Activities of Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA related to 2010/2209(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on priorities and outline of a new EU policy framework to fight violence against women PDF (234 KB) DOC (137 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas violence against women, in all its forms, is one of the most widespread human rights violations,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas violence against women is a structural phenomenon, the cause of which is a direct result of gender inequality; whereas violence against women is a widespread problem in every country and every social class,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas women who have experienced gender-based violence are at greater risk of problems such as chronic pain, disability, miscarriage and somatic disorders; whereas psychological and emotional secondary disorders of abuse are often manifested in higher levels of depression, anxiety, panic attacks, substance abuse, eating disorders and psychiatric disorders,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas women's personal income and paid employment remains key to their economic autonomy and to greater equality between women and men in society as a whole,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas economic stress often leads to more frequent, more violent and more dangerous abuse; whereas studies have shown that violence against women intensifies when men experience displacement and dispossession as a result of the economic crisis,
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 7 a (new)
Paragraph 1 – indent 7 a (new)
– mechanisms to facilitate access to free legal aid enabling victims to assert their rights throughout the Union,
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 7 b (new)
Paragraph 1 – indent 7 b (new)
– guarantee of rights to assistance and support for all victims of violence regardless of the victim's nationality, and protection of female victims whose legal status might depend on their partner,
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Urges the Member States to recognise sexual violence and rape against women, including within marriage and intimate informal relationships and/or where committed by male relatives, as a crime in cases where the victim did not give consent, and to ensure that such offenses result in automatic prosecution and reject any reference to cultural, traditional or religious practices or traditions as a mitigating factor in cases of violence against women including so-called 'crimes of honour' and female genital mutilation;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the EU and its Member Stats to establish a legal framework guaranteeing immigrant women the right to hold their own passport and residence permit and making it possible to hold a person criminally responsible for taking these documents away;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address violence against women and the gender-related dimension of human rights violations internationally, in particular in the context of the bi-lateral association and international trade agreements in force and those under negotiation;