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11 Amendments of Barbara MATERA related to 2012/2063(INI)

Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. States that maternal death rates are disproportionately high in developing countries; notes with concern that African women are 175 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in the developed regions of the world; stresses that accessible, affordable, adequate and high- quality emergency obstetric care is vital in order to reduce maternal death rates; emphasises that developing countries need increased numbers of qualified healthcare professionals to attend to women in labour and states the need for women to be informed about the sexual and reproductive health services they can access;deleted
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for Policy Coherence for Development to favour a participative approach that promotes the empowerment and self-determination of local people and, first of all, of women;
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses the importance of taking account of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable social groups, notably women and girls, and paying particular attention to them to avoid any further increase in inequality; experience has shown that ‘neutral’ measures entrench the existing power structure and it is essential to take positive, informed, systematic action in the form of measures that improve the situation of women, so as to ensure that such measures benefit the most disadvantaged;
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that the unequal relationship between the sexes is the first stumbling block to be overcome by measures to improve the living conditions of people (women and men) in developing countries and women’s access to participative development;
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses the need for CPD to incorporate a global approach which extends beyond the family and microsocial level and takes gender relations into account; this cross-cutting approach to gender issues needs to be incorporated in every development project and every analysis of a society; the approach must apply not only to all sectors but also in all political, economic, social, environmental, cultural and other fields; such an approach, which systematically takes account of the situation and role of women and gender relations in a society, is more comprehensive, humanistic and democratic than an approach which sets women apart; it avoids marginalising women in ‘women’s projects’ or projects which add to women’s workloads or responsibilities without increasing their power or control over the benefits generated by the projects in question;
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Stresses the role of women in leveraging development policies by participating in the formulation and implementation of such policies, thereby ensuring that political and economic negotiations take women’s interests into account and creating a virtuous circle in which women are the driving force behind development policies which, in turn, set up the structures whereby women can be empowered; highlights the importance of supporting civil society organisations and groups which take on the task of promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment;
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Notes that women play an essential part in development, since, in their role as mothers and carers for children and other dependent members of the family, they assume responsibility for the family’s general well-being; for example, women play a crucial role in the field of nutrition and food security, particularly in the context of subsistance farming;
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Stresses that the situation of women is, in many cases, deteriorating more than that of men both in relative and absolute terms; there has been an increase in poverty over the last twenty years or so, which has primarily affected women;
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1h. Stresses that, although the important role played by women in development policies and development cooperation is very widely recognised, the statistics and quantitative data which specifically relate to women are still inadequate and fail to meet the objective of reporting the situation of women in developing countries, particularly in fields such as health, education, prevention and meeting basic needs; care must be taken to ensure, therefore, that in all PCD objectives, analyses, documents and assessments the quantitative data is broken down by gender, and gender-specific indicators are included, in order to take account of women’s real living conditions;
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Reaffirms that girl children have equal status under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and calls on EU delegations in developing countries to work with the governments of those countries to ensure that girl children enjoy their rights without discrimination, inter alia by requiring the immediate registration of all children after birth, granting girls and boys equal entitlement to education and schooling and ending the unethical and discriminatory practices of prenatal sex selection, abortion of female foetuses, female infanticide, early forced marriage, female genital mutilation and child prostitution;deleted
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses concern about widespread gender-based violence, especially sexual violence and feminicide, in developing countries; states that upholding women’s rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights, is essential in order to end gender-based violence; calls on the Commission to make the fight against impunity for the perpetrators of such violence one of the priorities for its development assistance policy;deleted
2012/07/18
Committee: FEMM