Activities of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2012/2289(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Millennium development goals (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (new)
Recital A (new)
A. whereas the majority of the Millennium Development targets, especially those relating to the reduction of poverty, education of children and reduction in maternal mortality, are difficult to attain unless the strategies to achieve them focus on the family;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Emphasises that family-focused policies in support of employed parents have proven both valuable and efficient in many areas of social development, and that the very achievement of Millennium Development Goals depends on how well families are empowered to contribute to it;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on the United Nations to consider the family-oriented provisions of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the past decades and coming years as the outcomes of those conferences provide a framework for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and guide international efforts for their achievement;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women’s rights and gender equality in terms of women’s empowerment and well-being, participation in decision-making, combating violence against women, access to good education (at primary, secondary, and higher level) and training, access to effective health care, improvements in sexual and reproductive health and rightsn particular to primary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation, quality and stability of employment, equal pay, career development, the representation of women in politics and economic activity, and ownership and inheritance rights;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Strongly reiterates its view expressed in other resolutions that, according to the International Conference on Population and Development Plan of Action, the aim of family planning programmes must be to enable couples and individuals to make free, responsible and informed decisions about childbearing and to make available a full range of safe, effective and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice without any form of coercion; calls on the Member States, the Union and the UN to adopt this approach in the post-2015 MDG framework;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the competent authorities to introduce a ‘family mainstreaming’ approach to the implementation of the MDG post-2015 strategy, in accordance with the policies defined under the system adopted by the United Nations1 __________________ 1 United Nations Human Rights Council, Resolution 12/21 and other related resolutions
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Urges the Member States to support the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, coming on the eve of the target year of the Millennium Development Goals, as it provides an opportunity to refocus on the role of families as part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development;