2017/2015(INI) Gender equality in EU trade agreements
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Procedure completed
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joint Responsible Committee | ['INTA', 'FEMM'] | ||
| Committee Opinion | DEVE |
Florent MARCELLESI ( Verts/ALE),
Jasenko SELIMOVIC ( ALDE),
Eleni THEOCHAROUS ( ECR),
Anna ZÁBORSKÁ ( PPE)
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Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 58
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 58Subjects
Events
2018/08/30
EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2018/03/13
EP - Results of vote in Parliament
Documents
2018/03/13
EP - Decision by Parliament
Details
The European Parliament adopted by 512 votes to 107 with 68 abstentions a resolution on gender equality in EU trade agreements. Members argued that EU trade and investment agreements and policy are not gender-neutral , meaning that they have different impact on women and men due to structural inequalities.
Gender equality is a universal goal enshrined in many international instruments, such as the UN Charter. The Union is firmly committed to promoting and ensuring gender equality in the framework of its fundamental treaties, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Parliament insisted that the new generation of trade agreements should promote relevant international standards and legal instruments , including on gender equality, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Platform for Action, the core ILO Conventions and the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Members argued that binding and enforceable provisions in EU trade agreements are necessary to ensure respect for human rights standards, including gender equality.
The Commission, the European Union and its Member States were invited, inter alia , to:
ensure that the objectives of the SDGs, in particular Goal 5 on gender equality , and the Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 are fully reflected in EU trade policies; take into account the gender dimension in its mid-term review of the Trade for All strategy, and ensure that gender equality is mainstreamed into trade and investment policy; promote multilateral agreements to extend the protection afforded by EU legislative acts that take into account gender equality issues such as the Conflict Minerals Regulation; include a reference to CEDAW in trade agreements and take steps towards the EU’s accession and ratification of the Convention; continue the work of the ILO in implementing the Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Convention No. 156 on Workers with Family Responsibilities and reinforce international labour standards for decent work on global value chains, with particular focus on women; find ways to improve the GSP and GSP + systems by means such as reinforcing their conditionality to the removal of legal discrimination against women; ensure, in negotiations at WTO level , that due consideration is given to gender equality when preparing new rules and agreements, and implementing and reviewing existing agreements, included in the WTO Trade Policy Review Mechanism; promote, in trade agreements, the commitment to ensure an improved participation of women in decision-making bodies, both in the public and in the private sector; ensure that the gender equality objective is given special attention in development cooperation, and that it is part of all aid programmes, including programmes related to the Aid for Trade strategy; explore how EU trade policies and agreements can promote women's economic empowerment and participation in areas such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Recommendations by sector : Parliament also made concrete recommendations as to what the Union can and should do to strengthen its commitment to the issue of gender inequalities in various sectors with a gender-specific cause and effect such as services, manufacture, agriculture, clothing, and intellectual property rights.
It called for binding measures to combat the exploitation of women in more export-oriented industries, particularly in the textile and agricultural sectors . Parliament recommended giving greater priority to women working in the informal sector of the economy , recognising the need to strengthen decent work standards for women in this sector.
Lastly, Members called on the Commission to extend its support measures for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises , with a focus on measures for women-owned enterprises of this type. The Commission should help to establish partnerships between women entrepreneurs in the Union and their counterparts in developing countries.
Documents
2018/03/13
EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2018/03/12
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2018/02/06
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Details
The Committee on International Trade Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality adopted an own-initiative report on gender equality in EU trade agreements drafted jointly by Eleonora FORENZA (GUE/NGL, IT) and Malin BJÖRK (GUE/NGL, SE).
Members argued that EU trade and investment agreements and policy are not gender-neutral , meaning that they have different impact on women and men due to structural inequalities.
Gender equality is a universal goal enshrined in many international instruments, such as the UN Charter. The Union is firmly committed to promoting and ensuring gender equality in the framework of its fundamental treaties, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Members insisted that the new generation of trade agreements should promote relevant international standards and legal instruments , including on gender equality, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Platform for Action, the core ILO Conventions and the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The report argued that binding and enforceable provisions in EU trade agreements are necessary to ensure respect for human rights standards, including gender equality.
The Commission, the European Union and its Member States were invited, inter alia , to:
ensure that the objectives of the SDGs, in particular Goal 5 on gender equality , and the Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 are fully reflected in EU trade policies; take into account the gender dimension in its mid-term review of the Trade for All strategy, and ensure that gender equality is mainstreamed into trade and investment policy; ensure that public procurement provisions have a positive impact, especially from a gender perspective, when included in EU trade agreements; the Commission should support the access of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to public procurement and develop specific measures for such enterprises run by women; support the inclusion of a chapter on the gender dimension in EU trade and investment agreements, building on existing examples such as the Chile-Uruguay and Chile-Canada FTAs; promote multilateral agreements to extend the protection afforded by EU legislative acts that take into account gender equality issues such as the Conflict Minerals Regulation; include a reference to CEDAW in trade agreements and take steps towards the EU’s accession and ratification of the Convention; continue the work of the ILO in implementing the Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Convention No. 156 on Workers with Family Responsibilities and reinforce international labour standards for decent work on global value chains, with particular focus on women; find ways to improve the GSP and GSP + systems by means such as reinforcing their conditionality to the removal of legal discrimination against women; ensure, in negotiations at WTO level , that due consideration is given to gender equality when preparing new rules and agreements, and implementing and reviewing existing agreements, included in the WTO Trade Policy Review Mechanism; strengthen corporate social responsibility and due diligence, and encourage the WTO to take gender equality into account in its trade policy; promote, in trade agreements, the commitment to ensure an improved participation of women in decision-making bodies, both in the public and in the private sector; ensure that the gender equality objective is given special attention in development cooperation, and that it is part of all aid programs, including programs related to the Aid for Trade strategy; explore how EU trade policies and agreements can promote women's economic empowerment and participation in areas such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The report also made concrete recommendations as to what the Union can and should do to strengthen its commitment to the issue of gender inequalities in various sectors with a gender-specific cause and effect such as services, manufacture, agriculture, clothing, and intellectual property rights.
