Activities of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2015/2038(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on implementation of the 2010 recommendations of Parliament on social and environmental standards, human rights and corporate responsibility
Amendments (11)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas women and men are often differently affected by trade liberalisation, owing to different social rules applying to men and women, women’s presence in low skill positions and gender inequalities in access to resources and education;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas trade liberalisation cannot be expected to eliminate the gender inequalities by its own and needs specific tailored measures and economic recourses to monitor the impact on women;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the effectivebinding application of the International Labour Organisation’s core labour standards and its Decent Work Agenda as well as international environmental protection commitments in EU preferential trade agreements;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls likewise the EU’s commitment to mainstream gender in all its policies and the importance of guaranteeing that men and women benefit equally from social changes, economic growth and the creation of decent jobs, doing away with discrimination and promoting respect for women’s rights in the world;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers it regrettable that trade agreements are often negotiated without reference to their impact on women’s and girls’ rights – the rights to health, education, food, work and water and the associated rights, including to reproductive health, education, food, work, water and access to land ownership – and calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase coherence among different but interlinked policies, such as trade, development, employment, migration and gender equality;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for existing trade and investment agreements to be assessed thoroughly systematically and compulsory in order to identify any areas which may negatively affect gender equality;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to include, in trade agreements, gender-equality benchmarks and resources to conduct ex- ante and ex-post assessments of the impact of trade agreements concluded by the EU on women and gender equality;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Reinforce its continuous and transparent need for engaging with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the negotiation process of trade agreements, including environmental, consumer, labour, development organisations and in particular, gender equality organisations and institutes ; encourages women and women organisations to participate actively and to put forward initiatives and information relevant to the negotiations;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that EU trade policy must ensure that states’ capacity to regulate and protect women’s rights, as well as the environment, consumer rights and workers’ rights, is not undermined, and make sure that corporations and investors are held accountable to people and governments for their human rights, gender equality, social, environmental and development impacts.
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the gender dimension in EU trade policy has not been fully mainstreamed into its strategy for equality between men and women; deplores that the communication of 15 October 2015 on the new EU strategy for trade and investment failed to take due account of gender;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the systematic inclusion in trade agreements of an ambitious and binding chapter on sustainable development, including provisions on its impact on women’s rights, and a mechanism for addressing employment- related or environmental disputes by lodging complaints and meting out sanctions.