Awaiting committee decision
2016/2009(INI) Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2015
Lead committee dossier: LIBE/8/05511
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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Opinion | AFCO | PREDA Cristian Dan (EPP) | |
Opinion | FEMM | SEBASTIÀ Jordi (Verts/ALE) | |
Lead | LIBE | NAGY József (EPP) | NIEDERMÜLLER Péter (S&D), ŠKRIPEK Branislav (ECR), MLINAR Angelika (ALDE), CHRYSOGONOS Kostas (GUE/NGL), TERRICABRAS Josep-Maria (Verts/ALE), FERRARA Laura (EFD) |
Opinion | PETI | KIRTON-DARLING Jude (S&D) |
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Activites
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2016/01/21
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
Amendments | Dossier |
182 |
2016/2009(INI)
2016/07/19
FEMM
182 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 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 Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas gender itself does not inherently create vulnerability, and there are many contributing factors to create a situation of vulnerability, including poverty, social exclusion and multiple discrimination;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls for further action to push for the harmonisation of criminal law across the EU in order to c
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence, and specifically those directed against LGBTI people; calls for further action to push for the harmonisation of criminal law across the EU in order to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls for further action to push for the harmonisation of criminal and antidiscrimination laws across the EU in order to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against LGBTI people; calls for
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Is concerned by the increase of cyber violence against women and girls, as well as the use of ICT and Internet for trafficking in women and children, especially for sexual, reproductive and labour exploitation; calls for the Commission and the Member States to adopt measures to prevent and address the use of new technologies as a tool of recruiting particularly women and girls victims of trafficking in human beings, cyber-harassment and cyber stalking;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Acknowledges the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s report on the fundamental rights of intersex people and the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner on human rights’ issue paper on human rights and intersex people; calls on the European Commission to encourage Member States to take measures to protect and respect the fundamental rights of intersex people;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that children and young people can enjoy their right to seek, receive and impart information related to sexuality, including sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, in an age- appropriate and gender sensitive manner;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas the latest available estimates from Eurostat show that women in the EU earn on average 16 % less than men;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Reiterates that access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe and legal abortion should be guaranteed to Every Woman in the EU;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Deplores the high level of impunity and lack of justice for victims of sexual harassment in public places;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Member States to introduce gender-sensitive educational programmes as well as actions on girl´s and women’s rights, gender equality, gender identities and gender relations at all levels of educational systems; calls also for the necessity of peace, anti- discrimination and anti-racism education for both girls and boys in schools at an early stage;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Welcomes all the efforts made to fully implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; reminds that women and girls with disabilities are particularly exposed to discrimination, which prevents them from enjoying their fundamental rights on an equal basis with others;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the European Parliament to look into the issue and propose an own- initiative report regarding the protection of human rights of intersex people in the EU;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Acknowledges the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s report on the fundamental rights of intersex people and the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner on human rights’ issue paper on human rights and intersex people; calls on the EU and Member States to take measures to protect and respect the fundamental rights of intersex people;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Encourages the responsible committees within the European Parliament to look into the issue and propose an own-initiative report regarding the protection of human rights of intersex people in the EU;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include measures to protect women and LGBTI people against harassment in the workplace;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Calls on the Member States to monitor the media and advertising industry and impose sanctions on those companies that promote sexualisation of women; calls on the Commission to take legal action in case of violation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive by a Member State and to promote good practices in enterprises through incentives;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital A f (new) Af. whereas violence against women is a violation of fundamental rights which affects all levels of society, regardless of age, education, income, social position and country of origin or residence, and represents a major barrier to equality between women and men;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and access to
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortions, which is the competency of Member States;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women and girls migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, separate sanitary facilities, legal counselling and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortions;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital A g (new) Ag. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are grounded in basic human rights and are essential elements of human dignity1a ; __________________ 1aICPD Programme of Action § 7.2 and 7.3
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States, in cooperation with the Commission, to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of women migrants and asylum seekers, such as safe spaces for women and children, legal counselling and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortions;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Points out that women and girls represent the biggest group and a particularly vulnerable group within the migratory flows that requires specific and careful assessment of their needs within the asylum and reception procedures; reiterates in this regard that specific approaches, programmes and measures have to be provided for them;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Condemns all forms of forced prostitution, forced marriage, female circumcision, breast ironing and other perverse and inhumane rites, and calls on the Commission and Member States to take decisive action to combat them worldwide and in the EU;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises the urgent need to open immediate legal, safe asylum routes, in order to avoid trafficking networks as well as to enable women, children, elderly and persons with disabilities to seek refuge without risking their lives;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Urges the Commission not consider a safe country of origin any country that does not have gender equality as an established legal principle or where gender based violence against women and LGBTI people is a wide spread reality;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Reiterates the fundamental right of all women to access to public health care systems, in particular to primary, gynaecological and obstetric health care