Documents
2018/01/24
EP - Vote in committee
2017/11/22
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2017/02/16
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2017/02/16
EP - Referral to joint committee announced in Parliament
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2018)366
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T8-0066/2018
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A8-0023/2018
- Committee opinion: PE610.543
- Committee opinion: PE610.543
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2018)366
Activities
- Eleonora FORENZA
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Marianne THYSSEN
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Nessa CHILDERS
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Marek JUREK
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Urszula KRUPA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Florent MARCELLESI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Notis MARIAS
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Barbara MATERA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Margot PARKER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Godelieve QUISTHOUDT-ROWOHL
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Tokia SAÏFI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Branislav ŠKRIPEK
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Joachim STARBATTY
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Adam SZEJNFELD
Plenary Speeches (1)
Votes
A8-0023/2018 - Eleonora Forenza et Malin Björk - résolution 13/03/2018 13:01:49.000 #
2018/03/13 Outcome: +: 512, -: 107, 0: 68
S&D
GUE/NGL
EFDD
NI
ENF| Amendments | Dossier |
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2017/2015(INI)
2017/10/12
DEVE
65 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5; whereas trade and trade liberalisation can have
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital B B.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas EU trade policy lacks an environmental justice perspective, as well as obligations to comply with international and EU climate commitments; whereas the environmental effects of EU trade policy are unequally distributed between women and men and particularly affect women, further hindering the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas trade policies affect women in the Global South differently than women in the Global North;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas more than 40% of agricultural work in the Global South is done by women, whereas women farmers are mostly small-scale or subsistence farmers who do not have the necessary access to information, credit, land or networks to successfully compete in a global market;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital B d (new) Bd. whereas countries in the Global South rely on revenues made from import tariffs for their national budgets; whereas an increase of value added tax (VAT), in order to counterbalance this loss of revenue, represents an additional financial hurdle to women and their families;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas women are working more often than men in low-paid, low-valued and precarious positions in all sectors and will thus most probably benefit to a lower degree from trade liberalisation processes than men; whereas women, seen in a lower bargaining position, are often misused as a competitive advantage in a global economy;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the EU and the Member States to ensure that the objectives of the SDGs, in particular Goal 5 on gender equality, the Gender Action Plan 2016- 2020 (GAP II), the Strategic engagement for equality between women and men 2016-2019
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes with concern that many difficulties remain to assess the relationship between trade and gender, due to a number of factors, including a lack of data; stresses the need to better understand the gender dynamics associated to trade agreements, which requires to use sex-disaggregated statistics in every single sector of the economy concerned;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Stresses that data used in trade impact assessment should be sector-based since the impacts of trade liberalisation vary from one sector to the other; notes that it could impact women negatively in sectors such as agriculture and food processing; in this respect, although they predominate in world food production (50 to 80%), women own less than 20% of land, hence, increasing commercial demands on and for land are also creating challenges for poor women to gain or retain secure and equitable land access;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is not only mainstreamed across all the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Recalls the need to increase coherence among different but closely interlinked policies, such as trade, development, foreign affairs, employment, migration and gender equality;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Supports the Commission's commitment to address gender issues as part of the Aid for Trade strategy and reinforce the focus on the role of women in trade inclusiveness, including in the context of the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference in December;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Regrets that the European Commission’s strategy “Trade for All” does not include a clear gender perspective and calls on the Commission to update the strategy in this regard;
Amendment 23 #
1a. Calls for a development-centred and gender-sensitive trade policy which guarantees negotiations on equal terms between trade partners;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Highlights the importance of including strong gender equality and women empowerment considerations in the future EU strategy on Trade for All;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further boost coherence between, on the one hand, trade and investment policies and, on the other hand, international conventions and commitments to human rights, development and
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to boost coherence between, on the one hand, trade and investment policies and, on the other hand, international conventions and commitments to human rights, development and gender equality; underlines that the existing mechanisms (under, for example, the SDGs, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Trade Policy Review Mechanism) and tools (such as the Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIAs), the Gender Trade Impact Assessments (GTIAs) and the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIAs)) must be used to monitor the gender impacts of trade and investments policies and agreements;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectives to be
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectives to be integrated systematically into trade and investment policies, and into the trade-related capacity building programmes of international finance institutions, donors and intergovernmental organisations, through ex-ante analysis
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectives to be integrated
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectives to be integrated systematically into trade and investment policies, and into the trade-related capacity building programmes of international finance institutions, donors and intergovernmental organisations, through ex-ante analysis
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectives to be integrated systematically into trade and investment policies, and into the trade-related capacity
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to introduce mandatory ex-post assessments; stresses that these should be evaluating trade agreements' effects on countries and regions that are not part of the respective trade agreements as well;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recalls that a gender analysis should not only be limited to employment effects, but encompass public provision of social services; notes in this respect that the reduction of tax revenue of developing countries through tariff cuts could have a negative impact on the rights of women, as it could result in reducing the capacity of states to fund social services;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission, in order to fight gender-based inequalities regarding social and economic rights, to ensure that UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 16 and article 17 are fully respected in EU´s trade partner countries;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Emphasises the need for mandatory periodical assessments to be made of the progress and failures in gender equality both in the European Union and in developing countries;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Stresses the need for a coherent and comprehensive integration, within EU trade policy, of SDG Target 13.B on the promotion of women focused mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. having regard to the shortcomings in international law regarding respect for gender equality;
Amendment 40 #
4.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates the paramount importance of ensuring access to quality social services to all; reiterates its concerns about the possible privatisation of basic services resulting from trade and investment agreements, and highlights that the issue of public provision of social services is especially salient for gender equality, given that changes in access to such services, and their quality, creates a gender-uneven distribution of unpaid care work; underlines, therefore, that services and goods such as water and sanitation, education and health care (including women’s access to sexual and reproductive health and rights) should always and universally be ensured;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasises the need for governments to maintain their ability to allocate resources to the achievement of women’s rights and gender equality in order to guarantee an inclusive and sustainable future for societies;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the paramount importance of respecting, in accordance with SDG target 17.15, partner countries’ democratic policy space to regulate and take suitable decisions for their own national context, respond to the demands of their populations, and fulfil their human rights obligations and other international commitments, including those on gender equality;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the paramount importance of respecting, in accordance with SDG target 17.15, partner countries’ democratic policy space to regulate and take suitable decisions for their own national context, respond to the demands of their populations, and fulfil their human rights obligations and other international commitments, including those on
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the paramount importance of respecting, in accordance with SDG target 17.15, partner countries’ democratic policy space to regulate and take suitable decisions for their own national context, respond to the demands of their populations, and fulfil their human rights obligations and other international commitments, including those on gender equality; underlines the need to ensure that neither the EU's trade and investment mechanisms nor European intellectual property rights endanger the capacity of individual governments of developing countries to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the paramount importance of respecting, in accordance with SDG target 17.15, partner countries’ democratic policy space to regulate and take suitable decisions for their own national context, respond to the demands of their populations, and fulfil their human rights obligations and other international commitments, including those on gender equality; underlines the need to ensure that neither trade and investment mechanisms nor intellectual property rights endanger the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality or stronger labour and consumer rights; underlines, in this regard, the need to recognise the risks inherent in Trade agreement mechanisms such as Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) or Investment Court System (ICS) which could endanger the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality boosting social services, labour standards and consumer rights- related regulations;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Recalls the need to avoid the potential negative impact that trade deals Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) clauses might have on women’s health and women’s food sovereignty, namely through restrictions to access to medicines and through the seeds privatisations;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses the importance to adapt trade policies to support national efforts in order to comply with the Paris Agreement, bearing in mind that women are the first victims of climate change;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. S
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need to enhance the participation of women
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need to enhance the participation of women and gender experts in trade policy-making and negotiation processes at all levels,
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Insists that
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Insists that a
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Insists that all EU trade agreements should include
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges th
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges that the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP), and in particular the GSP+ system, could be improved by linking economic incentives to the effective adoption and
