2024/2057(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j

(j) commit to constant appraisal and pro-active corrective action in the EU’s internal and external policies in regard to ~~gender~~sexual equality, sexual equality, policy mainstreaming and ~~budgeting~~sexual equality policy budgeting in order to achieve the proposed goals, and penalties for delays and/or failure to achieve goals;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j

(j) commit to constant appraisal and pro-active corrective action in the EU’s internal and external policies in regard to gender equality~~, mainstreaming and budgeting~~;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j a (new)

(j a) defend and recall the importance of the Women Peace and Security Agenda and the 25 anniversary of its landmark resolution, to renew the WPS EU action Plan and to vocally combat any pushbacks towards this agenda internationally;

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k

(k) call on the Commission to further develop and roll out concrete and well- financed plans and actions to address the UN SDGs, specifically those related to ~~gender~~sexual equality policy;

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k

(k) call on the Commission to further develop and roll out concrete and well- financed plans and actions to address the UN SDGs, specifically those related to gender equality, promoting equality in education;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k

(k) call on the Commission to further develop and roll out concrete and ~~well- financ~~adequately funded plans and actions to address the UN SDGs, specifically those related to gender equality;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take the lead in the global fight against the backlash against gender equality and women’s rights; emphasise that anti-gender movements are not only attacking women's rights and gender equality but also the foundations of democracy and rule of law; acknowledge that anti-gender movements go hand in hand with anti-democratic movements and are often financed from abroad;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take ~~the~~a lead in the global fight against the backlash against gender equality and women’s rights by condemning all retrogressive attempts to roll back, restrict or remove existing protections for gender equality as well as all forms of threats, intimidation and harassment, online and offline, of human rights defenders and civil society organisations working to advance these rights;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take the lead in the global fight against the backlash against gender equality and women’s rights, to ensure that the EU has a unified position and univocally denounce any measures undermining women’s rights, autonomy and emancipation in every field;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take the lead in the global fight against the backlash against gender equality and women’s rights; promote partnerships and alliances to counteract regressive movements and reaffirm the EU's commitment to protecting gender equality as a core value;

Amendment 11 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas equality between women and men is a fundamental principle of the EU, which must also apply at global level, and whereas the EU’s external action must be guided by this principle;

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take the lead in the global fight against the backlash against gender equality and women’s rights, which in some countries can manifest itself as sex- selective abortions;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take the lead in the global fight against the backlash against gender equality and women’s rights and promote programmes, including through public- private partnership, to reduce discrimination against women in politics and public offices;

Amendment 112 #

Abir AL-SAHLANI, Billy KELLEHER, Lucia YAR, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE, Valérie DEVAUX, Jana TOOM, Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take the lead in the global fight against the backlash against gender equality and women’s rights caused in particular by increasingly influential anti- rights movements;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take the lead in the global fight against the backlash against gender equality and women’s rights, including ensuring that Women's Rights Movements are adequately funded at EU and National levels;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) take the lead and promote measures at European and global level in the global fight against the backlash against ~~gender~~sexual equality and women’s rights;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l a (new)

(l a) advocate firmly for the defence of sexual and reproductive health and rights as fundamental rights and to ensure free access to all related services, including age-appropriate sexuality and relationship education, contraception, safe abortion, maternal health and care-based health service, and fight against anti-choice networks;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l b (new)

(l b) emphasise the need to protect and promote the rights of groups experiencing intersectional forms of discrimination, including people with disabilities, from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, racialised, from ethnic, minority or migrant backgrounds, older or LGBTIQ+ people among others;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l c (new)

(l c) to work to promote the concept of combating intersectional discrimination throughout all UN bodies and to conduct, apply and integrate intersectional gender analysis at different levels in the EU and its Member States;

Amendment 118 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m

(m) urge the Commission to further develop and improve the collection of ~~gender-~~sex- desegregated data and to ensure that this data contributes to better policymaking; as well as to reinforce the European Institute for Gender Equality both in terms of funding and capacity, in order to achieve the proposed goals at European and global level; all policies on equality between women and men must have regard to and comply with both the domestic law of the Member States and their constitutions, and, in particular, the religious norms of the Member States;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m

(m) urge the Commission to further develop and improve the collection of gender-desegregated data and to ensure that this data contributes to better policymaking; ~~as well as to reinforce the European Institute for Gender Equality both in terms of funding and capacity;~~

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas equality between women and men is a fundamental principle of the EU~~, and whereas the EU’s external action must be guided by this principle~~;

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m

(m) urge the Commission to further develop and improve the collection of gender-desegregated data and equality data, and to ensure that this data contributes to better and more informed policymaking; as well as to reinforce the European Institute for Gender Equality both in terms of funding and capacity;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m

(m) urge the Commission to further develop and improve the collection of ~~gender-~~desegregated data, particularly on sex and age, and to ensure that this data contributes to better policymaking; as well as to reinforce the European Institute for Gender Equality both in terms of funding and capacity;

Amendment 122 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m

(m) urge the Commission to further develop and improve the collection of ~~gender-~~data desegregated ~~data~~by gender and region and to ensure that this data contributes to better policymaking; as well as to reinforce the European Institute for Gender Equality both in terms of funding and capacity;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m a (new)

(m a) to commit to advance towards a feminist foreign, security and development policy that entails a gender- transformative vision and that gives priority to gender equality, protects and promotes the human rights of traditionally marginalised groups, such as transgender people, and takes into account the voices of women and LGBTIQ+ human rights defenders and civil society;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) implement without delay and to the fullest extent the EU GAP III and ensure that 85 % of all new actions throughout external relations by 2025 contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment;deleted