as defined by the World Health Organisation;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Member States to organise aware raising campaigns to combat sexual harassment of women in cities and to stimulate mutual gender respect within a multicultural framework;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Points out that women are particularly more vulnerable to certain forms of forced labour, also due to increased economic uncertainty and the higher risk of unemployment and poverty; calls on the Member States to address also the demand side of trafficking and exploitation of human beings in their national strategies and action plans;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Stresses the need for family reunification procedures to afford individual rights for women and girls joining their families in the EU, in order not to have to depend on a possibly abusive relationship with the male family member for access to health, education or work;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Stresses that undocumented migrant women and girls should have full access to their basic fundamental rights and channels for legal migration should be developed;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital A h (new) Ah. whereas the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children are a clear violation of human rights, human dignity and the fundamental principles of law and democracy;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Condemns any form of surrogate motherhood, which disregards the rights of all women;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Recalls that women and children may be compelled to exchange sex for protection, in order to survive, in order to advance along their migratory route, and for basic sustenance; underlines that survival sex is frequently a direct consequence of gaps in assistance, failures of registration systems, family separations, and absence of safe and legal entry ways into the EU and that women and children engaging in survival sex are not considered trafficking victims, and thus cannot receive the required assistance;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Points out that domestic workers are predominantly women and calls on the Member States to speed up the process of ratifying and implementing the ILO Domestic Workers Convention after Council Decision 2014/51/EU as a key instrument in ensuring decent work conditions;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Firmly opposes the use of detention of refugees, including pregnant women, children and breastfeeding mothers;
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Notes that according to Europol's last report on the situation of trafficking in human beings, 70% of the identified victims in the EU are EU nationals, and that most reported victims are female EU nationals from Central and Eastern Europe;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Calls for the strengthening of the rights to family reunification across the EU, as well as for improving the implementation, with swifter and less costly processes;
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Expresses concern about the lack of data regarding Romani women and children at risk of being trafficked for forced labour or services, which include begging; calls on the Commission to provide data regarding Romani women and children recognised as trafficking victims, how many have received victim assistance and in which countries;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to introduce gender mainstreaming in all areas of policy making and in all proposed legislation, including systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights compliance assessment and as an integrated criterion in dialogue with, inter alia, countries which are candidates for accession; stresses once again the need for strong and comprehensive protection of EU citizens against discrimination and reiterates its position on the anti-discrimination directive, which is blocked within the Council;
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to introduce gender mainstreaming in all areas of policy making in European strategies for more effective promotion of gender equality and in all proposed legislation, including systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights compliance assessment;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to introduce gender mainstreaming in all areas of policy making and in all proposed legislation, including systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights and social rights compliance assessment;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to introduce
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Underlines that the gender pay gap, which currently is at 16% in average in the EU, embodies an inadmissible discrimination and runs counter to the EU Treaties (Article 157 TFEU); urges the Member States to ensure that the principle of equal pay for equal work is applied in all segments of the labour market;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to implement gender budgeting as a tool for ensuring budgetary decisions take into account the gender dimension and address differentiated impacts;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Considers it important that Member States, using every available means on all appropriate occasions, should support a process of sociocultural change informed by the principles of equal opportunities, gender equality education, and prevention of violence;
Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the European Commission to set up programs to efficiently promote gender equality in schools;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 166 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to introduce a
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to introduce a gender equality pillar into the Europe 2020 strategy and for greater inclusion of the gender mainstreaming perspective in the European Semester by introducing a gender dimension in the annual growth survey and in the formulation process of the CSRs; recognises that austerity policies and an excessive focus on fiscal consolidation have exacerbated poverty and social exclusion across Europe, and have had a disproportionate impact on women, and that these impacts must be taken into account in economic CSRs;
Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Regrets that levels of gender discrimination remain high, including in areas other than employment;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached in many areas; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination and social exclusion as exemplified by their low representation in the decision- making process, both in the private
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the European Commission to combat the unfair treatment of women and image of gender inequality in the media industry by exchanging best practices for media companies to better apply a gender equal approach in broadcasting and publicity;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Recognises that upholding women and girls’ fundamental rights can only truly be guaranteed through further economic, political, and social empowerment, representation, and inclusion;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Highlights the need for targeted policies to guarantee the fundamental rights of vulnerable women in specific groups, such as refugees and asylum seekers, Roma women, women from ethnic minorities, elderly women, or women with disabilities;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 Amendment 174 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 Amendment 175 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the EU institutions to introduce specific indicators on
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the EU institutions to
Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the EU institutions to introduce specific indicators on gender equality, including the Gender Equality Index of EIGE, in the monitoring system of the future EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the EU institutions to introduce specific indicators on gender equality, including the Gender Equality Index of EIGE, in the monitoring and safeguarding system of the future EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights.