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the progress made in recent years with the establishment of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact¸ the EU Timber Regulation and the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas comprehensive, binding sustainable development provisions are now part of all EU FTA negotiations, projecting key principles of global governance through the whole agreement;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the progress made in recent years with the establishment of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact¸ the EU Timber Regulation and the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation, and calls on the Commission to
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the progress made in recent years with the establishment of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact¸ the EU Timber Regulation and the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation, and calls on the Commission to
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses that women in the Global South often lack access to affordable health care and medicines, a situation which could be exacerbated by a strong protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in trade agreements;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls for the implementation of gender equality-focused training for EU staff and EU trade negotiators as they play a crucial role in gender and trade related issues;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Stresses that women who work in subsistence agriculture face additional hurdles to maintain food sovereignty because of strong Protection of New Varieties of Plants via the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention) in trade agreements;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 c (new) 9c. Underlines that EU agricultural imports may undercut traditional small- scale farms and thereby may endanger women’s livelihoods;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the empowerment of women, the promotion of their rights and the safeguarding of their access to resources can accelerate development; whereas trade agreements without this particular focus have the potential to further disadvantage women due to their already disadvantaged position in society or increase inequality and endanger people’s livelihoods in general;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas the adoption of new trade agreements with other countries and/or regions of the world can lead to employment shifts and losses of formerly acquired export-oriented jobs; whereas this affects women in particular as export- related sectors are often female- dominated;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas
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2017/10/26
INTA, FEMM
339 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 – having regard to Articles 8, 10, 153(1), 153(2), 157 and
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 a (new) – having regard to Chapter 7 of the Action Plan of the EU-CELAC Summit of Heads of State 2015-2017, adopted in Brussels, in June 2015
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas a global holistic approach to corporate liability for human rights abuses is needed in the context of global value chains; whereas the EU has positioned itself as a front runner in reforming the investors to state dispute settlement mechanism, notably through the development of a Multilateral Court System, and equal progress is expected in other critical areas of concern, such as setting up a mechanism to enforce investors obligations in relation to Human Rights;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas Intellectual property rights (IPR) provisions have been used in trade agreements to protect the interests of large pharmaceutical companies and restrict the production of cheap generic medicines; whereas affordable essential medicines are particularly important for women;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas, in addition to measures to promote human rights and corporate and government responsibility, there is an urgent need for trade agreements to provide for the creation of monitoring mechanisms and penalties for cases of non-compliance;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas gender issues and women rights are not sufficiently taken into account by the sustainable impact assessments of trade agreements;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F b (new) Fb. whereas studies have shown that women are more likely to participate to international trade as wage workers than as self-employed workers;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas in the framework of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems, aim
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 9 June 2015 on the EU Strategy for equality between women and men post-2015;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems a
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the General
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ system
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems aim to ensure the ratification and implementation of environmental, human and labour rights conventions in developing countries;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas the garment sector employs mainly women, whereas it is important to recall that 289 people perished in a blaze in Karachi, Pakistan, in September 2012, in the same year, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory, in Bangladesh, caused the death of 117 people and injured more than 200 workers and, the Rana Plaza's structural failure, in 2013, resulted in 1.129 casualties and caused injuries to approximately 2 500 people, in the same country, all of which were garment factories;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas CEDAW is one of the relevant conventions under GSP +
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas civil society, particularly women’s rights organisations and trade unions, has the knowledge and potential to strengthen women’s economic empowerment, such as the promotion of women entrepreneurs, becoming informed on the issues faced by women in trade agreements, and collecting data that can broaden our understanding of equality in trade;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas civil society, particularly women’s rights organisations and trade unions, ha
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas private sector, civil society, particularly women’s rights organisations and trade unions, has the knowledge and potential to strengthen women’s economic empowerment;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas civil society, particularly women’s rights organisations and
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 28 a (new) – having regard to its resolution on the EU’s response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Hepatitis C of 27 June 2017,
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas events such as the International Forum on Women and Trade organised by the Commission on 29 June 2017 enable many economic stakeholders and representatives of civil society to exchange and launch initiatives on the impact of trade on gender equality;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas multilateral platforms and intergovernmental fora, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Women20 (W20), are crucial for fostering gender-related discussion and action among experts and for providing a good basis for consensus-building;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas trade in services and public procurement liberalisation affect women disproportionally
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) Hb. whereas public procurement remains a tool for governments to positively impact disadvantaged groups of people, especially women;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas special attention must be given to the
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas special attention must be given to the negative consequences of trade liberalisation as regards basic public services and goods, such as water and sanitation, education and healthcare; whereas trade liberalisation limits the regulatory power of governments, which could undermine the equitable provision of public services and therefore affect women disproportionally, particularly in the cases of unpaid care work;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas special attention must be given to the negative consequences of trade liberalisation as regards basic public services and goods, such as water and sanitation, education and healthcare; whereas any agreement with developing countries should include as one of its aims improving access to water, food, and health and education services;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 31 a (new) Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas special attention must be given to
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas special attention must be given to
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas Rules of Origin (RoO) have become increasingly important in the context of global value chains, in which the production spans across several countries; whereas lax rules of origin can create additional hurdles towards establishing full transparency and accountability throughout supply chains, and this can impact women, particularly in sectors such as that of garment;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas decisions on trade and trade agreements are only to a small extent made by women as negotiating teams, parliaments and governments are still far from achieving a gender balanced composition; whereas gender balance in these institutions could not only lead to a better integration of gender equality issues but also increase democratic legitimacy of decision-making;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas abolishing barriers to investments in the form of legal rights, social standards, consumer protection and environmental regulations may lead to a ‘harmonisation’ towards lower labour standards, as well as privatisation of public services and the welfare sector, which will have a negative impact on gender equality;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas the EU Commission, when working on the legal framing of relatively new trade policy areas such as e-commerce should factor in since the start its impact on gender roles, work-live balance and the amount of unpaid work;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas globally, gender disaggregated data and research, empirical evidence and subsequent knowledge gaps on the gender effects of trade hamper can contribute to effective policy making in this field;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas many existing gender inequalities have been used in global value chains to produce more economically competitive products;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) Ib. whereas trade in conflict minerals has proven to be directly linked to widespread human rights violations, including rape and sexual violence against women and girls, child and slave labour and mass displacements;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 31 a (new) – having regard to the EU Presidency Trio declaration on gender equality of 19 July 2017 by Estonia, Bulgaria and Austria;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) Ib. whereas women rely more than men on the affordable access to healthcare and to medicines and their availability, especially with regards to their sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I c (new) Ic. whereas an above-average number of women is employed in public services or in the public service sector and, as users of these services, are more dependent on high-quality, affordable, accessible and demand-driven public services than men, particularly with regard to social services such as child care and care for dependents; whereas cuts in national households and cuts to public services, as well as price increases, tend to shift this care burden nearly exclusively onto women which will consequently hinder gender equality;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I c (new) Ic. whereas privatisation and liberalisation through public procurement of health and care services risks increasing inequality in access and the unpaid care burden mostly done by women and limit their opportunities to gain or increase paid employment and, also worsen the working conditions of many women working in social sectors;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that fair and inclusive international trade policies require a clearer framework aiming to enhance women’s livelihoods, strengthen gender equality, protect the environment, and promote social justice and international solidarity, and need to also address toxic masculinities as a key obstacle to women's and men's emancipation and consequently gender balance;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that fair
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that fair and inclusive
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that fair and inclusive international trade policies
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that fair and inclusive international trade policies require a clearer framework aiming to
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that fair and inclusive international trade policies require a clear
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 a (new) – having regard to the Africa Human Development Report 2016 "Accelerating Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa"1e __________________ 1eUNDP, Africa Human Development Report 2016: http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/li brary/corporate/HDR/Africa%20HDR/Af HDR_2016_lowres_EN.pdf?download
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that fair and inclusive international trade policies require a clearer framework aiming to enhance women’s livelihoods, strengthen gender equality, protect the environment, and promote social
