Activities of Anne DELVAUX related to 2013/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 c (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 6 July 2011 on women and business leadership1, __________________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0330.

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 d (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 5 April 2011 on priorities and outline of a new EU policy framework to fight violence against women1, __________________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0127.

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 e (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 8 March 2011 on the face of female poverty in the European Union1, __________________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0086.

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 f (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 17 June 2010 on gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis1, __________________ 1 OJ C 236 E, 12.08.2011, p.79.

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 g (new)

- having regard to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR),

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)

- Aa. whereas equality between women and men is a fundamental right enshrined in the Treaty on European Union and the Charter of Fundamental Rights; whereas the objectives of the European Union in this field are to ensure equal opportunities and treatment for men and women and, in addition, to combat all discrimination based on sex;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)

- Ab. whereas despite the progress made in this field many inequalities still exist between men and women, whether in terms of women's rights as human rights, career, employment and pay prospects, access to education and health services, or participation in the economy, decision- making or political representation;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

~~A. whereas the standard of living of most Europeans continues to decline, particularly for women, for whom the unemployment rate in the EU27 stood at 10.8 % in the last quarter of 2012.~~deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the economic crisis has led to a decline in the standard of living of most EU citizens; whereas for the 26 million unemployed Europeans the male and female unemployment rates converged during the fourth quarter of 2012 to reach figures of 10.8% and 10.6% respectively; whereas this reduction in the gap between unemployment rates for workers of different sexes should not obscure the fact that many more women than men were not working in 2012 and that women are often a correcting variable for fluctuations in overall labour supply;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas in Europe in 2011, 63.8 million women (25.2%) and 55.7 million men (23%) experienced poverty and social exclusion; whereas women face a greater risk of poverty than men;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas the unprecedented economic and financial crisis affecting Europe since 2007 has had different effects on the employment of women and men; whereas women were at first generally less affected by staffing adjustments than men because of the significant segmentation of the labour market between women and men; whereas this segmentation of the labour market demonstrates the structural inequalities of which women are victims;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas, despite the fact that some Member States have taken steps, sometimes in the form of legislation, to promote changes in equality between men and women, the changes are too slow and insufficient;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas there are many disparities between EU countries as regards male- female segmentation on the labour market; whereas segmentation is highest in the countries where women work more;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas poverty has increased in the EU since 2007 and household income has dropped, with 24.2 % of the EU’s population now at risk of poverty or exclusion; whereas children, who are often looked after by women, are particularly affected and there has also been an increase in unemployment, the number of unemployed households and in poverty among the unemployed;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the EU is currently facing the most significant economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s; whereas this crisis has been exacerbated by so-called austerity measures imposed on the Member States by the EU institutions within the framework of economic governance policies (Stability and Growth Pact, European Semester, Euro-Plus Pact, Budgetary Treaty) and ‘financial aid’ programmes;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas gender equality is a key economic asset to promote fair and inclusive economic growth, whereas reducing occupational inequality is not just a goal in terms of equal treatment, but also in terms of labour market efficiency and fluidity;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas in 2012, according to Eurostat, the overall employment rate for women in Europe aged between 20 and 64 was 62.4% compared to 74.6% for men.

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas the employment rate is a major indicator for measuring inequality between men and women; whereas the quality and conditions of employment are just as important as parameters for measuring this inequality;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)

Cd. whereas the female employment rate is underestimated given the fact that many women are not registered as unemployed, particularly those who live in rural or remote areas; whereas this situation creates a disparity in terms of access to public services (benefits, pensions, maternity leave, sick leave, access to social security etc.);

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)

