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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | DEVE | KACZMAREK Filip (EPP) | GOERENS Charles (ALDE), TAYLOR Keith (Verts/ALE), GUSTAFSSON Mikael (GUE/NGL) |
Opinion | FEMM | DELVAUX Anne (EPP) |
Legal Basis RoP 048
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2013/06/13
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Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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A7-0165/2013
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The Committee on Development adopted the own-initiative report by Filip KACZMAREK (EPP, PL) on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – defining the post-2015 framework. Members recall that in 2015 one billion people, of whom 70% are women, will be living on less than USD 1.25 per day, especially in a number of African countries. Urgent measures must be taken to meet the challenge of ending global poverty. Millennium Development Goals and new challenges: Members affirm that the MDGs defined in 2000 figure among many successes in middle-income countries and that the global landscape has dramatically changed over the last decade, with an increased gap and inequality between and within countries. Members urge the EU to lead with one strong voice during the discussions on the post-2015 framework and up until the UN Summit and to adopt a common, effective and ambitious position on the principles and goals that should be part of the new post-2015 development framework. There must be a single, comprehensive and integrated framework, with clear benchmarks incorporating the key development and sustainability issues, and this framework must be universal in nature, promoting prosperity, human rights and well-being for all. Members consider that this unified approach requires due coordination between the EU and its Member States before it is presented at the New York Autumn Summit. They recommend that the goals of the post-2015 development framework include the MDGs as well as the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and integrate specific objectives for women (who have not seen their situation progress), children, the elderly and persons with disabilities. The report sets out the main challenges. 1) Eradication of poverty: Members urge that poverty eradication, which is the primary objective of EU development cooperation, and the achievement of sustainable development must be the imperative global priorities for the post-2015 development agenda. They consider that the structural causes of poverty need to be addressed in order to bring real change to society. The report stresses that inclusiveness is a dynamic concept that goes beyond a “pro-poor” strategy, and implies broadening the focus to include vulnerable populations in precarious livelihoods. Defining qualitative indicators will be critical to monitor both the degree to which development progress is inclusive and sustainable, and the extent to which the needs of the most deprived and vulnerable groups are being addressed. The report calls, in this connection, for a broader definition of poverty than one based on gross domestic product (GDP) alone. 2) Health, nutrition, education and social protection: Members ask for the EU to strongly defend the right to the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights and the integration of HIV/AIDS. They stress that the post-2015 MDG framework must include a specific goal on the elimination of all forms of violence against women. The committee underlines that access to universal health coverage (UHC) - combining both treatment and a preventive approach -, universal access to adequate nutritious food, and high quality education for all and at all levels should be considered to be major goals of the post-2015 agenda. It insists on targets on the accessibility and affordability of quality health care and practical steps towards ensuring prevention and treatment care for the most marginalised groups. Members call for action in the spheres of: (i) nutrition and food security, bearing in mind the role of women in this area; (ii) reduction of rates of maternal mortality and awareness of sexual health; (iii) the education of women and girls; (iv) decent work opportunities supported through the implementation of national social protection floors; (v) the fight against non-transmissible diseases such as cancer. 3) Good governance: Members deplore the lack of coherence between institutions of global governance, in particular regarding the multilateral trade, finance and environmental architectures. Global governance deficits have led to policy fragmentation and inconsistency with multilateral regimes and international standards. More broadly, the report deems that action at the global level is required to supplement national efforts. It urges the international community to create a participatory environment within which civil society organisations (CSOs), the private sector, philanthropic foundations and other independent development partners, as well as national parliaments and local authorities are able to assume their responsibilities for the post-2015 framework. In this respect, Members calls for a human rights based approach with the creation of an overarching equality goal that encompasses peace and security, as well as the right to development, while strengthening fragile States and those States affected by conflicts. 