Activities of Marina YANNAKOUDAKIS related to 2013/2004(INL)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT with recommendations to the Commission on combating Violence Against Women PDF (253 KB) DOC (124 KB)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas violence against women and girls includes a wide range of actions such as rape, sexual assault and humiliation, domestic violence, trafficking of women and girls, violence against women and girls in conflict situations, FGM, forced marriage, dowry deaths, honour killings, gendercide and all forms of torture, such as execution by stoning;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas gender-based violence involves victims and perpetrators of all ages, educational backgrounds, incomes and social positions and iscan be linked to the unequal distribution of power between women and men in our society;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas Female Genital Mutilations (FGM) is recognised internationally as a violation of human rights of, a form of torture against girls and women, and reflects a deep-rooted inequality between the sexes,. FGM constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women, is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the adoption of EU guidelines on Violence against Women and girls and combating all forms of discrimination against them is a mark of the EU’s clear political will to treat the subject of women’s rights as a priority and to take long-term non-legislative and non-binding action in that field; whereas coherence between the internal and external dimensions in polices concerning human rights can sometimes expose a gap between rhetoric and behaviour;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)
Recital S a (new)
Sa. Stresses the continuing need for the EU to work with third countries to eradicate the violent practice of FGM; reminds those Member States and third countries with national legislation criminalising FGM that they must act on this legislation;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to submit a revised proposal for a Regulation onWhere practically and economically feasible calls on the Commission to collect European statistics that would target violent crimes and include a coherent system for collecting statistics on gender- based violence in the Member States;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the rejection on 12 December 2012 by the European Parliament of the Commission’s proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics on safety from crime, and as an alternative, where practically and economically feasible recommends collecting statistics on violence against women in the Member States, as the Council, in its conclusions of December 2012, called for improvements to the collection and dissemination of comparable, reliable and regularly updated data concerning all forms of violence against women at both national and EU level; __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P7_TA(2012)0494.
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Opposes the EU´s development of any further binding legal instruments in this area, and welcomes the Commission’s recent comments that outline its plans not to draft any more EU legislation on combatting violence against women, since existing legislation is already in place through the EU´s "Victim´s Package";
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Welcomes that many Member States have signed the Istanbul Convention on Violence Against Women or have expressed an interest to ratify, and recognises that there exists no EU legal basis, as stated by the European Parliament´s Legal Service on the 8th April 2013, for a EU legislative initiative on combatting violence against women;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Requests the Commission to present an non-legislative and non-binding EU-wide Strategy and an Action Plan to combat violence against women;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Encourages the Commission to adopt the first steps towards establishing a European Observatory on Violence Against Women, build using on existing economic resources and institutional structures (European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE))that are already in place at European Union level;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Urges the EU to ensure, by means of aid conditionality, that third countries protect women and girls from all forms of violence; calls on the Council to suspend aid to countries practising violence against women and girls and to divert aid to support victims; urges the Commission to ensure that all new Free Trade Agreements with third countries provide for strict obligations which safe-guard women and girls;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the EU in its human rights dialogues with third countries to promote the prevention, investigation and prosecution of all violence against women, especially those perpetrated against the LGBT community who can be more vulnerable to violence and human rights abuses;