Amendment 125 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) implement without delay and to the fullest extent the EU Sexual Equality Action Plan (GAP) III and ensure that 85 % of all new actions throughout external relations by 2025 contribute to ~~gender equality~~sexual equality and women’s empowerment; all policies on equality between women and women~~’s empowerment~~ must have regard to and comply with both the domestic law of the Member States and their constitutions, and, in particular, the religious norms of the Member States;

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) implement without delay and to the fullest extent the EU GAP III and ensure that ~~85 %~~the maximum percentage possible of all new actions throughout external relations by 2025 contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) implement without delay and to the fullest extent the EU GAPender Action Plan III and ensure that at least 85 % of all new actions throughout external relations by 2025 contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) implement without delay and to the fullest extent the EU GAP III and ensure that 85 % of all new actions throughout external relations by 20257 contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment;

Amendment 129 #

Laurence TROCHU, Chiara GEMMA, Elena DONAZZAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a gender-transformative and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as gender mainstreaming in all areas of external action, whether trade, development policy, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy and agriculture;deleted

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas equality between women and men is a fundamental principle of the EU, and whereas the EU’s external action must ~~be guided by~~take this principle into account;

Amendment 130 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a gender-transformative and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as gender mainstreaming in all areas of external action, whether trade, development policy, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy and agriculture;deleted

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a ~~gender~~sex-transformative and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as ~~gender~~women’s and men’s equality policy mainstreaming in all areas of external action, whether trade, development policy, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy and agriculture; all policies on equality between women and men must have regard to and comply with both the domestic law of the Member States and their constitutions, and, in particular, the religious norms of the Member States;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a ~~gender-transformative~~non discriminatory and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as gender mainstreaming in all areas of external action, whether trade, development policy, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy and agriculture; Promoting women's economic empowerment through entrepreneurship support programs in partner countries, ensuring equitable access to business opportunities and training in entrepreneurial skills;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a gender-transformative and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as gender mainstreaming in all areas of externalboth in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, whether trade, development policy, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy and agriculture;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a gender-transformative and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as gender mainstreaming in all areas of external action, whether trade, development policy, migration, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy and agriculture, while enhancing the consistency between EU’s internal and external policies;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a gender-transformative and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as gender mainstreaming in all areas of external action, whether trade, development policy, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy, fisheries and agriculture;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) take note of and implement the recommendations of Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2022 on the EU GAP III, and thus prioritise GAP III in every aspect of EU external action through a gender-~~transformat~~responsive and intersectional approach, both in terms of GAP III’s geographical coverage and areas of action, as well as gender mainstreaming in all areas of external action, whether trade, development policy, humanitarian aid, security or sectors such as energy and agriculture;

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) devise, fund and implement policies that combat the “feminisation” of poverty and reduce the role of gender as a factor in poverty both within and, through external action, outside of the EU, taking due note of its intersectional factors, including age, care responsibilities, disability, race ~~and sexuality~~, ethnicity. migration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) devise, fund and implement policies that reduce the role of gender as a factor in poverty both within and, through external action, outside of the EU, taking due note of intersectional factors, including age, care responsibilities, disability, race and sexuality; support initiatives that empower women economically, particularly women entrepreneurs and those leading MSMEs;

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) devise, fund and implement policies that reduce the role of ~~gender~~a person’s sex as a factor in poverty both within and, through external action, outside of the EU, taking due note of intersectional factors, including age, social class, level of schooling and education, care responsibilities, disability, race and sexuality;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas women’s human rights and ~~gender~~sexual equality are not only fundamental human rights, but preconditions for advancing development and reducing poverty, and ~~a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world~~increasing the level of education and civilisation, and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous world that we can pass on as a legacy to future generations;

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) devise, fund and implement policies that reduce the role of gender as a factor in poverty both within and, through external action, outside of the EU, taking due note of intersectional factors, including age, care responsibilities, disability, race and sexual~~ity~~ identity and orientation;

Amendment 141 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) devise, fund and implement policies that reduce the role of gender as a factor in poverty both within and, through external action, outside of the EU, taking due note of intersectional factors, including age, geography, care responsibilities, disability, race and sexuality;

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) devise, fund and implement policies that reduce the ~~role of gender~~incidence of sex and motherhood as a factor in poverty both within and~~, through external action,~~ outside of the EU, taking due note of ~~intersectional~~multiple factors, including age, care responsibilities or number of children, disability, race and sexuality;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) devise, fund and implement policies that reduce the role of gender as a factor in poverty both within and, through external action, ~~outside of~~without the EU, taking due note of intersectional factors, including age, care- responsibilities, disability, race ~~and~~, sexuality, gender identity;

Amendment 144 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p a (new)

(p a) recognise the unique challenges faced by women living in rural, remote, and underdeveloped areas, where access to resources, healthcare, education, and economic opportunities may be limited; call for targeted measures and investments that address the needs of these communities, promoting gender equality, female entrepreneurship, and infrastructure improvements to bridge the gap between urban and rural areas; stress the importance of integrating these perspectives into all relevant external action and development strategies to ensure no woman is left behind;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p a (new)

(p a) ensure that external agreements, including those related to border control and cooperation with non-EU countries, prioritize the safety of women and girls; EU must ensure that partner countries uphold high human rights standards, particularly in preventing gender-based violence and exploitation/trafficking;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty and empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, promotion of female entrepreneurship, encouraging initiatives that strengthen economic autonomy and job creation in high- growth sectors, lifelong- learning, non- discriminatory labour opportunities, encourage specific training and employment programs for women with disabilities, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating gender stereotyping and promoting women as role models, promoting the adoption of reconciliation policies that support motherhood rights like breastfeeding, in the workplace;