4) Sustainability: Members call on the EU to contribute, in an inclusive and transparent manner, to strengthening coherence between SDGs in the social and environmental spheres and post-2015 development goals. The final result should be ‘one development agenda’, avoiding duplication of efforts and resources. Members consider sustainability to be a major challenge. They consider that failure is likely to threaten all dimensions of human development in view of the inseparable links between food, sustainable and secure access to energy, water, sustainable land use, efficient use of natural resources, the protection of marine and other ecosystems and biodiversity, and deforestation etc and human well being. Members stress the importance of universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and sustainable energy services for all. Towards an EU position on the post-2015 development framework: Members recall again the commitment made to allocate 0.7% of gross national income to official development assistance (ODA) by 2015, and stress that this level has to be maintained in a future framework. They call on all Member States to introduce this through binding legislation and to adopt multiannual budget timetables in order to reach the target. They call again for the creation of own resources, such as a financial transaction tax, a share of which should go to Heading IV of the EU budget. In this respect, the report calls for innovative financial mechanisms for development, including through public-private partnerships, to create new partnerships. It also calls on the EU to encourage social, ethical and environmentally friendly public procurement at the international level as a tool for implementation of the post-2015 framework. Members go on to stress the need for strengthening domestic revenue through effective taxation and the fight against corruption. There is an urgent need to increase support to developing countries when it comes to establishing effective fiscal policy and a sustainable tax base and to fight against tax havens and tax evasion. The report points out that a new set of indicators other than GDP is necessary in order to achieve prosperity and development, including indicators such as the human development index, the poverty headcount ratio, the poverty gap index, and the Income Gini coefficient. Such indicators are crucial for monitoring and reporting on progress achieved in respect of poverty eradication. Members consider that the principal aim of support to the private sector should be to lift people in developing countries out of poverty. They urge EU-based companies with production facilities in developing countries to comply with their obligations to respect human rights and freedoms, social and environmental standards, gender equality, core labour standards, international agreements and payment of taxes in a transparent manner. They call for an end to all forms of child labour and the development of fair trade. Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) and coordination among donors: the report reiterates the need for policy coherence that takes a more integrated approach. It supports the idea of establishing a Global Economic Council in the context of the United Nations System. Members stress that turning “aid effectiveness” into a “development effectiveness” agenda implies a combination of development aid, assistance for the provision of global public goods and adaptation of existing global governance structures. The EU should act as a driving force, ensuring complementarity and division of labour within the development process in an inclusive and transparent manner. Comprehensive guidance towards a post-2015 development framework: lastly, Members set out the principles that the European Parliament should take into consideration in defining a coherent EU position: the architecture of the post-2015 development agenda should reflect new global, regional, national and local realities and challenges; the definition of the future agenda must be guided by the full participation and ownership of the developing and middle-income countries, while the new responsibilities and burdens generated need to be equally but justly shared between all countries; the future agenda should be ambitious, universal, global in nature, multidimensional and flexible, with targets tailored to each country with a limited number of concrete targets and measurable goals; respecting the principles of mutual responsibility, accountability, transparency, democracy, human rights, ownership, good governance, the rule of law, peace and security, equity and justice, and gender equality; the ability of all developing countries to fulfil their responsibility for the well-being of their citizens, lift the most vulnerable people out of poverty, fight inequality and at the same time uphold human rights principles; accelerating gender equality and the empowerment of girls and women at all levels of society; bringing together the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development; mobilising all possible financial resources and innovative financing mechanisms for development, paying particular attention to: i) the fight against corruption, tax havens, tax evasion and avoidance and illicit capital flows; ii) the responsibilities of emerging economies in the development agenda, also encouraging south-south and triangular cooperation; iii) the improvement of monitoring mechanisms; iv) ODA; and v) PCD; including partners beyond the national government level to deliver an enabling environment to support real democratic ownership and a civil society; PCD for the success of a future framework; clear accountability mechanisms to make sure countries fulfil their commitments.
