11 Amendments of Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA related to 2008/2198(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Council to appoint a European Envoy for Women’s Rights who would strengthen the EU’s commitment to the empowerment of women in foreign and development policy;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that whilst a breakthrough has been made with the appointment of Gender advisers in ESDP operation, the main challenges are still the lack of a concrete EU gender policy – particularly a policy tailored to address security aspects, a lack of gender understanding and gender awareness and/or an unwillingness to consider its importance, and a lack of pre-deployment on gender;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses that rape and sexual violence are used as a weapon of war; stresses that they should be punished as war crimes and crimes against humanity; calls for more support programmes for victims;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Council to appoint a European Envoy for Women's Rights who would strengthen the EU's commitment to the empowerment of women in foreign and development policy;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is convinced that ESDP mission planning should take into account the inclusion of local women’s organisations in the peace process, to build on the specific contribution which they can make and to recognise the particular ways in which women are affected by conflict;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Notes that a great deal of effort is currently being made to mainstream a gender-sensitive approach into the security and defence culture of the ESDP, inter alia by developing the quantitative dimension of gender mainstreaming in that policy (e.g. through questionnaires, the development of check-lists, counting the number of men and women in ESDP operations, etc); however, stresses the need to develop the qualitative conceptual framework required in order to understand the socio-economic context in which ESDP missions are deployed (i.e. areas of conflict) and gender-sensitive concerns in the implementation of operations/programmes;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Is convinced that ESDP mission planning should take account of the inclusion of local women's organisations in the peace process, so as to build on the specific contribution which they can make and to recognise the particular ways in which women are affected by conflicts;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Stresses that, currently, quotas are an indispensable means of ensuring gender equality in peace and security missions, in decision-making in national and international reconstruction processes, and of guaranteeing the political presence of women at the negotiating table; calls for measures to ensure that at least 40% of the people involved in the whole peace process are women, and considers that this ratio should apply to mediation, peace-keeping, peace-making, peace-building and conflict prevention, including information and observation tasks, and peace negotiation;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines the importance of gender- sensitive budgeting; points out that gender should be developed as a thematic issue in major funding instruments, and that specific activity targets should be identified, e.g. early warning, peace negotiations, aid distribution, support to victims, health provision, access to justice, political empowerment, reconstruction, elections, access to trade, governance, land ownership, reproductive rights and health care;