Ce. whereas, in 2011, 17.5% of young women and 13.4% of young men (aged 15-29) in Europe were unemployed and not following any educational or vocational training; whereas this rate was over 20% in eight Member States; whereas girls are under-represented in learning processes aimed at facilitating the transition from school to work;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas part-time work has increased during the crisis and continues to be the most common form of employment for women (32.1 % in 2012, up from 30.8 % in 2007; whereas involuntary part-time work has also increased and in 2012 accounted for 24 % of overall female part- time employment (against 20 % in 2007);deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas women work more often than men on the basis of part-time, fixed-term or temporary contracts; whereas this was the most common form of employment for women in 2012 (32.1% as against 8.4% for men); whereas involuntary part-time work increased to 24% of overall female part-time employment in 2012 (as against 20% in 2007)1; whereas these contracts offer less protection against dismissal or other forms of termination of contract; whereas these contracts penalise women, inter alia as regards their career development opportunities, their training opportunities or their pension rights, but do, in some situations, present an opportunity to help men and women who decide to reconcile their work and private lives; __________________ 1 SWD(2013) 171 final.

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas a high proportion of women work professionally on involuntary part- time, fixed-term or temporary contracts; whereas women are thus disadvantaged in the labour market in terms of career advancement, and particularly in terms of remuneration, with the pay often being lower than what a man with the same skills could earn;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)

Dc. whereas young women more often start their professional lives in temporary part-time jobs; whereas the wage gap between women and men affects the level of pensions, resulting in a higher risk of poverty for women than for men; whereas, in 2011, 23% of women aged 65 and over were at risk of poverty, as against 17% of men;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas women are particularly affected by precarious employment, suffer wage discrimination and are more likely to be in part-time work, meaning that they also earn lower wages, enjoy less social protection and find it harder to become economically independent and pursue a career than men do;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the income of women doing the same work and with the same skills is still lower than that of men; whereas wage inequality is around 16.2% on average in the EU, with considerable variations among Member States that can range from a 10% wage gap to a disparity of over 20% in some Member States;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas, in 2011, 78 % of women said they carried out ‘domestic work’ every day, as against 39% of men; whereas flexible working hours are a key element for achieving a better work-life balance, although they can sometimes make employment more precarious;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

Hb. whereas self-employed, out-of-work or unemployed, elderly and disabled women, as well as those who are single parents are a particularly vulnerable group at risk of poverty;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)

Hc. whereas the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, education and training is directly linked to effective access to childcare, and care for the elderly and any other dependents;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)

Hd. whereas, according to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions1, over six million women in Europe say that they cannot work full-time because of their family responsibilities; whereas the difficulties are even greater when faced with the absence or unavailability of sufficient childcare facilities and measures to facilitate a better work-life balance; __________________ 1 European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Family life and work, 2010.

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H e (new)

He. whereas household responsibilities such as maternity and caring for elderly relatives or dependents are generally assumed by women, without conferring any status on them; whereas these societal functions or tasks receive no appreciation either financially or in terms of value or rights; whereas this role of caregiver is often a barrier to employment and professional career prospects for women; whereas these functions or tasks performed by necessity or by choice mostly penalise women professionally;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H f (new)

Hf. whereas the lack of effective measures to enable women and men to reconcile their professional and private lives particularly penalises women who often take on more of the family responsibilities and have fewer opportunities for career advancement and pay increases;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H g (new)

Hg. whereas in Europe, the employment rate in 2010 for women with dependent children was 64.7% as opposed to 89.7% for men with dependent children; whereas women spend more time than men on domestic work or on caring for dependents; whereas few men take parental leave or work part-time;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H h (new)

Hh. whereas in many sectors, including those in which women predominate, there is still a glass ceiling that prevents women from reaching higher positions, especially top management positions; whereas this discrimination takes the form, inter alia, of underestimation of their skills and their work, and the unequal division of resulting professional responsibilities;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital H i (new)

