Activities of Antigoni PAPADOPOULOU related to 2011/2066(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A 2020 perspective for women in Turkey (short presentation)
Amendments (41)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– Having regard to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Document 11372 and Recommendation 1817(2007), both entitled “Parliaments united in combating domestic violence against women, mid term assessment of the Campaign”,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Turkey, as a candidate country, has committed itself to is obliged to abide by the acquis communautaire and committed to the respecting of human rights, including women’s rights and gender equality; while it is invited to continue carrying out and supervising the implementation of legislative reform, as well as organising awareness-raising activities to combat violence against women including domestic violence;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Turkey is making limited progress in improving and implementing the legislative framework and ensuring that there isso as to ensure equal participation by women in social, economic and political life;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Commission has emphasised in its 2010 and 2011 progress reports on Turkey that sustained further efforts are needed to turn the existing legal framework into political, social and economic reality;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. Whereas economic and social underdevelopment in disadvantaged rural and urban areas of Turkey, as well as problems stemming from immigration, poverty and prevailing patriarchal social structures, aggravate women’s problems and undermine their position;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. Whereas the Commission’s report 2011 on Turkey’s progress towards EU accession has revealed severe deficiencies and concerns about: violence (especially domestic violence) against women, honour killings, the high percentage of illiteracy, the low level of women participation within the Parliament, local representative bodies and discrimination in the labour market.
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas concerted and coordinated action is especially needed in the areas of violence against women, education, work, and representation at national and local level;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Turkish Government to upholdprioritize and strengthen gender equality principles and, women’s rights in adopting and amending itsand gender mainstreaming in all legislative frameworkreforms, including the planned process for a new Constituroposed new constitution and to ensure their implementation;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Turkish government to engage in all necessary reforms, so as to protect the dignity, rights and cultural heritage of minority populations, and especially of the Kurdish women, and to cooperate with the local councils, so as to develop and promote common programs for equal opportunities and women rights;
Amendment 20 #
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 the appointment of a new minister of family and social policies;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the importance of effective coordination in ensuring gender mainstreaming; and therefore welcomes the efforts ofencourages the Turkish Government to further enhance cooperation on gender mainstreaming between state authorities;
Amendment 27 #
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 womenensure active and non discriminatory participation of the civil society, non governmental organizations (NGOs) and women’s NGOs in the drafting and implementation of the national action plan on gender equality and violence against women; to provide sufficient human and financial resources, to monitor adequate implementation of Prime Ministerial circulars and gender legislation mainstreaming evenly throughout the country;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes Turkey’s progress in registering every child at birth, the percentage of which currently stands at 93%; underlines at the same time, however, the need for consistent and systematic collection of gender- specific statistics to monitor progress in the sphere of the implementation of legislation or loopholes in national laws;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is deeply concerned about the regularityincrease and severity of violence against women and, including honour killings, early and forced marriages which remain major challenges for Turkey and worries for the ineffectiveness of remedies, as well as for the lenience of the Turkish authorities as regardsto punishing the perpetrators of such gender- based crimes; calls on the Turkish Government to introduce at all levels of education, compulsory gender equality and anti-violence programs, and to train public officials, the police, members of the judiciary, and the civil society;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Turkish Government to adopt and implement a zero-tolerance policy towards violence against women by adopting, supervising and implementing appropriate legislation to protect victims, punish perpetrators and prevent violence;
Amendment 42 #
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 women and introduce dissuasive and severe punishments for the perpetrators of violence against women; stresses the need to make domestic violence against women, including marital rape, a criminal offence; making necessary provisions for the removal of violent spouses or partners; and guaranteeing the victims’ effective access to courts and to protection measures;
Amendment 46 #
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; 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; and underlines the importance of allocating sufficient budgetary resources in protection measures;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls the Turkish Government to guarantee effective access of victims to appropriate legal information, legal aid and appropriate judicial proceedings through which they can obtain justice in such a way as to organize the defence of their rights without the threat of further violence;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Supports that protection mechanisms should be equally accessible to women of immigrant origin who face additional problems (such as language barriers, isolation within families, etc)
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c Calls on the Turkish Government to secure implementation of the law on municipalities, by establishing shelters for women, where the population of the municipality exceeds 50000 inhabitants; to introduce protective and preventive mechanisms according to existing needs; to monitor the work of shelters and municipalities and to impose sanctions for noncompliance;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10d. Asks the Turkish Government to make sure that public figures’ statements, judicial decisions and the media, do not portray wrongful images of women, by attributing partial responsibility for harassment, rape or violence to their behaviour or dress; gender stereotyping in the media must not be allowed to be perpetuated;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)
Paragraph 10 e (new)
