Opinion on Gender Equality in EU’s foreign and security policy
(2019/2167(INI))
Rapporteur: Hannah Neumann (Greens/EFA)
COMPROMISE AMENDMENTS
COMP 1: Gender equality and gender mainstreaming
Covers AMs 10 (Ceccardi), 11 (Villanueva Ruiz), 12 (Barley), 13 (Vautmans), 14 (Neumann),
16 (Zovko), 17 (Biedron)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Draft opinion
Amendment
1.
Calls on the EEAS, the
1.
Calls on the EEAS, the
Commission and the EU Member States to
Commission and the EU Member States to
systematically integrate gender
further support and systematically
mainstreaming into the EU’s foreign and
integrate
gender equality [16 Zovko] ,
security policy;
gender mainstreaming,
including gender
budgeting [17 Biedron], and an
intersectional perspective, including equal
and diverse representation, [13
Vautmans] into the EU’s foreign and
security policy
, calls on the EU to lead by
example and to make gender equality an
important goal of the EU external action
[12 Barley]; making it visible in all policy
areas, in particular [13 Vautmans] in
multilateral fora and in all political and
strategic dialogues, human rights
dialogues, policy formulation and
programming, country level human rights
strategies, public statements, global
human rights reporting as well as in the
monitoring, evaluation and reporting
processes [14 Neumann], decision-
making processes, negotiations and
leadership, [Villanueva Ruiz] calls for the
diverse experiences of women and girls
facing multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination and marginalization to be
put at the heart of policy-making [12
Barley];
COMP 2: Gender in foreign policy
Covers AMs 9 (Neumann) and 11 (Villanueva Ruiz)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
1a.
Stresses that Sweden, Denmark,
Switzerland and Norway have a strong
gender-equality focused foreign policy;
welcomes
that
France,
Spain,
Luxembourg,
Ireland,
Cyprus
and
Germany, among others, have announced
their intent to make gender equality a
priority of their foreign policy; further
welcomes that the new EU commission has
made gender equality one of their key
priorities across all policy areas [9
Neumann]; stresses that the following
principles should be at the core of a EU
gender-based
policy:
human
rights,
democracy
and
the
rule
of
law,
disarmament
and
non-proliferation,
international cooperation for development
and climate action; [11 Villanueva Ruiz]
COMP 3: Training
Covers AMs 23 (Zovko), 26 (Neumann), 28 (Biedron), 29 (Vautmans), 30 (Loiseau), 31
(Cseh), 32 (Ceccardi), 33 (Castaldo), 55 (Vautmans)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Draft opinion
Amendment
2.
Calls on the VP/HR to make
2.
Stresses that gender equality and
substantial and highly visible progress on
gender mainstreaming require not only
gender equality in terms of leadership and
high-level policy statements but also
management, staffing, training, financial
political commitment of the EU and
resources and organisational hierarchy;
Member States’ leadership, prioritisation
calls in this regard for mandatory training
of objectives and monitoring (23 Zovko);
on gender equality;
Calls on the VP/HR to make substantial
and highly visible progress on gender
equality in terms of leadership and
management, staffing
and recruitment [29
Vautmans],
organisational hierarchy [
30
Loiseau], training, financial resources
, pay
gap and work-life balance [30 Loiseau],
and to ensure political and operational
commitment to implement effective and
transformative gender mainstreaming [26
Neumann]; calls in this regard for
mandatory
and recurrent [29 Vautmans]
training on gender equality
and gender
mainstreaming [31 Cseh, 33 Castaldo] for
all middle and upper managers of the
EEAS, staff of EU diplomatic services and
Heads/Commanders of CSDP missions
and operations [26 Neumann, 28
Biedron];
stresses that advancing
women's rights and gender equality
should be horizontal priorities for all EU
Special representatives and be a
cornerstone of their mandate, in
particular for the EU special
representative on human rights; [AM 55
Vautmans]
COMP 4: Presence of women in EU institutions
Covers AMs 7 (Guteland), 13 (Vautmans), 22 (Biedron), 25 (Barley), 27 (Zovko), 35
(Neumann), 37 (Neumann), 48 (Biedron), 52 (Biedron), 55 (Vautmans), 63 (Villanueva), 100
(Zovko)
Draft opinion
Paragraphs 2 a, 2 b (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
2a.
