EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2014 - 2019

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

2014/2216(INI)

15.12.2014

AMENDMENTS 1 - 75

Draft opinion Jana Žitňanská (PE541.617v01-00)

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PE544.361v01-00 2/37 AM\1043482EN.doc EN Amendment 1 Eleonora Forenza, Malin Björk

Draft opinion Citation 1 a (new)

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- having regard to its resolution of 4 February 2014 on the EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity;

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Amendment 2 Eleonora Forenza, Malin Björk

Draft opinion Citation 1 b (new)

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- having regard to its resolution of 25 November 2014 on the EU and the global development framework after 2015;

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Amendment 3 Eleonora Forenza, Malin Björk

Draft opinion Citation 1 c (new)

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- having regard to the final declaration adopted by the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, held in Geneva from 24 to 26 February 2010, which calls for universal abolition of the

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Amendment 4 Vilija Blinkevičiūtė

Draft opinion Recital -A (new)

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-A. whereas the European Union has a Special Representative for Human Rights and the holder of that post should help the Union to coordinate its activities so as to make its work in promoting the observance of human rights throughout the world, and especially women’s rights, clearer and more visible;

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Amendment 5 Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Sophia in 't Veld, Catherine Bearder

Draft opinion Recital A

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A. whereas the consequences of gender- A. whereas gender-based violence and in based violence are profoundly damaging particular violence against women and for women, their families and girls violates a woman's right to physical communities; integrity and can have serious permanent consequences on the victim's health;

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Amendment 6 Anna Záborská

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A. whereas the consequences of gender- A. whereas the consequences of violence based violence are profoundly damaging against women are profoundly damaging for women, their families and for women, their families and communities; communities;

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Amendment 7 Barbara Matera

Draft opinion Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas the consequences of gender- based violence affect the well-being of the victims in all the spheres of their life;

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Amendment 8 Constance Le Grip

Draft opinion Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas the exercise of democracy presupposes that women and men enjoy equal rights and civil status,

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Amendment 9 Vilija Blinkevičiūtė

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B. whereas female and child refugees, B. whereas, in times of armed conflict, asylum seekers and stateless persons are women and children, including female among the most vulnerable groups in and child refugees, asylum seekers and society and the risks posed to displaced stateless persons, are among the most adolescent girls during humanitarian crises vulnerable groups in society, and the risks are significantly heightened; posed to displaced adolescent girls during humanitarian crises are significantly heightened;

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Amendment 10 Eleonora Forenza, Malin Björk

Draft opinion Recital B

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B. whereas female and child refugees, B. whereas female and child refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons are asylum seekers and stateless persons are among the most vulnerable groups in among the most disadvantaged groups in society and the risks posed to displaced society and the risks posed to displaced adolescent girls during humanitarian crises adolescent girls during humanitarian crises are significantly heightened; are significantly heightened;

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Amendment 11 Terry Reintke

Draft opinion Recital B a (new)

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Ba. whereas violence and/or discrimination against women cannot be

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Amendment 12 Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Sophia in 't Veld, Catherine Bearder

Draft opinion Recital B a (new)

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Ba. whereas domestic violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human Rights violations of our time;

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Amendment 13 Terry Reintke

Draft opinion Recital B b (new)

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Bb. Whereas gender-based violence is defined as violence that is directed against a person because of that person's gender, gender identity or gender expression or that affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately;

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Amendment 14 Eleonora Forenza, Malin Björk

Draft opinion Recital C

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C. whereas women with disabilities are at C. whereas women and girls with greater risk of violence, abuse and disabilities are at greater risk of violence, negligent treatment, especially in abuse and negligent treatment, especially institutionalised settings, which often leads in institutionalised settings, which often to ignorance of the issue; leads to ignorance of the issue;

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Amendment 15 Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Sophia in 't Veld, Catherine Bearder