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty, focusing on those women living in rural areas or remote and deprived areas, and empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, lifelong- learning, entrepreneurship for financial independence, non-discriminatory labour opportunities, equal pay with men for equal work, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating gender stereotyping and promoting women as role models;

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) (q) establish an annual monitoring system for the most disadvantaged areas, in order to determine how and when to intervene, both preventively and proactively, to address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty, and to empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, lifelong- learning, non-discriminatory labour opportunities, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating gender stereotyping and promoting women as role models;

Amendment 149 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty and empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, lifelong- learning, non-discriminatory labour opportunities, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating gender stereotyping and promoting women as role models; ensure access to digital education and skills training to bridge the digital gender divide;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas women’s and girls’ human rights and gender equality are not only fundamental human rights, but preconditions for advancing development and reducing poverty, and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty and empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, lifelong- learning, including for the starting-up of entrepreneurial activities, non- discriminatory labour opportunities, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating gender stereotyping and promoting women as role models;

Amendment 151 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty and empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, lifelong- learning, non-discriminatory labour opportunities, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating harmful gender stereotyping, patriarchal systems and toxic masculinity and promoting women as role models;

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty and empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, lifelong- learning, non-discriminatory labour opportunities, access to sport activities, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating gender stereotyping and promoting women as role models;

Amendment 153 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty, and to empower women and girls in all their diversity through education, training, life- long- learning, non-discriminatory labour opportunities, just pension funds, access to social services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives, combating gender stereotyping and promoting women as role -models;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) address the systemic and root causes of women’s poverty, particularly single mothers, and empower women and girls ~~in all their diversity~~ through education, training, lifelong- learning, non-discriminatory labour opportunities, access to social services, particularly maternity support services, balancing unpaid care and social responsibilities through legislative initiatives~~, combating gender stereotyping~~ and promoting women as role models;

Amendment 155 #

Laurence TROCHU, Chiara GEMMA, Elena DONAZZAN, Georgiana TEODORESCU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q a (new)

(q a) to push for more ambitious care policies and care related funding in view of advancing towards care economies, setting minimum standards and quality guidelines for care throughout the life cycle, with an intersectional perspective, and recognising, reducing and redistributing unpaid care work;

Amendment 156 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q a (new)

(qa) reiterate the essential contribution of mothers to the global economy, and encourage nations to ensure that women who wish to become mothers can make that choice without being constrained by their social circumstances;

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q a (new)

(q a) enable women's access to affordable housing and land by eliminating barriers, with a focus on addressing the specific needs of women, particularly those in poverty and female- led households;

Amendment 158 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r

(r) call for further efforts, legislation and enforcement of existing measures to ensure the rights of women domestic workers so that they are not constantly dependent on their partners and so that their household work is recognised as equivalent to employed and remunerated work in work sectors;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r

(r) call for further efforts, legislation and enforcement of existing measures to ensure the rights of ~~women~~care and domestic workers, as well the rights and recognition of informal carers;

Amendment 16 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas 189 governments across the world, including the EU and its Member States, committed to working towards ~~gender~~sexual equality and empowering all women and girls at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing;

Amendment 160 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r

(r) call for further efforts, legislation and enforcement of existing measures to ensure the rights of women domestic workers, whistleblowers and single mothers;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r

(r) call for further efforts, legislation and enforcement of existing measures to ensure the rights of women domestic workers and informal carers;

Amendment 162 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)

(r a) develop safe and regular migration pathways, and labour migration policies and programmes that are gender- responsive, including in highly “feminised” and informal sectors such as domestic and care work and which address the gendered barriers to women’s labour force participation and skills recognition;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)

(r a) swiftly put forward a definition of rape based on the lack of consent as a standard for EU Member States, reinforcing protections against sexual violence;

Amendment 164 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r b (new)

(r b) encourage, in the EU, the right to asylum, the recognition, protection, support and the integration of women who are victims of violence, whatever the form;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, ~~including~~also in war zones, taking account of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation, and including the establishment of support and listening centres for women victims of violence in non-EU countries, particularly in disadvantaged areas, similar to anti- violence centres, with a dual objective: assisting in the recognition of situations of violence; providing both legal and practical protection for women who decide to report;

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological, institutional and economic violence, including in war zones, taking account ~~of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation~~the increased risk of violence and sexual exploitation women experience while fleeing their country or during their migration journeys;

Amendment 167 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, ~~including~~and these forms of violence perpetrated online, also in war -zones, taking account of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation; underline the importance of enforcing international humanitarian law to safeguard the rights of women and girls in conflict zones;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, including in war zones, taking account of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation, or regarding violence in pornography, in accordance with Article 118 of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, including in war zones, taking account of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation; implement measures to address and prevent online gender- based violence to protect women and girls from digital harassment and abuse;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is the most comprehensive ~~global~~world agenda for promoting ~~gender~~sexual equality and is considered the international ‘Bill of Rights’ for women, defining women’s rights as human rights and articulating a vision of equal rights, freedom and opportunities for all women in the world, and was reaffirmed in 2015 with Goal 5, ‘Achieve ~~gender~~sexual equality and empower all women and girls’, of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) set out in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, by specifying targets and concrete measures across a range of issues affecting women and girls;

Amendment 170 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding ~~gender~~sex-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, including in war zones, taking account of migration, drug trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitation, and also reducing forced marriages, where necessary, by implementing legislative penalty provisions;

Amendment 171 #

Judita LAŠŠÁKOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, ~~regarding gender-based~~to protect women and girls from all forms of violence, including harassment at work, domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, including ~~in war~~armed conflict, war and foreign occupation zones, taking account of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological, material and economic violence, including in war zones, taking account of ~~migration, prostitution and sexual~~economic vulnerabilities, migration, prostitution, trafficking and sexual and reproductive exploitation;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gender-based violence, both online and offline, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological, verbal and economic violence, including in war zones, taking account of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation;

