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18 Amendments of Teresa RIERA MADURELL related to 2007/2263(INI)

Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
– having regard to the ILO report entitled 'Economic incentives and hardships fuel the growth of the sex sector' (ILO/98/31), according to which children and immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to the commercial exploitation of sexuality,
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the authorities have not so far conducted an internal policy debate resulting in a thorough analysis of prostitution which will enable courses of action to be devised from a comprehensive point of view,
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas a distinction must be made between prostitution involving minors of either sex, the forced prostitution of women or trafficking in women, and prostitution which is consciously engaged in by women who are forced into the sex industry by a variety of situations,
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas social rejection leads to discrimination against prostitutes and to their exclusion from the social milieu, which puts their mental and physical health at greater risk and makes it difficult for them to achieve social 'integration' and, in particular, to secure access to public health services,
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas there are many immigrant women working as prostitutes in the European Union who have no identity papers, which means that a significant number of them have no access to a health card which would enable them to enter the healthcare circuit, hence they are excluded not only from the treatment and care they require but also from preventive campaigns which are essential as a means of discouraging unsafe practices which may lead to the transmission of STDs, including HIV/Aids,
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas some of the immigrant women who work as prostitutes in the European Union are victims of trafficking in human beings by organised networks, for which reason a package of protective legislative measures in which prostitution is regarded as a form of gender-based violence must be developed,
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas most of the unsafe practices performed in the context of prostitution are usually at the instigation of the client, who on occasions is unaware of the risks he is taking and of the harm which may ensue,
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that prostituted women are considerably more exposed to violence than other women;deleted
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises that prostituted women are considerably more at risk of being murdered than other women;deleted
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Recognises that prostituted women are considerably more at risk of physical and psychological injuries related, not to extraordinary violence, but to the everyday practice of prostitution;deleted
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9, Recognises that, as stated in the above- mentioned CEDAW Committee General Recommendation No. 19, traditional attitudes by which women are regarded as subordinate to men contribute to the propagation of pornography and the depiction and other commercial exploitation of women as sexual objects, rather than as individuals;deleted
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls upon the Member States to implement measures designed to ensure that women who work as prostitutes receive comprehensive care and to establish a network of care (including psychological care) in hostels;
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Urges the Member States to facilitate access by prostitutes and their children to the public health service by issuing them with a health card (treating them for the purpose as persons without economic resources);
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote initiatives designed to support social organisations active in the field of health protection for women working as prostitutes, with emphasis on the work of mediators;
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Urges the Member States to conduct awareness campaigns relating to prostitution and health, targeted at potential users such as youths, at the population at risk of falling into prostitution and at the general public as a whole;
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls upon the Member States to take into consideration the particular circumstances of transsexual women prostitutes, whose identity differs from their biological sex at birth and whose access to community social and healthcare resources is thus limited - a state of affairs which is especially worrying on account of the fact that their health vulnerability increases when they undergo hormone treatment without the requisite medical supervision and at a very early age;
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Draws attention to the importance of establishing procedures and medical records for the monitoring of patients, given the inherently itinerant nature of prostitution as an occupation;
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Urges the Member States to investigate the levels of drug abuse among prostituted women and how this has caused them to become prostituted women but also how the abuse increases their exposure to health risks;deleted
2008/05/26
Committee: FEMM