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that the EU’s trade strategy entitled ‘Trade for All’ does not mention gender equality; calls on the Commission to take this dimension into account in the conduct of its trade policy and stresses that trade negotiations may make it possible to promote gender equality on the international scene and ensure that both women and men can benefit from the advantages of trade liberalisation and be protected from its negative effects;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that gender equality is firmly established in all EU policies as stated in Article 8 of the TFEU; deplores the fact that gender is not mentioned in the Trade for All strategy, and calls on the Commission to take gender and women’s empowerment into account in its mid-term review of the strategy; calls on the Commission to ensure that the gender perspective is included and mainstreamed in the EU’s trade and investment policy;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that trade policies should be used as a tool to improve the living and working conditions of women, in equal terms as men, by supporting the reduction of gender pay gaps, by promoting the creation of better quality jobs for women, while combating segregation of women in less-performing economic sectors, as well as by ensuring respect for, and promotion of, the highest standards of social and labour protection;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that the overarching purpose of trade policy must be to promote mutually beneficial economic growth; recalls that while trade policy can promote other values that the European Union is pushing for in the multilateral arena there are limits to which global issues that can be solved through trade policy and through trade agreements;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Urges that women and women’s organisations should participate effectively and broadly in the process of negotiating trade agreements and in shaping and implementing trade policies, since trade is not gender-neutral;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Calls on the EU and its Members States to systematically carry out ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of trade policies from a gender perspective, with an improved methodology, clear and measurable indicators, allowing to assess the possible effects of EU trade policies on gender equality and women empowerment as well as to consider possible offensive and defensive interests to defend, throughout entire process of trade negotiations, from negotiation to execution; stresses that all impact assessments and evaluations of EU Trade Agreements and trade policies should be supported by sufficient and adequate gender disaggregated data and a detailed analysis at regional, national, as well as sectorial levels, with particular attention to women in most vulnerable socio- economic sectors; stresses that the results of the gender-focused analysis should be incorporated into trade negotiations, foreseeing the necessary strategies and measures to compensate losses and imbalances;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Stresses how few data are available on the impact of trade on gender equality; with that in mind, calls for more data to be gathered on this topic; stresses that collecting this type of information will make it possible to improve analysis of the situation, establish a methodology and improve the definition of the objectives and measures to be taken to ensure that women benefit more from trade;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Encourages Member States to carry out continuous monitoring and assessment of the impact of trade agreements on women’s empowerment and the promotion of gender equality, both within the European Union and in third countries, addressing the direct and indirect effects on production structures and the labour market, with a particular focus on countries where social discrimination is overt;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 b (new) – having regard to the OCDE report "Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership in OECD Countries" (2014)1f __________________ 1fOCDE technical report "Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership in OECD Countries": http://www.oecd.org/gender/Enhancing% 20Women%20Economic%20Empowerme nt_Fin_1_Oct_2014.pdf
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Notes that the Report on the Implementation of the Trade Policy Strategy ‘Trade for All’ of 13 September 2017 mentions gender equality in trade and specifies that it is essential to improve our understanding of the impact of trade instruments on gender equality; further notes the view expressed in the report that addressing gender equality would help ensure that the benefits of trade reach everyone, and by the same token maximise the overall gains from trade opportunities; calls on the Commission to continue its work on this matter and supply information and data as soon as possible;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Insists that all international trade
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Insists that
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Insists that
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Insists that all international trade policies must be based on the relevant international standards and legal instruments, such as the
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Insists that
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that the EU is obliged to ensure a high level of protection of human, labour and consumer rights and of social and environmental standards as well as the promotion of gender equality; believes that these values should guide transnational and national trade, including all trade agreements that should also be used as a means of actively supporting these objectives;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Calls on the Commission to increase policy coherence among different but interlinked policies, such as trade, development, agriculture, employment, migration and gender equality, and to include the impact on women’s and girl’s rights, their empowerment, as well as the right to health, education, food, work and water; calls on the Commission to include these considerations in its impact assessments to counteract any negative impact from trade agreements, or from their interactions;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Underlines the urgent need to adopt gender-sensitive binding human rights regulations
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 c (new) Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Underlines the urgent need to adopt
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Underlines the urgent need to
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Underlines the urgent need to work with transnational companies (TNCs) and other companies to adopt gender-sensitive binding human rights regulations on an international level
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Underlines the
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on European Commission, the Council and Member States to actively engage in, and support efforts to organise regular gender-related discussion and action, with a view to improve awareness and the basis for consensus-building;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 d (new) – having regard to the increasing international efforts to promote gender equality though trade policies -such as the UNCTAD programme on gender and development1j (which includes studies on the impact of trade on women; a teaching packet on trade and gender, online training or the creation of the status of "Gender Champions") and the World Bank, which since 2016, in each of their 14 working areas has a gender strategy; __________________ 1jUNCTAD's Website: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DITC/Gender- and-Trade/Trade,-Gender-and- Development.aspx
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on Commission and Member States for a combined policy intervention to promote greater gender equality in the distribution of the employment opportunities offered by exports such as education and vocational training policies;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on the Commission, the Council and the Member States to further work within the ILO towards the implementation and to work towards reinforcement of international labour standards for decent work on global value chains, with a particular focus on women;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Recalls that the European Parliament requested in 2010 that companies should publish their CSR balance sheets, the introduction of due diligence requirements for all undertakings, and the consolidation of the CSR concept on the basis of a harmonised definition of the relations between parent companies in order to establish the legal liability of each them; therefore takes note with satisfaction that the disclosure of non-financial and diversity information is being required from large companies as from 2017 according to the Non- Financial Reporting Directive; regrets however that the disclosure of non- financial information by large companies has not yet been extended to cover all actors operating in global value chains;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Insists that all EU negotiating directives for trade agreements shall contain a or several chapters on goals to be achieved with respect to gender beyond job creation, with a special emphasis on improving the work life balance, offering living wages for both sexes and the dismantling of male and female stereotypes; furthermore insists that all bilateral and international trade agreements must include safeguard clauses enabling the contracting parties to regulate and also reverse liberalisation in order to protect fundamental objectives such as gender equality, human rights, public health and environmental sustainability;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Insists that all international trade agreements must include safeguard clauses enabling the contracting parties to regulate and also reverse liberalisation in order to protect fundamental objectives such as gender equality, human rights, public health and environmental sustainability; stresses that this is already the case in all of the EU’s trade agreements;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Insists that all international trade agreements must include safeguard clauses enabling the contracting parties to regulate and also reverse liberalisation in order to protect
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Insists that all Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments, elaborated ex-ante before the negotiation of trade agreements and carried out again ex-post, contain disaggregated data on job creation and losses with respect to men and women, the evolution of living wages, of work time, of unpaid care work, of the relationship between productive and reproductive work in the perspective of the intended (or concluded) trade agreement;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 e (new) – having regard to the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) issue paper "The Gender Dimensions of Global Value Chains" (September 2016)1k; __________________ 1kInternational Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) issue paper "The Gender Dimensions of Global Value Chains" (September 2016): https://www.ictsd.org/sites/default/files/res earch/the_gender_dimensions_of_global_ value_chains_0.pdf
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Reiterates the importance of activating the suspension clause in international trade agreements in the event of human rights infringements, including women’s human rights abuses, by the other contracting party;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses that a special emphasis in SIAs ex-ante and ex-post as well as in negotiating directives should be put on public procurement, as a privileged place for gender sensitive policies; on services, with a potential to increase unpaid female work, if not otherwise legally framed; and on large scale mining and agroindustry, where potential outbreaks of violence have to be prevented;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Underlines the need to recognise the risks inherent in trade agreement mechanisms such as ISDS and ICS, which undermine the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality, stronger labour and consumer rights and advancement in environmental policies; underlines that any dispute settlement mechanism must serve public policy objectives, including the promotion of gender equality and the protection of social and environmental rights;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Underlines th
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Underlines th
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Underlines that the same risks may equally come from a Multilateral Investment Court;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 a (new) – having regard to the Commission’s report of 13 September 2017 on the Implementation of the Trade Policy Strategy ‘Trade for All’;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 f (new) – having regard to the ICTSD issue paper "The Gender Dimensions of Services" (September 2016)1l; __________________ 1l https://www.ictsd.org/sites/default/files/res earch/the_gender_dimensions_of_services .pdf
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that IPR provisions
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that IPR provisions in trade can have a
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that IPR provisions in trade can have a
