16 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2012/2273(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas thousands of women die every year a result of violence against women in all its forms: sexual abuse, rape, domestic violence, trafficking, honour crimes, violence against women in situations of conflict, etc, as well as harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas violence against women is a structural and worldwide problem, and is a phenomenon that involves victims and perpetrators of all ages, educational backgrounds, incomes and social positions, and is linked to the unequal distribution of power between women and men in our society;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the feminicides cannot be explained simply in terms of a ‘general climate of violence’, as consideration must also be given to discrimination, a local social and economic context which is unfavourable to women – and particularly so to indigenous and minority women – high rates of poverty, women’s economic dependence, criminal gangs and the failure to dismantle illegal security forces and clandestine security structures;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
Lb. whereas the killings of women in places such as Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, and in Guatemala have featured exceptional brutality and many of the victims have suffered sexual violence, which is itself a form of cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L c (new)
Recital L c (new)
Lc. whereas armed conflicts have a disproportionate and specific impact on women, who are subjected to rape and sexual slavery, often resulting in death;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that the Member States should allocate adequate resources to preventing and combating violence against women; Calls on the Commission to continue its efforts to combat violence through Community programmes, especially the Daphne programme which has already made a successful contribution towards combating violence against women;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers that the key priorities for addressing violence against women and girls should include the elimination of discriminatory socio-cultural attitudes that reinforce women’s subordinate place in society and result in the toleration of violence against women and girls in both private and public spheres, at home and in workplaces and educational institutions; in this context, hopes that swift progress can be made in the development of international legal rules, measures and policies to improve services and protection for victims, raise awareness in order to change behaviour and attitudes and, above all, ensure sufficient and consistent implementation in all parts of the world;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Considers that the EU and its Member States, in order to become more efficient actors globally, must also step up their domestic efforts to eliminate violence against women and gender-based violence; therefore reiterates its appeal to the Commission to propose an EU strategy to combat violence against women, including a directive laying down minimum standards; in this context, also calls on the EU and its Member States to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the EU External Action Service to increase its efforts to ensure that the human rights of women and girls are protected and advanced in all the actions and dialogues in which it participates, to speed up its implementation of the EU Guidelines on violence against women and girls and combating all forms of discrimination against them, and to create closer links with actions being taken to combat violence against women and girls within the framework of EU development cooperation, while also supporting defenders of women’s rights and human rights; also requests that strategies to prevent violence against women and girls be given a prominent place in all international action taken in response to humanitarian situations linked to situations of conflict and the aftermath of conflict or natural disasters;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Calls on national governments, as part of their bilateral relations with third countries, and on the European institutions, through their strategic partnerships, to offer support in the form of cooperation programmes and financial and technical resources for policies to prevent and provide protection from violence against women, such as the creation or strengthening of gender awareness and training programmes, and to increase the budget of the organisations responsible for investigating the killings, create effective systems to protect witnesses, victims and their families and build the capacities of the legal bodies, security forces and public prosecutors' offices in order to pursue and punish those responsible for these crimes and to combat drug trafficking and organised crime; also calls for the promotion of closer institutional coordination in these areas at all levels of government;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5f. Calls on all countries to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in their national laws and to promote legislative initiatives to make domestic violence and sexual harassment criminal offences in all areas of public and private life, as well as drafting policies and standards to combat impunity and promote gender equality;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States, the Commission and the External Action Service to give special consideration to the position of women in particularly vulnerable situations, such as women with disabilities, immigrants, women from minorities, the elderly, and those who are underqualified; also asks for special attention to be paid to pregnant women, since domestic violence has been identified as the main cause of miscarriage, foetal death and maternal death in childbirth;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Points out the need to strengthen women’s role in consolidating peace and preventing conflict, and to provide greater protection for women and children in war or conflict zones, by means of participation, prevention and protection in the struggle against sexual and abuse and feminicide;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Underlines the need for a strategy to prevent violence against women, which should include awareness campaigns and proper training for the forces of order, health workers and judges, so that early detection of problems can be used to prevent further deaths;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Urges the Member States and other countries around the world not to consider intoxication with drugs or alcohol, passion, jealousy, defence of honour or even the family relationship as attenuating circumstances when sentencing persons accused of killing their partner, but rather as aggravating circumstances;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges Member States, in their national statistics, to show clearly the magnitude of gender-based violence and to take steps to ensure that data are collected on gender-based violence, including the sex of the victims and perpetrators, their relationship, age, the scene of the crime and the injuries inflicted; calls on the Commission to make use of all available expertise to develop and provide annual statistics on gender-based violence, including figures on the number of women killed annually by their partner or ex-partner, based on data from the Member States;