Activities of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2017/2015(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Gender Equality in EU Trade Agreements
Amendments (12)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5; whereas trade and trade liberalisation can have very different impacts on women and men, which can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas comprehensive, binding sustainable development provisions are now part of all EU FTA negotiations, projecting key principles of global governance through the whole agreement;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas currentthe EU trade policy lacks a gender equality perspective, as well as obligations to enforce women´s rights conventions; whereas including a gender perspective in trade and investment policies is an essential elemenshould be regarded as an important part of an integrated sustainable development policy framework that combines social and economic measures to ensure fairer and beneficial outcomes for all;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Supports the Commission's commitment to address gender issues as part of the Aid for Trade strategy and reinforce the focus on the role of women in trade inclusiveness, including in the context of the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference in December;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further boost coherence between, on the one hand, trade and investment policies and, on the other hand, international conventions and commitments to human rights, development and gender equality between women and men;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectiveWelcomes the effort of the Commission for analysis to be integrated systematically into trade and investment policies, and into the trade-related capacity building programmes of international finance institutions, donors and intergovernmental organisations, through ex-ante analysis and monitoring, with a view to overcoming the potentially negative gender impacts of different trade measures and instruments on women;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates its concerns abouthat the possible privatisation of basic services resulting from trade and investment agreements, and highlights that the issue of public provision of social services is especially salient for gender equality, given that changes in should not impede the access to such services, andreduce their quality, creates a gender-uneven distribution of unpaid care workor become a factor influencing the distribution of unpaid care work in families between women and men;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the paramount importance of respecting, in accordance with SDG target 17.15, partner countries’ democratic policy space to regulate and take suitable decisions for their own national context, respond to the demands of their populations, and fulfil their human rights obligations and other international commitments, including those on gender equality; underlines the need to ensure that neither trade and investment mechanisms nor intellectual property rights between women and men; underlines that trade and investment can play a positive role in endhangercing the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality orpromote equality between women and men, empowerment of women, and stronger labour and consumer rights;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to enhance the participation of women and gender experts in trade policy-making and negotiation processes at all levels, and the fact that multi-stakeholder mechanisms should be established to reorient the trade agenda in support of a pro-poor and gender-awarupports the systemic effort of EU negotiators to enhance the participation of the civil society in both the EU and its partner countries by giving it a formal role in monitoring the implementation of the sustainable development provisions of trade agreements; welcomes the aim to extend this oversight to all provisions of FTAs; underlines the need to promote the participation of women as stakeholders in trade policy-making and negotiation processes at all levels, and to strengthen the link between the trade agenda and the development framework;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Insists that all EU trade agreements should include binding clauses on women’ss a general rule, the trade agreements can improve the respect for human rights, genderand the equality and gender mainstreaming, with an appropriate body appointed, between men and women; stresses the necessity to monitor and explicit mechanism established, to monitor compliancevaluate the impact of EU trade agreements on women's economic empowerment;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Acknowledges thate positive impact of the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP), and in particular the GSP+ system, could be improved by linking economic incentives to the effective adoption and constant monitoring of the implementation of; notes that the economic incentives have been linked with compliance with the core human and labour rights conventions, in particular on gender- issues of equal trelated issuesment of women and men;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the progress made in recent years with the establishment of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact¸ the EU Timber Regulation and the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation, and calls on the Commission to expand biconsider expanding frameworks on due diligence obligations to other sectors in order to ensure that the EU and its traders and operators live up to the obligation to respect human rights and the highest social standardsdignity, including the ones related to gender equality between men and women.