Draft opinion Recital C

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C. whereas women with disabilities are at C. whereas women and girls with greater risk of violence, abuse and disabilities are at greater risk of violence, negligent treatment, especially in abuse and negligent treatment, especially institutionalised settings, which often leads in institutionalised settings, which often to ignorance of the issue; leads to ignorance of the issue;

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Amendment 16 Iratxe García Pérez

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

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Ca. whereas violence against women is the world’s most widespread human rights violation, it affects all levels of society, regardless of age, education, income, social position and country of origin or residence, and it represents a major hindrance to equality between women and men;

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Amendment 17 Vilija Blinkevičiūtė

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

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Ca. whereas the promotion of women’s rights should be a basic component of the human rights dialogue between the European Union and third countries; whereas the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights plays a positive role; and whereas, when they engage in cooperation with any country, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Commission should identify in a timely manner the problems to be addressed, so that funding and resources can be better tailored to objectives;

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Amendment 18 Marc Tarabella

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

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Ca. whereas access to basic health care services and to sexual and reproductive health services are fundamental aspects of equality between women and men and whereas they are not yet secured in all parts of the world;

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AM\1043482EN.doc 9/37 PE544.361v01-00 EN Amendment 19 Sophia in 't Veld, Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

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Ca. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are grounded in basic human rights and are essential elements of human dignity 1a; whereas the denial of lifesaving abortion amounts to a serious breach of human rights; ______1a ICPD Programme of Action § 7.2 and 7.3

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Amendment 20 Iratxe García Pérez

Draft opinion Recital C b (new)

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Cb. whereas all types of discrimination and violence directed against women, including sexual abuse, female genital mutilation, forced marriages, so-called honour crimes and the commercial sexual exploitation of women, as well as gender- based violence and violence in close relationships and economic and social discrimination, must be considered as unjustifiable under any political, social, religious or cultural grounds, or in relation to any popular or tribal traditions;

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Amendment 21 Alessandra Moretti

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1. Stresses the importance for authorities to 1. Stresses the importance for authorities to engage with men and boys in efforts to undertake to develop educational prevent and eliminate all types of gender- campaigns targeted at men, and in based violence; emphasises the need to particular at the new generations, with the ensure that health professionals, police aim of preventing and gradually officers, prosecutors and judges, both eliminating all types of gender-based within the European Union and in third violence; emphasises the need to ensure countries, are adequately trained to assist that health professionals, police officers, and support victims of violence; prosecutors and judges, both within the European Union and in third countries, are adequately trained to assist and support victims of violence;

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Amendment 22 Georg Mayer

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

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1. Stresses the importance for authorities 1. Stresses the importance to prevent and to engage with men and boys in efforts to eliminate all types of gender-based prevent and eliminate all types of gender- violence; emphasises the need to ensure based violence; emphasises the need to that health professionals, police officers, ensure that health professionals, police prosecutors and judges, both within the officers, prosecutors and judges, both European Union and in third countries, are within the European Union and in third adequately trained to assist and support countries, are adequately trained to assist victims of violence; and support victims of violence;

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AM\1043482EN.doc 11/37 PE544.361v01-00 EN Amendment 23 Anna Záborská

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1. Stresses the importance for authorities to 1. Stresses the importance for authorities to engage with men and boys in efforts to engage with men and boys in efforts to prevent and eliminate all types of gender- prevent and eliminate all types of violence based violence; emphasises the need to against women; emphasises the need to ensure that health professionals, police ensure that health professionals, police officers, prosecutors and judges, both officers, prosecutors and judges, both within the European Union and in third within the European Union and in third countries, are adequately trained to assist countries, are adequately trained to assist and support victims of violence; and support victims of violence;

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Amendment 24 Mariya Gabriel

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1a. Stresses that the promotion of women's rights must be an important part of the Union’s human rights dialogue with third countries; urges the EEAS and the Commission to define, in partnership with each country, a limited number of priority women's rights so as to concentrate efforts and funds in order to better achieve the priority objectives;

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Amendment 25 Iratxe García Pérez