Amendment 174 #

Abir AL-SAHLANI, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, and from a mental health perspective, regarding gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, including in war zones, taking account of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence, including in ~~war~~ conflict-zones, taking account of migration, prostitution and sexual exploitation;

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s a (new)

(s a) promote the prevention of gender- based violence in sports by establishing a system to monitor and prevent such violence within sports institutions, requiring organizations to adopt preventive policies and measures, along with a secure and protected reporting mechanism;

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for sexual rights and reproductive health, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education, contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal healthcare and care- based health services;deleted

Amendment 178 #

Laurence TROCHU, Chiara GEMMA, Elena DONAZZAN, Georgiana TEODORESCU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for sexual ~~rights~~ and reproductive health, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education, contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal healthcare and care- based health services; ensure that women are protected from forced pregnancies and forced abortions, particularly in places where ethnic cleansing policies are implemented, and that in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning, as outlined in the Beijing Declaration;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for sexual rights and reproductive health, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education, contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal healthcare and care- based, whatever their age and social status, have access to comprehensive health services;

Amendment 18 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas unchecked transgenderism poses a threat to the status of women in the European Union and around the world, by blurring women’s identity, by allowing a man to freely appropriate the identity of a woman, by encouraging a man to participate in institutions and competitions as a woman, by allowing a man to benefit from gender equality as a woman, by inciting violence or by making threats against whistleblowers who denounce such abuses;

Amendment 180 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women and girls in all their diversity have access to affordable health services, including for sexual ~~rights and reproductive health, including~~and reproductive health and rights, in line with international human rights and public health standards, including mandatory comprehensive age- appropriate ~~sexuality and relationship education,~~and scientifically-accurate sexuality education, contraception and emergency contraception, safe and legal abortion, respectful maternal health~~care~~ and care- based health services;

Amendment 181 #

Abir AL-SAHLANI, Billy KELLEHER, Lucia YAR, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE, Valérie DEVAUX, Jana TOOM, Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for sexual rights and reproductive health, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education, contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal healthcare and care- based health services; emphasize the importance of access to mental health services tailored to the specific needs of women and girls;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) remove the legal, financial, social and practical barriers and restrictions on abortion in all Member States; ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for sexual rights and reproductive health, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education, contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal healthcare and care- based health services;

Amendment 183 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for ~~sexual rights and reproductive health~~gynaecological and obstetric care, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education~~, contraception, safe and legal abor~~ that respects and involves parents, contraception, maternal healthcare and care- based health services;

Amendment 184 #

Judita LAŠŠÁKOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for sexual rights and reproductive health, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education, contraception, safe and legal abortion,have access to quality, affordable comprehensive health care health services, including for maternal healthcare and care- based health services;

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have all information necessary for access to health services, including for sexual rights and reproductive health, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education, contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal healthcare and care- based health services;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for sexual rights and reproductive health, ~~including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education,~~ contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal healthcare and care- based health services;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) ensure that women in all their diversity have access to health services, including for sexual rights and reproductive health, including age- appropriate sexuality and relationship education, affordable contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal healthcare and care- based health services;

Amendment 188 #

Abir AL-SAHLANI, Billy KELLEHER, Lucia YAR, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE, Valérie DEVAUX, Jana TOOM, Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t – point i (new)

i) promote dignified and human rights-respectful conditions for incarcerated women who are also mothers, with special attention to the needs of mothers with young children. Support access to health care, psychological care and rehabilitation programs, ensuring adequate spaces to maintain the bond with their children;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t – point i (new)

i) take note of and implement the recommendations of the European Parliament's resolution of 11 April 2024 on including the right to abortion in the EU Fundamental Rights Charter;

Amendment 19 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas the UN Assembly agreed in 2017 on a global indicator framework to standardise data collection, a key element for the comparability of data;

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) call for increased efforts to address gender issues in the context of the green transition, given the intersectional and disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, particularly in developing countries, noting that the effects of climate change are not gender- neutral;deleted

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) call for increased efforts to address gender issues in the context of the green transition, given the intersectional and disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, particularly in developing countries, noting that the effects of climate change are not gender- neutral;deleted

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) call for increased efforts to address gender issues in the context of the green transition, given the intersectional and disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, particularly in developing countries, noting that the effects of climate change are not gender- neutral;deleted

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) call for increased efforts to address gender issues in the context of the green transition, given the intersectional and disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, particularly in developing countries, noting that the effects of climate change are not gender- neutral; advocate for the inclusion of women in environmental decision-making processes to build resilience and gender- responsive strategies;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) call for increased efforts to address gender issues in the context of the green transition, given the intersectional and disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, particularly in developing countries, as well as in the regions and rural areas most affected by these changes, noting that the effects of climate change are not gender- neutral;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) calls for increased efforts to address gender issues in the context of the green transition, ~~given the intersectional and~~recognising that the climate crisis is not gender neutral and is caused by unequitable power systems, disproportionately impact ~~of climate change on women and girls, particularly in developing countries, noting that the effects of climate change are not gender- neutral~~ing women and communities marginalised by intersecting systems of oppression, particularly in developing countries;

Amendment 196 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) call for increased efforts to address gender issues in the context of the green transition, and with an ecofeminist perspective, given the intersectional and disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, particularly in developing countries, noting that the effects of climate change are not gender- neutral;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) call for increased efforts to address gender issues in the context of the green and energy transition, given the intersectional and disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, particularly in developing countries, noting that the effects of climate change are not gender- neutral;

