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Activities of Marina YANNAKOUDAKIS related to 2011/2244(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on equality between women and men in the European Union - 2011 PDF (208 KB) DOC (119 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: FEMM
Dossiers: 2011/2244(INI)
Documents: PDF(208 KB) DOC(119 KB)

Amendments (11)

Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas at times of economic crisis, strengthening women’s position in the labour market and economic independence is not only a moral imperativcommon sense, but also an economic necessity;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas budget cuts in social services, such as childcare, furthercan hinder women’s and men’s participation in the labour market;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to ensure that their marriage and divorce, divorce and matrimonial property laws do not directly or indirectly constitute a financial ‘trap’ for the spouses, in particular women, and to ensure that young couples are fully aware and informed in a suitable time frame of the legal and financial implications of marriage and divorce;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to present, as soon as possible, comprehensive current data on female representation within all types of companies in the EU and on the compulsory and non-compulsory measures taken by the business sector as well as those recently adopted by the Member States with a view to increasing such representation, following this exercise, and if the steps taken by companies and the Member States are f. In all cases business driven best practice shounld to be inadequate, to propose legislation, including quotas, by 2012 to increase female representation in corbe shared that is fully supporate management bodies to 30% by 2015 and to 40% by 2020, while taking account of the Member States’ responsibilities and of their economic, structural (i.e. company- size related), legal and regional specificities;d by the Member States.
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that the use of electoral quotas has positive effects on women’s representation;deleted
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Reiterated its position on sexual and reproductive health rights, as stated in its resolutions of 1 February 2010 and 8 February 2011 on equality between women and men in the European Union – 2009 and 2010; expresses concern in this respect about recent restrictions on access to sexual and reproductive health services in some Member States, in particular safe and legal abortion;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that this year the world population has reached 7 billion; expresses its conviction that family planning should be at the top of the political agenda;deleted
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Expresses its concern about the slow progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, in particular towards MDG5: Improve Maternal Health, and about the fact that progress towards a reduction by three quarters of the maternal mortality rate is lagging far behind and that the aim of achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015 is still far from being achieved; notes that about 1 000 women still die each day from entirely avoidable pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Urges political and religious leaders to publicly throw their weight behind MDG5 and support modern sexual and reproductive health services;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the incoming Council to unblock the Council Directive on implementingreassess the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation with a view to adoption during the Danish Presidency;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Regrets the lack of progress by Member States on plans to modernise existing legislation on maternity leave and cCalls for a balanced compromise with the future Danish Presidency of the EU with a view to adoption in thin relation to the Maternity Leave fDirst half of 2012 to respond to the needs of European families and of the European economyective which recognises the right of Member States in areas of employment and policies particularly related to the family unit; calls on the Commission to put forward proposals for leave arrangements for care for elderly or sick relatives;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM