20 Amendments of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2009/2242(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to the work of the Council of Europe in this area, particularly the revised European Social Charter,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 a (new)
Citation 24 a (new)
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas in the Member States the proportion of children and young people living in poverty is higher than average, and whereas poverty is more prevalent among women, who are also the first to defend their next of kin against poverty and social exclusion, because women forge fundamental bonds, promote peace and play a pioneering role in ensuring respect for human rights and universal dignity, with a further aim being enhanced recognition for all women in general,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
Lb. whereas equal opportunities cannot be promoted without considering the role of men; whereas, therefore, associations representing men/fathers should be encouraged and listened to as attentively as women’s associations,
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L c (new)
Recital L c (new)
Lc. whereas gender mainstreaming constitutes a form of social and instrumental engineering which aims to change natural masculine and feminine identities and their expression in public and private life, and whereas gender mainstreaming is an expression of the political will to change the relations and social representations between women and men,
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L d (new)
Recital L d (new)
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 1 a (new)
Article 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that paragraph II.9 of the Beijing Action Programme says: ‘While the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds must be borne in mind, it is the duty of States, regardless of their political, economic and cultural systems, to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms. The implementation of this Platform, including through national laws and the formulation of strategies, policies, programmes and development priorities, is the sovereign responsibility of each State, in conformity with all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the significance of and full respect for various religious and ethical values, cultural backgrounds and philosophical convictions of individuals and their communities should contribute to the full enjoyment by women of their human rights in order to achieve equality, development and peace’;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 4
Article 4
4. Maintains that a conference on gender equality, attended by women’s and men’s organisations and trade unions from the Member States and Members of the European Parliament, the Commission, the Council, and the national parliaments, should be held biannually, focusing each yeartime on a predetermined theme;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5 a (new)
5a. Suggests that institutional cooperation in this area not be limited to women’s associations, but that collaboration with associations representing men be actively sought;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)
6a. Asks Eurostat to develop indicators to measure investment by women and men in voluntary activities in order to show what men and women contribute to social cohesion;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States and the social partners, to undertake a review of policies on work-life balance with a view to ensuring that the cost of parenthood is not borne by the employer, but by the community, so as to eradicate discriminatory behaviour in businesses and contribute to our demographic future;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 10 b (new)
Article 10 b (new)
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 10 c (new)
Article 10 c (new)
10c. Calls on the Commission to continue with initiatives aimed at recognising the informal economy and quantifying the ‘economics of life’ using gender-specific approaches in accordance with the ‘Beyond GDP’ project launched by the Commission;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 10 d (new)
Article 10 d (new)
10d. Calls on the Member States to provide appropriate social benefits for women and men who take care of elderly, sick or disabled relatives, and for elderly women, who receive a particularly small pension;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a (new)
11a. Invites the Commission to publish an impact analysis study on the consequences, including the budgetary consequences, of the introduction of the ‘gender mainstreaming’ system, with a view to evaluating its relevance, effectiveness, durability and usefulness in terms of cost-effectiveness/added value, as is the regular practice in the case of all other European policies;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 12
Article 12
12. Considers that one priority should be to fight extreme poverty by reforming the macroeconomic, monetary, social, and labour market policies lying at its roots with a view to guaranteeing economic and social justice for women by pursuing strategies to promote fair distribution of income, guarantee a minimum income and decent wages and pensions, create more high-quality jobs with rights for women, enable women and girls to benefit from public services of a high standard, and improve welfare provision and neighbourhood services, including crèches, nursery schools, kindergartens, day centres, and community leisure and family support centres and ‘intergenerational centres’, making them accessible to women, men, children, and older people as a whole;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that the poorest women should be the leading partners in formulating, implementing and assessing equal opportunities policies, since women in situations of chronic poverty are obliged to accept their role and their responsibilities, including their role as mothers, just like any other woman, and they experience the same joys, have the same aspirations, feel the same fears and have the same doubts, but do so in much more difficult material circumstances than the majority of women; invites the Union in consequence to pay particular attention to the planning and implementation of the European Year against Poverty, the European Year of Volunteering, and the European Strategy 2020 in general from this point of view;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 14
Article 14
14. Calls for greater action, awareness- raising, and supervision at the workplace so as to create better working conditions for women by taking into account working times, compliance with maternity and paternity rights, and work-life balance, and calling for wider uptake of maternity and parental leave, with full pay, the establishment of paid paternity lea, the establishment of parental leave, the establishment of paid paternity leave, the establishment of paid family leave for the purpose, inter alia, of caring for dependent relatives, and remedies where the above rights are challenged;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 17
Article 17
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 17 a (new)
Article 17 a (new)
17a. Recalls that, under paragraph 8.25 of the Programme of Action of the Cairo international conference on population and the international instruments in force, in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning, and any measures or changes related to abortion within the health system can only be determined at the national or local level according to the national legislative process1;