16 Amendments of Sophia IN 'T VELD related to 2014/2216(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the consequences of gender- based violence are profoundly damnd in particular violence againg forst women, their families and communities and girls violates a woman's right to physical integrity and can have serious permanent consequences on the victim's health;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas domestic violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human Rights violations of our time;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women and girls with disabilities are at greater risk of violence, abuse and negligent treatment, especially in institutionalised settings, which often leads to ignorance of the issue;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are grounded in basic human rights and are essential elements of human dignity 1a; whereas the denial of lifesaving abortion amounts to a serious breach of human rights; __________________ 1aICPD Programme of Action § 7.2 and 7.3
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on all Council of Europe member states, accordingly, to sign and ratify the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women; calls on the EU as such to take steps to accede to the Convention in order to ensure coherence between EU internal and external action on violence against women;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict situations, in line with the landmark UN Security Council resolutions 1325 and 1820 on women, peace and security; and reminds the international community of the necessary safeguards for women and girls, notably protection against rape and forced prostitution;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the EU to actively continue defending a stand-alone goal for gender equality, girls' and women's empowerment and their human rights, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, in the upcoming post-2015 development agenda.
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Regrets that women's and girls' bodies, specifically their sexual and reproductive health and rights, remain an ideological battleground to this day and calls on the EU and its Member States to recognize the inalienable rights of women and girls to bodily integrity and autonomous decision-making; among other, the right to access voluntary family planning, safe and legal abortion and to be free from violence, including FGM, child, early and forced marriage, and marital rape.
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Urges the EU and its Member States to come up with an extensive review of the Beijing Platform for Action to mark its twenty years anniversary in 2015.
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Urges the European Commission to include SRHR, as basic human rights, in its next EU Health Strategy to ensure coherence between EU's internal and external policy.
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Insists that gender balance needs to be rooted in the EEAS overseas missions and a dedicated girls' and women's rights and gender equality strategy for each mission; plus a specific gender equality chapter rooted in the next EEAS Human Rights Action Plan.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Urges that the provision of EU humanitarian aid and that of its Member States should not be subject to restrictions imposed by other partner donors regarding necessary medical treatment, including access to safe abortion for women and girls who are victims of rape in armed conflicts.
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
66. Points out that 78 countries still criminalise homosexuality, including seven which provide for the death penalty, and 20 countries still criminalise transgender identities; firmly condemns the recent increase in discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, worldwide, and most notably in Nigeria and Uganda; encourages close monitoring of the situation in Nigeria, Uganda, India and Russia, where new laws or recent legal developments seriously threaten the freedom of sexual minorities; reaffirms its support for the continuing work of the High Commissioner on Human Rights to combat these discriminatory laws and practices and for the work of the UN more generally on this issue;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
Paragraph 67
67. Welcomes the adoption in 2013 of the EU Guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons; calls on the EEAS and the Commission to raise the issue of LGBTI rights in political and human rights dialogues with third countries and multilateral forums; emphasises the importance of the Commission and the EEAS continuing to raise the issue of LGBTI rights in political and human rights dialogues and of using the EIDHR to support organisations defending LGBTI rights by empowering them to challenge homo- and transphobic laws and discrimination against LGBTI people, raising awareness among the general public of the discrimination and violence experienced by persons of different sexual orientations and gender identities, and ensuring the provision of emergency assistance (from psychosocial and medical help to mediation and reintegration assistance) to those in need of such support;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)
Paragraph 68 a (new)
68a. Calls upon the European Commission and the World Health Organisation to withdraw gender identity disorders from the list of mental and behavioural disorders; calls on the Commission to reinforce its efforts towards ending the pathologisation of trans identities; encourages states to ensure quick, accessible and transparent gender recognition procedures respecting the right to self-determination;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 b (new)
Paragraph 68 b (new)
68b. Welcomes the growing political support to outlaw sterilisation as a requirement for legal gender recognition, as expressed by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and supports the view that such requirements should be treated and persecuted as a breach of the right to bodily integrity and sexual and reproductive health and rights;