8 Amendments of Nicole KIIL-NIELSEN related to 2012/2289(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the United Nations to enhance the importance accorded to women's rights and gender equality by making them the subject of at least one specific goal in the post-2015 MDG framework and emphasising their status as cross-cutting issues within development cooperation programmes as a whole; stresses that targets and indicators for the future goals must genuinely reflect the barriers women and girls face (e.g. access to education beyond enrolment) and should be disaggregated by gender to ensure that certain sections of the population are not left behind;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses the need to include a gender perspective in national budgets and hence introduce gender-specific public finance management systems, making it possible to evaluate and monitor access by women and girls to the services they require;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the United Nations, when assessing the MDGs after 2015, invariably to base its reasoning on the Gender Inequality Index (GII) as described in the UNDP Human Development Report 2010, bearing in mind that the GII is the index providing the most representative and complete picture of the gender equality situation in a given country, and to adopt an approach encompassing both the quantitative and the qualitative point of view; points out that it must evaluate more closely the reasons for which progress made in improving maternal health has been relatively slow compared with other MDGs;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women’s rights and gender equality in terms of women’s empowerment and well-being, participation in decision-making, combating violence against women, access to good education (at primary, secondary, and higher level) and training, access to effective health care, improvements in sexual and reproductive health and rights, quality and stability of employment, equal pay, career development, the representation of women in politics and economic activity by improving access for women to productive and financial assets and not only microcredit, and ownership and inheritance rights;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women’'s rights and gender equality in terms of women’'s empowerment and well- being, participation in decision-making, combating violence against women, access to goodquality education (at primary, secondary, and higher level) and training, access to effective health carpromotion of universal health coverage through health systems which are public and free at the point of use, improvements in sexual and reproductive health and rights, quality and stability of employment, equal pay, career development, the representation of women in politics and economic activity, and ownership and inheritance rights;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Call on the United Nations, in the post-2015 framework, to focus on synergy between consideration of sexual and reproductive rights and the achievement of other MDGs such as girls’ education and women’s empowerment, thereby promoting access to family planning services, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 g (new)
Paragraph 3 g (new)
3g. Calls for the post-2015 framework provisions fully to involve women’s associations in content definition and formulation and the implementation of the new MDGs, based on their expectations and experiences;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to have adequate finance resources dedicated to development, environment and pro poor spending in order to achieve the goals; donors need to meet long-standing financial commitments including 0.7% of GNI as ODA in the post-2015 framework and should invest in increasing revenue from innovative sources of finance as well as put an end to tax evasion and tax avoidance;