Activities of Elisabeth GROSSMANN
Plenary speeches (2)
A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)
Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)
Institutional motions (1)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the devastating floods in central and eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change
Written questions (2)
EU funds for Austria following the disastrous flooding in September 2024
Continued availability of operating grants under the 2025 EU4Health work programme
Amendments (11)
Amendment 2 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15
Citation 15
– having regard to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted on 25 September 2015, in particular goals 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 16 thereof,
Amendment 12 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 48 a (new)
Citation 48 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution on the repressive environment in Afghanistan, including public executions and violence against women (2024/2617(RSP) - 14/03/2024)
Amendment 13 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 48 b (new)
Citation 48 b (new)
– having regard to the Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (2024/2867(RSP))
Amendment 52 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. highlights the interdependence of women's rights, democracy, and the rule of law, and insists on that all EU Member States must fully respect EU values; emphasizes the necessity for the EU to uphold fundamental rights, particularly in its external relations, to remain a credible actor in both European and global contexts, especially concerning women and LGBTIQ individuals; in this context, notes the alarming rise of anti-gender, anti-democratic movements and homophobic initiatives and hate crimes within Member States; observes the increasing backsliding on gender equality, including the erosion of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), which are fundamental rights, and emphasizes that attacks on women’s rights, women’s rights defenders, activists and journalists are a common tactic used by anti-democratic actors and to further undermine rights and freedoms both in the EU and globally
Amendment 57 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Strongly condemns and calls for decisive measures to eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and to protect and support its victims and enhance their access to justice; notes that, in accordance with UN SCR 1820 (2008), rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, or acts contributing to genocide; emphasizes the need to end impunity and calls for the EU and its Member States to actively support efforts towards ensuring accountability for war crimes within existing international courts and institutions;
Amendment 60 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. emphasizes that sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental human rights that must be upheld globally and in the EU Member States and expresses deep concern over global setbacks in gender equality and SRHR; reaffirms that the denial of quality comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services constitutes a form of gender-based violence; stresses the importance of leading by example and reiterates calls to enshrine the right to legal and safe abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; urges the EU to prioritise access to SRHR as part of promoting human rights and achieving sustainable development goals; condemns the October 2020 decision of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and the Hungarian Government’s requirement for individuals seeking abortions to listen to a fetal heartbeat, calling for their immediate reversal; denounces all threats, attacks, and punishments against activists aiding women in accessing contraception or abortion, such as the condemnation of Justyna Wydrzynska in Poland in March 2023; stresses that the three-year inquiry by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded that Poland’s near-total ban on abortion results in grave and systematic human rights violations including severe physical and mental suffering on women, which can even amount to torture;
Amendment 61 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. recalls that promotion of SRHR is a key principle under GAP III; calls for support for human rights defenders and civil society organisations advocating for and facilitating access to SRHR, whose efforts are increasingly threatened by a shrinking civil society space; highlights the necessity of gender-sensitive humanitarian aid to ensure it reaches the most vulnerable; advocates for universal access to SRHR services, particularly comprehensive family planning, contraception, unbiased information, antenatal, childbirth, and postnatal care, as well as HIV care, including PEP and PrEP medication; emphasizes that women and girls must have continuous access to SRHR during conflict and displacement, including safe delivery, family planning services, legal and safe abortions, and clinical management of rape; calls for funds to be allocated for essential and life-saving sexual and reproductive health services, in line with the UN Minimum Initial Services Package;
Amendment 62 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Expresses concern regarding the global prevalence of gender based violence, including female genital mutilation, child and forced marriages, femicides, honour-based violence, "morality policing," and the trafficking of women and girls; welcomes the EU's accession to the Istanbul Convention and encourages all European countries to implement its provisions; highlights the importance of recognising gender-based violence as an area of crime under Article 83 (1) TFEU; Reiterates that rape remains one of the most widespread human rights violations globally and stresses the importance of consent based rape legislation and comprehensive sexuality and relationships education in this regard and reiterates that rape on the basis of the lack of consent needs to be criminalised under EU law; urges to comply with the recommendation of the UN Special Rapporteur that a femicide watch initiative1a should be established (where it does not already exist) to monitor and highlight femicides, as a resource to improve policies, and to raise awareness of gender-based women killing as fatal manifestations on the continuum of violence against women, demands the recording of data in official homicide statistics. _________________ 1a WAVE https://wave-network.org/wp- content/uploads/WAVE_CountryReport20 23.pdf, p. 67;
Amendment 63 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Emphasizes that women and girls experiencing intersecting forms of discrimination are particularly vulnerable to gender-based violence and discrimination; highlights the ongoing discrimination faced by LGBTIQ individuals and urges the EU and its Member States to unequivocally condemn all forms of stigmatisation, hate crimes, hate speech, persecution, so-called "conversion therapies," intersex genital mutilation, corrective rape, and all other forms of violence;
Amendment 114 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses the need for the climate actions, including the green transition to address existing gender inequalities to ensure that no one is left behind; reiterates that women are especially vulnerable to the climate change and related resource shortages, which exacerbates existing inequalities3a; stresses the importance of meaningful participation of women and girls in the climate action and building better climate resilience in the communities _________________ 3a https://eige.europa.eu/publications- resources/publications/good-practices- gender-mainstreaming-european-green- deal-towards-more-gender-equal-and- greener-europe, p 53
Amendment 137 #
2024/2081(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Highlights the significance of providing quality education for girls and ensuring equal opportunities as essential for women's empowerment and the full realisation of their rights; reiterates the necessity of age-appropriate, evidence- based comprehensive sexuality and relationships education and, both within the EU and beyond, to eliminate gender stereotypes and harmful societal norms; emphasise the need to strengthen women’s careers to further reduce the gender pay gap as well as the gender pension gap, which stand at 12,7% and 39% respectively. In this regard, emphasises that binding pay transparency rules, as will now be standard in the EU, are an important measure to close the gender pay and pension gap;