Activities of Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA related to 2011/2185(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World and the European Union’s policy on the matter including implications for the EU’s strategic human rights policy
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Recommendation by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity (CM/Rec(2010)5) and the recommendation and resolution (Recommendation 1915 and Resolution 1728) by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the same topic,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas violence and/or discrimination against women cannot be justified on any political, religious or cultural grounds;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the term violence against women is to be understood as any act of gender-based violence, which results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to actively promote non- discrimination on grounds of sex, race and ethnic origin and on grounds of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation in its foreign policy including through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR);
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Welcomes the ‘Toolkit’ adopted by the Council’s working party on human rights in 2010 helping the EU institutions, EU countries, Delegations and others react proactively when the human rights of LGBT people are violated, calls on the Commission to address the structural causes leading to such violations;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is deeply concerned about the raise of gender based violence in many parts of the world, as one of the symptoms of the worldwide crisis, and especially about the increasing number of feminicide (the homicides of women and girls) in Mexico and other countries of Central and South America, which take place in a context of generalized violence and structural discrimination; strongly condemns all kinds of gender based violence and the aberrant crime of feminicide and the prevailing impunity for these crimes, which further pretexts and encourages the murderers;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission to establish clear responsibilities within the EEAS and to coordinate relevant actions of EU Delegations with those of Member States’ Embassies in the countries at stake to convert the Declaration of the High Representative Catherine Ashton on feminicide into concrete policies allocated with sufficient resources, likewise calls on the Commission to provide political and financial support to the work of the Inter- American System of Human Rights in the issue of feminicide and contribute to the implementation of its sentences;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Support the Latin American States to fulfil their obligation of due diligence in the prevention, attention, investigation, legal prosecution, sanction and reparation of feminicide; calls on the Commission to regularly raise the topic within political dialogues, and in particular the existing human rights dialogues, and offer cooperation in the search of remedies to eliminate violence against women and feminicide in the context of the bi- regional partnership;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to make the issue of women’s rights central to the negotiations with candidate countries, and recalls that Turkey isthese countries are required to achieve visible and concrete results in the application of the principle of equality and respect for women’s rights;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. 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;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises that women must have control over their sexual and reproductive rights, notably through easy access to contraception and abortion, points out that the right to reproductive health is an integral element of human rights, underlines that reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health including the right of all to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence (WHO definition);