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2017/2001(INI) Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 61th session of the UN Commission on the status of women
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Lead committee dossier: FEMM/8/08731
Legal Basis RoP 011
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| Lead | FEMM | LE GRIP Constance (EPP), ARENA Maria (S&D) | TROSZCZYNSKI Mylène (ENF) |
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2017/2001(INI)
2017/01/12
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Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a recommendation Citation 1 – having regard to the proposal for a recommendation to the Council by
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital C C. whereas the fifth Sustainable Development Goal is to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls worldwide; whereas SDG5 is a stand- alone goal, meaning that it has to be mainstream into the whole 2030 Agenda and the realisation of all SDGs; whereas empowering women means enabling women to gain more power and control over their lives on an equal footing with men;
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital C C. whereas the fifth Sustainable Development Goal is to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls worldwide; whereas empowering women means enabling women to gain
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital C C. whereas the fifth Sustainable Development Goal is to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls worldwide; whereas empowering women means enabling women to gain more power and control over their lives, be represented equally across society, and play an equal role in all spheres of life;
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital D D. whereas women are important economic agents worldwide and women’s economic participation can
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital D D. whereas women are important economic agents worldwide and women’s economic participation can grow economies, create jobs and build inclusive prosperity; whereas countries that value and empower women to participate fully in the labour market and decision-making are more stable, prosperous and secure; whereas gender budgeting is smart economics and ensures that public spending serves the advancement of equality between women and men;
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital D a (new) D a. whereas female creativity and entrepreneurial potential are an under- exploited source of economic growth and jobs that should be further developed;
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F F. whereas the
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F F. whereas the EU plays an important role in fostering the empowerment of women and girls, within the EU as well as worldwide, by political and financial means; whereas the EU must play a key role of guardian of UN and EU agreed language on women’s human rights;
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F F. whereas the EU plays an important role in fostering the empowerment of women and girls, within the EU as well as worldwide, by political and financial means; whereas the EU must play a key role of guardian of UN and EU agreed language on women’s human rights;
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F a (new) F a. whereas women continue to produce around 80% of food in the poorest countries and are currently the main guardians of biodiversity and crop seeds;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a recommendation Citation 1 a (new) – having regard to the Council Conclusions of 26 May 2015 on gender and development and on A New Global Partnership for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development after 2015, and of 16 December 2014 on a transformative post-2015 agenda;
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F b (new) F b. whereas neoliberal adjustment policies have deepened the conditions of oppression, discrimination and increased violence against women and girls in rural areas, insecurity and instability in the work of women, and the lack of social protection, allowing for further exploitation with increased working hours becoming common;
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F c (new) F c. whereas the land is not only a means of production, but a space of culture and identity; whereas subsequently access to land is a fundamental component of life and an inalienable right for peasant and indigenous women;
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (a) 1 (a). Confirm its commitment to the Beijing Platform for Action and to the range of actions for women’s human rights and gender equality outlined therein; Confirm its commitment to the twin-track approach to women’s human rights, through gender mainstreaming in all policy areas and the implementation of specific actions for women’s human rights and gender equality;
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (a) 1 (a). Confirm its commitment to the Beijing Platform for Action and to the range of actions for gender equality outlined therein; Confirm its commitment to the twin-track approach to women’s human rights, through gender mainstreaming in all policy areas and the implementation of specific actions for women’s human rights and gender equality;
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (b) 1 (b). Encourage policies to invest in women’s and girls’ access to education and vocational training, including formal, informal, non-formal education, and to eliminate gender disparities in these fields, and across all sectors, particularly those traditionally dominated by men;
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (b) 1 (b). Encourage policies to invest in women’s and girls’ equal access to high quality education
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (c) 1 (c). Combat all forms of violence against women and girls in the public and private spheres as a serious breach of their physical and psychological integrity preventing them from realising their full potential; advance towards the full ratification of the Istanbul Convention by all Member States;
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (c a) (new) 1 (c a). Considers that the EU and its Member States, in order to become more efficient actors globally, must also step up their domestic efforts to eliminate violence against women and gender-based violence; therefore reiterates its call on the Commission to propose an EU strategy against violence against women, including a directive laying down minimum standards; in this context, also calls on both the EU and the individual Member States to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence;
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (d) 1 (d).