Hi. whereas the underrepresented gender on the boards of large listed companies in the EU, mostly women, must have a minimum of 40% representation by 1 January 2020; whereas, according to the Commission, women only accounted for 16.6% of the members of such boards in April 2013 and 11.8% in October 2010;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in April 2012 between UN Women and the EU, reaffirming the partnership between the two organisations and their commitment to promote and support capacity development for the inclusion of gender mainstreaming in all policies and programmes and to ensure that national plans and budgets are sufficient to implement gender equality commitments1. __________________ 1 Memorandum of Understanding between the European Union and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas a new Memorandum of Understanding between the European Union and UN Women was signed in April 2012 with the aim of strengthening cooperation between the two institutions to promote women's empowerment and gender equality throughout the world; whereas its priorities include ensuring better representation of women in economic, political and judicial decision- making, providing greater professional and social prospects for women, and combatting sexual and gender-based violence;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

Ib. whereas women and young girls are the main victims of human trafficking;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)

Ic. whereas violence against women, whether physical, sexual or psychological, is a direct attack on their fundamental rights and a violation of human rights; whereas such violence knows no geographic, economic, social or cultural borders;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital I d (new)

Id. whereas in some cases the media, across all sectors, tend to convey gender stereotypes, thereby even portraying a demeaning image of women;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital I e (new)

Ie. whereas the collection of statistical data on inequality between the sexes is a priority to combat the causes that prevent gender equality being achieved in the European Union;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that flexible working hours should be the worker’s decision, and should not be imposed or enforced by the employer; rejects situations of flexibility and contractual uncertainty that do not provide for family formation and stability;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that whilst there has been a trend towards a reduction in gender inequalities on the labour market following the crisis in terms of the gaps in employment and unemployment rates, this reduction is not the result of Europe suddenly making progress towards greater parity, but rather the consequence of a rapid fall in male employment which has been more affected by the crisis; calls on the Member States to maintain their efforts to achieve better representation of women in decision-making processes, to improve the work-life balance, and to continue to combat violence against women;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and ensure the full use of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors as an irreplaceable instrument with which to regulate labour relations, combat wage discrimination and promote equality;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Urges the Member States to include a gender perspective in the cohesion policy for 2014-2020 in order to meet the objectives set by the 2020 strategy; calls, in particular, for a commitment by the EU to ensure equality between women and men and its mainstreaming in all EU and Member State policies; notes that some measures above all require the mobilisation of genuine political will, which has so far been lacking in creating sustainable, inclusive, fair and equal conditions for men and women;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Notes that equal participation by men and women in the labour market could significantly increase the economic potential of the EU, while confirming its fair and inclusive nature; points out that, according to OECD projections, total convergence in participation rates would result in a 12.4% increase in per capita GDP by 2030;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Points out that, in December 2012, the Commission recognised that youth policies (the Youth Employment Package and the Youth Guarantee) need to be pursued according to a gender mainstreaming approach; urges the Commission to give greater encouragement to Member States to adopt measures ensuring that the education and vocational training prospects for girls are the same as those for boys;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Calls on the Member States to respect the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work of equal value’ and to strengthen public mechanisms for labour inspection and the adoption of methodologi~~Notes that, for all the progress made in reducing gender pay gaps, wage inequalities are still substantial, not to say increasing, in some Member States; urges the Commission and the Member States to ~~mea~~ensure th~~e value of work in the production chain and to identify, for example, the creation within companies of semi-skill~~at the fundamental principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ is observed for ~~unskilled wage categories mainly made up of women~~women and men alike;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Member States to do their utmost to narrow the gender pay gap; urges the Commission and Council to make girls more interested in growth sectors in which women are underrepresented, to help them enter such sectors and to provide them with continuing education opportunities throughout their working lives, and to promote complete pay equity at every level;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Notes that the proportion of women in economic, scientific, and research sectors is low; calls for more intensive awareness campaigns to reverse that trend and counteract the pronounced segmentation of the labour market;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Calls for further equal pay information campaigns in order to foster growing awareness of the fact that, from the point of view of fairness and rights, it is vital to aspire to equal treatment of women and men;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls on the Commission to give continuing encouragement to initiatives aimed at promoting equal pay for women and men, not least by offering tangible support to companies as they seek to achieve parity at the workplace;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to combat all aspects of precarious employment~~, in line with the principle that permanent posts should be accompanied by proper contracts,~~ and to adopt active employment policies to increase the level and quality of jobs and promote net job creation;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that since women tend to a greater extent to be employed in precarious jobs, they are less likely to find other work if they lose their job;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Barbara MATERA, Anne DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

