18 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2014/2143(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas MDG 5 is the goal that lags the furthest behind; as every day an estimated 800 women in the world die due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth; and about 222 million women in the developing world lack access to safe and modern methods of family planning;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas accounting for over 60 percent of people living with HIV, women and girls remain at the epicentre of the HIV pandemic (MDG 6);
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women are key actors in development policies; whereas the empowerment of women and girls and human rights of women and girls has been recognised as a priority in the post-2015 framework;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Finds it regrettable that the current MDGs have not effectively addressed the structural causes of gender inequality and stresses the fact that this is caused not only by a lack of resources but of political will as well as policies which seek to limit women’s and girls’ rights and access to health services, such as donor country funding restrictions on humanitarian aid related to safe abortion services;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the United Nations to include gender equality as a stand-alone goal and a , women’s empowerment and the human rights of women and girls as a stand-alone goal as suggested by the OWG1 and a precondition for the achievement of other goals to be set, and to emphasise the importance of gender- specific targets for all goals under the post- 2015 global development framework; 1. Open Working Group outcome document from 19 July 2014, ref: OWG_Outcome_Document_19_July_2014, http://www.worldwewant2015.org/file/449888/dow nload/489787, http://www.worldwewant2015.org/owg
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Regrets that women’s and girls’ bodies, specifically their sexual and reproductive health and rights, remain an ideological battleground to this day and call on the post-2015 development framework to recognize the inalienable rights of women and girls to bodily integrity and autonomous decision- making; among others, the right to access voluntary family planning, safe and legal abortion and to be free from violence, including FGM, child, early and forced marriage, and marital rape;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for ambitious gender-specific targets to be set as regards ending the feminisation of poverty and closing gender gaps, including enhanced access for women and girls to quality education, universal access to quality health careservices, the enhancement of access for women and girls to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including family planning and abortion services, the boosting of women’s social and economic independence, particularly in terms of employment and their participation in decision-making processes, and the ending of all forms of violence against women and girls;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. As the post-2015 development framework will be a universal agenda for global development, urges the European Commission to include SRHR in its next EU Health Strategy.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Urges the EU and its Member States to include SRHR in external policies.
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls for specific EU projects to promote SRHR in less developed countries to help prevent maternal mortality.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Urges the EU and its Member States to come up with an extensive review of the Beijing Platform for Action to mark its twenty years anniversary in 2015.
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Insists on a specific gender equality chapter rooted in the next EEAS Human Rights Action Plan.
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Insists that gender balance needs to be rooted in the EEAS overseas missions and a dedicated women’s rights and gender equality strategy for each mission.
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Stresses that women’s rights and SRHR are basic rights that are not to be restricted on religious grounds.
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Urges that the provision of EU humanitarian aid and that of its Member States should not be subject to restrictions imposed by the USA or other partner donors regarding access to safe abortion for women and girls who are victims of rape in armed conflicts.
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Calls for the promotion of the UN Security Council resolution 1325 to ensure the participation of women in conflict resolution and democracy building.