Calls for better gender balancing
when it comes to the EU external
representation; regrets the considerable
gender gap in the EEAS, where women
account for only two out of eight EU
Special Representatives [55 Vautmans],
31.3% of middle-management positions
and 26% at the level of senior
management; welcomes the VP/HR
commitment to reach 40% of women in
management positions by the end of his
mandate; [35 Neumann]; recalls however
that the European Commission
announced in its Gender Equality
Strategy 2020-2025 its objective to reach
gender balance of 50% at all levels of its
management by the end of 2024 [52
Biedron]; stresses that this objective
should also apply to future nomination of
EU Special Representatives [25 Barley, 7
Guteland, 55 Vautmans]; deplores the
fact that there are no women among the
new Deputy Secretaries-General
appointed by VP/HR; [48 Biedron]
2b.
Welcomes the EEAS Gender and
Equal Opportunities Strategy 2018-2023
but regrets the lack of specific and
measurable objectives; calls for its update
in order to include concrete and binding
objectives, including [100 Zovko]
regarding the presence of women in
management positions, and for its
subsequent implementation [22 Biedron];
regrets likewise the absence of diversity
targets and of overall diversity in the EU
institutions, especially regarding race,
ability and ethnic backgrounds [63
Villanueva]; calls on the VP/HR to
increase the percentage of women in EU’s
internal decision-making mechanisms
[27 Zovko]; stresses the need for gender-
responsive recruitment procedures,
including by the European Personnel
Selection Office, which do not further
accentuate gender inequalities in the
institutions; [37 Neumann] calls for
gender-responsive leadership to be part of
middle and senior management job
descriptions [13 Vautmans];
COMP 5: EUDELs
Covers AMs 27 (Zovko), 46 (Ceccardi), 47 (Zovko), 49 (Barley)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Draft opinion
Amendment
3.
Calls on the VP/HR to ensure that
3.
Calls on the VP/HR to ensure that
the Heads of EU Delegations abroad have a
the Heads of EU Delegations abroad have a
formal responsibility to ensure that gender
formal responsibility to ensure that gender
equality is mainstreamed throughout all
equality is mainstreamed throughout all
aspects of the Delegation
’s work and are
aspects of the Delegations
’ work and
that
required to report on it; further calls on the
gender equality issues are regularly raised
VP/HR to ensure that there is one
full-time
in political dialogues with government
gender
focal point in the EU Delegations;
counterparts, and [27 Zovko, 49 Barley]
are required to report on it; further calls on
the VP/HR to ensure that there is one
gender focal point in the EU Delegations;
notes that in particular the use of gender
analysis in the formulation of EU
external action is increasing and almost
all EU Delegations have carried out a
detailed gender analysis; [47 Zovko]
COMP 6: CSOs
Covers AMs 50 (Cseh), 90 (Neumann), 91 (Neumann), 106 (Barley), 116 (Barley), 119
(Neumann), 144 (Cseh),
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
3a.
Calls on the EU delegations to
monitor the backlash against gender
equality and women’s rights [106 Barley]
as well as the tendencies of shrinking space
for civil society and to take specific steps to
protect them [119 Neumann]; urges the
Commission, EEAS, Member States and
Heads of EU Delegations to ensure
increased [144 Cseh] political and
financial support to independent local civil
society, including women’s organisations,
especially for capacity-building actions
[106 Barley], women [106 Barley] human
rights defenders, journalists, academics
and artists [144 Cseh] and to make
cooperation and consultation with them a
standard element of their work [119
Neumann, 50 Cseh];
3b.
Welcomes
the fact that the
proposed IPA III regulation and NDICI
include gender equality as a specific
objective; calls for specific funding on
gender equality and for [116 Barley]
integrating
a
gender-responsive
perspective [34 Barley], gender-responsive
budgeting and obligatory requirements for
ex-ante and ex-post [36 Guteland] gender
impact assessments in these regulations
[34 Barley ] and to be reported back to the
European Parliament [36 Guteland]; calls
for reduced administrative constraints to
allow access to funding for local and small
civil society organisations and especially
women’s organisations; [106, 116 Barley]
3c.
Calls on the VP/HR, the EEAS and
the Member States to ensure full
implementation of the EU Guidelines on
Human Rights Defenders and to adopt an
annex aiming to recognise and develop
additional strategies and tools to better and
more effectively respond and prevent the
specific situation, threats and risk factors
faced by women’s human rights defenders;
calls for the immediate introduction of a
gender perspective and specific measures
to support WHRD in all programmes and
instruments aiming to protect Human
Right Defenders; [91 Neumann]
3d.
Welcomes the EU decision to renew
the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and
Democracy
and
calls
for
gender
mainstreaming and targeted actions for
gender equality and women’s rights to be
included in the implementation phase of
the Action Plan [90 Neumann];
COMP 7: Women in CSDP
Covers AMs 51 (Biedron), 53 (Zovko), 54 (Neumann), 56 (Loiseau), 57 (Stefanuta), 58
(Castaldo), 59 (Barley), 60 (Biedron), 61 (Ceccardi), 67 (Zovko), 108 (Zovko)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Draft opinion
Amendment
4.
Regrets that not a single one of the
4.
Welcomes that the number of
12 civilian CSDP missions is headed by a
women deployed to CSDP missions and
woman; calls on the VP/HR to draw up a
operations has increased; [Zovko 53]
gender strategy for CSDP missions with
regrets that not a single one of the 12
specific targets;
civilian CSDP missions is headed by a
woman
and that out of 70 Heads of
Mission so far only six have been women
[54 Neumann]; reiterates that only 22 out
of 176 employees in the European Union
Military Staff (EUMS) are female, of
which 12 serve as secretaries or assistants;
[51 Biedron]; calls on the VP/HR to draw
up a gender
equality [57 Stefanuta, 59
Barley, 60 Biedron] strategy for CSDP
missions with specific targets
for both
leadership and personnel [59 Barley, 58
Castaldo];
recalls that a concerted effort by
the EU leadership and member states is
needed as they provide the greater part of
CSDP civilian personnel deployed [53
Zovko]; calls on EU Member States to
fulfil their Commitment 16 of the Civilian
CSDP compact by actively promoting the
presence of women at all levels and based
on increased national contributions;
regrets that since the establishment of the
compact, the number of female personnel
has decreased [54 Neumann]; invites the
Member
States
to
pursue
active
recruitment strategies and to identify and
address
specific
obstacles
limiting
women’s participation, through mission
reports that include relevant statistics [56
Loiseau]; calls on the EU institutions to
encourage the presence of women
participating
in
UN
peacekeeping
operations at all levels, including military
and police staff [67 Zovko];
recalls that the
EU made a commitment to increase the
number of women in institutions dealing
with
conflict
prevention,
crisis
management and peace negotiations by
signing the UNSCR 1325 (2000) on
‘Women, Peace and Security” which
clearly identifies women as important
actors in peacebuilding and conflict
mediation; [108 Zovko];
COMP 8: Gender analysis and conflict prevention
Covers AMs 15 (Cseh), 39 (Guteland), 65 (Vautmans), 72 (Neumann), 73 (Guteland), 74
(Vautmans), 76 (Barley), 77 (Cseh), 78 (Loiseau), 79 (Zovko), 80 (Stefanuta), 81 (Rangel),
82 (Paet), 83 (Ceccardi), 149 (Villanueva)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Draft opinion
Amendment
5.
Stresses that developing and using
5.
