Activities of Mariya GABRIEL related to 2016/2060(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Rights of women in the Eastern Partnership States (A8-0365/2016 - Mariya Gabriel) FR
Reports (1)
REPORT on rights of women in the Eastern Partnership States PDF (450 KB) DOC (83 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges the essential role of civil society organisations and international NGOs to boost positive reforms and measures to protect women's rights and improve their participation to political and economic activities;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the EaP States to promote and strengthen political participation and leadership by women; underlines that increased participation of women in administrations leading key reforms, such as anti-corruption and economic reforms, would be beneficial; welcomes all efforts aimed at reaching this goal, such as obligatory or voluntary quotas for the lists of candidates, grants, training and support provided to female politicians and activists, and mentoring programmes and awareness- raising campaigns changing the image of women in the media; remarks that in general, an increase of women's participation to the political life and to high administration of EaP countries would contribute to the renewal of the political class and thus to the ongoing political transitions;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the positive role that the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly can play to promote women's political participation and their visibility in the Eastern Partnership; welcomes the first meeting of the Euronest Women's Forum which took place in March 2016; also encourages, more generally, the creation and the support by the EU of transnational networks of women's in politics;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Encourages exchanges of best practices on the promotion of women's political participation in decentralised institutions and local authorities; also highlights that sustainable results in increasing women’s political participation are best achieved when led by political parties; therefore underlines the key role of European political parties and their women’s sections;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Recalls that EU Electoral Observation Missions and of other international electoral observation missions provide, in their reports, recommendations regarding women’s participation to the electoral process; calls on the EU to make full use of these recommendations in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Encourages further efforts towards peaceful resolution of conflicts and calls for greater involvement of women in such processes, in line with UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 2242 on Women, Peace and Security;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Welcomes the project of the Council of Europe on Improving Women's Access to Justice in Five Eastern Partnership Countries, which aims at identifying and supporting the removal of obstacles for women's equal access to justice, and strengthening the capacity of Eastern Partnership countries to design measures to ensure that the justice chain is gender-responsive, including through the training of legal professionals;