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls for a comprehensive analysis of differences and inequalities in the framework of GVCs, with regard to: (i) gender differences in time use, mainly resulting from women’s primary responsibility for reproductive work; (ii) gender differences in access to productive inputs and resources, particularly land, credit, training, and networks; and (iii) gender differences stemming from failures and discrimination at the level of markets and institutions;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls for regular events and meetings to be held on gender equality in EU trade agreements with the participation of representatives of the institutions and economic and civil society stakeholders with a view to creating synergy on this issue, holding discussions and setting common objectives;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Underlines that trade policies when impacting the provision of essential public health services can influence the access and advancement of reproductive and sexual health and rights objectives, policies, programs and services;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Urges that efforts be undertaken to make negotiations on trade agreements transparent and participatory;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Urges that explicit reference be made to gender equality in the main text of trade agreements, honouring the European political commitment and making more funds available for cooperation programmes linked to gender equality;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that nothing in trade agreements should prevent either side from regulating to achieve legitimate policy objectives; considers that, in this context, it should be borne in mind that no EU trade agreement has ever damaged basic public services and goods, such as water and sanitation, education and healthcare (notably including access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services),
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 33 a (new) – having regard to the technical note of the Interamerican Development Bank, presenting the work done under the Trade and Gender Initiative led by the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter- American Development Bank (2012)
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that basic public services and goods, such as water and sanitation, education and healthcare
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that basic public services and goods, such as water and sanitation, education and healthcare (notably access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services)
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that basic public services and goods, such as water and sanitation, education and healthcare
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States, with a view to improve the opportunities for women enterprises' to access public procurement markets, to ensure that EU trade agreements include strong provisions on the opening of public procurement, as well as provisions aimed at simplifying procedures and to increase transparency for bidders, including those from other countries; further, to promote socially and environmentally responsible public procurement, taking into account, among other considerations the principles of equal treatment between women and men, equal pay for work of equal value and the promotion of gender equality;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses that special attention must be given to the rising trade liberalisation of public services and its impact on women both as service providers and service users; underlines that privatisation of essential public services (schools, hospitals, social services) tends to increase user fees that deter or prevent disadvantaged people from accessing those services, particularly women, which in turn increases the unpaid care burden on women; is also concerned that privatisation of these services can jeopardises women’s empowerment in the labour market by weakening their working conditions when working for commercial providers in the social sector;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Asks for a quick gender analysis of ongoing legislative proposals for the framing of e-commerce and expects a Commission paper on this issue in the shortest delay;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Stresses that health care services must be exempted from the trade liberalisation agenda; highlights in particular that safeguards need to be in place to ensure women's access to safe and legal abortion, access to retroviral therapy, and hormone therapy, all of which are central to women's and LGBTQI people’s self-determination;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Calls on the Commission to explore further how EU policies and trade agreements can promote women´s economic empowerment and female participation in areas such as in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and how to close gender gaps in access to, and in the use of, new technologies;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 36 a (new) – having regard to the Commission Report on the Implementation of the Trade Policy Strategy for All, Delivering a Progressive Trade Policy to Harnass Globalisation, COM (2017) 491 of 13 September 2017
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls for binding measures to combat exploitation and improve working conditions for women in the export- oriented industries, in particular the garment and textile manufacturing and agriculture sectors where trade liberalisation has contributed to precarious
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls for
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls for
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls for binding and enforceable measures to combat exploitation and improve working conditions for women in the export-
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls for binding and enforceable measures to combat exploitation and improve working conditions for women in the export-
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls for
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls for
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas Art. 8 of the TFEU commits the EU to eliminate inequalities and to promote equality and combat discrimination, among others, on the grounds of sex, when defining and implementing its policies and activities;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls for training policies to be implemented in all areas of trade with the aim of enhancing women’s skills so as to facilitate their integration in any sector of the labour market;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Asks the Commission to invest in professional training for women working in development countries;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls for an increased focus on women working in the informal sector, recognising the need to reinforce decent work standards for women workers in this sector; realises, furthermore, that the informal sector provides vital economic opportunities, especially for the less well- off;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls for a
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Expresses its deep concerns against the negative impacts of trade expansion and liberalisation on labour trafficking of persons; underlines that women and girls tend to be ones who suffer the most, as labour trafficking is strongly linked to trafficking for sexual purposes;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. whereas unpaid domestic work and unpaid care for family members do not involve formal or informal work, underlines its importance and stresses the need to include it as an objective when creating EU trade policy;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Condemns the human rights abuses and women’s rights violations in the conflict minerals trade, calls on the EU and the international community to mobilise against mining companies and enforce binding due diligence principles at all level;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines that the impact of growing agricultural exports is generally less favourable to women than to men, as emerging trends indicate that small farmers, many of whom are women, are often not in a position to compete in
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas trade policy serves to promote mutually beneficial economic growth but can at the same also a tool to promote other values of the European Union such as the equality between women and men;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines th
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines that
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines that the impact of growing agricultural exports is generally less favourable to women than to men, as emerging trends indicate that small farmers, many of whom are women, are often not in a position to compete in overseas markets due to the lack of access to credit, information, land and networks as well as a lack of possibilities to comply with new rules and standards;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines th
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines th
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Call for policies to regulate against food speculation and limit subsidies for agro-fuels, while focusing on improving gender equality through better regulation of international companies to protect rural communities from land grabbing, and through encouraging improvements in inheritance of land and reducing gender discriminations in accessing land and financial resources;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Considers that in order to ensure that women have improved access to essential medicines and resources for food sovereignty, the EU should stop promoting Intellectual Property Rights as laid out WTO TRIPS in bi- and multilateral agreements with strengthened mechanisms of enforcement; calls on the EU to also stop with promoting the 1991 International Convention for the Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV);
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Insists that
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Insists that
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A a (new) -Aa. whereas gender discussions should concern both men and women equally and whereas engagement and partnership between the public sector and private sector stakeholders, at international and local levels, are key to promote the necessary awareness and synergies to promote gender equality and women empowerment;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Insists that
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Insists that
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Insists that binding instruments a
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Insists that binding and enforceable instruments are needed in EU trade policy to ensure that decent work standards, women’s rights, human rights principles and environmental protection are at the core of all types of EU trade agreements and that EU trade policy is coherent with the Union’s overarching aims of sustainable development, poverty reduction and gender equality;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Insists that
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Insists that
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Commission to take gender equality into account when preparing and drafting impact assessments for the purpose of opening trade negotiations; stresses that taking this into account will provide a first glimpse of the benefits that could be gained from a future trade agreement and predict the impact of new trade relations on gender equality;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to ensure that the objectives of sustainable development goals (SDG´s) and particular Goal 5 on Gender Equality and the Strategic engagement for equality between women and men 2016-2019 are fully reflected in EU trade policies; in this context, calls on the EU to align EU Trade policy with GAP II (adopted as part of EU development policies), which outlines relevant gender equality targets;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Commission to reinforce corporate social responsibility and due diligence mechanisms in free trade agreements with a focus on upholding human rights and their social, labour, gender and environmental aspects;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Welcomes the fact that the SIAs done by the European Commission must use a gender-indicator in their analysis; regrets that the results do not seem to be fully incorporated in trade negotiations;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A b (new) -Ab. whereas there is abroad consensus that a fair, open and rules-based international trade plays a vital role in shaping economic and social performance and prospects of countries around the world, especially those of developing countries; whereas trade is instrumental in empowering women and supporting communities and women's fully-fledged participation in the economy is essential for growth; whereas studies show that empowering women could add a quarter to world’s GDP, that helping women is essential as much from economic as social and poverty eradication perspectives, due to their role in families and communities; whereas, however, trade policies lacking an appropriate gender focus, may further entrench or exacerbate existing gender biases and discrimination;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Calls on the EU to ensure that its trade policy guarantees states' capacity to regulate, in particular as concern human rights, labour rights, gender equality, and environmental protection;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Stresses the importance of implementation, enforcement or transposition of already existing legislation at regional, national and international levels;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12.
