7 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2012/2222(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Partnership Agreement 2000/483/EC between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 stipulates that systematic account shall be taken of the situation of women and gender issues in all areas – political, economic and social;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas various studies show that if women are educated and can earn and control income, a number of good results follow: maternal and infant mortality declines, women’s and children’s health and nutrition improve, agricultural productivity rises, climate change can be mitigated, population growth slows, economies expand and poverty cycles are broken;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the importance of the improved maternal health goal in regard to reducing the maternal mortality rate and achieving universal access to reproductive health, which entails respect for women’s rights to sexual and reproductive health free of coercion or restrictions of any kind;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. States that special attention needs to be paid to educating both sexes about gender issues right from when their schooling starts, so that attitudes and social stereotypes change gradually and gender equality becomes a basic principle of society in the ACP countries;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights the importance of not just regarding women as a vulnerable section of the population, but also as active facilitators of development policies; stresses in this respect that women play a crucial role in nutrition and food security, being responsible for 80 % of farming in Africa, even though they are still hardly ever able to own the land they cultivate; stresses likewise that women have proven competence in resolving problems and conflicts, and urges the Commission and the ACP countries therefore to increase the role of women in action groups and working parties;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses the importance of combating all forms of violence against women and girls: harassment, rape and sexual abuse, forced prostitution, sexual slavery, exploitation, murder of women, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, domestic violence, etc.; stresses that upholding women’s rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights, and safeguarding respect for their human dignity are essential to preventing and combating gender-based violence, providing protection and appropriate counselling to victims, and ensuring that perpetrators are punished; calls on the Commission to make the fight against impunity for the perpetrators of such violence one of the priorities for its development assistance policy;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Asserts that, in accordance with the specific Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) prohibition on coercion or compulsion in sexual and reproductive health matters, and with regard to the legally binding international human rights instruments, the EU body of law and the Union policy competencies in this matter, Union assistance should not be provided to any authority, organisation or programme which promotes, supports or participates in the management of any action which involves such human rights abuses as coercive abortion, forced sterilisation of women and men, determining foetal sex resulting in prenatal sex selection or infanticide, especially where such actions set their priorities in response to psychological, social, economic or legal pressure.