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Activities of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2019/2167(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

2020/10/22
Dossiers: 2019/2167(INI)

Amendments (30)

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the principle of equality between women and men is a core value of the EU, and gender mainstreaming should therefore be implemented and integrated into all EU activities and policies; whereas the EU should contribute to creating a world in which all people, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race and ability can live peacefully, enjoying equal rights and the same opportunity to realise their potential;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. It is important that foreign policy focuses effectively on European Union interests and not on ideological policies;

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas women and girls are particularly affected by violence, poverty, armed conflicts and the impact of the climate emergency; whereas there is a growing global trend towards authoritarianism and an increasing number of fundamentalist groups, both of which are clearly linked to a backlash against women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights; whereas any understanding of security that focuses on States rather than human beings is defective and will not lead to peace;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas countries such as Sweden, France, Canada and Mexico have recently adopted and implemented frameworks to advance towards a feminist foreign policy; whereas a policy of this type questions the existing balance of power and aims to define its interactions with other States and movements in a manner that, firstly, gives priority to gender equality, protects and promotes the human rights of women and other traditionally marginalised groups; secondly, aims to guarantee their fair access to social, economic and political resources and their participation at all levels; thirdly, allocates significant resources to achieve that vision and seeks through its implementation to disrupt male-dominated power structures across all of its levels of influence; and finally, is informed by the voices of women human rights defenders and civil society; whereas any future EU foreign and security policy should aim to achieve these goals;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas Denmark, Switzerland and Norway have a strong gender equality-focused foreign policy; whereas Spain, Luxembourg, Cyprus and Germany have announced their intention to make gender equality a priority of their foreign policy; whereas the new Commission has made gender equality one of its key priorities across all policy areas;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

~~E. whereas the EU Strategic Approach to WPS represents significant progress in terms of the EU’s engagement with the WPS agenda;~~deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas GAP II constituted an important step forward in fostering gender equality in the EU’s external relations, but its implementation still displays a number of shortcomings such as a narrow scope, the absence of gender- responsive budgeting, a lack of commitment on the part of the EU’s leaders, and a lack of institutional architecture and incentives to motivate and adequately support staff;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas GAP II has set the target of mainstreaming gender actions across 85 % of all new EU initiatives by 2020; whereas in spite of progress having been made, in 2018 only between 55 % and 68 % of the new programmes incorporated gender;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas women remain largely under-represented in politics, particularly in the area of foreign policy and international security; whereas in the EU, 6 women hold the post of defence minister and only 3 out of 27 foreign ministers are women;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas in the EEAS, men hold 75 % of middle management positions and 87 % of senior management posts; whereas the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) committed to reaching the target of 40 % of management positions being held by women by the end of his mandate; whereas the most recent appointments he made resulted in a structure with exclusively male Deputy Secretary-Generals;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas progress has been made in the realisation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) across the world, but important shortcomings continue to exist and threats of regression persist; whereas in 2018 the number of EU actions on SRHR decreased and the lowest number of global actions by Commission services on gender equality pertained to SRHR;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the work of gender advisers and focal points is central to translating EU policies on gender equality and WPS into analysis, planning, conduct and evaluation, as well as to facilitating the integration of a gender perspective into daily tasks and operations; whereas gender advisers and focal points face numerous challenges in the performance of their duties;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas only one third of all EU Delegations work on the rights of LGBTIQ+ people; whereas the EU’s LGBTIQ+ Guidelines are not being applied uniformly and their implementation depends strongly on the knowledge and interest of the Delegations’ leadership instead of respecting a structural approach;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas limited funding and understaffing are fundamental obstacles to implementing EU objectives on gender equality; whereas policy coherence in the area of gender equality is also lacking, and a unified system facilitating an identical understanding and implementation of gender mainstreaming in EU institutions does not yet exist;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the EU and its Member States to commit to advancing towards a foreign and security policy that incorporates a gender-transformative vision, putting the need to address unequal structures and power relations at its centre; stresses the need for such policy to be grounded in rigorous gender analysis and systematic gender impact assessments, and for a meaningful and equitable role at all levels and stages of decision-making to be secured for women and for people from diverse backgrounds;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to carry out a review and present a new EU Gender Action Plan III in 2020; stresses that this document needs to take the form of a communication in order to ensure its effective implementation; welcomes the EU Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, and calls for its robust implementation; welcomes the decision to renew the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy, and calls for gender mainstreaming and targeted actions for gender equality and women’s rights, including SRHR, to be included in the Action Plan;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for further policy coherence and coordination in the implementation of the range of commitments on gender equality included in the EU’s external action; stresses that the EU Strategic Approach should be linked to and synchronised with the new GAP III, and calls for the 2019 EU Action Plan on WPS to be included in GAP III as a separate chapter;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the EEAS, the relevant Commission services and the Member States to systematically integrate gender mainstreaming and an intersectional perspective into the EU’s foreign and security policy;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the need to ensure continued commitment at the highest political levels to the implementation of GAP III; requests that GAP III specify that 85 % of official development assistance (ODA) should go to programmes which have gender equality as a significant or as a principal objective, and that, within this broader commitment, 20 % of ODA should be allocated to programmes with gender equality, including SRHR, as a principal objective; calls for further targeted actions to achieve gender equality; calls, furthermore, for the new plan to strengthen qualitative analyses and to move beyond the ‘box ticking’ logic to assess the real impact of such programmes in advancing gender equality;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Recommends that GAP III be accompanied by clear, measurable, time- bound indicators of success, including an attribution of responsibility to different actors, and with clear objectives in each partner country, developed with the partner country and civil society organisations (CSOs);deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls for specific earmarked funding on gender equality in the framework of the proposed Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) regulation, and for reduced administrative constraints to allow access to funding for local and small CSOs; stresses the importance of ensuring that partners can count on receiving sufficient financial resources for gender mainstreaming;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