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1a. Reiterates that the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality and combating violence against women must be a crucial part of human rights dialogues conducted by the EU with third countries with which cooperation or association agreements have been signed;

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Amendment 26 Vilija Blinkevičiūtė

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Asks the European Union and its Member States to support full participation by women in political and economic decision making, particularly in processes of peace building, democratic transition and conflict resolution; encourages the Member States, the Commission and the EEAS to focus on the economic and political emancipation of women in developing countries, promoting their involvement in companies and in the implementation of regional projects and local development projects;

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Amendment 27 Terry Reintke

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1a. Calls on the authorities in war and conflict regions to ensure suitable medical and psychological support, free legal services and access to justice, and to complaint mechanisms for female victims of and witnesses to violence;

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Amendment 28 Elissavet Vozemberg

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Emphasises the particular importance, with a view to the development of viable, democratic societies, of reducing gender inequality, combating gender-based violence and promoting equality and women’s rights;

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Amendment 29 Daniela Aiuto

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Stresses the need to ensure that women in Europe and the rest of the world have the right to be able freely to make their own individual choices, on a par with men, without any ideological, political or religious impositions;

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Amendment 30 Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Catherine Bearder, Angelika Mlinar, Sophia in 't Veld, António Marinho e Pinto

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Calls on all Council of Europe member states, accordingly, to sign and ratify the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women; calls on the EU as such to take steps to accede to the Convention in order to ensure coherence between EU internal and external action on violence against women;

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Amendment 31 Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Constance Le Grip, Barbara Matera

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Stresses that in order to effectively combat violence against women, a change of attitude towards women and girls in society is necessary, where women are too often represented in subordinate roles and violence against them is too often tolerated or undermined;

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AM\1043482EN.doc 15/37 PE544.361v01-00 EN Amendment 32 Mariya Gabriel

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new)

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1b. Stresses that gender stereotypes are among the main reasons for violations of women’s rights and inequalities between men and women; calls on the EEAS and the Commission to emphasise the involvement of men in information and awareness-raising campaigns on women’s rights; notes that particular attention must be paid to constitutional, legislative or regulatory provisions which discriminate against women on the basis of their sex, for example with regard to access to justice, property, credit, health care or education; reiterates that child marriage, early and forced marriage and failure to enforce a legal minimum age of marriage constitute not only a violation of children’s rights but also an obstacle to women’s empowerment;

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Amendment 33 Terry Reintke, Ernest Urtasun

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new)

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1b. Is deeply concerned about the raise of gender based violence in many parts of the world, as one of the symptoms of the worldwide crisis, and especially about the increasing number of feminicide (the homicides of women and girls) in Mexico and other countries of central and South

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Amendment 34 Daniela Aiuto

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new)

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1b. Stresses the need to ensure that women who arrive in Europe are able to change their habits and lifestyles without fearing repercussions or vendettas from family members or third persons;

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Amendment 35 Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Constance Le Grip, Barbara Matera

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new)

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1b. Considers that violence against women, such as honour killing, forced marriage, trafficking, female genital mutilation, domestic violence are serious violations of human rights that should never be justified by religion, culture and tradition;

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Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new)

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1c. Stresses the need to do more to secure the right to education and access to education, especially for girls; welcomes the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for their struggle for children’s rights; notes that access to education is, in part, a precondition for the full exercise of other human rights, such as freedom of conscience and religion and participation in political life;

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Amendment 37 Daniela Aiuto

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new)

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1c. Condemns the serious subjugation of women in third countries and the violence to which they are subjected, including and especially by men in a family setting; asserts the right of women to have equal social rights and rights to life and freedom;

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Amendment 38 Terry Reintke

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1c. Calls on the Commission, the European External Action Service and the Member States to take specific actions to address the situation of women and guarantee their freedom and respect for their most fundamental rights, and to adopt measures to prevent exploitation of, and abuse and violence against, women and children;

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Amendment 39 Terry Reintke

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new)