10e. Encourages further awareness- raising on women’s rights and gender equality;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Welcomes the initiatives of the Turkish Government in reorganising the system of shelters in consultation with all stakeholders; Underlines the need to setting sufficient numbers of safe emergency shelters to protect victims, whose physical and psychological well being are threatened (the task force of the Council of Europe recommends one place in a shelter for every 7500 inhabitants); notes that shelters must be spread evenly, throughout the country with a proper balance between rural and urban areas;
Amendment 72 #
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 andincreased primary school enrolment rates (grades 1-8) and the virtual closure of the gender gap in primary education, but regrets that in secondary education the gender gap has been slightly widening and the sustainability of girls’ attendance at higher levels of education has been a challenge; urges the Turkish Government to take all necessary actions to diminish this gap and improve the situation;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. School drop outs still remain a concern, especially among seasonal migrant workers’ families and the Roma children; calls on the Turkish Government to support and fully use the early warning system for children at risk of dropping out and to eliminate regional disparities in both primary and secondary education;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Turkish Government to combat sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, domestic violence, poverty, illiteracy and exploitation against the girl child and to provide equal opportunities for access to education, without distinctions made solely on the merit of age, language, ethnicity and sex;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the campaigns ofCalls on the Turkish Government to intensify its efforts and awareness raising campaigns to eradicate illiteracy among threend poverty among millions of women and c, especiallsy on the Tf Kurkdish Governmentorigin, immigrants and Roma and to pay specific attention to eliminating illiteracyon women living in rural areas;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the initiative of the Turkish Government aimed at criminalising faCalls the Turkish Government to set up a nationwide monitoring and inspection system on school dropouts, which still remains a concern, particularly among seasonal migrant workers’ families and Roma chiludre to send children to schooln and to fully implement the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the establishment of the Gender Equality Commission within the Ministry of Education; and its achievements in eliminating sexist language, pictures and expressions from educational materialcknowledges efforts made; but notes that the elimination of gender bias from school textbooks at all levels of education and training, requires further intensification;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that despite the fact that, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute figures,Underlines the very low female participation in the Turkish labour force has been moving recently from 24 % towards 30 %,which is well below the targets envisioned by thise percentage is still very low,spective of the EU2020 Strategy and calls on the Turkish Government to make further efforts to increase women’sset up a national plan of action to ensure greater participation of women in the labour market;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the implementation of Prime Ministerial Circular 2010/14 on increasing women’s employment both in rural as well as in urband achieving equal opportunitreas throughout Turkey;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Turkish Government, in order to iencreasourage active participation of women in the labour market, to institute a fully fledged part-time work regime, utilisati by promoting among of which is left up to the employee and not the employer, does not require surrender of the right to seniority indemnity and other social security rights and upholds the principle of equal pay for equal workthers, measures to ensure: better working conditions, equal pay for equal work, life long learning , flexible work schedules and reconciliation between family and work life;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the importance of giving effectiveness to the prohibitioncombating all sorts 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, in recruitment, advancement and benefit remuneration; Reiterates its request to the Turkish Government to collect relevant and accurate statistical data;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Stresses the importance of providing special training courses, funding and technical assistance to unemployed white collar women and women entrepreneurs, to ensure equal opportunities for access to the labour market;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Highlights the fact that women often work ing in the informal economy are those most affected by it, and welcomes the strategy of the Turkish Government on the fight against the informal poor conditions, in unregistered and unpaid family businesses and are therefore victimized and exploited; calls the Turkish Government to take all necessary actions to combat underground economy;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Welcomes the increase in the number of female members of the Turkish Parliament from 9.1 % in the 2007 elections to 14.3 % following the 2011 elections; notes, however, that this percentage is still low and calls for a new law on political parties and elections to put in place a mandatory quota system ensuring fair representation of women on election lists; Worries for the generally limited representation of Turkish women in politics, managerial positions in public administration, and in political parties;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Invites Turkey, as a candidate country, to join in realising one of the priorities that comprise the heart of Europe 2020, which is inclusive growth encompassing a greater involvement of women for accession, to endorse the targets of the EU2020 Strategy and to empower women to participate, more actively in the labour market;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on Turkey to fulfil all its obligations stemming from the EC-Turkey Association Agreement and the Additional Protocol which Turkey has still not implemented for the sixth consecutive year, so that it shows its true commitment to become a fully fledged pluralist democracy with respect and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of both men and women at its core;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Notes that special attention should be given to the empowerment of women in the less developed regions of Turkey; welcomUnderlines, therefore, the Turkish Government’s projects such as CATOMs (M importance of establishing more multi Ppurpose Ssociety Ccentres), but underlines the need for more of such initiativesin order to empower women who are vulnerable in all urban and rural areas throughout Turkey;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls on the Commission to design a mechanism for theTurkey to increase its efforts for comprehensive reforms; to fulfil the Copenhagen criteria, for the sake of its own modernisation, and to establish a climate of mutual understanding and respect with all 27 Member States of the EU; thus making it possible to exchange of best gender equality practices between Turkey and the Member States, with all, for the benefit of the women in Turkey;