Stresses that developing and using
gender analysis and the systematic
gender
analysis
and
the
systematic
integration of a gender perspective
integration of a gender perspective
and
constitutes one of the foundations of
including it in decision making [82 Paet]
effective and lasting conflict prevention
constitutes one of the foundations of
and resolution;
effective and lasting conflict prevention
,
management
[74
Vautmans]
and
resolution
,
stabilisation, peacebuilding,
post-conflict reconstruction, governance
and institution building;
regrets that the
dominant narrative around women is one
of victimization that deprives women of
their agency [72 Neumann] and stresses
the need for the recognition of the
significant role women and girls play at the
local, national and international level [79
Zovko] in achieving sustainable peace,
particularly through the facilitation of
dialogue,
mediation
and
peace
negotiations [81 Rangel]; calls for the safe,
meaningful and inclusive participation of
women and girls from the grassroots level
in peace in security matters, including
peacebuilding,
post-conflict
reconstruction, governance and institution
building actions [76 Barley, 65 Vautmans],
and across the various stages of the
conflict cycle [149 Villanueva], in line with
sustainable
development
goals
[78
Loiseau, 80 Stefanuta]; notes that the
promotion of women’s rights in crisis or
conflict-ridden countries fosters stronger,
healthier [15 Cseh], more secure and
resilient communities that are less likely to
resort to violent means to settle disputes
and conflict [77 Cseh]; highlights the
importance of inclusion of young women
and girls in peace building and in this
regard notes the contribution of the Youth,
Peace and Security Agenda [73 Guteland];
COMP 9: Gender mainstreaming in CSDP
Covers AMs 64 (Zovko), 115 (Neumann)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5a (new)
5a. Welcomes the guidelines on gender
mainstreaming for the EU civilian
missions, stresses that these guidelines
represent
a
concrete
tool
for
implementation, directed towards all
mission staff, including management,
and
will
help
to
systematically
mainstream a gender perspective and
adopt gender equality policies in the
activities and phases of all civilian CSDP
missions and is convinced that for the
CSDP mission planning should take into
account the recommendations of local
women’s organisations [64 Zovko];
welcomes that all civilian CSDP
missions count now with a gender
adviser; regrets however that this is not
the case with military CSDP missions;
encourages EU Member States to put
forward candidates for the existent
vacancies; calls to ensure that all EU-
deployed military and civilian personnel
are sufficiently trained on gender
equality and WPS, specifically on how to
integrate a gender perspective into their
tasks [115 Neumann];
COMP 10: VAW in CSDP and peacekeeping operations
Covers AMs 62 (Guteland), 118 (Neumann)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5b (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
5b.
Calls for an update of the Upgraded
Generic Standards of Behaviour for CSDP
Missions and Operations to include the
principle of zero-tolerance to non-action
for EU leadership and management
regarding
sexual
and
gender-based
violence; [118 Neumann, 62 Guteland]
regrets that only a few EU CSDP missions
provide training on sexual or gender-based
harassment and calls on the EEAS and the
Member States to support all efforts to
combat sexual or gender-based violence in
international peacekeeping operations and
to ensure that whistle-blowers and victims
are effectively protected; [62 Guteland];
COMP 11: WPS
Covers AMs 93 (Neumann), 97 (Zovko), 96 (Vautmans), 104 (Neumann)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Draft opinion
Amendment
6.
Welcomes the EU Strategic
6.
Welcomes the EU Strategic
Approach to Women, Peace and Security
Approach to Women, Peace and Security
(WPS) and the EU Action Plan on WPS
(WPS) and the EU Action Plan on WPS
adopted in 2019; regrets, however, that
adopted in 2019
and calls for its robust
translating this policy commitment into
implementation [96 Vautmans]; regrets,
action remains a challenge;
however, that
despite clear objectives and
indicators translating this policy
commitment into action remains a
challenge
and requires continued efforts
(97 Zovko); stresses the importance of
National Action Plans for the
implementation of the WPS agenda;
welcomes that almost all EU Member
States will have their National Action
Plans on the UNSC Resolution 1325 by
the end of the year; regrets however that
only one of them includes an allocated
budget for implementation; calls on EU
Member States to include in this context
allocated budget for their implementation
and to develop national parliamentary
supervising mechanisms as well as to
introduce quotas for the participation of
women in control, evaluation, and
supervising mechanisms [104 Neumann];
regrets that many EU staff members have
not integrated WPS as part of their work
and that this agenda is seen as one that
can be applied at their discretion and with
the objective of improving the
effectiveness of missions, but not as way
to ensure women’s rights and gender
equality on its own [93 Neumann];
COMP 12: EEAS Principal Advisor
Covers AMs 101 (Ceccardi), 102 (Neumann), 103 (Cseh), 104 (Neumann), 105 (Zovko)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Draft opinion
Amendment
7.
Welcomes the work done by the
7.