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2013/04/23
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
- 2013/03/26 Amendments tabled in committee
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2012/11/22
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE508.032
- Committee draft report: PE504.341
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0165/2013
Amendments | Dossier |
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2012/2289(INI)
2013/02/28
FEMM
61 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Citation 3 a (new) – having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) of 18 December 1979,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Urges the United Nations to accelerate progress in advancing the development agenda and enhance the importance accorded to women's rights and gender equality by making them the subject – as has hitherto been the case – of at least one specific globally agreed goal in the post- 2015 MDG framework and emphasising their status as cross
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Urges the United Nations to enhance the importance accorded to women's rights and gender equality by making them the subject of at least one specific goal in the post-2015 MDG framework and emphasising their status as cross-cutting
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Urges the United Nations to enhance the importance accorded to women’s rights and gender equality by making them the subject – as has hitherto been the case – of
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Urges the United Nations to enhance the importance accorded to women's rights and gender equality by making them the subject
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Regrets that the current MDG's framework has not been able to effectively address the underlying structural causes of gender inequality and the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination experienced by women and girls around the world; recognises that women should be central players in the development of the post-2015 framework but also central actors in its implementation, monitoring and evaluation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to emphasise the need to identify equality between women and men as a stand alone goal and a precondition to achieving other development goals;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Stresses the need to include a gender perspective in national budgets and hence introduce gender-specific public finance management systems, making it possible to evaluate and monitor access by women and girls to the services they require;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Emphasises that family-focused policies in support of employed parents have proven both valuable and efficient in many areas of social development, and that the very achievement of Millennium Development Goals depends on how well families are empowered to contribute to it;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Calls on the United Nations to consider the family-oriented provisions of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the past decades and coming years as the outcomes of those conferences provide a framework for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and guide international efforts for their achievement;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Urges the United Nations, when assessing the MDGs after 2015, invariably to base its reasoning on the Gender Inequality Index (GII) as described in the UNDP Human Development Report 2010, bearing in mind that the GII is the index providing the most representative and complete picture of the gender equality situation in a given country, and to adopt an approach encompassing both the quantitative and the qualitative point of view; points out that it must evaluate more closely the reasons for which progress made in improving maternal health has been relatively slow compared with other MDGs;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Citation 3 b (new) – having regard to the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in September 1995, the Declaration and Platform for Action adopted in Beijing and the subsequent outcome documents of the United Nations Beijing +5, +10 and +15 Special Sessions on further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted on 9 June 2000, 11 March 2005 and 2 March 2010 respectively,
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women's rights and gender equality in terms of women's empowerment and well-being, participation in decision-making, combating violence against women, access to good education (at primary, secondary, and higher level) and training, access to effective health care, improvements in sexual and reproductive health
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women's rights and gender equality in terms of women's empowerment and well-being, participation in decision-making, combating violence against women, access to good education (at primary, secondary, and higher level) and training, access to micro-credit facilities to combat poverty and social exclusion, access to effective health care, improvements in sexual and reproductive health and rights, quality and stability of employment, equal pay, career development, the representation of women in politics and economic activity,
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women’s rights and gender equality in terms of women’s empowerment and well-being, participation in decision-making, combating violence against women, access to good education (at primary, secondary, and higher level) and training, access to effective health care, improvements in sexual and reproductive health and rights, quality and stability of employment, equal pay, career development, the representation of women in politics and economic activity by improving access for women to productive and financial assets and not only microcredit, and ownership and inheritance
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women’s rights
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women’s rights and gender equality in terms of women’s empowerment and well-being, the right to balance family and professional life, in particular through distance working and teleworking, participation in decision- making, combating violence against women, access to good education (at primary, secondary, and higher level) and training, access to effective health care, improvements in sexual and reproductive health and rights, quality and stability of employment, equal pay, career development, the representation of women in politics and economic activity, and ownership and inheritance rights;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to set ambitious targets for women's rights and gender equality in terms of women's empowerment and well-being, women's full and equally participation in decision