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (d) 1 (d). Devise policies to promote and support decent work and full employment for all women while eliminating systems that reinforce dependency of the wife/mother;
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a recommendation Citation 3 – having regard to the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995,
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (e) 1 (e). Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (e) 1 (e). Ensure universal access to
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (e) 1 (e). Ensure universal access to
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (e) 1 (e). Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care and reproductive rights as agreed in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the review conferences thereof; provide sexual education to girls and young women in order to reduce early pregnancies or spread of sexually transmitted diseases;
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (e a) (new) 1 (e a). Eliminate the gender pay, life- long earnings and pension gaps; End all forms of discrimination against women in laws and policies at all levels; Combat all forms of gender stereotypes perpetuating inequality, violence and discrimination, in all spheres of society; Support women’s organisations at all levels in their work; involve them as partners in policy making and ensure adequate funding; Apply gender budgeting, as a tool of gender mainstreaming, to all public expenditure;
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (f) 1 (f). Call on all parties to ratify and implement the CEDAW, giving special attention to Articles 1, 4, 1
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (g) 1 (g).
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (g) 1 (g). Encourage all parties to enact policies and laws ensuring equal access to work, equal pay for equal work and work of equal value;
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (h) 1 (h).
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (h) 1 (h). Work towards policies supporting women’s enterprise development in the context of decent work and the removal of all barriers in their setting up of a business, including financ
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital A A. whereas equality between women and men is a
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (h) 1 (h). Work towards policies supporting women’s enterprise development in the context of decent work and the removal of all barriers and social prejudices in their setting up of a business, including finance or access to credit and markets;
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (h) 1 (h). Work towards policies supporting women’s enterprise development in the context of decent work and the removal of all barriers in their setting up of a business, including finance or access to public credit and markets in equal conditions;
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (h a) (new) 1 (h a). Recognise that macro- economic policies, particularly on budget discipline and public services have a disproportionate impact on women, and that these gender impacts must be taken into account by policy-makers;
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (i) 1 (i). Promote new investment in social care infrastructure, education and health care and in public provision of accessible,
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (i) 1 (i). Promote new investment in social care infrastructure,
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (i) 1 (i). Promote new investment in social care infrastructure, education and health care and in public provision of accessible, affordable and quality child and dependent care; ensure strong protection and labour rights of pregnant women during and after their pregnancy;
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (i) 1 (i). Promote new investment in social care infrastructure, education and health care and in public provision of accessible, affordable
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (i) 1 (i). Promote new investment in social care infrastructure, education and health care and in public provision of accessible, affordable and quality c
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (j) Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (k a) (new) 1 (k a). Implement policies to address phenomena of political violence against women, including physical violence, intimidation and online harassment;
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital B B. whereas women’s human rights and gender equality
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (k a) (new) 1 (k a). Take effective measures in order to abolish child labour, since millions of female children are exploited; introduce new mechanisms in the current EU legislation to avoid trade importations whereby child labour is included;
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (k a) (new) 1 (k a). Apply gender budgeting, as a tool of gender mainstreaming, to all public expenditure;
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (m) 1 (m). Ensure coherence between EU internal, external policies and the sustainable development goals;
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (m) 1 (m). Ensure coherence between EU internal, external policies and the sustainable development goals;
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (n) 1 (n). Protect civil and political rights and support
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (n) 1 (n). Protect civil and political rights and support ensuring gender balance in decision-making at all levels, including political decision-making, economic policy and programs, workplaces, business or academia;
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (o) 1 (o). Involve social partners, civil society and women´s organisations in economic decision making;
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (o) 1 (o). Involve social partners and women’s organisations in economic decision making;
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (p) 1 (p). Strengthen women’s leadership and participation in decision making in conflict and post-conflict s
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (p) 1 (p). Strengthen women’s leadership and participation in decision making in climate change and energy policies and industries, in conflict and post-conflict solutions and ensure for countries emerging out of conflicts, women’s access to jobs and markets, as essential to stability;
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (p) 1 (p). Strengthen
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (q) 1 (q). Facilitate land ownership
