11 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2012/2289(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital B (new)
Recital B (new)
B. whereas two of the Millennium Development Goals relate specifically to women: promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women (MDG3) and improving maternal health (MDG 5); whereas a further three contribute directly to improving the living conditions of women and girls: achieving universal primary education (MDG 2), reducing child mortality (MDG 4) and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6);
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital C (new)
Recital C (new)
C. whereas, two years from the 2015 deadline for achievement of the MDGs, globally speaking women continue to be poorer than men; although more girls are attending primary school, considerable gender gaps still exist at secondary-school level and, although 20% of Members of Parliament in the world are women, it will, at the current the rate of progress, take over 40 years to achieve fair representation;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital D (new)
Recital D (new)
D. whereas various studies show that, if women are educated and can earn and control their own income, a number of favourable 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 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the United Nations to enhance the importance accorded to women’s rights and gender equality by making them the subject – as has hitherto been the case – of at least oneseveral specific goals in the post-2015 MDG framework and emphasising their status as cross-cutting issues within development cooperation programmes as a whole;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women in the formulation and achievement of all MDGs; stresses that specific programmes for women’s empowerment, their social and economic independence and non- discrimination are necessary in order to secure gender equality and fulfil the MDGs;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Notes that 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 that the eradication of hunger accordingly depends on aid to small farmers to produce sufficient food for themselves and their families; points out that most small farmers are women;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Stresses the importance of the improved maternal health goal with regard to reducing the maternal mortality rate and achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health services and family planning; stresses the importance of education and awareness raising in the area of sexual and reproductive health as an integral part of the women’s health agenda;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Draws attention to the fact that progress on MDG 2 regarding education has been moderate; observes in particular that more girls are receiving primary education; stresses that more must be done to ensure that girls complete their primary schooling and gain access to secondary and higher education;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. States that special attention needs to be paid to educating both sexes about gender issues from the outset of their schooling, so that attitudes and social stereotypes change gradually and gender equality becomes a basic principle of society in all countries of the world;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Stresses the importance of combating all forms of violence against girls and women: harassment, rape and sexual abuse, forced prostitution, 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 is 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; calls for consideration to be given to the specific objective of combating all types of violence against women in defining future MDGs;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Reaffirms the importance of taking account of the situation of women, not simply as a vulnerable section of the population, but also as active facilitators of development policies; stresses likewise that women have proven competence in resolving problems and conflicts, and urges the Commission and all countries therefore to increase the role of women in action groups and working parties;