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls for all EU trade agreements to include
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls for all
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12.
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls for
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls for all EU trade agreements to include binding and enforceable clauses, in the form of a stand-alone article, that promote and protect women’s rights, gender equality and gender mainstreaming, based on the Beijing Platform for Action and the SDGs, with an appropriate body appointed or an explicit mechanism in place to monitor compliance;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A c (new) -Ac. whereas, therefore, synergy between different policies, domestic and external, is crucial to achieve gender equality and women empowerment, including issues such as property rights, access to finance, education and vocational training, corporate behaviour, government procurement, digital gap, cultural bias;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls for the inclusion of a human rights clause in all trade agreements that includes gender equality, in order to guarantee the protection of girl’s and women’s rights and their participation in trade and services, as well as the inclusion of appropriate indicators to guarantee gender equality in the implementation of trade agreements;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States, to promote agreements at multilateral level to expand the protection granted by gender-sensitive EU laws such as the Conflict Minerals Regulation;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Calls on the European Investment Bank (EIB) to ensure that companies participating in projects co-financed by the EIB shall be required to adhere to the principle of equal pay and pay transparency and to the principle of gender equality as set out in Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1k __________________ 1k Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1a of 5 June 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 23)
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that trading commitments in EU agreements should never overrule human rights, women’s rights
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that trading commitments in EU agreements should never overrule human rights, women’s rights or environmental concerns; and therefore suggests at least the inclusion of human rights experts in arbitration processes;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that trading commitments in EU agreements should never overrule human rights, women’s rights or environmental concerns, and should take into account the local cultural, social and economic environment;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that trading commitments in EU agreements should never overrule human rights
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that trading commitments in EU agreements should
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Recalls the importance of SMEs in the EU’s economic structure; calls on the Commission to continue its efforts to support SMEs – particularly in public procurement, with a view to ensuring that micro enterprises and SMEs play a greater role – and to develop specific measures for SMEs owned by women;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A d (new) -Ad. whereas the relationship between international trade and gender is complex and demands a deep understanding of economic and social dynamics, as well as of specific local contexts, in order to develop efficient trade policies to pursue economic development and poverty reduction, while also promoting women’s empowerment and gender equality;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Asks the Commission to systematically include in its annual reports on the implementation of trade agreements gender-disaggregated information and data on the development as regards ownership, work life balance and the relationship of productive and reproductive work in sectors where trade variations have occurred over the past year;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Believes that sustainable impact assessment should estimate the impact of trade agreements on women in each sector of the economy by means of, among others, gender-disaggregated statistics;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Calls on the Commission to promote female entrepreneurship in developing countries, focusing especially in those where women, compared to men, face greater constraints in access to credit, infrastructure and productive assets;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Is convinced that the CEDAW is of great importance for all policy areas, including trade; invites the Commission, therefore, to take
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Is convinced that the CEDAW is of great importance for all policy areas, including trade;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Is convinced that the CEDAW is of great importance for all policy areas, including trade; invites the Commission
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls for mandatory ex-post evaluations from a gender perspective in order to analyse whether permanent and quality employment was created, changes in the composition of the labour force in different sectors could be detected, labour standards have been implemented or segregation in particular sectors has been challenged;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas leading gender roles, i.e. tasks and faculties attributed to men and women as their "nature" in a society, are deeply rooted in historical economic realities; whereas these realities are quickly changing in the current times of globalization; whereas trade policies have a significant impact on economic transformations and must therefore take account of their desired and non desired effects on gender; whereas trade policies, while reflecting these challenges, must proactively strengthen emancipatory elements of gender roles and discourage discriminatory practices; whereas trade policies should aim to reduce socio- economic gaps between the Global North and the Global South in terms of development and wealth, and between women and men, and realise women’s rights by ensuring decent work conditions for women and contributing to sustainable and equitable economic development;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for the EU and the Member States to ensure that binding and enforceable clauses on labour rights, based on the ILO Conventions, including Conventions No 189 on Domestic Workers and No 156 on Workers with Family Responsibilities, and environmental rights and responsibilities, are included in trade agreements, and that social clauses in trade agreements also apply to informal work;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for the EU
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for the EU and the Member States to ensure that binding and enforceable clauses on labour rights, based on the ILO Conventions, including Conventions No 189 on Domestic Workers and No 156 on Workers with Family Responsibilities, are included in trade agreements, and that social clauses in trade agreements also apply to informal work;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for the EU and the Member States to ensure that
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls for the
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls for EU trade agreements to include provisions on labour and environmental aspects of trade and sustainable development of relevance in a trade and foreign direct investment context, encompassing provisions that promote adherence to and effective implementation of relevant internationally agreed principles and rules, including the core labour standards and fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO); recalls that effective implementation of these standards and conventions can have a positive impact on working conditions for women in the EU and in third countries;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that European companies benefiting from trade agreements between the EU and other partners do not contribute to the spread of practices such as the inhuman exploitation of employees, particularly women;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Acknowledges that the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas trade policies should aim to
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Acknowledges that the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Acknowledges that the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP)
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Acknowledges that the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems need to be improved by linking economic incentives to the effective adoption and constant monitoring of core environmental, human, gender and labour rights conventions;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Welcomes the Commission’s decision to carry out ex ante and ex post sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) for all trade agreements in accordance with the ‘Guidelines on the analysis of human rights impact assessments for trade-related policy initiatives’; calls in this context on the EU and Member States to include gender impact assessments and a gender risk evaluations in all EU trade agreement and in all analysis of global value chains; points out that these assessments will evaluate potential positive and negative effects on gender equality that will be considered with a view introducing preventive measures; stresses that EU trade authorities should consult with gender equality experts when producing these analyses;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that social and environmental standards, particularly labour rights subscribed to in FTAs and autonomous regimes apply throughout the territory of trade partners, and, particularly, in Export Processing Zones (EPZs);
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Calls the EU, the Council and commits itself to ensure that the Secretariats of the EU Institutions with responsibility over trade policies and negotiations have the means and the technical capacity to elaborate gender analysis of trade rules and to incorporate a gender perspective into the entire process of negotiations, from inception, to application and evaluation; to ensure the necessary expertise among EU officials, including by appropriate training; to ensure the involvement of women, as well as gender expertise, in the EU trade negotiating teams, including, for each relevant round of negotiation, an expert on gender with thorough knowledge of the different policy sectors concerned;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 c (new) 16c. Calls on the European Commission, the Council and commits itself to defend and ensure that in all relevant international assistance frameworks, such as Aid for Trade and, equally, that in all EU assistance and cooperation actions, particular attention is given to the goal of gender equality and to ensure that they are adequately used to improve women's empowerment and capacity-building, by incorporating gender issues across programmes and projects;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 d (new) 16d. Calls on the European Commission, the Council and Member States to recognise and support international efforts to promote the inclusion of gender perspectives into trade policies and programmes, such as, for example the "She Trades" initiative of the International Trade Centre, which is aimed to connect 1 million women entrepreneurs to markets by 20201h; __________________ 1h International Trade Centre's webpage on the "She Trades" initiative: http://www.intracen.org/itc/women-and- trade/SheTrades/
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 e (new) 16e. With regards to negotiation at the WTO level, calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to ensure that gender considerations are taken into due account when preparing new rules and agreements and when implementing and reviewing existing agreements, included in the WTO Trade Policy Review Mechanism; to ensure an increased transparency in the entire process of WTO negotiations; to ensure that a gender focus informs all current and future negotiations, in areas such as agriculture, fisheries, services and e- commerce; to defend and to promote an improved position of women in global value chains, making the best use of WTO tools, such as the Trade Facilitation Agreement; to develop capacity-building programmes and organizing regular expert discussions and the exchange of good practices; to support the adoption of gender-related measures within the WTO's administrative structure, more particularly, to ensure that the WTO Secretariat has the technical capacity to undertake gender analysis of trade rules, including conducting gender impact assessments in all phases of its work, including numbers, among other things, of women benefitting from technical assistance; to support WTO tools to address gender issues both in its jurisprudence and in on-going trade negotiations; and, equally, to support an improved cooperation between the WTO and other international organisations aimed at promoting and inclusive international trade and women's rights and equality, such as UNCTAD, UN- Women and the ILO;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas trade policies
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17.