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (q) 1 (q). Facilitate land ownership and access to public credit for rural women, to enable them to become economically independent and to fully participate in and benefit from rural development; protect and promote short food supply chains, through active policies at both internal and external level in the EU;
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (q) 1 (q). Facilitate land ownership and access to credit for rural women, to enable them to become economically independent and to fully participate in and benefit from rural sustainable development;
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (q a) (new) 1 (q a). Establish internal and international rules that guarantee limits to the massive land grabbing that goes against the interest of small owners, specially women;
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (q b) (new) 1 (q b). Calls on all parties to guarantee access to land for peasant and indigenous women through comprehensive Agrarian Reforms to redistribute land with women full participation and integration throughout the process, with a just appreciation of women productive and reproductive work;
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (q c) (new) 1 (q c). Calls on all parties to encourage and generate appropriate public policies and programs for our cultures and ways of life, with resources that make viable peasant production, ensuring food sovereignty and the rights of peasants women and men with social justice;
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (r) 1 (r). Call for the engagement of rural women’s organisations in local, regional, national and global policymaking and support women's networks for the exchange of experience and good practice, particularly where their lives could be affected by the relevant decisions;
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (s) 1 (s). Call on all countries for the ratification and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including Article 6 thereof entitled ‘Women with disabilities’;
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t) 1 (t). Emphasise the right of
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital B a (new) B a. whereas harassment and violence against women encompass a wide range of human rights violations such as: sexual abuse, rape, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, prostitution, trafficking of women and girls, violation of women’s sexual and reproductive rights, violence against women at work, violence against women in conflict situations, violence against women in prison or care institutions, violence against lesbians, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, and various harmful traditional practices such as genital mutilation, crimes of honour and forced marriages; whereas any one of these abuses can leave deep psychological scars and involve physical or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts and coercion, damage the general health of women and girls, including their reproductive and sexual health, and in some instances result in death;
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t) 1 (t). Emphasise the right of migrant women workers, especially migrant and refugee domestic workers, to decent working conditions; call for the ratification and implementation of the ILO Convention 189;
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t) 1 (t). Emphasise the rights of migrant women workers, especially migrant domestic workers, to decent working conditions, and equal social protections;
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t a) (new) 1 (t a). Urge all parties to implement policies that guarantee the rights and humane conditions of women and girl refugees;
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t a) (new) 1 (t a). Ensure that gender based persecution is considered the basis of an asylum claim under the 1951 UN Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees;
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t b) (new) 1 (t b). Emphasise the need to protect and promote the rights of LGBTI women;
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t b) (new) 1 (t b). Call on the CSW together with CEDAW committee to institutionalise an intersectional approach to their analysis, and to promote the concept of combating multiple discrimination through intersectional analysis throughout all UN bodies;
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t c) (new) 1 (t c). Pursue policies to address the situation of women facing poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (t d) (new) 1 (t d). Recognise role of women as formal and informal carers, and implement policies to improve their condition;
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (u) 1 (u). Mobilise the resources required to realise women’s economic rights and reduce
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (u) 1 (u). Mobilise the resources required to realise women’s economic rights and reduce gender inequality, including through the use of the existing instruments
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital C C. whereas the fifth Sustainable Development Goal is to achieve
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (u) 1 (u). Mobilise the resources required to realise women’s economic rights and reduce gender inequality, including through the use of the existing instruments at EU and Member State level; apply gender budgeting to all public expenditure to ensure equality between women and men;
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (u) 1 (u). Mobilise the resources required to realise women’s economic rights and reduce gender inequality, including through the use of the existing instruments at EU and Member State level; establish gender budgeting in all Member States in order to remove all gender inequalities;
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (v) 1 (v). Ensure the full involvement of Parliament and its Committee on Women’s Rights
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 (v a) (new) 1 (v a). Expresses its strong support for the work of UN WOMEN, which is a central actor in the UN system for eliminating violence against women and girls worldwide and bringing together all relevant stakeholders in order to generate policy change and coordinate actions; calls on all UN member states, as well as on the EU, to increase their funding for UN WOMEN;
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital C C. whereas the fifth Sustainable Development Goal is to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls worldwide; whereas empowering women means
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