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Emphasises the need to continue to condemn and punish genital mutilation, honour crimes, forced marriages, forced early marriages and any form of violence, in particular domestic violence, carried out in the name of religion;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Call on the United Nations, in the post-2015 framework, to focus on synergy between consideration of sexual and reproductive rights and the achievement of other MDGs such as girls’ education and women’s empowerment, thereby promoting access to family planning services, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to ensure a participatory approach and robust accountability framework rooted in human rights, equality and equity principles by establishing measures and mechanisms to track political, programmatic and financial accountability for commitments made for human rights;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Citation 3 c (new) – having regard to the Beijing Declaration and the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the United Nations global women conference in Beijing in 1995, where member states engaged to take action to promote gender equality between women and men on twelve domains,
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Calls for accelerated global action to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality and reaffirms the central importance of universal access to reproductive health care;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) 3e. Calls for continuing to support research for more effective and sustainable prevention and treatment programs, including research and development of effective medical interventions, including vaccines, drugs and diagnostics;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 f (new) 3f. Calls on to put into place and enforce specific and effective policies to fight all violations of women's right to life, to bodily integrity, freedom of movement and free choice of partner, including so-called "honour" crimes, forced marriage, forced early marriage and female genital mutilation, wherever and by whomever they are committed;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 g (new) 3g. Calls for the post-2015 framework provisions fully to involve women’s associations in content definition and formulation and the implementation of the new MDGs, based on their expectations and experiences;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 h (new) 3h. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to eliminate all forms of violence against women and harmful practices against women and girls, including sexual abuse, prostitution, female genital mutilation/cutting and early enforced marriages by including a specific target on eradicating violence against women and girls;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 i (new) 3i. Calls for a gender-sensitive approach integrated into all elements of food security programming;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 j (new) 3j. Urges the UN to take a human rights- based approach, when assessing the MDGs after 2015, and ensure that legal and enforcements measures are put in place to protect women' rights, without any form of discrimination, coercion or violence on any grounds, regardless of age, sex, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, marital status, disability, HIV status, national origin, migration status, language skills, sexual orientation, gender identity or other factors and status through adequate legislation, any legal, policy, regulatory barriers and punitive provision must be removed, such as prohibiting school for pregnant adolescents;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 k (new) 3k. Underlines the need to prevent and treat malnutrition with evidence-based interventions giving priority to pregnant women and young children;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 l (new) 3l. Emphasises the necessity to ensure a quality basic education for marginalized populations, particularly from rural areas, conflict–affected areas, for children with disabilities and child labourers;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 m (new) 3m. Urges further efforts to continue to integrate gender dimension into all foreign assistance policies and programs, including eliminating discrimination and violence against women; calls for funding gender equality strategies, including funding for local women's organizations that focus on empowering women and girls in each development assistance agency;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Citation 8 a (new) – having regard to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) that took place in Cairo in 1994, where the global community recognized and affirmed that sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights are foundational to sustainable development,
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 n (new) 3n. Calls for further research on the links between child pornography and adult pornography and the impact on girls, women, boys and men, as well as the relationship between pornography and sexual violence and taking concrete measures in order to combat them;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 o (new) 3o. Urges ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women by the all countries in order to promote gender equality;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 p (new) 3p. Underlines the need to design and implement health programs in order to strengthen health systems, taking into account the fact that the global economic crisis has underscored progress on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, bearing in mind that gender equality and non-discrimination are cross-cutting aims, to increase thematic and national consultations as well as the amount of development aid for programmes focusing on them, so as to enable the gender dimension to be mainstreamed at every stage of development aid programming (identification, formulation, implementation, and evaluation);
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, bearing in mind that gender equality and non-discrimination are cross-cutting aims, to
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women in the formulation and achievement of all MDGs; stresses that specific programmes for women’s empowerment, their social and economic independence and non- discrimination are necessary in order to secure gender equality and fulfil the MDGs;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Strongly reiterates its view expressed in other resolutions that, according to the International Conference on Population and Development Plan of Action, the aim of family planning programmes must be to enable couples and individuals to make free, responsible and informed decisions about childbearing and to make available a full range of safe, effective and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice without any form of coercion; calls on the Member States, the Union and the UN to adopt this approach in the post-2015 MDG framework;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Notes that that women play a crucial role in nutrition and food security, being responsible for 80 % of farming in Africa, even though they are still hardly ever able to own the land they cultivate; stresses that the eradication of hunger accordingly depends on aid to small farmers to produce sufficient food for themselves and their families; points out that most small farmers are women;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls on the competent authorities to introduce a ‘family mainstreaming’ approach to the implementation of the MDG post-2015 strategy, in accordance with the policies defined under the system adopted by the United Nations1 __________________ 1 United Nations Human Rights Council, Resolution 12/21 and other related resolutions