Welcomes the work that the EU
EEAS Principal Advisor on Gender;
Task Force on Women, Peace and
regrets, however, the limited capacity of
Security has carried out until now,
this role and calls for the advisor to report
including by ensuring the participation of
directly to the VP/HR;
relevant civil society organisations in its
discussions [102 Neumann]; welcomes
the work done by the EEAS Principal
Advisor on Gender; regrets, however, the
limited capacity of this role and calls for
the advisor
’s role to be significantly
strengthened and for her/him [103 Cseh]
to report directly to the VP/HR;
calls on
the VP/HR to have a full-time gender
advisor working on gender equality and
the WPS agenda in each EEAS
Directorate, reporting directly to the
Principal Advisor [102 Neumann], and to
encourage its staff to work closely with
the European Institute for Gender
Equality; stresses that knowledge sharing
between the EU institutions and agencies
is a substantial and highly efficient tool to
avoid high administrative costs and
unnecessary increase in bureaucracy [105
Zovko];
COMP 13: WPS in CSDP documents
Covers AMs 109 (Ceccardi), 110 (Zovko), 111 (Barley)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Draft opinion
Amendment
8.
Urges the VP/HR and the EU
8.
Urges the VP/HR and the EU
Member States to include references to
Member States to include references to
UNSC resolution 1325 and follow-up
UNSC resolution 1325 and follow-up
resolutions in CSDP-related Council
resolutions in CSDP-related Council
decisions and mission mandates,
and to
decisions and mission mandates,
making
make sure that
all CSDP missions and
sure that CSDP missions and operations
operations have an annual action plan on
have an annual action plan on how to
how to implement the objectives of GAP
implement the objectives of
the future
III and the EU Action Plan on WPS;
[110 Zovko] GAP III and the EU Action
Plan on WPS;
calls for gender analysis to
be put in place for new CSDP
instruments, including the European
Defence Fund and the proposed
European Peace Facility [111 Barley];
COMP 14: GAP
Covers AMs 20 (Neumann), 44 (Guteland), 45 (Guteland), 107 (Barley), 110 (Zovko), 112
(Arena), 114 (Villanueva Ruiz) 140 (Barley), 151 (Villanueva Ruiz)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a, 8 b, 8 c, 8 d (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
8a.
Welcomes the results obtained
under the second gender action plan (GAP
II) with regard to gender equality [112
Arena],
and welcomes therefore the
Commission’s proposal to carry out a
review and present a new EU Gender
Action Plan III (GAP III) in 2020 [110
Zovko]; calls on the Commission to
address its shortcomings such as the weak
legal basis, the absence of gender-
responsive budgeting, the difficulties to
accurate reporting, the absence of
timeframe alignment and budget cycles
and the lack of adequate training to staff
[151 Villanueva Ruiz]; recommends for
the GAP III to be accompanied by clear,
measurable, time-bound indicators of
success, including an allocation of
responsibility for different actors and with
clear objectives in each partner country
[20 Neumann]; urges the Commission,
given the impact of COVID-19 on women’s
and girls’ lives, to keep the renewal of GAP
III in its work plan for 2020 and not push
it back to next year [112 Arena];
8b.
Acknowledges the key role of civil
society organisations and in particular
women’s rights organisations and women
human rights defenders in supporting the
implementation of the EU Gender Action
Plan and the EU Strategic Approach to
Women Peace and Security and its Action
Plan; calls on the Commission to
strengthen the involvement of civil society
organisations in the formulation of GAP
III and in its implementation in partner
countries; [107 Barley, 20 Neumann]
8c.
Stresses that GAP III should
explicitly cover women’s rights in all
contexts, regardless of GDP and including
fragile states and conflict context [44
Guteland], as well as most vulnerable
groups such as refugee and migrant girls;
[45 Guteland]
8d.
Asks that the GAP III specifies that
85% of official development assistance
should go to programmes having gender
equality as a significant or as a principal
objective,
and
within
this
broader
commitment, calls for the allocation of a
sufficient amount of European Union
official development assistance to specific
interventions for the promotion of equality,
the empowerment of women and the
promotion of their rights [114 Villanueva
Ruiz]; calls for the improvement of the
reporting of EU funding for gender
equality allocated and disbursed in partner
countries through the EU GAP III [140
Barley]; calls on the EEAS and the
Commission to establish gender-specific
indicators to be applied in the project
selection, monitoring and evaluation [150
Villanueva Ruiz];
COMP 15: Climate
Covers 120 (Ceccardi), 121 (Lega), 122 (Gal), 123 (Neumann), 124 (Zovko), 125 (Cseh), 126
(Villanueva Ruiz), 127 (Paet), 129 (Vautmans), 133 (Guteland)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Draft opinion
Amendment
9.