Amendment 198 #

Laurence TROCHU, Chiara GEMMA, Elena DONAZZAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u a (new)

(u a) Combat cyber-violence specific to women and girls, this virtual violence having a major impact on their personal and professional lives, and on their mental and physical health;

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

~~(v) advocate for and strengthen civil society organisations supporting women’s rights;~~deleted

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)

– having regard to Articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas just six years in advance of the 2030 deadline for the UN’s SDGs, not a single indicator under Goal 5 has been fully achieved; whereas the UN estimates that radical actions are needed in order to accelerate progress and to avoid taking 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory legislation for women;deleted

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) advocate for and strengthen civil society organisations supporting women’s rights and work to ensure that grassroots organisations and women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights defenders, especially small organisations, are supported through the provision of adequate funding and the removal of restrictions that impede their ability to operate;

Amendment 201 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) ~~advocate for and strengthen~~ensure adequate funding and protection of human rights defenders and civil society organisations ~~supp~~wortking ~~women’s rights~~to advance women and girls rights, and ensure their participation in relevant fora;

Amendment 202 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) advocate for and strengthen civil society organisations supporting women’s rights; provide targeted measures and capacity-building support to grassroots women's organisations to amplify their impact at the local and international levels;

Amendment 203 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) advocate for and strengthen civil society organisations supporting women’s rights, particularly facilities that welcome and support single pregnant women, single mothers or women suffering from violence or threats;

Amendment 204 #

Abir AL-SAHLANI, Billy KELLEHER, Lucia YAR, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE, Valérie DEVAUX, Jana TOOM, Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) advocate for and strengthen civil society organisations supporting women’s rights inside and outside of the EU, actively work against initiatives aimed at diminishing the civic space in several Member States;

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) advocate for and strengthen civil society organisations supporting women~~’s rights~~ in all their circumstances such as disability, victims of violence, discrimination in the workplace or motherhood;

Amendment 206 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) advocate for and strengthen civil society organisations supporting women’s rights and gender equality;

Amendment 207 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)

(v a) establish a Council Configuration on Gender Equality and Equality, to create a formal forum for the ministers responsible for the matters of equality to foster cooperation, coordinate policies and exchange best practices among Member States;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas just six years in advance of the 2030 deadline for the UN’s SDGs, not a single indicator under Goal 5 has been fully achieved; whereas the ~~UN estimates that radical action~~re is are needed ~~in order~~ to accelerate progress ~~and to avoid taking 286 years to~~, close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory legislation for women;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas just six years in advance of the 2030 deadline for the UN’s SDGs, not a single indicator under Goal 5 has been fully achieved; whereas the UN estimates that ~~radical~~strong actions are needed in order to accelerate progress and to avoid taking 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory legislation for women;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas gender equality is a cross cutting principle, to be mainstreamed across the SDGs;

Amendment 24 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas a 2024 UN study3 on the evaluation of SDG 5 highlights that social norms still exist that legitimise violence against women and girls, reduce access to healthcare services, assign unpaid care and domestic work solely to women and restrict leadership opportunities; whereas women and girls are still discriminated even before birth, with the practice of sex- selective abortions still alive both in Europe and abroad; _________________ 3 UN, Are we getting there? A synthesis of UN system evaluations of SDG 5, March 2024, https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital- library/publications/2024/03/are-we- getting-there-a-synthesis-of-un-system- evaluations-of-sdg-5.

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas a 2024 UN study3 on the evaluation of SDG 5 highlights that social and religious norms still exist that legitimise violence against women and girls, early and forced marriages, female genital mutilation and the imposition of religious clothing on girls, reduce access to healthcare services, assign unpaid care and domestic work solely to women and restrict leadership opportunities; _________________ 3 UN, Are we getting there? A synthesis of UN system evaluations of SDG 5, March 2024, https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital- library/publications/2024/03/are-we- getting-there-a-synthesis-of-un-system- evaluations-of-sdg-5.

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas a 2024 UN study3 on the evaluation of SDG 5 highlights that social norms still exist that legitimise violence against women and girls, without there being sufficient appropriate punishments for perpetrators, social norms that reduce access to healthcare services, assign unpaid care and domestic work solely to women and restrict leadership opportunities; _________________ 3 UN, Are we getting there? A synthesis of UN system evaluations of SDG 5, March 2024, https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital- library/publications/2024/03/are-we- getting-there-a-synthesis-of-un-system- evaluations-of-sdg-5.

Amendment 27 #

Abir AL-SAHLANI, Billy KELLEHER, Lucia YAR, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE, Valérie DEVAUX, Jana TOOM, Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas a ~~2024~~ UN study3 on the evaluation of SDG 5 highlights that social norms still exist that legitimise gender- based violence against women and girls, reduce access to health~~care~~ services, including sexual and reproductive health services, assign unpaid care and domestic work ~~solely~~ to women solely and restrict leadership opportunities; _________________ 3 UN, Are we getting there? A synthesis of UN system evaluations of SDG 5, March 2024, https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital- library/publications/2024/03/are-we- getting-there-a-synthesis-of-un-system- evaluations-of-sdg-5.

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas a 2024 UN study3 on the evaluation of SDG 5 highlights that social norms still exist that legitimise violence against women and girls, reduce access to healthcare services, including sexual and reproductive health, assign unpaid care and domestic work solely to women and restrict leadership opportunities; _________________ 3 UN, Are we getting there? A synthesis of UN system evaluations of SDG 5, March 2024, https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital- library/publications/2024/03/are-we- getting-there-a-synthesis-of-un-system- evaluations-of-sdg-5.