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls both on the EU institutions and on all Member States to work actively with gender mainstreaming, wage mapping and the fair division of parental leave; notes that social vulnerability and weak social inclusion stem from the fact that fewer women than men are in employment, and more women than men work part-time.
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Expresses serious concern for the situation of migrants and asylum seekers who are smuggled to the EU, they are at risk of becoming victims of exploitation or abuse with women and children facing heightened risks of sexual and gender- based violence;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls for the EU to adopt an approach where human, labour, consumer and environmental rights should guide transnational and national trade and investment, not the other way around;
Amendment 182 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Calls on EU institutions and Member States for a concerted action to increase awareness of the already existing protection and to ensure better practical implementation and application of the Equality Directives;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached in many areas; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas family reunification, although a basic human right, is systematically delayed and even violated, and whereas women and children are the first victims of this right being denied or delayed;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached, that, in many areas, no improvements are being made, and that women’s fundamental rights continue to be breached; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in the decision- making process, both in the private and the public sectors, and by the persisting gender pay gap;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that, in the EU Member States, gender equality has not yet been reached in many areas; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in the decision-making process, both in the private and the public sectors, and by the persisting gender pay and pensions gap;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that gender equality has not yet been reached in many areas; stresses that women still suffer from discrimination as exemplified by their low representation in the decision-making process, both in the private and the public sectors, and by the persisting gender pay gap; Notes that discrimination and lack of representation lead to the perpetuation of gender stereotypes, social and economic exclusion, and violence against women and girls;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Underlines the need to combat anti-Roma racism at every level and by every means, and stresses that this phenomenon is an especially persistent, violent, recurrent and commonplace form of racism; calls on the Member States to further strengthen the fight against anti- Roma racism and support the empowerment of Roma women as part of their National Roma Integration Strategies promoting best practices;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that the gender pay gap and gender pension gap chiefly affect mothers who have cared for their children themselves, and who have consequently had to accept career gaps, loss of career opportunities and lower pay - without receiving any corresponding financial compensation for the work they have performed in raising their children;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls for statistics and indicators on multiple discrimination, which is often hidden under ‘mainstream’ discrimination, such as poverty and race. If there is a risk of discrimination, there is even greater risk that it is gendered. Calls for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) to issue a report on this subject.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Is concerned that in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States; stresses that these movements challenge existing achievements in the area of gender equality and aim at blocking laws and policies protecting LGBTI people against hate crime and discrimination;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Regrets that women still suffer from discriminatory working conditions including non-standard forms of employment; emphasises that women working in retail service are particularly exposed to extended working hours and denied of their worker’s right for a weekly day of rest;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that Article 67 TEU states that the Union shall constitute an area of freedom, security and justice with respect for fundamental rights and the different legal systems and traditions of the Member States;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Is concerned that in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States; these movements challenge existing achievements in the area of women´s rights and gender equality, and aim at blocking laws and policies protecting LGBTI people against hate crime and discrimination;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Regrets in this context that no EU gender equality strategy 2016-2020 was adopted and, echoing the Council Conclusions on Gender Equality of the 16th of June 2016, calls on the Commission to enhance the status of its Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 by adopting it as a Communication;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Recalls that public policies aiming at social engineering (such as gender mainstreaming) promoted by the EU institutions must respect the cultural diversity and national traditions of the Member States according to Art. 4(2) TEU;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Calls on the Commission to step up efforts to increase the representation of women in decision-making in the political and economic sphere by pursuing a dual approach that combines gender mainstreaming and targeted measures;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Takes the position that home caregivers (both men and women) remain discriminated against in terms of the failure to count their years of work towards pensions and entitlements;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Recalls that inequalities affects men: - on average women live longer than men, - women have greater levels of disposable income (often because they outlive their husbands), - women have ‘women only