVID-19 crisis and its consequences have clear gender perspectives as they affect women and men differently all over the world; whereas the pandemic has exacerbated existing structural gender inequalities; whereas its consequences disproportionately affect lives of vulnerable groups including women, people of colour, LGBTQIA+ persons, people with disabilities, older people and others, for example preventing them from access to essential health and care services including SRHR services and gender based violence support;
Amendment 21 #
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Recital D (new)
Recital D (new)
D. whereas since the pandemic violence against women has increased; whereas more than 45% of women reported that they or a woman they know has experienced a form of violence since 2019 and 65% of women reported experiencing it in their lifetime; whereas globally, 245 million of women and girls aged 15 years or over have been subjected to sexual and/or physical violence perpetrated by an intimate partner in the previous 12 months; whereas more than 4 in 10 women feel more unsafe in public spaces than before and 1 in 2 women feel unsafe walking alone at night, whereas 6 in 10 women say they think sexual harassment in public has worsened;
Amendment 23 #
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Recital F (new)
Recital F (new)
F. whereas countries all around the world are facing a backlash against gender equality, women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights, especially in the sphere of access to sexual and reproductive rights; whereas the Supreme Court of the US decided on 24 June 2022 to overturn the Roe v Wade ruling, putting an end to the federal constitutional right to abortion in US, allowing states to ban abortion at any point during pregnancy and opening up the possibility of complete bans on abortion; whereas since then, there had been a growing number of states in US and worldwide, who decided to ban abortions or limit the right to abortion;
Amendment 24 #
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Recital G (new)
Recital G (new)
G. whereas racialised women, women from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, women from minorities, women with disabilities, migrant women and LGBTIQ+ people faceadditional and multiple violations of their human rights; whereas they are often restricted from participating fully and effectively in economic, social and political life; whereas women subjected to intersecting types of discrimination all around the world face multiple obstacles in accessing the formal labour market, leaving them vulnerable to discrimination, poverty, economic exploitation, social exclusion and gender-based violence, including sexual harassment and mistreatment; whereas they face racism and discrimination in access to health care, support services in the case of violence and other services, denying their human rights; whereas afrophobia, antigypsism, antisemitism and islamophobia are widespread forms of racism all around the world;
Amendment 25 #
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Recital H (new)
Recital H (new)
H. whereas all around the world religion and ideology are used against women' and girls' rights and against gender equality in general; whereas women, girls and LGBTQIA+ persons experience gender-based violence and discrimination that impedes their ability to fully enjoy their human rights by state and non-state actors relying on religious ‘justifications’ for their actions; whereas women expressing their religion and beliefs by their clothing or physical appearance are more often victims of violence and discrimination;
Amendment 26 #
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Recital I (new)
Recital I (new)
I. whereas between2021-2022 1a, a total of fourteen female journalists were killed worldwide, marking an increase from the number given for 2020; whereas whilst more male journalists are killed each year, women generally experience more online and sexual harassment and are targeted more frequently in this regard; whereas women are engaging in politics in record numbers around the world, by seeking office and by voting, whereas in many countries this increased participation of women in politics is accompanied by a violent backlash; whereas physical, moral and cyber violence targeting women in politics is creating dangerous obstacles to women’s participation in political processes; whereas women activists, human rights defenders, and social leaders face worsening violence all around the world, _________________ 1a https://en.unesco.org/themes/safety- journalists/observatory
Amendment 27 #
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Recital J (new)
Recital J (new)
J. whereas significant number of women serve in the Ukrainian armed forces in combat and non-combat roles; whereas more than 22.8% of Ukraine's military are female; whereas at least 12 million people have fled their homes since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, most of them women and children, whereas wars and armed conflicts impact women, including those facing intersectional discrimination, in specific ways and exacerbate pre-existing inequalities; whereas women and girls are particularly at risk during humanitarian and displacement crises as they continue disproportionately to be victims of discrimination based on gender norms, of gender-based violence and deprived of access to health care and other services; whereas rape and sexual violence are used as a war weapon; whereas massive displacement and refugee flow due to wars and armed conflicts lead to a spike in human trafficking; whereas women and unaccompanied children are main victims of traffickers, often abusing their vulnerable situation;
Amendment 29 #
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Recital L (new)
Recital L (new)
L. whereas climate change is undermining the enjoyment of human rights and increasing existing gender inequalities; whereas women and girls are more affected by climate change due to their unequal access to resources, education, political power, job opportunities and to land rights than man and due to the existing social and cultural norms such as their role as primary caregivers and often providers of water, food and fuel;
Amendment 31 #
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Recital N (new)
Recital N (new)
N. whereas protecting women and girls and other vulnerable persons from violence and discrimination, in particular with regard to education, information and health services, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, is especially important for ensuring the full enjoyment of their human rights; whereas violations of SRHR, such as forced sterilization, forced abortion, forced pregnancy, criminalization of abortion, denial or delay of safe abortion and/or post-abortion care, abuse and mistreatment of women and girls seeking sexual and reproductive health information, goods and services, female genital mutilations, gynaecologic and obstetrical violence are forms of gender- based violence that, depending on the circumstances, may amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;
Amendment 32 #
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Recital O (new)
Recital O (new)
Amendment 35 #
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Recital R (new)
Recital R (new)
R. whereas gender-based violence constitutes a serious breach of human rights, undermining social stability and security, public health, women’s educational and employment opportunities, as well as the well-being and development prospects of children and communities;
Amendment 39 #
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Amendment 48 #
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Amendment 56 #
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3. Calls on global actors to take all necessary legislative and administrative steps and measures to promote a culture of acceptance, mutual respect and human dignity for men and women at all stages of development and agingIs deeply concerned about the increase of gender inequalities resulting from the successive crises all around the world; notes with concerns the alarming growth of violence against women worldwide during crises; highlights the vulnerable position of women and girls in many parts of the world resulting from the COVID-19pandemic, such as access to healthcare, including SRHR and in particular accesso abortion and contraception, fertility treatment, HIV and STI testing, reproductive cancer screenings, sexuality and relationship education and maternal healthcare;
Amendment 58 #
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Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Highlights that the displacement and refugee flow from wars is always largely gendered; strongly condemns the use of sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon of war and stresses that this constitutes a war crime; expresses its deep concerns about the growing number of reports of human trafficking, sexual violence, exploitation, rape and abuse faced by women and children fleeing Ukraine; call son all host and transit countries receiving refugees to address the specific needs of women and girls and to ensure that gender based violence services and referral pathways and complaints mechanisms are immediately available within communities in languages and formats accessible to all groups; calls on guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services, particularly emergency contraception, abortion care, including for survivors of rape; encourages the fast inclusion of women and children fleeing the war or armed conflicts in host countries;
Amendment 62 #
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Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Recognizes the courage and the strength of Ukrainian female soldiers, who defend their country in large numbers, and all Ukrainian women who provide support and assistance on the ground, as well as those who have decided to flee the country to protect their families;
Amendment 63 #
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Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Stresses that human trafficking for sexual exploitation and other purposes remains one of the biggest risks for women and children fleeing wars and armed conflicts who are in a particularly vulnerable situation; urges the EU and all global actors to identify and prosecute the trafficking networks profiting from the sexual exploitation of refugee women and girls;
Amendment 64 #
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Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Underlines that women and girls need continued access to sexual and reproductive health services throughout conflict and displacement, including access to safe delivery, family planning services, legal and safe abortion or clinical management of rape; calls for funds to be made available for the provision of essential and lifesaving SRHS in line with the UN Minimum Initial Service Package;
Amendment 65 #
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Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3 e. Recalls the difficult situation of and obstacles to transgender persons including transwomen or transgender and intersex women with the male gender marker fleeing wars and armed conflicts; stresses that transgender people whose identity documents do not correspond with their identity should be allowed to pass borders and through internal checkpoints and may not be excluded from civil protection measures; stresses that transgender refugee persons have difficulties to access hormonal treatments; underlines that such treatments another specific medicines for transgender and intersex people are classified as essential by the WHO and thus should be included in humanitarian aid packages;
Amendment 69 #
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Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on global actors and the Member States to forcefully tackle the plight of women and girls throughout the world who are subjected to human trafficking and sexual exploitation; supports efforts to rescue and rehabilitate victims and to rigorously prosecute and reform male and female offenders, including by dismantling criminal gangs who prey on those duped into taking deadly journeys to enter the EU illegallyDenounces the fact that gender- based violence is one of the most widespread forms of violence in the world; points out that gender-based violence is a form of discrimination and a violation of fundamental rights, as well as the result of genderstereotypes, structural and institutional inequalities, underlines the importance of applying a gendered, intersectional and victim-centred approach to all policies and measures to address gender-based violence; calls on the Commission to advance their efforts through the EU foreign policy in that direction;
Amendment 70 #
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Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Strongly condemns all forms of gender-based, physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence including domestic violence, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, stalking, mobbing, human trafficking, child and forced marriage, forced sterilisation, forced abortions, femicide, female genital mutilation, rape as a weapon of domination and of war, as well as cyber violence;underlines that all these forms of violence constitute a serious violations of human rights and dignity, is deeply concerned about the growing phenomenon of femicide in Europe and all around the world;
Amendment 74 #
4 b. Calls on the Council to urgently conclude the EU ratification of the Istanbul Convention and to advocate its ratification by all the Member States; welcomes Commission's proposal for a directive on combatting violence; is concerned by the Turkish withdrawal from the convention; condemns the attempts in some States to revoke measures already taken in implementing the Istanbul Convention and in combating violence against women; calls on EU and Council of Europe to continue to encourage states to join the Convention in order to combat and eliminate gender based violence together;
Amendment 76 #
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Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Calls on global actors to protect and prevent gender based violence and protect vulnerable groups, children, minority groups, LGBTQIA+ and refugee and migrant women, and to investigate and punish acts of violence and hate crimes; welcomes and encourages the efforts and investments of the EU together with its international partners aimed at eliminating all forms of gender based violence;
Amendment 77 #
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Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Highlights the use of threats and violence targeting female journalists or politicians, as well as women engaged in defence of human rights; reminds the state’s primary responsibility to ensure an enabling a safe environment for these publicly exposed women and a protection from threats and attacks; calls for prompt investigations of intimidation, threats, violence and other abuses against these women;
Amendment 78 #
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Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4 e. Stresses that women and girls from ethnic, religious and belief minorities are even more vulnerable to gender-based violence and discrimination; strongly condemns the discrimination and violence against women from minorities in the world, such as Romani women ; considers that right to education, social rights, the right to the healthcare should in no case be diminished or taken away; is deeply concerned about the situation of Uyghurs minority and condemns all violations of human rights such as arbitrary detentions, torture, ill treatment, including forced medical treatment, sexual and gender-based violence which may constitute international crimes;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to promote healthcare practices that benefit women and girls at all stages of development and agingUrges the EU and global actors to reject any further attempts at rolling back gains for women's human rights, equality, right to self-determination and full control over their own bodies; calls on the international society to renew its support for sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to safe and legal abortion, age appropriate, evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education, comprehensive family planning care including contraception and unbiased information, antenatal, childbirth and post natal care both within and beyond the European Union;
Amendment 84 #
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Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses the need for universal access to quality and affordable comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care including the access to safe and legal abortion, both within and beyond the European Union; reaffirms that the denial of quality and affordable comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights services is a form of gender based violence; reiterates that the need to universal accesso quality and affordable sexual and reproductive health care embraces the right to information, including comprehensive sexuality education,
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Condemns all threats, attacks and punishments of activists helping women to access to abortion or contraception; stresses the need to support civil society organisations engaged in the promotion of gender equality and especially reproductive justice;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Condemns the actions of anti- gender and anti-feminist movements, regimes and religions that systematically attack women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights; urges Commission to ensure that governments, civil society organisations supported and funded by the Union do not promote policies against women and LGBTQIA+ individuals, gender discrimination, gender inequality, hate crimes and violence against women and LGBTQIA+ people;
Amendment 90 #
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Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Stresses that over the past 12 months, human rights violations against women and girls have increased disproportionately in Afghanistan despite initial promises to guarantee the right to work and to education for women and girls; condemns that the Taliban is systematically excluding women and girls from public life and political participation; Welcomes that the EU has re-established minimal presence in Kabul ensuring the delivery of assistance and prioritises direct engagement with the Afghan people, including through the Afghan Women Leaders’ Forum which aims to ensure that Afghan women have a voice in international fora;
Amendment 91 #
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Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5 e. Is deeply concerned and saddened by the death of Mahsa Amini, died on September 16th after morality police beat her, apparently for wearing a loose hijab; calls for a prompt, impartial and effective investigation by an independent competent authority; is concerned by the repressive answer and use of power by Iranian government against people who manifest for women’s rights and equality; calls all national authorities to stop targeting, harassing, and detaining women who do not abide by the hijab rules;
Amendment 92 #
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Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5 f. Condemns all forms of violence against LGBTIQIA+ and gender non conforming people; calls on global actors to take into account the increased risk and specific challenges of LGBTQIA+ people, who are particularly vulnerable and often victims of discrimination and violence, and to prevent, investigate and punish acts of violence and hate crimes against them; furthermore calls global actors to take all necessary steps to ensure that gender identity or sexual orientation may under no circumstances be the basis for criminal penalties; calls on respect for the bodily autonomy of all people, in particular by banning intersexgenital mutilation, so-called ‘conversion therapy’ practices, and the forced sterilisation of trans people as a precondition for being granted legal gender recognition; reiterates that gender recognition laws should be adopted in accordance with international human rights standards, thereby making gender recognition accessible, affordable, administrative, quick and based on self-determination;
Amendment 93 #
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Paragraph 5 g (new)
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5 g. Calls on the EU and all global actors to adopt a gender-sensitive response including an intersectionality perspective to all crisis, especially the incoming energetic and climate crises; calls to systematically integrate a gender mainstreaming and intersectionality perspective in the EU’s foreign and security, migration, enlargement, trade and development policy; calls for specific gender chapters in all future EU trade and investment agreements; deeply regrets, in this regard, the lack of an intersectional dimension in the EU's New Pact on Migration and Asylum;
Amendment 94 #
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Paragraph 5 h (new)
Paragraph 5 h (new)
5 h. Recalls that women in all their diversity, in particular those facing intersecting forms of discrimination, in marginalised situations and in conflict settings, are disproportionally affected by climate change and its consequences; calls on the EU and global actors to ensure that all climate action includes an intersectional perspective and that targeted funds and measures are implemented to that end and to guarantee the equal participation of women in all their diversity in decision-making bodies at international, national and local level;
Amendment 95 #
5 i. Stresses that the presence and contribution of women is particularly important in the time of crisis; recalls the EU commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment and the necessity of equal representation of women and men in leadership and in the decision- making;
Amendment 96 #
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Paragraph 5 j (new)
Paragraph 5 j (new)
5 j. Welcomes the fact that efforts to advance the rights of women and girls have gained further prominence worldwide’ notes, however, that no country in the world has achieved gender equality yet; Regrets that fact that the overall progress in women's rights is far below the UN countries’ commitments included in the 1995 Beijing Convention;
Amendment 100 #
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Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to continue its efforts in its new EU action plan on human rights and democracy 2020-2024 to protect and empower women and girls by going beyond stereotypes; stresses that these efforts must,and the Member States to implement the gender equality strategy in a coherent manner both within and outside the EU, and to thake extent possible, be made while fully respecting the right of peoples to self- determination, as enshrined in Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.ffective and concrete actions to counter the backlash against women’s rights and gender equality;