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. whereas sexual and gender-based violence as well as anti-rights movements threaten the fundamental rights of women and girls on a daily basis;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)

– having regard to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the principle of ‘leaving no one behind’ and, in particular, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 which seeks to achieve gender equality,

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the UN General Assembly has raised the alarm about the active resistance to achievements and advances in gender equality and the growing transnational backlash against women’s rights; whereas there is a clear and urgent need to reaffirm, safeguard and develop substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls4 ; ; _________________ 4 UN General Assembly, Escalating backlash against gender equality and urgency of reaffirming substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls: Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, 15 May 2024, https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g2 4/073/47/pdf/g2407347.pdf.

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the UN General Assembly has raised the alarm about the active resistance to advances in gender equality and the growing transnational backlash against women’s rights; whereas there is a clear and urgent need to reaffirm ~~substantive equality~~equality between women and men, and the human rights of women and girls4 ; _________________ 4 UN General Assembly, Escalating backlash against gender equality and urgency of reaffirming substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls: Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, 15 May 2024, https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g2 4/073/47/pdf/g2407347.pdf.

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the UN General Assembly has raised the alarm about the active resistance to advances in ~~gender~~sexual equality and the growing transnational backlash against women’s rights; whereas there is a clear and urgent need to reaffirm substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls4; _________________ 4 UN General Assembly, Escalating backlash against gender equality and urgency of reaffirming substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls: Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, 15 May 2024, https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g2 4/073/47/pdf/g2407347.pdf.

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. Whereas the Beijing Convention sought to create a personal and professional space for women in all spheres, and given that women’s influence is especially important in all contexts, because of the value contributed by women’s unique perspectives;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas the summit of the future adopted document includes a specific action for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls as a crucial contribution to progress1a _________________ 1a https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/ sotf-pact_for_the_future_adopted.pdf

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, in an inquiry into Polish abortion law, has concluded that criminalising and restricting abortion discriminates against women;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. Whereas support and protection must be granted to women in motherhood, to families as the basic unit of society, and to children;

Amendment 37 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a

(a) confirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to the range of actions for women’s human rights and ~~gender~~sexual equality outlined therein; confirm its commitment to women’s human rights, through ~~gender~~sexual equality policy mainstreaming in all policy areas and cycles, to the implementation of specific and targeted actions for women’s human rights and ~~gender~~ equality of sexual equality policy, to avoid a deepening of these inequalities, especially in less developed countries with precarious education, and to ensuring proper ~~gender~~sexual equality policy budgeting;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a

(a) confirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to the range of actions for women’s human rights and gender equality outlined therein; confirm its commitment ~~to women’s human rights, through gender mainstreaming in all policy areas and cycles,~~ to the implementation of specific and targeted actions for women’s human rights and gender equality, and to ~~ensuring proper gender budgeting~~the preservation of girls’ integrity by prohibiting the use of puberty-blocking hormones before the age of majority, in accordance with Article 39 of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which stipulates that ‘the girl child of today is the woman of tomorrow’, and Chapter II of the Oviedo Convention on individual consent;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a

(a) (a) confirm its unwavering commitment to the Beijing ~~Declaration and~~ Platform for Action and to the range of actions for women’s human rights and gender equality outlined therein; confirm its commitment to women’s human rights, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, within and outside the European Union, through gender mainstreaming in all policy areas and cycles, to the implementation of specific and targeted actions for women’s human rights and gender equality, and to ensur~~ing~~e proper gender budgeting;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)

– having regard to the EU gender equality strategy for 2020-2025 of 5 March 2020,

Amendment 40 #

Abir AL-SAHLANI, Billy KELLEHER, Lucia YAR, Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE, Valérie DEVAUX, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a

(a) confirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to the range of actions for women’s human rights and gender equality outlined therein; confirm its commitment to women’s human rights, ~~through gender mainstreaming in all policy areas and cycles,~~ to the implementation of specific and targeted actions for women’s human rights and gender equality~~, and to ensuring proper gender budgeting~~;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a

(a) re-confirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to the range of actions for women’s human rights and gender equality outlined therein; confirm its commitment to women’s human rights, through gender mainstreaming in all policy areas and cycles, to the implementation of specific and targeted actions for women’s human rights and gender equality, and to ensuring proper gender budgeting;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a

(a) confirm its full commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to the range of actions for ~~women’s~~ human rights of all women and gender equality outlined therein; confirm its commitment to ~~women’s~~ human rights of all women, through gender mainstreaming in all policy areas and cycles, to the implementation of specific and targeted actions for ~~women’s~~ human rights of all women and gender equality, and to ensuring proper gender budgeting;

Amendment 43 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(a a) express its most profound opposition to the fact that Saudi Arabia is this year chair of CSW annual meeting and condemn any form of political instrumentation given that the countries’ own record on women’s rights is abysmal and many of its policies contrary to the commission's own mandate and objectives; raise the systemic discrimination against women and persecution of women’s rights activists taking place in Saudi Arabia;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) provide a precise definition of ‘woman’ and ‘girl’ as a biological reality;

Amendment 45 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) ensure that gender equality and women’s rights are fully and proudly implemented in all aspects of EU external action through an adequately funded, gender-transformative, inclusive and intersectional approach;deleted

