Activities of Angelika WERTHMANN related to 2011/2066(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a 2020 Perspective for Women in Turkey PDF (221 KB) DOC (132 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Turkish Government to uphold and strengthen equality principles and women’s rights in adopting and amending its legislative framework, including the planned process for a new Constitution, and to ensure that the country’s authorities implement the relevant legal provisions;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the establishment of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women within the Turkish Parliament, and regards it as essential that the committee should take a transparency- based approach to its work by issuing activity and progress reports, also in order to offer guidance to the competent Turkish ministries;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the importance of effective coordination in ensuring gender mainstreaming; and therefore welcomes the efforts of the Turkish Government to enhance cooperation on gender mainstreaming between state authorities; calls for the results of this cooperation to be put into practice;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Turkish Government to acknowledge the importance of civil society participation in the development and implementation of gender policies and to ensure the involvement of non- governmental organisations (NGOs) at central and local level in arriving at the most favourable policies for girls and women;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is deeply concerned about the regularity and severity of violence against girls and women and the ineffectiveness of remedies, as well as the lenience of the Turkish authorities as regards punishing the perpetrators of gender-based crimes;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Turkish Government to adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards violence against womengirls and women and to implement this policy effectively and as speedily as possible;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that amendment of Law No 4320 on the Protection of the Family is needed and that such an amendment should ensure a broad scope of application, effective legal remedies and protection mechanisms, and strict and immediate implementation of the legal framework, with no concessions, in order to eradicate violence against girls and women and introduce dissuasive and severe punishments for the perpetrators of violence against women;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the continuation of training of police officers, health personnel, judges and prosecutors on the prevention of domestic violence; would greatly welcome cooperation between the Turkish government and clerics with a view to jointly combating violence against women; in order to complement these efforts, once more notes the need for a mechanism to identify and investigate those who fail to protect and assist victims;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the initiatives of the Turkish Government in reorganising the system of shelters in consultation with all stakeholders; calls at the same time for the number of women’s shelters, as referred to in the Council of Europe Convention of 11 May 2011 on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, to be increased so as to offer sufficient accommodation for women;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the setting up of telephone help-lines and the establishment of the Women Mmonitoring Ccentres for girls and women, where victims of gender-based violence receive medical treatment and psychological counselling during their court cases in order to prevent and rule out repeated victimisation;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines the importance of education in empowering women and mainstreaming gender at all levels of education; stresses in particular that primary education, provided it is at least thorough, enables girls and women to obtain a qualified job and thus achieve a degree of independence and freedom of choice in society;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the fact that participation of girls in primary education has been increasing and that the gender gap in primary education is almost closed; considers it regrettable, however, that the gender gap still exists in secondary education and urges the Turkish Government to take all necessary actions to diminish this gap as quickly as possible;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the implementation of Prime Ministerial Circular 2010/14 on increasing women’s employment and achieving equal opportunity; in this connection, draws attention to the European Union’s strategies and measures aimed at achieving balanced and fair representation of women in leading positions;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the importance of giving effectiveness to the prohibition of discrimination in the workplace, including gender discrimination; reiterates its request to the Turkish Government to provide accurate data on discrimination against women, including access of women wearing headscarves to the labour market, in order to establish whether there is a risk of indirect discrimination based on gender; takes the view that these data should be collected by an independent international body;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to make the issue of women’s rights central to the negotiations with Turkey; stresses the importance of opening the Chapter 23 accession negotiations on judiciary and fundamental rights in support of Turkey’s reforms on women’s human rights under this chapter;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Suggests the initiation of a national project which brings together female role models and young girls in a debate on the future of Turkey so that women of all age groups and political beliefs can work together on a strategy to successfully transform thea patriarchally structure of the societyd society into one where there is fair and socially accepted participation by women in political, economic and social life;