Activities of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2016/0062R(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence: EU accession (continuation of debate)
Shadow reports (1)
INTERIM REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion, by the European Union, of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
Amendments (31)
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24
Citation 24
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality between women and men is a core value of the EU, enshrined in Article 2 of TEU and stressed in Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and must be mainstreamed in EU activities, programmes; whereas the eradication of gender-based violence against women and girls is a prerequisite to achieving real gender equalityfor ensuring the dignity and integrity of people;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the concept of gender- based violence is a misleading term that, owing to its ideological underpinnings, distorts the objective nature of a normative type of violence;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas violence can affect any person, regardless of their sex;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
A c. whereas the concept of gender- based violence implies a difference in treatment between men and women, in violation of the principle of equality;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas gender-based violence against women and girls can affect many fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas gender-based violence against women may take the form of offences such as sexual violence, including rape, female genital mutilation, trafficking in women for the purposes of sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, ‘honour crimes’ and forced marriages, femicide, stalking and various forms of cyberviolence;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas the concept of gender is poorly defined and the result of sociological and cultural theories with no anthropological underpinning or basis in science;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
G b. whereas using the concept of gender to refer to women is a contradiction in terms since it admits a number of options that have nothing to do with womanhood;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
G c. whereas gender-based violence only takes account of one type of victim and presumes that the man is the aggressor. This discriminates against men by violating their right to the presumption of innocence and violates their dignity;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
G d. whereas, with the aim of supposedly protecting women, injustice and violence is committed against men;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G e (new)
Recital G e (new)
G e. whereas focusing on violence as an action against women simply because they are women is a flawed characterisation of an alleged crime that does not conform to an objective judgment of reality;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas the Istanbul Convention is a treaty which should be binding only on those signatory states which have also ratified it;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas the European Union must respect the decision of those Member States which, in asserting their sovereignty, have decided not to ratify the Istanbul Convention;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
L a. whereas, by virtue of the nature of the Treaties, the European Union cannot force any Member State to sign up, which would constitute unacceptable meddling by the EU;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Warns against making the mistake of putting forth any proposal which includes ideologically motivated content, thus moving away from strictly legal terms, which must be clear, precise and concise, and cannot encompass new definitions that eradicate the binary sexual difference between men and women;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses the damage the Istanbul Convention does by concerning itself exclusively with violence against women, thus causing violence against men, who are discriminated against;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Whereas the Treaty's own preamble is worded in a discriminatory manner by asserting there has been an alleged historical domination and discrimination of women by men;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Takes the view that that the Istanbul Convention refers to gender in a subjective manner and that this gives rise to legal uncertainty in rules;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a Considers the premise of the Preamble and Chapter III of the Istanbul Convention to be unacceptable as it prejudges men as supposedly the dominators of and main discriminators against women;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for a constructive dialogue with the Council and Member States in cooperation with the Council of Europe to address Member States’ reservations, objections and concerns and clon the European institutions to respect the competences of the Member States and the principles of subsidiarifty misleading interpretations of the Istanbul Convention in order to make progress in this areaand proportionality enshrined in the Treaties;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Stresses that ratification of the Istanbul Convention cannot be made mandatory when there are conflicts between it and the constitutions of certain Member States;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recognises the incredible amount of work performed by civil society organisations, in particular women’s human rights organisations, in preventing and combating violence against women and girls and their efforts to provide assistance to the victims of gender-based violence; urges the Member States to support these activities by providing sufficient human and financial resources;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17