14 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2010/2017(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)
Citation (new)
- having regard to the platform for action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995 and to its resolutions of 18 May 2000 on the follow-up to the Beijing Action Platform, of 10 March 2005 on the follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women – Platform for Action (Beijing + 10) and of 25 February 2010 on Beijing +15 – UN Platform for Action for Gender Equality,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas political activities should not, therefore, be centralised at the Community decision-making level; whereas, however, the EU could do more to support national initiatives by providing budgets for projects set up by governments, youth associations, NGOs, or networks for the exchange of best practice and information,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas parental responsibility for building the human and social capacity of future generations should be viewed first and foremost in economic terms as a social cohesion issuresource, thus making for a better understanding of the interdependence of equal opportunities policies, effective parenting, and measures to combat juvenile delinquency,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas, contrary to the objectives and commitments outlined in the Lisbon Strategy and the Europe 2020 Strategy, several Member States are sharply reducing their resources and investments in education and training,
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)
Recital R a (new)
Ra. having regard to the need for social, legal and economic recognition of caregiving as an 'invisible' activity that is still mainly done by women, also in order to assess its impact on the gender pay gap,
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States to support education policies aimed at preventing young people from dropping out of education, and to compare best practices in this field;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Member States – via national telecommunications authorities – to ensure adequate monitoring of, and penalties for, media content and images that incite violence, sadism, racism and sexual discrimination, and to promote educational and instructive audiovisual and multimedia content;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to promote and strengthen the role of voluntary associations, which enable young people to gain experience of commitment and personal and social responsibility, and notes that such experience is highly educational, including from a civic perspective;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on national law-makers to widen cooperation with civil society representatives to include organisations representing women/mothers and men/fathers, youth associations, researchers, family or parents’ organisations, youth workers, social workers, churches and religious communities recognised under current national law, charities or humanitarian organisations, the media, and the police;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Considers it essential to promote family-friendly policies (inter alia through new corporate social responsibility criteria), in particular for single-parent families, so as to afford them the necessary conditions for work-life balance;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to support professional counselling networks for families, couples having difficulty parenting and adolescents with problems relating to at-risk lifestyles and forms of dependency;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Expresses the need, in particular, to promote family-friendly policies – also through new CSR parameters – in particular for single-parent families, to provide them with the right conditions for a work-life balance;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to support school and education policies aiming to prevent young people from dropping out of school and education and to compare best practices in this field;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Encourages the Commission and the Member States, also on the occasion of the European Year of Volunteering, to promote and strengthen the role of volunteer associations, in which young people can experience commitment and personal and social responsibility that are highly educational, also from a civic point of view;