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1d. Urges the UN, in particular its Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, to make an utmost effort to trace the victims, investigate and establish the facts and circumstances of abuses and violations against girls and women with a view of avoiding impunity and ensuring full accountability; supports the work of the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura;

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Amendment 40 Terry Reintke, Ernest Urtasun

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1e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address violence against women and the gender-related dimension of human rights violations internationally, in particular in the context of the bi-lateral association and international trade agreements in force and those under negotiation;

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Amendment 41 Viorica Dăncilă

Draft opinion Paragraph 2

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2. Welcomes the recommendations of the 2. Welcomes the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on conflict Discrimination against Women on conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict situations, and reminds the international situations, and reminds the international community of the necessary safeguards for community of the necessary safeguards for women, notably protection against rape women, notably protection against rape and forced prostitution; and forced prostitution; stresses that victims of gender violence should be assisted in legal proceedings, and points out that statutory and non-statutory organisations can be of real help to victims in this respect;

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Amendment 42 Eleonora Forenza

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2. Welcomes the recommendations of the 2. Welcomes the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on conflict Discrimination against Women on conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict situations, and reminds the international situations, and reminds the international community of the necessary safeguards for community of the necessary safeguards for women, notably protection against rape women, especially women human rights and forced prostitution; defenders who are often target of violence, and calls for protection against rape and forced prostitution;

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Amendment 43 Sophia in 't Veld, Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

Draft opinion Paragraph 2

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2. Welcomes the recommendations of the 2. Welcomes the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on conflict Discrimination against Women on conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict situations, and reminds the international situations in line with the landmark UN community of the necessary safeguards for Security Council resolutions 1325 and women, notably protection against rape 1820 on women, peace and security; and and forced prostitution; reminds the international community of the necessary safeguards for women and girls, notably protection against rape and forced prostitution;

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Amendment 44 Malin Björk

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2. Welcomes the recommendations of the 2. Welcomes the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on conflict Discrimination against Women on conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict prevention and conflict and post-conflict situations, and reminds the international situations, and reminds the international community of the necessary safeguards for community of the necessary safeguards for women, notably protection against rape women, notably protection against rape and forced prostitution; and prostitution;

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Amendment 45 Mariya Gabriel

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new)

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2a. Reiterates that female genital mutilation is a grave violation of human rights, and a subject to which particular attention must be paid in the EU’s dialogue with countries where the practice is highly prevalent; points out, furthermore, that female genital mutilation has serious, long-lasting effects on women’s health and hence on prospects for development;

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Amendment 46 Iratxe García Pérez

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2a. Condemns in the strongest terms serious human rights violations perpetrated in armed conflict situations in recent and ongoing crises, and in particular summary executions, rape and other forms of sexual violence, acts of torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, especially regarding the situation of women and children, who are particularly vulnerable; calls on the EU to fight against impunity in all of these cases and to support action by domestic judiciaries and the ICC to bring the perpetrators to justice;

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Amendment 47 Terry Reintke, Ernest Urtasun

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new)

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2a. Emphasis that universal respect for and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights contributes to prenatal care and the ability to avoid high-risk births, reduce infant and child mortality; points out that family planning, maternal health and safe abortion services are important elements to save women's live;

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Amendment 48 Elissavet Vozemberg

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2a. Emphasises that gender-based violence, including harmful customary or traditional practices, is a violation of basic rights and especially of human dignity, the right to life and the right to the integrity of the person;

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Amendment 49 Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Mariya Gabriel, Constance Le Grip, Barbara Matera

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new)

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2a. Strongly condemns the continued use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war; stresses that more needs to be done to ensure respect of international law and access to psychological support for women and girls abused in conflicts; welcomes the fact that the Sakharov Prize 2014 was awarded to Dr Denis Mukwege for his commitment in the fight against sexual violence against women and calls on the EU, the Member States, international organisations, civil society to increase cooperation to raise awareness and combat impunity;

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Amendment 50 Mariya Gabriel

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new)

