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7 Amendments of Sophia IN 'T VELD related to 2012/2289(INI)

Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation 3 c (new)
– having regard to the Beijing Declaration and the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the United Nations global women conference in Beijing in 1995, where member states engaged to take action to promote gender equality between women and men on twelve domains,
2013/02/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) that took place in Cairo in 1994, where the global community recognized and affirmed that sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights are foundational to sustainable development,
2013/02/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women's rights and gender equality in terms ofto close gender gaps by ensuring advanced women's empowerment and well-being,gender equality through participation in decision-making, combatpreventing and criminalising violence against women, access to good education (at primary, secondary, and higher level) and training, access to effective health care, improvements in sexual and reproensuring universal access and completion of quality education at all levels (including vocational training and sexual educative health and rights, quality and stability of employment, equal pay,on), eliminating female illiteracy, creating employment and possibilities for career development, the representation of women in politics and economic activityies, and through ownership and inheritance rights;
2013/02/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, bearing in mind that gender equality and non-discrimination are cross-cutting aims, to increase the amount of development aid for programmes focusing on them, so as enable the gender dimension to be mainstreamed at every stage of developmentUnited Nations to ensure the post-2015 development framework recognises and implements the right to the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, as a fundamental human right and includes targets on access to quality, affordable, accessible, acceptable health services, care, and information across the life-cycle; this should include: access to contraceptives, especially for unmarried and young women; prevention, support and treatment of unsafe abortions, HIV and sexually transmitted infections and gender based violence; pre-natal aind programming (identification, formulation, implementation, and evaluation); ostpartum care and service and confidential and accessible youth-friendly services;
2013/02/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Urges the Commission and the Member States to speak with one voice in the upcoming negotiations and to take on board the recommendations of the European Parliament in the European Union position with regard to the post- 2015 MDG framework;
2013/02/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5f. Stresses that the lack of progress on MDGs that relate to the position of women is not only caused by financial or technical obstacles but is particularly due to a lack of political will;
2013/02/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5g. Urges the provision of EU humanitarian aid that contributes to the attainment of the MDGs to be made effectively independent from the restrictions on humanitarian aid imposed by the USA or other donors, in particular by ensuring access to abortion for women and girls who are victims of rape in armed conflicts;
2013/02/28
Committee: FEMM