Amendment 46 #

Abir AL-SAHLANI, Billy KELLEHER, Lucia YAR, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE, Valérie DEVAUX, Jana TOOM, Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) ensure that ~~gender~~ equality ~~and~~between women’s rights a~~re fully and proudly~~nd sexual equality policy is fully supported and implemented in all aspects of EU external action through an adequately funded, ~~gender-~~inclusive and intersectional approach that is transformative, in~~clusive and intersectional approach~~ terms of sexual equality policy; there is also a pressing need for this policy of equality in women’s rights to be supported by men, in all fields and at all levels;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) ensure that gender equality and women’s rights are fully and proudly implemented in all aspects of EU external action through an adequately funded, gender-transformative, inclusive and intersectional approach, particularly as the funding of anti-gender movements globally is on the rise ;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) ensure that ~~gender equality and women’s rights are fully and proud~~the rights of women and girls and equality are fully implemented in all aspects of EU external action through an adequately funded, gender-transformative, inclusive and intersectional approach, in particular women with disabilities and women with vulnerabilities;

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) ensure that gender equality and women’s rights are fully and proudly implemented ~~in all aspects~~as a core part of EU external action through an adequately funded, gender-transformative, inclusive and intersectional approach;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)

– having regard to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women 2024 Inquiry concerning Poland conducted under article 8 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) ensure that gender equality and women’s rights are fully and proudly implemented in all aspects of EU external action through an adequately funded~~, gender-transformative, inclusive and intersectional~~ approach;

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) ensure that gender equality and women’s rights are fully and proudly implemented in all aspects of EU external action through an adequately funded, gender-~~transformat~~responsive, inclusive and intersectional approach;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

(b a) Accelerate the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action within the European Union, as it is a universal document, and EU Member States are far from having achieved all targets;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c

(c) ensure the full involvement of Parliament and its Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in the decision-making process on the EU’s position at the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (10- 25 March 2025); ensure that Parliament has adequate and timely information and access to the EU’s position document ahead of the negotiations; ensure the timely communication of the Parliament's position to the EU negotiating team; and further improve interinstitutional cooperation and informal consultation, including prior to and during negotiations, so that Parliament’s priorities are properly incorporated;

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c

(c) ensure the full involvement of Parliament and its Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in the decision-making process on the EU’s position at the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (10- 25 March 2025); ensure that Parliament has adequate ~~and timely informat~~information that is regularly updated and presented to the European legislature in a timely fashion and has access to the EU’s position document ahead of the negotiations; and further improve interinstitutional cooperation and informal consultation, including prior to and during negotiations, so that Parliament’s priorities are properly incorporated;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d

(d) take due stock of the progress, and setbacks, encountered in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and promote active measures to achieve the proposed goals, as well as drastic penalties for delays and/or failure to achieve goals in relation to equal rights for women and men;

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d

(d) ~~take due stock~~conduct an annual review of the progress, and setbacks, encountered in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action;

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

(d a) pledge its strong support for the work of UN Women, which is a central actor in the UN system for advancing women’s rights, while committing to ensure its funding as well as increased finance for gender equality;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e

(e) reinvigorate the EU’s efforts to overcome remaining challenges to the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; ensure that the EU leads by example by putting in place robust policy measures to address, combat and anticipate gender inequality in all its manifestations, and to empower women in all their diversity, and ensure the realisation of their rights;

Amendment 59 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e

(e) reinvigorate the EU’s efforts to overcome remaining challenges, at European and global level, to the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; ensure that the EU leads by example by putting in place robust policy measures to address, combat ~~and~~, anticipate ~~gender~~and penalise sexual inequality in all its manifestations, and to empower women ~~in all their diversity~~and men to achieve the proposed goals;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

– having regard to the Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention) of 4 April 1997,

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e

(e) reinvigorate the EU’s efforts to overcome remaining challenges to the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; ensure that the EU leads by example by putting in place robust policy measures to address, combat and anticipate gender inequality in all its manifestations, and to empower women in all their diversity in all EU countries;

Amendment 61 #

Laurence TROCHU, Chiara GEMMA, Elena DONAZZAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e

(e) reinvigorate the EU’s efforts to overcome remaining challenges to the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; ensure that the EU leads by example by putting in place robust policy measures, accompanied by adequate funding, to address, combat and anticipate gender inequality in all its manifestations, and to empower women in all their diversity;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing gender discrimination; ~~ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe;~~

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing gender discrimination; ~~ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe;~~

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing gender discrimination; ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe; recalls of the importance of this Council of Europe instrument, and calls as well its other countries to make progress towards signing and ratifying it;

Amendment 65 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a ~~gender-~~sex- equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing ~~gender~~sex discrimination; ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe, in accordance with the provisions of their constitutions and with reference to their domestic law, as well as religious principles;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing gender discrimination; ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframewith partner countries in addressing sex-based discrimination;

Amendment 67 #

Judita LAŠŠÁKOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing gender discrimination; ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframedirect and indirect forms of discrimination, in particular against women and girls;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing gender discrimination, and taking this aspect into account in free trade agreements that are established; ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe;

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through leading by example and supporting partner countries in addressing gender discrimination; ~~ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States~~urges the remaining five Member States, namely Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia, that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

– having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 22 November 2023 on proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (2022/2051(INL)),

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing ~~gender~~all types of discrimination and violence against women; ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through supporting partner countries in addressing gender discrimination; ensure that the EU leads by example by urging the remaining ~~five~~six Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe;

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or cultural, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; encourage initiatives that promote female political leadership and participation, strengthening democratic practices and inspiring future generations of women; within this context, express opposition to semiotic violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages young women from entering politics and the public sphere; encourage measures that promote women's participation in STEM fields to ensure gender-balanced representation in high- impact sectors;

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or cultural, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to semiotic violence against women in or wishing to be in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages young women from entering politics and the public sphere, especially where there are opportunities favourable to their promotion within politics and public offices;

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or cultural, together with the creation of mechanisms that ensure basic democratic access to these same opportunities, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to semiotic violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages young women from entering politics and the public sphere;