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Citation 8 b (new) – having regard to the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo (ICPD) in 1994,
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Stresses the importance of the improved maternal health goal with regard to reducing the maternal mortality rate and achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health services and family planning; stresses the importance of education and awareness raising in the area of sexual and reproductive health as an integral part of the women’s health agenda;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 f (new) 4f. Draws attention to the fact that progress on MDG 2 regarding education has been moderate; observes in particular that more girls are receiving primary education; stresses that more must be done to ensure that girls complete their primary schooling and gain access to secondary and higher education;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 g (new) 4g. States that special attention needs to be paid to educating both sexes about gender issues from the outset of their schooling, so that attitudes and social stereotypes change gradually and gender equality becomes a basic principle of society in all countries of the world;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 h (new) 4h. Stresses the importance of combating all forms of violence against girls and women: harassment, rape and sexual abuse, forced prostitution, slavery, exploitation, murder of women, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, domestic violence, etc.; stresses that upholding women’s rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights, and safeguarding respect for their human dignity is essential to preventing and combating gender-based violence, providing protection and appropriate counselling to victims, and ensuring that perpetrators are punished; calls on the Commission to make the fight against impunity for the perpetrators of such violence one of the priorities for its development assistance policy; calls for consideration to be given to the specific objective of combating all types of violence against women in defining future MDGs;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide in their bilateral agreements with non-member countries for binding clauses prohibiting all types of discrimination based on sex
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls for the post-2015 MDG framework to have adequate finance resources dedicated to development, environment and pro poor spending in order to achieve the goals; donors need to meet long-standing financial commitments including 0.7% of GNI as ODA in the post-2015 framework and should invest in increasing revenue from innovative sources of finance as well as put an end to tax evasion and tax avoidance;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Reaffirms the importance of taking account of the situation of women, not simply as a vulnerable section of the population, but also as active facilitators of development policies; stresses likewise that women have proven competence in resolving problems and conflicts, and urges the Commission and all countries therefore to increase the role of women in action groups and working parties;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Asks that allocation of development aid be withdrawn from national authorities who do not denounce hatred and violence on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Urges the Commission and the Member States to speak with one voice in the upcoming negotiations and to take on board the recommendations of the European Parliament in the European Union position with regard to the post- 2015 MDG framework;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Urges the Member States to support the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, coming on the eve of the target year of the Millennium Development Goals, as it provides an opportunity to refocus on the role of families as part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A (new) A. whereas the majority of the Millennium Development targets, especially those relating to the reduction of poverty, education of children and reduction in maternal mortality, are difficult to attain unless the strategies to achieve them focus on the family;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 f (new) 5f. Stresses that the lack of progress on MDGs that relate to the position of women is not only caused by financial or technical obstacles but is particularly due to a lack of political will;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 g (new) 5g. Urges the provision of EU humanitarian aid that contributes to the attainment of the MDGs to be made effectively independent from the restrictions on humanitarian aid imposed by the USA or other donors, in particular by ensuring access to abortion for women and girls who are victims of rape in armed conflicts;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital B (new) B. whereas two of the Millennium Development Goals relate specifically to women: promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women (MDG3) and improving maternal health (MDG 5); whereas a further three contribute directly to improving the living conditions of women and girls: achieving universal primary education (MDG 2), reducing child mortality (MDG 4) and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6);
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital C (new) C. whereas, two years from the 2015 deadline for achievement of the MDGs, globally speaking women continue to be poorer than men; although more girls are attending primary school, considerable gender gaps still exist at secondary-school level and, although 20% of Members of Parliament in the world are women, it will, at the current the rate of progress, take over 40 years to achieve fair representation;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital D (new) D. whereas various studies show that, if women are educated and can earn and control their own income, a number of favourable results follow: maternal and infant mortality declines, women’s and children’s health and nutrition improve, agricultural productivity rises, climate change can be mitigated, population growth slows, economies expand and poverty cycles are broken;
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