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2b. Stresses the importance of strengthening women’s role in promoting human rights and democratic reform, in supporting conflict prevention and in consolidating political participation and representation; notes, also, in this regard that the recommendations made in the reports of EU Election Observation Missions concerning women’s full and equal participation in the electoral process, should be taken into account and acted upon;

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Amendment 51 Iratxe García Pérez

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new)

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2b. Calls for an immediate end to all acts of violence, sexual assault and other forms of degrading treatment against women demonstrating for democracy and in defence of their rights, particularly in the ‘Arab Spring’ countries, and against women‘s rights activists, and calls for serious and impartial investigations into all such cases and full accountability for those responsible;

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Amendment 52 Elissavet Vozemberg

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2b. Points out that the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence is an important and binding international instrument and, therefore, that if more and more countries sign up to it this will contribute significantly to the development of an integrated policy for protecting and empowering victims and for promoting international cooperation in this field;

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Amendment 53 Mariya Gabriel

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new)

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2c. Stresses the need to tackle human trafficking, the majority of whose victims are women exploited for sexual purposes; stresses the need for enhanced cooperation with third countries on the exchange of good practices and the dismantling of international trafficking networks, which also make use of the internet to find new victims;

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Amendment 54 Iratxe García Pérez

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2c. Stresses the importance of conducting information and awareness campaigns in communities where female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual abuse of young girls, early and forced marriages, femicides and other gender-based human rights violations are practised, and of involving human rights defenders already fighting for an end to these practices in the preparation and implementation of these campaigns; encourages the EEAS and the Member States to continue to address the issue of FGM in their political and policy dialogue with partner countries where FGM is still practised;

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Amendment 55 Iratxe García Pérez

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new)

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2d. Stresses the importance of not undermining the ‘acquis’ of the Beijing Platform for Action regarding access to education and health as a basic human right, and the protection of sexual and reproductive rights; calls on the EU to continue to protect sexual and reproductive health and related rights, and highlights the need to place these policies at the core of development cooperation with third countries;

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Amendment 56 Terry Reintke

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3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to actively promote non- discrimination on grounds of sex, race and ethnic origin and on grounds of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation in its foreign policy including through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR).

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Amendment 57 Marc Tarabella

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

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3a. Calls on the Commission to pay particular attention, in developing its foreign policy in general and the future plan of action on gender equality and women’s empowerment in development 2015-2020 in particular, to the issue of health and sexual and reproductive rights, including by means of political dialogue and specific actions involving civil society in the countries concerned.

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Amendment 58 Eleonora Forenza, Malin Björk

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3a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to strongly promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons.

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Amendment 59 Ádám Kósa

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

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3a. Calls on the Member States for sexual violence to be regarded as a serious crime giving rise to mandatory prosecution, particularly in the case of women with disabilities, where the burden of proof is upon the accused; calls on the Member States, in connection with the application of Directive 2000/78/EC, for harassment at the workplace to be prevented by means of an effective protocol on harassment with a view to reducing the high incidence of sexual violence – particularly prevalent in large organisations – and sexual harassment and violence and compulsory sterilisation, with particular regard to further emphasising the seriousness of prosecution and stepping up the dissuasive effect of the relevant criminal offence.

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Amendment 60 Maria Arena

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3a. Calls on the Commission to make more widespread use of gender impact assessments when developing foreign policy, particularly as regards the conclusion of international agreements.

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Amendment 61 Jana Žitňanská

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

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3a. Stresses the importance of preventing violations of human rights, with particular emphasis on the situation of Roma women and children, who are often subject to multiple discrimination; stresses the importance of strengthening the position of Roma women and of putting in place an appropriate housing policy as a starting point to improving their situation;

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Amendment 62 Iratxe García Pérez

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

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3a. Welcomes and supports the Addis Ababa Declaration on Accelerating the Implementation of the Beijing Platform

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Amendment 63 Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

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3a. Considers women's underrepresentation in political decision- making is a question of fundamental rights and democracy, that underlines the capacity of governments to devote their full talent to democracy building and maintenance processes; welcomes the legislated parity systems and gender quotas and calls to foster legislative process needed as soon as possible.