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or cultural, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to semiotic violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces the invisibilization of women and negative stereotypes about women, because of sex, and discourages young women from entering politics and the public sphere;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or cultural, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to all forms of gender based violence, including semiotic violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages young women from entering politics and the public sphere;

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, financial, academic or cultural, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to ~~semiotic~~all physical and verbal violence against women in politics, online and offline, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages ~~young~~ women from entering politics and the public sphere;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all asphereas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to ~~fulfil~~reach their potential in life, notably also in decision- making, whether political, economic, health- related, academic or cultural, this ~~also~~ being essential also for good governance and policy making; within thise context, express opposition to semiotic violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages young women from entering politics and ~~the~~ public sp~~here~~aces;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or, cultural or sports-related, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to semiotic violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages young women from entering politics and the public sphere;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)

– having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 11 April 2024 on including the right to abortion in the EU Fundamental Rights Charter (2024/2655(RSP),

Amendment 80 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women ~~in all their diversity~~ to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or cultural, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to semiotic violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages ~~young~~both young women and adult or elderly women from entering politics and the public sphere;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) press for equal opportunities for all in all areas of life, to allow women in all their diversity to fulfil their potential, notably in decision-making, whether political, economic, academic or cultural, this also being essential for good governance and policymaking; within this context, express opposition to ~~semiotic~~all types of violence against women in politics, which sustains and reinforces negative stereotypes about women and discourages young women from entering politics and the public sphere;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)

(ga) advocate for equal access to resources for gender equality in all regions, ensuring that women across the world, whether they live in rural or remote areas such as islands and outermost regions, have equal opportunities and access to essential resources, including education, training, health care, financial services and land, thus aiming to eliminate barriers that disproportionately affect women and, ultimately, to achieve economic empowerment, social justice and a better quality of life as a result of a global vision of gender equality;

Amendment 83 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)

(g a) stresses the importance of combatting gender stereotypes, attitudes and prejudices in all their dimensions, through all kinds of media, including social media;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)

(g b) stresses the importance of addressing the economic empowerment of women, through all means available, such as for example an enabling environment for their economic activities, or through supporting women entrepreneurship and women led businesses;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g c (new)

(g c) points out the importance of promoting women’s empowerment through education, training, life-long learning, which are of vital importance in order to fight stereotypes and combat persisting inequalities together with addressing women’s employment rate and underrepresentation in certain sectors like STEM and AI;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) emphasise that weak political leadership, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficient investment, and the rise of anti- rights movements have been identified as obstacles; thus making it necessary to promote more women in leadership, increase investment, and implement comprehensive education, learning, lifelong training, cultural and policy reforms to overcome these systemic barriers and achieve a truly equal society, processes in which the mandatory involvement of men is also necessary;

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) emphasise that weak political leadership, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficient investment, and the rise of anti- rights movements have been identified as obstacles; thus making it necessary to promote more women in leadership, increase investments, and implement comprehensive, rights-based and gender transformative policy reforms to overcome these systemic barriers and achieve a truly equal society;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) emphasise that weak political leadership, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficient investment, and the rise of anti- rights movements have been identified as obstacles and threats for women’s rights ; thus making it necessary to promote more women in leadership, increase investment in public services such as education and health, and implement comprehensive policy reforms to overcome these systemic barriers and achieve a truly equal society;

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) emphasise that weak political leadership, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficient investment, ~~and the rise of anti-rights movements~~lack of education, maternal mobbing, lack of economic autonomy and unequal conditions in the labour market have been identified as obstacles; thus making it necessary to promote more women in leadership, increase investment, and implement comprehensive policy reforms to overcome these systemic barriers and achieve a truly equal society;

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas equality between women and men is a fundamental principle of the EU, and whereas the EU’s external action must be guided by this principle, so that the EU continues to be a leader in this field and an example to other countries on other continents;

Amendment 90 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) emphasise that weak political ~~leadership~~direction, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficiently targeted investment, hate speech and hate campaigns and the rise of anti-rights movements have been identified as obstacles; thus making it necessary to promote more women in politics and leadership, increase dedicated investments, and implement comprehensive policy reforms to overcome these systemic barriers and achieve a truly equal society;

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) emphasise that weak political leadership, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficient investment, and the rise of anti- rights movements have been identified as obstacles; thus making it necessary to promote more feminist women in leadership, increase gender equality related investment, and implement comprehensive policy reforms to overcome these systemic barriers and achieve a truly equal society;

Amendment 92 #

Mathilde ANDROUËT, Catherine GRISET, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) emphasise that weak political leadership, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficient investment, and the rise of anti- rights movements have been identified as obstacles; thus making it necessary to promote more programmes that place women in leadership positions, increase investment, and implement comprehensive policy reforms to overcome these systemic barriers and achieve a truly equal society;

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i

~~(i) apply gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting in all EU policy areas, including external action, and lead by example in this regard;~~deleted

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i

~~(i) apply gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting in all EU policy areas, including external action, and lead by example in this regard;~~deleted

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i

(i) apply more consistently gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting in all EU policy areas, including external action, and lead by example in this regard committing that the next MFF 2027 will include gender equality specific objectives and gender budgeting methods to be able to increase and monitor all gender related investments;

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i

(i) apply ~~gender mainstreaming and gender~~sexual equality policy mainstreaming and sexual equality policy budgeting in all EU policy areas, including external action, and lead by example in this regard, including by adopting penalties in accordance with the domestic and constitutional laws of the Member States;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i

(i) apply gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting in ~~all~~relevant EU policy areas, including external action, and lead by example in this regard;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j

~~(j) commit to constant appraisal and pro-active corrective action in the EU’s internal and external policies in regard to gender equality, mainstreaming and budgeting;~~deleted

Amendment 99 #