hospitals’ - men don’t have such facilities, - women receive a more lenient sentence than men for the same crime, - men cannot take their babies into prison with them - women can, - men have no say in whether their child is aborted or not, - in divorce situations, men will most likely be worse off financially than the woman, -in divorce, men will rarely be the resident parent, having the children live with him, - the educational system in most developed countries is designed for a woman’s learning style - disadvantaging men, - in a spirit of positive discrimination, with equally qualified candidates applying for a job the woman has to be preferred, - men are portrayed as weaker characters in films, literature, marketing campaigns etc., - men are prejudged to be a sexual threat to women and children, - men have more hazardous occupations than women, - common misconception assumes that all domestic violence is committed by men against women, when about 40% is women abusing men, - men are more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, etc., - more boys than girls die in childhood;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Calls on the Commission to improve the collection, the analysis and the dissemination of comprehensive, comparable and reliable and regularly updated data on women’s participation in decision-making;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Reiterates the condemnation of the practice of surrogacy expressed in § 115 of its resolution of 17 December 2015 on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2014 and the European Union’s policy on the matter (2015/2229(INI)): ‘The EU Parliament condemns the practice of surrogacy, which undermines the human dignity of the woman since her body and its reproductive functions are used as a commodity; considers that the practice of gestational surrogacy which involves reproductive exploitation and use of the human body for financial or other gain, in particular in the case of vulnerable women in developing countries, shall be prohibited and treated as a matter of urgency in human rights instruments’;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Calls on EU institutions to encourage women’s participation in the European electoral process by including gender balanced lists in the next revision of the European Electoral Law;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Reiterates its position that - in line with the EU Leitmotif ‘United in Diversity’ and article 67 TFEU which states that the Union shall respect the different legal systems and traditions of the Member States - cross border civil status issues are uniquely related to Member States’ family laws, which reflect Member States’ values; recognises that public policy exemptions safeguard the right of Member States to protect their fundamental values as expressed in their substantive family laws and they shield against the import of foreign legal concepts that do not exist or may even be illegal into the domestic Member State’s legal order, which would result in the parallel co-existence of EU and national legal orders (spill over effect and reverse discrimination);
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Regrets that the 2012 proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures is still blocked and calls on the Council to finally adopt a common position on this proposal;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 g (new) 1g. Reiterates its call on the Commission to revise the existing legislation in order to close the pay and pension gap between men and women; notes that measures to increase wage transparency are fundamental to close the gender pay gap; calls on the Member States to implement Commission’s recommendation on wage transparency;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 h (new) 1h. Considers it urgent to develop an EU level definition of work of equal value, taking into account ECJ case law, to ensure that factors such as the working conditions, the responsibility conferred on the workers and the physical or mental requirements of the work are taken into consideration;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 i (new) 1i. Calls for full implementation of Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation, and for it to be revised with a compulsory requirement for companies to draw up measures or plans on gender equality;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 j (new) 1j. Notes that women are disproportionately and often involuntarily concentrated in precarious work including high levels of part-time work, low-paid, fixed term and zero-hour contracts; notes that working part-time contributes to the risk of poverty; recalls in this context that equality between men and women can only be achieved through a fair redistribution of paid and unpaid work as well as of work, family and care responsibilities;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 k (new) 1k. Stresses the high proportion of self-employed workers in rural areas with a lack of appropriate social protection and the high proportion of ‘invisible’ work that affects women in particular; calls therefore on the Member States and regions with legislative powers to improve the legislation regarding gender equality in the labour market, in particular regarding wages, ownership rights and decision making, as well as to ensure social security for both, men and women, working in rural areas;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 l (new) 1l. Deplores the adoption of austerity measures and a deregulation agenda by the EU and its Member States which were introduced as a response to the economic crisis as they are the main cause of the increasing rate of people at risk of poverty in the EU, especially in the case of women and other groups experiencing social disadvantage;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 m (new) 1m. Underlines the crucial role of free, high quality public services to combat poverty, especially female poverty, as women are more dependent on such services;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 n (new) 1n. Calls on the Commission to undertake a comprehensive and global legislative action to meet the needs of mothers and fathers concerning the types of leave, namely maternity, paternity, parental and carers’ leave, in particular in order to help men play an active role as fathers, to enable a fairer distribution of family