8 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2014/2216(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas violence against women is the world’s most widespread human rights violation, it affects all levels of society, regardless of age, education, income, social position and country of origin or residence, and it represents a major hindrance to equality between women and men;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas all types of discrimination and violence directed against women, including sexual abuse, female genital mutilation, forced marriages, so-called honour crimes and the commercial sexual exploitation of women, as well as gender- based violence and violence in close relationships and economic and social discrimination, must be considered as unjustifiable under any political, social, religious or cultural grounds, or in relation to any popular or tribal traditions;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reiterates that the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality and combating violence against women must be a crucial part of human rights dialogues conducted by the EU with third countries with which cooperation or association agreements have been signed;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Condemns in the strongest terms serious human rights violations perpetrated in armed conflict situations in recent and ongoing crises, and in particular summary executions, rape and other forms of sexual violence, acts of torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, especially regarding the situation of women and children, who are particularly vulnerable; calls on the EU to fight against impunity in all of these cases and to support action by domestic judiciaries and the ICC to bring the perpetrators to justice;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for an immediate end to all acts of violence, sexual assault and other forms of degrading treatment against women demonstrating for democracy and in defence of their rights, particularly in the ‘Arab Spring’ countries, and against women‘s rights activists, and calls for serious and impartial investigations into all such cases and full accountability for those responsible;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the importance of conducting information and awareness campaigns in communities where female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual abuse of young girls, early and forced marriages, femicides and other gender-based human rights violations are practised, and of involving human rights defenders already fighting for an end to these practices in the preparation and implementation of these campaigns; encourages the EEAS and the Member States to continue to address the issue of FGM in their political and policy dialogue with partner countries where FGM is still practised;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses the importance of not undermining the ‘acquis’ of the Beijing Platform for Action regarding access to education and health as a basic human right, and the protection of sexual and reproductive rights; calls on the EU to continue to protect sexual and reproductive health and related rights, and highlights the need to place these policies at the core of development cooperation with third countries;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes and supports the Addis Ababa Declaration on Accelerating the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted in November 2014 during the Ninth African Conference on Women, on women's reproductive health and HIV/AIDs, which calls for invest in sexual and reproductive health rights, including by adopting and implementing laws on sexual and reproductive health, awareness raising and information services for teenagers and women, including comprehensive sexual health education, information and services; highlights that it also calls to expand the provision of family planning services and contraceptives and access to safe and legal abortion services in accordance with national laws and policies, and protect the reproductive rights of women by authorizing medical abortion in the case of sexual assault, rape, incest, in line with the Maputo Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.