10 Amendments of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2012/2063(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. States that maternal death rates are disproportionately high in developing countries; notes with concern that African women are 175 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in the developed regions of the world1 ; stresses that accessible, affordable, adequate and high- quality emergency obstetric care is vital in order to reduce maternal death rates; emphasises that developing countries need increased numbers of qualified healthcare professionals to attend to women in labour and states the need for women to be informed about the sexual and reproductive health servicesprimary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation they can access;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
- having regard to Declaration A (2010) 21584 of 28 September 2010 of the 21st session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reaffirms its declaration A (2010) 21584 of the ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reaffirms that girl children have equal status under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and calls on EU delegations in developing countries to work with the governments of those countries to ensure that girl children enjoy their rights without discrimination, inter alia by requiring the immediate registration of all children after birth, granting girls and boys equal entitlement to education and schooling and ending the unethical and discriminatory practices of prenatal sex selection, abortion of female foetuses, female infanticide, early forced marriage, female genital mutilation and child prostitution; reaffirms its resolution of 5 July 2012 on the forced abortion scandal in China (2012/2712(RSP))1; __________________ 1 P7_TA(2012)0301
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. reminds that EU and Member States must take into account the rights and duties of the parents, legal guardians, or other individuals legally responsible for the child when dealing with the rights of the child within the development assistance; calls the competent institutions to pay special attention to the relationships between parents and children, for example through programmes containing concrete measures specifically tailored to national requirements, seeking to provide maximum and optimum assistance for parents or guardians in the fulfilment of their parental duties in order to prevent family breakdown, children mistreatment and placement in social care as a result of serious poverty or ensure that such a measure is envisaged only as a very last resort;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. In implementing the specific Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) prohibition on coercion or compulsion in sexual and reproductive health matters1, with regard to the legally binding international human rights instruments, the EU acquis communautaire and the Union policy competencies in this matter, Union assistance should not be provided to any authority, organisation or programme which promotes, supports or participates in the management of any action which involves such human rights abuses as coercive abortion, forced sterilisation of women and men, determining foetal sex resulting in pre natal sex selection or infanticide, especially where such actions apply their priorities though psychological, social, economic or legal pressure. The Commission should present a report on the implementation of the Union's external assistance covering this programme; __________________ 1 A/CONF.171/13, Report of the ICPD, 18 Oct 1994, § 7.24
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses concern about widespread gender-based violence, especially sexual violence and feminicide, in developing countries; states that upholding women'sthe legally binding international human rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights, is essential in order to end gender-based violencestruments do apply to both women and men, and that its respect and implementation is essential to end gender-based violence; states that upholding the fundamental right of all women to access to public health care systems, in particular to primary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation, is part of the realisation of equal opportunities for women and men; calls on the Commission to make the fight against impunity for the perpetrators of such violence one of the priorities for its development assistance policy;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reaffirms the importance of co- financing as facilitating principle that motivates grant beneficiaries to higher accountability and contribution to development effectiveness, and improves cooperation of all stakeholders recommended by Istanbul principles1 ; in this respect, recommends that financial contribution in operating grants from the EU budget to one beneficiary in one calendar year should not exceed 50% of the overall annual budget of that beneficiary; __________________ 1 See Istanbul Principles, as agreed at the Open Forum’s Global Assembly in Istanbul, September 28 -30, 2010
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Stresses the need to support specific health initiatives, especially at local and regional level, to strength public health systems and help countries develop and implement sound, evidence-based national health policies in priority areas (e.g., public health care systems for women, in particular primary, maternal, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation, access to family planning including fertility awareness-based methods) whilst ensuring that its funding of specific initiatives does not breach the remarks set out in Section III, Title 21 of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2012;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25 b. The EU reaffirms the importance of co-financing of non governmental organisations as facilitating principle that motivates grant beneficiaries to higher accountability and contribution to development effectiveness and improves cooperation of all stakeholders recommended by the Istanbul principles1; therefore, and in respect to the non- governmental character of applicants, the rate of overall EU assistance for operating costs provided to each funded private or public body, authority or programme shall not exceed 50 % of the applicant's overall annual budget of the grant year; __________________ 1 Istanbul Principles, as agreed at the Open Forum’s Global Assembly in Istanbul, September 28 -30, 2010