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AM\1043482EN.doc 31/37 PE544.361v01-00 EN Amendment 64 Sophia in 't Veld, Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

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3a. Calls on the EU to actively continue defending a stand-alone goal for gender equality, girls' and women's empowerment and their human rights, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, in the upcoming post-2015 development agenda.

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Amendment 65 Ádám Kósa

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new)

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3b. Stresses the importance of fighting stereotypes by not only presenting positive images, but also by inspiring real examples of women with disabilities and showing how their compensating abilities allow them to enjoy a rewarding working and private life, as well as by avoiding the exacerbation of negative stereotypes in the language used, discourse entered into and policies pursued regarding women with disabilities; calls on the European Union together with Member States to implement positive action measures in order to include women with disabilities in the labour market;

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Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new)

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3b. Reiterates its long-standing opposition to the death penalty under all circumstances, and calls for an immediate moratorium on executions in those countries where the death penalty is still applied.

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Amendment 67 Jana Žitňanská

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new)

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3b. Urges the Member States, while respecting their own national education systems, to be consistent in implementing the principles of inclusive education in dealing with children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds and children with disabilities;

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Amendment 68 Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Angelika Mlinar, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

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3b. Calls for an ambitious long-term

AM\1043482EN.doc 33/37 PE544.361v01-00 EN political strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and access to medicines that inter alia explores new incentive schemes for research and development as outlined in the WHO Consultative Expert Working Group report on Research and Development: Financing and coordination (2012), to safeguard the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief or economic and social condition. Stresses that women and girls remain at the centre of the HIV pandemic and sustain caring for patients in their communities.

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Amendment 69 Sophia in 't Veld, Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

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3b. Regrets that women's and girls' bodies, specifically their sexual and reproductive health and rights, remain an ideological battleground to this day and calls on the EU and its Member States to recognize the inalienable rights of women and girls to bodily integrity and autonomous decision-making; among other, the right to access voluntary family planning, safe and legal abortion and to be free from violence, including FGM, child, early and forced marriage, and marital rape.

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PE544.361v01-00 34/37 AM\1043482EN.doc EN Amendment 70 Eleonora Forenza, Malin Björk

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3c. Calls on the EU to actively continue defending a stand-alone goal for women's and girls' rights and gender equality, while keeping the importance of access to comprehensive sexuality education and universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, in the upcoming post-2015 sustainable development agenda.

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Amendment 71 Sophia in 't Veld, Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

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3c. Urges the EU and its Member States to come up with an extensive review of the Beijing Platform for Action to mark its twenty years anniversary in 2015.

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Amendment 72 Eleonora Forenza, Malin Björk

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3d. Calls on the EU and the Member States to ensure a rights-based approach encompassing all human rights, and to include a strong focus on the empowerment and the promotion, respect and fulfilment of women's and girl's rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights and gender equality as preconditions to combat gendercide, as a key issue in the post-2015 development policy agenda.

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Amendment 73 Sophia in 't Veld, Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

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3d. Urges the European Commission to include SRHR, as basic human rights, in its next EU Health Strategy to ensure coherence between EU's internal and external policy.

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Amendment 74 Sophia in 't Veld, Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

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3e. Insists that gender balance needs to be

PE544.361v01-00 36/37 AM\1043482EN.doc EN rooted in the EEAS overseas missions and a dedicated girls' and women's rights and gender equality strategy for each mission; plus a specific gender equality chapter rooted in the next EEAS Human Rights Action Plan.

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Amendment 75 Sophia in 't Veld, Angelika Mlinar, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, António Marinho e Pinto

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3f. Urges that the provision of EU humanitarian aid and that of its Member States should not be subject to restrictions imposed by other partner donors regarding necessary medical treatment, including access to safe abortion for women and girls who are victims of rape in armed conflicts.

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