~~8. Calls on the Member States to create a formal Council working group on gender equality;~~deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the work done by the EEAS Principal Adviser on gender; regrets, however, the limited capacity in terms of staff and resources assigned to this position, and calls for its holder to report directly to the VP/HR; calls on the VP/HR to create an organisational division within the EEAS on gender equality and the WPS agenda, and to have a full-time gender adviser in each EEAS Directorate, reporting directly to the Principal Adviser;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes the EEAS Gender and Equal Opportunities Strategy 2018-2023, but regrets the lack of specific and measurable objectives; calls for it to be updated in order to include concrete and binding goals on the presence of women in management positions; recommends a target of 50 % of management positions being held by women, including as Heads of Delegation and Heads of CSDP missions and operations; regrets, in addition, the absence of other diversity targets and of overall diversity in the EU institutions, especially regarding race, ability and ethnic backgrounds;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the VP/HR to ensure that Heads of EU Delegations abroad have a formal responsibility to ensure gender equality is mainstreamed throughout all aspects of the delegation’s work and that they be required to report on it; further calls on the VP/HR to ensure that there is one full-time gender focal point in the EU delegations;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that achieving gender equality is not possible without a gender- responsive leadership; calls, in this context, for mandatory training on gender equality for all middle and senior managers of the EEAS and Heads/Commanders of CSDP missions and operations;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for the EU and the Member States to comply with all international commitments related to the global gender equality agenda; calls, furthermore, for them to encourage and support partner states to repeal the reservations they have entered with regard to CEDAW, and to implement the Declaration and the Action Plan from the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, including through legislation;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the VP/HR, the EEAS and the Member States to ensure full implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, and to adopt an annex aiming to recognise and develop additional strategies and tools to respond better and more effectively to prevent the specific situation, threats and risk factors faced by defenders of women’s human rights;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the EU Delegations to monitor the backlash against gender equality and SRHR and the tendency towards shrinking space for civil society, and to take specific steps to protect them; urges the Commission, the EEAS, the Member States and Heads of EU Delegations to ensure political and financial support to local CSOs, including women’s organisations and human rights defenders, and to make cooperation and consultation with them a standard element of their work;deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM

Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

~~16. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission.~~deleted

2020/04/29
Committee: FEMM