Activities of Anna HEDH related to 2016/0062(NLE)
Plenary speeches (2)
EU accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate) SV
EU accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate) SV
Amendments (28)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17
Citation 17
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 (new)
Citation 17 (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which calls for the EU to become a party to the Istanbul Convention as a further step in combating violence against women and girls with disabilities;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the EU; whereas the right to equal treatment and non-discrimination is a fundamental right enshrined in the Treaties and should apply in legislation, practice, case law and daily life; whereas gender- based violence is both a cause and a consequence of inequalities between women and men,
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas gender based violence should not be taken lightly or seen as an issue that can be postponed and dealt with later as it effects over 250 million women and girls in the EU alone; and has tremendous effects on society; it increases fear and polarisation, contributes to stress and mental illness as it threatens the security of half the population; EIGE estimates that the cost on society from sexual based violence in the EU is €226 billion yearly;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas violence against women and gender-based violence are widespread in the EU and is to be understood as an extreme form of discrimination and a violation of the human rights; whereas further measures are needed to encourage women who have been the victims of violence to report their experiences and seek assistance, and to ensure that they receive appropriate support in line with their needs and that they are informed about their rights;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas violence against women and gender-based violence areis a widespread problem in the EU; whereas further measures are needed to encourage women who have been ththat are victims of violence to report their experiences and seek assistancethe help they are entitled to, and to ensure that they receive appropriate support in line withaccordingly to their needs and that they are informed about their rights;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights report entitled ‘Violence against women: an EU- wide survey’, published in March 2014, shows that one-third of all women in Europe have experienced physical or sexual acts of violence at least once during their adult lives, 20 % have experienced online harassment, one in twenty have been raped and more than one-tenth have suffered sexual violence involving the use of force;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas citizens and residents in the Union are not equally protected against gender-based violence, due to differing policies and legislation across Member States, as regards among other the definition of offences and the scope of the legislation, and are therefore vulnerable to such violence;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the pandemic of gender based violence has led to one in three women in the EU has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas exposure to physical, sexual or psychological violence and abuse has a severe impact on victims and their relatives;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas certain women such as women and girls with migrant background, undocumented migrant women, refugee women and asylum seekers, women and girls with disabilities, lesbian, transgender women and girls, intersex women and girls, Roma women and girls, young women and elderly women, homeless women, black women and Muslim women face greater risk of violence because of motives fuelled by sexism coupled with racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia and intersexphobia as well as discrimination based on age, disability, ethnicity or religion; whereas those women facing intersectional and multiple forms of discrimination may have specific needs and this entails that they should be granted special protection;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the perpetrator in gender- based violence is often an already known person to the victim and many times the victim is in a position of dependence, and therefore increases the fear to report the violence;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas women with disabilities are 10% more likely to be the subject of gender based violence and because of their position of dependence it is even harder for these women to report the violence;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas one in ten women have been subjected to sexual harassment or stalking through the new technology; and 75% of women in higher decision-making have had to withstand sexual harassment hence it shows that no women or girl regardless of age and position in life is safe from sexual based violence;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas an important factor to why women do not report sexual based violence is due to the threat of/or economical violence from the perpetrator;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Ee. whereas in order to decrease the estimated number of unknown cases Member States must have sufficient institutions present for women to feel safe and able to report gender based violence;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the Istanbul Convention stresses the importance of changing mentalities and attitudes to break the continuity of gender-based violence; whereas education on equality between women and men, on non-stereotyped gender roles and on the respect ofor personal integrity, is therefore required in this regard from an early age;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas in accordance to the UNHCR 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees persecution on the basis of gender has become a form of sexual based violence; therefore it should be included in the grounds for asylum;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that women and girls are often exposed to domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape, forced marriage and other forms of violence, which constitute a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girlspsychological and physical violence, stalking, sexual violence, rape, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, forced abortion and forced sterilisation, and other forms of violence, which constitute a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girls; stresses that the Istanbul Convention ensures that culture, custom, religion, tradition or so-called “honour” cannot be a justification of any acts of violence against women;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that women and girls are often exposed to domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape, forced marriage and other forms of violence, which constitute are a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girls and constitutes a serious security threat;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Encourages Member States to see the wide scope of sexual based violence as stated in the Istanbul Convention, in which it can be physical, mental, economical or the threat of using them;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that forced pregnancy is defined as a crime against humanity in the article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court of 17 July 1998 and is a gender-based violence against women, that constitute a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girls;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Strongly affirms that the denial of safe abortion amounts to a serious breach of human rights and an extreme form of violence against women; calls for the right to abortion to be considered as a Fundamental right at the EU level;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b
Paragraph 5 – point b
(b) To askurge the Member States to ratify and implement the Istanbul Convention;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point i a (new)
(ia) To take into account significant incidents of violence against women and domestic violence when determining custody and visitation rights;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point k
Paragraph 5 – point k
(k) To implement the provisions of the Istanbul Convention on migration and asylum, taking into account the fact that migrant women, whether properly documented or not, and women asylum- seekers are particularly vulnerable to gender-based violence and that gender- based violence may, including female genital mutilation, can be recognised as a form of persecution uander the terms of that the victims can thus avail themselves of the protection offered by the 1951 Refugee Convention; to ensure that Member States respect a gender- sensitive approach in all asylum and reception procedures;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point k a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point k a (new)
(ka) To include gender based persecution as a ground for asylum;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges Estonia during their upcoming presidency to accelerate the ratification of the Istanbul Convention;