~~5. Strongly urges the Member States to increase their investment in public services, particularly health services relating to sexual and reproductive health;~~deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recommends that the Member States develop educational programmes in secondary schools, for teenagers from the age of 12 and above, to combat gender stereotyping. This education should be based on good practice and should educate male and female students on gender, in an attempt to destroy stereotypes relating to social roles and the representation and significance of being a woman or a man. These stereotypes – according to which, for example, women are designed to carry out certain jobs, such as looking after children, the elderly and the home, while men are designed to have an income-producing job and career – should not be included in text books;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Notes that the average gap between men’s and women’s pensions is 39%, whereas the gender pay gap is estimated to stand at 16%; notes that the amounts of pension that women receive are, in general, affected by a number of factors including the types of precarious employment that they are forced to accept and career breaks;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the Member States to recognise that women are contributing to society when they choose – or are compelled – to work shorter hours in order to devote themselves to their child(ren) or to one or more dependent close relatives, given that they can find no accessible care facilities;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Points out that women are increasingly becoming family breadwinners; calls on the Member States to take steps to establish a ‘family caregiver’ status serving not only to prevent women from being penalised at work, but also to confer legitimacy on the vital role that they are performing in society;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Points out that the measures to raise the employment rate in the 20- to 64-year age group to 75%, in keeping with the 2020 strategy, have been drawn up; urges the Member States to implement those measures and, more specifically, to emphasise policies enabling women and men to achieve a better work-life balance, one means to that end being to expand facilities for preschool- and school-age children and family support or parenting centres, and pave the way for flexible working by choice and an appropriate parental leave system, while encouraging greater sharing of family responsibilities;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Points to the vulnerability of women with disabilities and women with a disabled dependent child; urges that care facilities and services be set up in order to ensure that these women can strike a better balance between family needs and their careers and that they will not have to give up work altogether because they have no support and no one to look after their dependants from the time when they are born until they reach adulthood;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Maintains that the availability of good, affordable nurseries and care centres is a priority from the point of view of developing women’s employment; maintains that action in the above area has to go hand in hand with measures in every form enabling women to achieve a sound work-life balance and respond flexibly to life’s vicissitudes;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Welcomes the fact that the new Parental Leave Directive has been transposed reasonably quickly, but greatly deplores the deadlock in the Council regarding the legislative resolution amending the directive on the protection of pregnant women and women who have recently given birth or are breast-feeding, which was adopted by Parliament, by 390 votes to 192, with 59 abstentions, on 20 October 2010;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Notes that in 2012, according to Commission figures, 31.6% of men and 40% of women in the EU aged between 30 and 34 have a higher education qualification; points out that women account for 60% of new graduates but are underrepresented in, for example, the science and research sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to raise women’s awareness of training in the above field and ensure that they have the same chances as men to enter the corresponding professions and make a career in them;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Barbara MATERA, Anne DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Emphasises that in order to promote the participation of women in decision- making, measures need to be set in motion to combat stereotypes and prejudices about the role of women, along with specific policies to support equal rights and opportunities in economic, social, political and cultural life ~~(to combat irregular and unforeseeable working hours, applying fair remuneration and equal pay and expand public childcare, nursery and school networks,) with the positive effect of~~and strengthen~~ing~~ women’s participation in ~~all levels of~~economic, social, and political life;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Member States to promote a balanced, non-stereotyped image of women in the mass media. Television, in particular, should communicate and develop a vision of a more modern kind of woman, placing greater emphasis on her social development, constitutional rights and her role in civil society, the institutions and the working world;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Barbara MATERA, Anne DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Notes that, according to a Commission study published in October 2012, the proportion of women on European company boards stands, on average, at just 16.6%, whereas 97% of top business management positions are held by men;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Encourages the Member States to promote gender equality in the context of media information networks and to use all possible means to attempt to eliminate the tendency to use women’s bodies for profit- related or promotional purposes;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Welcomes the Commission proposal for a directive aimed at boosting women’s representation on non-executive boards of quoted companies by laying down a 40% minimum target for women to be met by 2020; calls on the Commission to use awareness campaigns to promote greater representation of women in the decision- making bodies of small and medium-sized enterprises;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Maintains that evenly balanced participation in politics by women and men is one of the democratic foundations of our political system and central to its underlying representative character; notes that the above point has a direct and indirect bearing on women’s participation in elections;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Notes that the European Union, given its values and ambitions, should set an example by moving closer to gender parity within the institutions;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 e (new)

7e. Considers it regrettable that, according to European Parliament figures, female MEPs make up only 36% of the total and men, 64%; notes that the proportion of women in the national parliaments is as little as 26%, compared with a 74% figure for men, the respective percentages in the Commission being 32% and 68%;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 f (new)

7f. Calls on the Member States to adopt targets for balanced representation of women and men in politics; maintains that the resolve to achieve gender balance should be shared by everyone involved in politics, be it at European, national, regional, or local level;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 g (new)

7g. Notes that some Member States have achieved significant results by legislating with a view to balancing the numbers of women and men in positions of responsibility, employing election quotas to that end; calls on the other Member States to follow suit;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 h (new)

7h. Maintains that the forthcoming May 2014 European elections offer a real opportunity to champion gender equality in the EU;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 i (new)

7i. Calls on the Member States and national parties to take gender into consideration when drawing up election lists and making appointments to senior administrative posts in the institutions; urges the political groups to be formed after the election to provide a measure of gender balance when assigning responsibilities;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3

~~Violence against women~~(Does not affect the English version.)

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Observes that increasing poverty and marginalisation, owing to so-called austerity policies, have led to an increase in female trafficking, sexual exploitation and prostitution and that there are signs that domestic violence is on the rise, as social tensions within families also increase, and that women now find themselves more economically dependent on their aggressors;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to take further steps, as a matter of priority, to combat violence against women and to show the utmost firmness to that end;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Notes that violence of this kind causes several hundred deaths in the EU every year and that it demands immediate practical responses;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Points to the importance of greater cooperation, whether proceeding horizontally or vertically, in which the authorities of the Member States, regional and local authorities, women’s organisations, and civil society should work effectively to stamp out violence against women;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)

8d. Notes that, according to findings obtained in 2012, under the Cyprus Presidency, specialised services such as refuges for female victims of violence or emergency helplines are not available everywhere and in any case not spread evenly throughout the Member States; calls for these essential services to be developed so that women can report the acts of violence inflicted on them;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Notes with concern that – according to data from the Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States: Violence against Women, Victim support (2012), from the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) – professional training and the sustainability of funding for public services, associations and NGOs providing services to women in situations of domestic violence are ~~clearly~~ being affected by the ~~so-called austerity measures, threatening the continued existence of such services, and that this is a shameful step backwards in civilizational term~~crisis; recalls that tremendous inequality exists among the Member States in terms of access to support services~~, with secure and sufficient state funding existing in Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria~~;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recommends that the Member States strengthen their ~~free~~ public health services in the area of support to women subjected to violence and that they ~~increase the number of refuges and their capacity, with specialised assistance to women of different nationalities, in a range of languages~~seek to offer them specialised assistance;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Points to the importance of systematic training for the qualified personnel who look after female victims of physical, sexual, or psychological violence; considers such training to be essential for providers of first- and second-line care, including emergency social services and medical, civil protection, and police services;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Calls on the Member States to continue, and indeed expand, targeted prevention programmes to tackle the sources of violence against women before it happens;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM