18 Amendments of Fabienne KELLER related to 2019/2169(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the Istanbul Convention is the first legally binding international instrument on preventing and combating violence against women and girls, establishing a comprehensive framework of legal and policy measures for preventing violence against women, supporting victims and punishing perpetrators;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas a strong pact between Member States is essential to harmonising the rights of women in Europe, by sharing legislation and practices which provide the highest levels of protection and which have proven effective in European countries;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas there is a Commissioner responsible solely for equality and the European Parliament has a Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, but the Council has no specific body on gender equality and the ministers and secretaries of state responsible for gender equality have no dedicated discussion forum;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that male and female workers shall receive equal pay for equal work;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its call for the Council and the Commission to swiftly adopt the Horizontal Anti-discrimination Directive; welcomes the Commission's intention to propose additional anti-discrimination legislation as set out in the political guidelines for the 2019-2024 European Commission and calls on the Commission to swiftly come up with it;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to exchange best practices on a regular basis and to harmonise the rights of women in Europe by enacting in their legislation the measures and practices providing the highest levels of protection currently in force in European countries;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Council to establish a gender-equality body bringing together the ministers and secretaries of state responsible for gender equality, in order to put in place joint and tangible measures to respond to the challenges in the area of women's rights and gender equality, and to ensure that gender- equality issues are debated at the highest political level;
Amendment 35 #
2c. Calls on the European institutions to implement a policy of parity, in particular in leadership positions;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses its concern at the widespread prevalence of GBV in all its forms and the lack of full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); condemns serious violations of women's and children's rights within and beyond the EU, including female genital mutilation (FGM), forced abortion and sterilisation, early and forced marriage and other harmful practices against women and girls; calls for an EU-wide action plan to prevent and combat all forms of GBV; to this end calls for the appointment of a coordinator to implement this action plan; harmful practices against women and girls;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the EU to accede toIs deeply concerned that 33% of women in the EU have experienced physical and/or sexual violence; deplores that six member states - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Slovakia - still have not ratified the Istanbul Convention; finds that the failure of the EU to accede to the Istanbul Convention impacts its credibility and ability to be a normative power in the world; urges the EU to accede to and all member states to ratify the Istanbul Convention without delay; commends the Commission on its commitment to propose measures to achieve the same objectives if accession to the Convention remains blocked;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Expresses its concerns seeing the backlash in terms of gender equality in a number of Member States, fuelled by political discourses often emanating from the highest levels of the state, certain church representatives and a plethora of ultra-conservative organisations promoting a patriarchal vision of society undermining women’s emancipation, autonomy and dignity;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Condemns the spread of political narratives deliberately misinterpreting the contents of the Istanbul Convention and the rise of homophobic and transphobic hate speech as well as measures such as the promotion of LGBTI-free zones in Poland or the abolition of the legal recognition of trans people in Hungary.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to ensure and improve access to justice, inter alia by training law enforcement and judicial staff on GBV and hate crimes, including those committed online; calls on Member States to ensure safe conditions for reporting, combat under-reporting, and provide legal aid as well as integrated support services and shelters; urges the Member States to tackle the impunity for sexual and gender-based violence;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with concern the issue of shrinking civic space in relation tofor civil society organisations and human rights defenders working on gender equality, minority and women’s rights and SRHR. and calls for intensified measures to address the shrinking space for civil society;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Is concerned that women are disproportionally affected by the COVID- 19 crisis; is alarmed by the substantial increase in violence against women and girls and particularly domestic violence since the outbreak of COVID-19; calls on the EU and Member States to target specific actions and support for women and girls, including by setting up adequate services to address violence against women and girls and specialist support services for victims such as shelters, helplines, chat services and other creative support solutions;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the EU and Member States to advance gender equality through an ambitious education agenda, emphasizing that the EU needs to be a global leader in this area and set an example to the world, especially in Africa and Asia, whereby education and empowerment for girls and women is the most forceful driver for emancipation, societal development and economic growth.
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Underlines that gender stereotypes are a root cause of gender inequality and that traditional gender roles and stereotypes are formed in early childhood; believes therefore that preventive measures are key to realising gender equality and women and girls empowerment and that schools are a good environment to challenge gender roles and stereotypes; welcomes that the Commission will launch an EU-wide communication campaign combatting gender stereotypes, focussing on youth engagement; finds however that the EU and Member States should make better use of education systems to prevent the development of gender stereotypes in early childhood;