15 Amendments of Glenys KINNOCK related to 2008/2111(INI)
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w a (new) (plus new heading)
Paragraph 1 – point w a (new) (plus new heading)
The EU and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (wa) reaffirms the fact that there is equal importance and complementarity between the three pillars of the UN – peace and security, human rights and development – and draws the attention of the Council and the Member States to the fact that the achievement of the MDGs would create a more secure, just and prosperous world, and would reduce the probability of conflict,
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w b (new)
(wb) recognises that 2008 is a crucial year for efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve the MDGs worldwide by 2015; welcomes the EU Agenda for Action on MDGs with its 2010 milestones, and urges the Council and the Member States to provide global leadership ahead of the key meetings to be held in the second half of this year: the G8 summit in Hokkaido, the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, the UN high-level meeting on the MDGs, and the International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha,
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w c (new)
(wc) supports the calls by President Barroso and Commissioner Louis Michel for Member States to draw up clear national timetables to increase real aid to meet the collective target of 0.56% of gross national income in 2010 and 0.7% in 2015; praises Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom for having already agreed timetables; underlines that, in order to ensure the predictability of aid, Member States must make these timetables binding and respect them in national budget allocations,
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w d (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w d (new)
(wd) believes that EU efforts will also serve as an important catalyst and an example to other donors; however, warns EU Member States that if current trends are not reversed, the EU will fall short of its official development aid commitments by EUR 75 billion by 2010,
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w e (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w e (new)
(we) remains concerned that in sub- Saharan Africa many countries are not on track to meet any of the MDGs and also that in many middle-income countries there are regions and ethnic groups made up of millions of people who are making unsatisfactory progress towards meeting the targets,
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w f (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w f (new)
(wf) draws the attention of the Member States to the remarkable successes achieved in the rest of Africa, where several countries are on track to reach every MDG with the exception of maternal mortality, and observes that this proves the feasibility of rapid progress if government leadership and rigorous implementation plans are backed up by adequate domestic and external financing,
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w g (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w g (new)
(wg) reminds Member States that no new promises or new procedures are needed now to achieve the MDGs, and that the focus must be on meeting the promises and pledges already made and scaling up the existing procedures,
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w h (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w h (new)
(wh) notes the continued need for the crisis in the public financing of health services to be addressed if the three health MDGs are to be put back on track, through adequate and predictable recurrent funding for human resources, access to medicines and decentralised and participatory management, and calls on EU Member States to make every effort to strengthen universal, integrated health systems which respond to local needs, and gradually to include the integration of disease-specific programmes (MDG 6),
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w i (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w i (new)
(wi) considers that gender equality (MDG 3) is an essential element in efforts to meet the MDG targets and recommends that EU Member States urgently address the global financing gap for the achievement of MDG 3; notes that, alongside education, the empowerment of women significantly contributes to the attainment of MDG 4 on child mortality and MDG 5 on maternal health, which are critical indicators of overall progress in development,
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w j (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w j (new)
(wj) notes that, despite significant progress towards universal primary education in recent years, some 93 million children of primary school age were still not in school in 2006, the majority of them girls; calls on the EU Member States to address the increased financial needs to support education, including in conflict- affected fragile states,
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w k (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w k (new)
(wk) notes that debt relief is one of the targets of MDG 8, which aims specifically to ‘deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term’,
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w l (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w l (new)
(wl) recommends that the Council and EU Member States renew discussions about debt relief at UN level, with a view to redefining debt sustainability criteria in such a way as to promote the advancement of development goals rather than debt reimbursement, and with a view to considering the principle of creditor co- responsibility for the remaining USD 500 billion of odious and illegitimate debt, as well as its possible cancellation,
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w m (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w m (new)
(wm) recalling the EU’s commitments to promote policy coherence for development, recommends that the Council and the EU Member States encourage a UN-wide discussion on how to ensure that efforts and targets on climate change reinforce the attainment of the MDGs; and notes that much greater contributions to adaptation funds are required in order to ‘climate-proof’ development in the poorest countries,
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w n (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w n (new)
(wn) considers that soaring food prices and slowing global growth threaten to set back progress on the MDGs by an estimated 7 years; underlines the need for further investment in the agricultural sector and the agro-food industry in developing countries, particularly for the benefit of small-scale farmers who are typically female, since development of productive capacity, particularly in the agro-food industry, is essential to long- term poverty reduction,
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w o (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w o (new)
(wo) in light of the current food crisis, urges the Council and EU Member States to take steps to reduce trade distortion and promote a fair and equitable rules-based trade system,