Activities of Edit BAUER related to 2013/2169(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on eradication of torture in the world
Amendments (11)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women are more likely to be victims of sexual and gender-based torture;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women and girls tend to suffer disproportionally from violence, in particular of sexual nature, both in peacetime and during armed conflict;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas countries frequently ignore or deny gender-based violence thus denying to provide victims with the necessary assistance and protection and to convict the perpetrators, therefore many violence of this kind goes unreported;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the EU to ensure, by means of aid conditionality, that third countries protect women and girls from torture; calls on the Council to suspend aid to countries practising torture and to divert aid to support victims; urges the Commission to ensure that all new Free Trade Agreements with third countries provide for strict obligations which safe-guard womenall human beings/people from torture, especially women and girls given their vulnerable character; calls on the Commission to reconsider its aid policy towards countries practising torture and to divert aid to support victims;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the continuing need for the EU to work with third countries to eradicate the practice of FGM; reminds thoseencourages Member States with national legislationho have not yet done so to criminalisinge FGM that they must act on this legislationin their national legislation and to ensure its enforcement;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Condemns all forms of domestic violence throughout the world, in particular honour killings, forced marriages, and dowry deaths; affirms that the EU must treat these as forms of torture;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the inclusion by the International Criminal Court of gender crimes, including rape, sexual assault and humRome Statute’s progressive and innovative approach by recognizing sexual and gender-based violence, including rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancies, forced sterilization or other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity, as a forms of torture, and its recommendation that these crimes be considered war crimesas such as a war crime and crime against humanity;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the EU in its human rights dialogues with third countries to promote the prevention, investigation and prosecution of violence against women(a) to treat cases of systematic rape during an armed conflict as a war crime and to punish accordingly, (b) to treat cases of gender-based torture practiced systematically or widespread as a crime against humanity and to punish accordingly, (c) to recognise gender-based torture as a crime and to avoid the re-victimisation of the victims, (d) to address the specific needs of the most vulnerable victims, in particular women and girls, (e) to ensure that victims have access to justice and (f) to promote the prevention, investigation and prosecution of gender-based violence;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the EU to encourage those countries that have not yet done so to ratify and implement the UN Torture Convention as well as the Rome Statute and to incorporate its relevant provisions on gender-based violence into domestic legislation;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Takes it as crucial that national prosecutors and judges have the capacity and the expertise to properly prosecute and try individuals for gender-based crimes;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. States that the failure to separate transgender women prisoners from male prisoners in detention is both cruel and, inhuman and degrading.