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls for EU legislation
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17.
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17.
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Stresses that decreased tax revenues due to cuts in tariffs needs to be addressed from a gender perspective; Recommends that EU trade policy link the trade and tariff revenues issue with the SDGs agenda and financing for sustainable development with the aim to ensure sustained tax and state revenues;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Emphasises the need to enhance codes of conduct, labels and fair-trade schemes, and of ensuring alignment with international standards such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls for the inclusion in the Sustainable Impact Assessment of country-specific and sector-specific gender assessments before committing to any trade agreement;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas trade policies
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Underlines the need for the establishment of a Trade and Gender Desk within the DG Trade, which would include monitoring whether EU trade agreements contribute to achieving central objectives in the field of gender equality, and monitoring the respect for women's human rights, and actively responding to cases of human rights violations;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Calls for all trade agreements to have a meaningful gender chapter;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 c (new) 17c. Calls for the use of gender- disaggregated data to monitor the effect that trade agreements have on gender equality and women;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 d (new) 17d. Calls for the appointment of a gender focal point within the structure of DG Trade, who will ensure gender mainstreaming in EU´s trade policy; asks the Commission to provide gender training to government officials and trade negotiators;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 e (new) 17e. Calls on Member States to do their utmost to recruit women for their trade ministries at all levels, including ministerial level, in order to ensure that a gender perspective is taken into account in trade negotiations; calls on international organisations such as WTO, World Bank, IMF and ILO to promote the equal presence of women in their internal structure, particularly in leading positions
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for the EU and the Member States to ensure inclusive participation in trade consultations, including women’s rights organisations, trade unions
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for the EU and the Member States to
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18.
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for the EU and the Member States to ensure inclusive participation in trade consultations, including women’s rights organisations, trade unions and civil society and thus increase transparency for European citizens;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for the EU and the Member States to ensure inclusive participation in trade consultations, both at EU and WTO level, including women’s rights organisations, trade unions and civil society;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas trade polic
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate, in order to create favourable conditions for the participation of women to the opportunities offered by the free trade agreements, the possibility to build up pre-apprenticeship training programs for providers, employers, workforce practitioners, and other industry stakeholders to network with their peers from across the EU and learn from a variety of successful program models;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure that the European Parliament is regularly and timely informed about any new EU trade agreement, and that the negotiation process is open, transparent and includes the special expertise of trade unions and different NGO´s, including women’s rights organisations;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the EU and Member States to make use of the training provided by for example UNCTAD to ensure officials and negotiators are aware of issues related to gender and trade;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the trade partners to prepare substantial and sustainable counter-measures on anticipated negative effects of trade agreements on women;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls for the Commission to help set up partnerships between female entrepreneurs in the EU and their counterparts in developing countries;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Supports initiatives such as the ITC’s She Trades global action to enhance the competitiveness of women entrepreneurs and encourages in this regard the international exchange of best practices within such organisations and bodies such as the WTO, ITC and UN on gender-responsive policies and programmes;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Calls for gender balanced negotiating teams in order to fully take into account all gender aspects of trade agreements;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18c. Stresses the importance of the availability of gender -disaggregated data related to work, ownership of assets, and financial inclusion, which contribute to assessing the gender equality situation and provide evidence-based information essential for analysing the possible gender impact of trade policies; encourages the Commission to cooperate with European and international organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations, OECD and EIGE, but also with national statistical offices, to improve the collection and availability of such data; recalls that he Sustainable Development Goals require gender-disaggregated data to track progress towards all goals, including SDG 5 on Gender Equality;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18c. Asks the Commission to guarantee that ecological and social criteria, including gender equality criteria, can be applied in awarding public procurement contracts;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas trade policies should aim to
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas trade policies should aim to reduce socio-economic gaps between the Global North and the Global South
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas trade policies should aim to reduce socio-economic gaps
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas, as indicated by the McKinsey Global Institute, if women’s wages and labour force participation were raised to make them equal to those of men, it would boost global output by over 25%, and, as indicated by organisations such as the African Development Bank1d and the International Trade Centre, the impact of women on the global economy - as producers, entrepreneurs, employees and consumers-, over the next decade, could be at least as significant as adding a new China to the global economy; __________________ 1d African Development bank, Gender Equality Index Technical Note: https://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/af db/Documents/Generic- Documents/Gender_Equality_Index_Met hodological_Note.pdf
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas article 8 TFUE states that the European Union should, through all its actions inside and outside of the Union, aim at eliminating inequalities and promote equality between women and men;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. Whereas according to a 2017 study of the European Commission almost 12 million women in the EU have jobs that depend on the exports of goods and services to the rest of the world1a; __________________ 1a http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017 /june/tradoc_155632.pdf
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas greater international competition has not proven to reduce the scope for employers to discriminate against female workers;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the success of trade policy should also be judged on whether it positively impacts women and men equally, contributing to narrow the existing gender gaps, and not reproducing or exacerbating existing gaps and inequalities; whereas therefore the various and complex effects on women and men must be identified, analysed and monitored;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas a trade policy that increases inequalities and impacts people’s livelihoods negatively increases the pressure to migrate, especially for women, and must therefore be analysed and addressed;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas economic development and gender equality frequently go hand- in-hand; whereas there is a broad understanding that societies where gender inequalities are lower, also tend to grow faster;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas, according to an ITC survey covering 20 countries, only 20% of the companies interviewed in developing countries are owned or managed by a woman and that women experience more problem in raising funds, competing and accessing markets than their male counterparts; and whereas, according to the same source, the three main reasons that hinder women entrepreneurs from getting involved in global value chains and upgrade into higher value activities are: regulatory biases, procedural obstacles and cultural biases, alongside other aspects, such as time constraints for female managers, limited access to productive resources like finance and land, limited access to information and networks;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas country-specific and sector-specific assessments are of great importance; whereas women tend to be more concentrated in low-wage or low- status forms of formal and informal employment than men, leading to gender segregation in types of occupations and activities and gender gaps in wages and working conditions; whereas the use and abuse of gender stereotypes for the purpose of profits, in particular in Global Value Chains, the care economy and the agrobusiness, has led to this situation and must be addressed by modern trade policies;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas country-specific and sector-specific assessments are of great importance; whereas women comprise the majority of workers in certain segments of the garment, horticulture, mobile phone and tourism global supply chains (GSCs) but tend to be more concentrated in low- wage or low-
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas country-specific and sector-specific assessments are of great importance; whereas women tend to be more concentrated in low-wage or low- status forms of formal and informal employment than men, leading to gender segregation in types of occupations and activities and gender gaps in wages and working conditions, and gender-specific constraints in access to productive resources, infrastructure and services;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas country-specific and sector-specific assessments are of great importance; whereas women tend to be more concentrated in low-wage, or low- status forms of formal and informal employment than men, leading to abuses on the workplace, gender segregation in types of occupations and activities and gender gaps in wages and working conditions;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas country-specific and sector-specific assessments are of great importance; whereas
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas on the basis of fact-based studies, UNCTAD insists in highlighting the limitations that women face in taking advantage of the opportunities offered by trade, arising from factors such as lack of technical training for better jobs, lack of public services to alleviate household responsibilities, and restricted access and control over resources, including credit and land, information as well as networks and whereas, on this basis, UNCTAD recommends that evaluations address potential impacts of trade policies on gender equality and women empowerment, in areas such as employment, small business, prices, productivity in agriculture, subsistence agriculture and migration1c; __________________ 1cImplementing gender-aware ex ante evaluations to maximize the benefits of trade reforms for women: http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/ presspb2016d7_en.pdf
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas women are often less able than men to take advantage of new opportunities due to the gender-specific constraints women face, such as limited access to and control over resources (land and other assets, credit, information, technology), limited access to markets, social responsibility for unpaid domestic work, legal discrimination and discriminatory cultural norms and values.
