8 Amendments of Emine BOZKURT related to 2012/2255(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Call on the countries of Western Balkans to develop active labour market measure schemes designed to curb unemployment among women; urges them to develop loan schemes and make funding available for starting businesses;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the governments of Western Balkan countries to encourage the active participation of women in the labour market by promoting, inter alia, measures to ensure better working conditions, equal pay for equal work, lifelong learning, flexible work schedules and a fair balance between family life and work;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Stresses the importance of combating all forms of discrimination in the workplace, including gender discrimination in recruitment, promotion and benefits; calls for the governments to collect relevant and accurate statistical data;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Encourages women to start their own businesses, using funding where made available; stresses the importance of providing special training courses, funding and technical assistance for unemployed white-collar women and women entrepreneurs, in order to ensure equal opportunities in terms of access to the labour market;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on governments of Western Balkan countries to encourage and ensure more participation of women in political and economic decision-making processes;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that financing from European Funds, including the Instrument for Pre- Accession Assistance (IPA), should increasingly target projects related to the promotion of women’s rights, including monitoring mechanisms; calls on the Commission to exercise due diligence with respect to the effectiveness of the spending;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Regrets the lack of data on gender based violence and underlines the need for consistent and systematic collection of gender-specific statistics in order to monitor progress in the sphere of the implementation of legislation;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Encourages the continuous support of the EU in the area of combating human trafficking as Western Balkan countries are countries of origin, transit and destination for trafficking in human beings, especially women and girls and calls for close cooperation on the matter between relevant EU institutions and governments; calls for more awareness raising campaigns in the region;