responsibilities and thus give women equal opportunities to participate in the labour market;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 o (new) 1o. Deplores the Commission decision to withdraw the Maternity Leave Directive; calls on the Commission to put forward a new proposal and to respect Parliament’s position to increase the current minimum guaranteed maternity leave from 14 to 20 weeks fully paid and for the mandatory right to paid paternity leave;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas Roma women are often exposed to multiple and intersectional discrimination on grounds of gender and ethnic origin, and have limited access to employment, education, health, social services and decision-making; whereas discrimination can occur within mainstream society in a context of growing anti-Roma racism, but also within the women’s communities by reason of their sex;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 p (new) 1p. Underlines the fact that only a small proportion of men use their right to parental leave; calls therefore for concrete action to be taken in order to move towards parental leave rights that are as individual and non-transferable as possible;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 q (new) 1q. Welcomes the proposal to introduce carers’ leave as foreseen in the Commission Roadmap on a new start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families; calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal to include this provision;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention and calls for the EU and the Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible to protect, prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and domestic violence; reminds Member States that the EU accession does not exonerate them to sign, ratify and enforce the Istanbul Convention and urges them to do so;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention and calls for the EU and the Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence and calls for the EU and the Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas gender inequality, gender-based stereotypes and poverty, raise the risk of violence and other forms of exploitation, including trafficking in women and prostitution, and hinder the full participation of women in all areas of life;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the proposed EU accession to the Istanbul Convention and calls for the EU
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Takes note that 14 Member States haven’t ratified the Istanbul Convention (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia and the United Kingdom) and that the Istanbul Convention is not entered in force in 50% of the EU Member States; urges the Commission to refrain from adhering to the Istanbul Convention as long as not all EU Member States have ratified this instrument in internal law;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Considers that violence against women, such as honour killing, forced marriage, trafficking, female genital mutilation, domestic violence are serious violations of human rights that should be criminalised and punished and never be justified by religious or cultural tradition.
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to recognise the fundamental right to universal access to health, in particular the full range of sexual and reproductive health services including safe and legal abortion, and to decriminalise abortion and the performing of abortion care;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Underlines that the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all women and girls must be respected, including their right to their bodies and sexuality and to be free of coercion, discrimination and violence;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Considers that all those living in Europe, regardless of their original culture and tradition, should respect the law and women’s rights and dignity;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Stresses that the Istanbul Convention sets a blatantly misandric double standard by stating that the violence against men is not gender-based violence;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Strongly condemns the frequent acts of harassment and rape in public places in Europe and considers that every women and girl should feel safe from any form of sexual harassment in any public place in Europe; calls on Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure that these acts are properly sanctioned, that the perpetrators are brought to justice and that appropriate protection is provided to victims;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Stresses that the Istanbul Convention characterises gender as a ‘social construct’ even if the words ‘social construct’ are not further defined, and article 3 (c) states moreover: “‘Gender’ shall mean the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men.”;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Urges the EU and the Member States to mobilise the necessary means and tools to fight trafficking and sexual exploitation and to reduce prostitution markets as they fuel exploitation, which violates women’s and girls’ fundamental rights;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas women still face many forms of discrimination in the EU and are still underrepresented in all areas of decision-making;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention as it provides in article 4.2 as grounds of non- discrimination: ‘sex, gender,... sexual orientation, gender identity....’; recalls that such a list does not exist in any legally binding treaty within the United Nations System or the EU acquis communautaire; recalls that - together with the social construct definition of ‘gender’, ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ - such weak definitions would solidify a greater ideological platform to declare subjective attractions as universal human rights, which has not been accepted by UN Member States and the EU acquis communautaire; recalls that the terms ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ have not been defined in a legally binding UN document or within the EU acquis communautaire;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Stresses that in order to effectively combat gender-based violence, a change of attitude towards women and girls is necessary; they are too often represented in subordinate roles and violence against them is too often tolerated or undermined; calls on Member States to do more to combat gender based stereotypes and discrimination against women and girls;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Calls on the Member States to acknowledge the problems of surrogacy which constitutes an exploitation of the female body and her reproductive organs, and emphasises that women’s bodies are regarded as commodities on the international reproductive market, and that the surrogacy industry exploits vulnerable women, primarily from the global south;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 e (new) 2e. Takes note that the Istanbul Convention remains silent on sex- selective abortion of the female foetus or violence against the unborn child, especially girls, and do not condemn surrogacy;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 f (new) 2f. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention because it has an extremely broad approach that goes well beyond stopping violence, because the comprehensive nature of the treaty is undoubtedly intended to be used as a tool or mechanism for social engineering of values and norms on all matters pertaining to ‘gender ideology’, and because the EU as a whole (including the Member States) is then exposed to a more aggressive attempt to bring changes to culture, traditions and religions as well as to civil and criminal laws, through the Convention text and the monitoring committee;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 g (new) 2g. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention as the EU would then be obliged to ‘promote changes in the social and cultural patterns of behaviour of women and men with a view to eradicating prejudices, customs and traditions.’ (Art 12.5); challenges the legitimacy of the social engineering of values and norms by supranational political institutions and its conformity with the respect of cultural diversity and national traditions of the Member States according to Art 4.2 TEU;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 h (new) 2h. Stresses that the EU should not sign the Istanbul Convention because, according to article 14, State Parties shall insert non-stereotyped gender roles into the formal and informal education settings at all levels of education whilst no mention is made of the prior rights of parents to educate their child according to their moral and religious conventions as stated in all International Human Rights Instruments; stresses that the EU has no competency to fulfil this request on ‘formal and informal education settings at all levels of education’;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas trafficking in human beings is a gross violation of fundamental rights, whereas trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is still the most widespread form; whereas 76 % of registered victims in the EU are women;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and to present a comprehensive strategy
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and to present a comprehensive strategy on violence against women and girls and gender-based violence including ensuring access to justice for those have experienced violence;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and gender-based violence and to present a comprehensive strategy on violence against women and girls and gender-based violence;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and gender-based violence and to present a comprehensive strategy on violence against women and girls and gender-based violence;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and to present a comprehensive strategy on measures to combat violence against women and girls and gender-based violence;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a legal act on violence against women and to present a comprehensive strategy on
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Welcomes the growing momentum across the EU in the movement to eradicate FGM; Notes that Member States are gradually making positive changes in their legal systems to criminalise both the act of carrying out FGM and the act of taking a child or a young woman out of the EU, to a third country, for the purpose of FGM; Urges the Member States who have not already done so, to ensure that their criminal legislation protects girls and women from FGM;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Member States to fully implement Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings as well as well Directive 2011/92/EU on combating child sexual abuse and exploitation in order to prevent women and girls from trafficking, violence and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas the EU LGBT Survey finds that lesbian, bisexual and transgender face a disproportionate risk of discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recognises that the average age of entering into prostitution is between 13-14 years old, and that prostitution and sexual exploitation are highly gendered issues and a form of gender-based violence, contrary to human rights principles, among which gender equality is a core principle;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Takes the position that sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation of women, the use of women for surrogacy, and sex selected abortion must be considered as unjustifiable under any political, social, religious or cultural grounds;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Underlines the important role of parents within an educational framework to promote gender equality;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on the Member States to implement laws and policies that target perpetrators directly to reduce demand for sexual exploitation while decriminalising individuals in prostitution and providing them with support services, including high quality social, legal and psychological assistance for those who wish to exit prostitution;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on the Member States to fully implement Directive 2012/29/EU on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime and Directive 2011/99/EU on the European order to ensure appropriate protection and assistance to women and girls victims of violence.
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence against
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