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas EU trade policies should identify and pay special attention to sectors particularly affected by practices contrary to progressive gender roles,; whereas EU trade policies should step up to take the global lead in formulating ambitious proposals to counter negative fixations of traditional gender roles;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the UN Guiding Principles on business, trade and human rights are binding on all states and all enterprises, regardless of their size, sector, location, ownership and structure;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the expansion of global trade, and integration of developing countries into global value chains in particular, has allowed many women workers to move from informal economy to the formal sector;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas, especially in the textile sector in development countries, women are almost totally employed in low-level positions and seldom occupy middle and upper level ones;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the impacts of trade liberalisation on individuals depends also on their geographical localisation and the sector of their economic activities;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas the Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy, adopted by the Council in 2016, affirms that human rights must be mainstreamed systematically across all policy sectors and institutions, including international trade and commercial policy;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas the majority of the workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) are women; and whereas in some countries EPZs are exempt from local labour laws, ban or limit union activity and do not provide legal redress to workers, which constitutes clear violations of ILO core standards;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas these new trade related employment opportunities for women in developing countries contributed significantly to the household income and poverty reduction;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas trade policy is not gender neutral; whereas women face gender- specific constraints such as limited access to and control over resources and the overburden of carrying out unpaid care work due to traditional gender roles; whereas these constraints are more pronounced in developing countries; whereas the current EU trade policy and its ‘Trade for All’ strategy lack a gender equality perspective, as well as any binding obligations to enforce core women’s rights conventions such as the CEDAW;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the EU Member States’ current
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the current EU trade policy
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 – having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), and its Article 3 defining ‘gender’ as ‘the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men’, and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Sanctioning and Elimination of Violence against Women (Convention of Belem do Pará), of 1994;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the current EU trade policy and its ‘Trade for All’ strategy lack a gender equality perspective, as well as any
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the EU position as expressed in December 2016 on TiSA (Trade in Services Agreement)endangers the situation for several categories of employees, such as services provided by teachers, midwives, nurses and para- medical personnel, of whom the majority are women; whereas trade liberalisation and privatisation in these sectors has a potential risk to worsen the situation in terms of working conditions and labour rights, as well as result in increased inequality in access and poorer quality of services;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. Whereas following the provisions included in the CEDAW, the EU should provide the basis for realizing equality between women and men through ensuring women's equal access to, and equal opportunities in, political, economical and public life as well as education, health and employment.
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas gender equality in all European Union policies is firmly established in Article 8 of the TFEU; whereas EU trade and investment agreements tend to affect women and men differently on account of structural gender inequalities;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. Whereas ex-ante assessment of gender implications of trade policies can make a contribution to women's empowerment and well-being and at the same time can help mitigate existing disparities and avoid increasing gender inequality;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas human resources are scarcely allocated within the European Commission and the EEAS to ensure that a gender perspective is mainstreamed in EU trade policies and, particularly, in the entire process of trade negotiations;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. Whereas close to 40% of SMEs worldwide are women-owned businesses, but only 15% of exporting firms are led by women;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas in the EU in 2011, exports-dependent employment represented around 1 in every 9 jobs (11%) held by women in the EU;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the only area of gender equality in which DG Trade has demonstrated an interest so far is promoting female entrepreneurship; whereas there is an urgent need to tackle all aspects of gender equality, as all trade policies directly or indirectly affect gender roles, either confirming or transforming them; whereas these aspects include necessary changes in dysfunctional male stereotypes and outdated concepts of unquestioned male supremacy, as a condition to achieve a gender balance;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 a (new) – having regard to the 2007 joint strategy of the EU and its Member States entitled "Aid for trade: Enhancing EU support for trade-related needs in developing countries"
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the only area of gender equality in which DG Trade has demonstrated an interest so far – though it is an important one – is promoting female entrepreneurship;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas sexual violence as an undue, but frequent response to male job and/or prestige loss in a changing economic environment, has to be addressed when formulating trade policies;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas, according to the International Trade Centre, 40% of the world’s SMEs are owned by women;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas a
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 a (new) – having regard to the Resolution 26/9 of the Human Rights Council on the Elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas a review of current EU multilateral and bilateral agreements shows that only 20 % of the agreements with non- European trading partners make reference to women’s rights, and that only 40 % of these agreements include references that aim to promote gender equality; whereas references in these agreements to promot
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas a review of current EU multilateral and bilateral agreements shows that
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas gender tends to be interpreted in a narrow way or be totally absent in the Sustainable Impact Assessments (SIAs); whereas there is significant room for improvement in the quality of ex-ante SIAs; whereas SIAs need to document gender dynamics associated with changes in the provision of public services including any alteration to the quality and equity in access and standard regulations;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the European Commission has announced its commitment to ensure that the future trade negotiations to modernise the current Association Agreement between Chile and the EU will include, for the first time in the EU, a specific Chapter on Gender and Trade;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the problems of decreased tax revenues due to cuts in tariffs needs to be addressed from a gender perspective, linking the trade and tariff revenues issue with the SDGs agenda and financing for sustainable development;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas there is a crucial need of recognising and better understanding gender specific impacts of trade liberalisation to deliver adequate policy responses.
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas until now the EU has concluded trade agreements such as CETA without undertaking an assessment on its impact on women and gender equality;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E c (new) Ec. whereas there is an urgent need to develop instruments that measure the impact of trade on men and women to make sure that both benefit from trade agreements and are protected from its negative effects; whereas there is an urgent need to move towards a trade policy that promotes the change of traditional gender roles instead of reinforcing them;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F source: 612.284
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