Recognises that gender equality is
a
9.
Stresses [127 Paet] that gender
prerequisite for efficient management
of
equality is
an integral part of an efficient
climate challenges.
management in the external action and
thematic areas, including
[124 Zovko]
climate challenges
and the sustainable
development
of
our
societies
[129
Vautmans]; highlights the vulnerability of
women and girls living in poverty to
climate change [125 Cseh] and stresses
that in order to achieve a fair and just
transition, which leaves no one behind, all
climate action must include a gender and
an intersectional perspective; regrets that
only 30% of climate negotiators are women
and reminds that meaningful and equal
participation of women in decision making
bodies at international [124 Zovko], EU,
national and local level climate policy and
action is vital for achieving long-term
climate
goals
[123
Neumann,
126
Villanueva Ruiz]; urges that GAP III make
clear links to the Paris Agreement [133
Guteland] and asks the EU and its Member
States to ensure access of women’s
organisations to international climate
funds [123 Neumann].
COMP 16: Trade
Covers AMs 41 (Guteland), 137 (Villanueva Ruiz), 146 (Barley),
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
9 a.
Calls on the Commission and the
Council to promote and support the
inclusion of a specific gender chapter in
EU trade and Investment agreements;
calls as well for provisions to be included
in these trade agreements ensuring that
their institutional structures guarantee
periodical compliance reviews, substantial
discussions
and
the
exchange
of
information and best practices on gender
equality and trade, through, among others,
the inclusion of women and experts on
gender equality at all levels of the
administrations concerned; calls on the
EU and its Member States to include in ex-
ante and ex-post impact assessments the
country-specific and sector-specific gender
impact of EU trade policy and agreements;
stresses that the results of the gender-
focused analysis should be taken into
account
in
trade
negotiations
–
considering both positive and negative
impact throughout the whole process, from
the negotiation stage to implementation –
and should be accompanied by measures to
prevent or compensate possible negative
effects;
COMP 17: Violence Against Women
Covers AMs 75 (Arena), 85 (Paet), 86 (Neumann), 87 (Barley), 89 (Barley), 92 (Barley), 138
(Vautmans), 141 (Cseh)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
9 b.
Calls for the prevention and
eradication of all forms of sexual and
gender-based
violence
and
serious
violations of human rights of women and
girls, such as child, early and forced
marriages
[138 Vautmans] and the
eradication of female genital mutilation
[141 Cseh]; calls for it to continue to be a
political priority for the EU in its external
action and to be systematically addressed
in political dialogues with third countries;
[87 Barley]; calls on the Commission and
the EEAS to focus, in particular, on
preventing gender-based violence during
conflicts and on support for and access to
essential services including sexual and
reproductive health servicesfor survivors
of gender-based violence; [75 Arena]
stresses that in conflict situations women
and girls are exposed to heightened risks of
violations of their human rights [85 Paet];
is deeply disturbed at the fact that sexual
violence has increasingly become part of
the broader strategy of conflict and a tactic
of war [86 Neumann]; urges the EU to
exercise all possible leverage for the
perpetrators of mass rapes in warfare to be
reported,
identified,
prosecuted
and
punished in accordance with international
criminal law [87 Barley]; calls for the
revision and update of the EU Guidelines
on violence against women and girls and
for combatting all forms of discrimination
against them; [89 Barley];
COMP 18: SRHR
Covers AMs 42 (Guteland), 88 (Neumann), 139 (Arena), 142 (Villanueva Ruiz),145 (Barley),
147 (Villanueva Ruiz)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
9 c.
Calls
to
guarantee
universal
respect for and access to sexual and
reproductive health and rights as agreed in
the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population
and Development, the Beijing Platform for
Action and the outcome documents of the
review conferences thereof, and to develop
appropriate tools to measure progress
towards this goal; calls to ensure that the
EU has a unified position and takes strong
action to univocally denounce the
backlash against sexual and reproductive
health and rights, gender equality,
LGBTIQ+
rights
and
measures
undermining women’s rights; calls on the
Commission and the EEAS to reaffirm the
EU’s commitment to sexual and
reproductive health and rights, including
access to prenatal care and maternal
health services, through the new gender
action plan (GAP III) and through the
neighbourhood,
development
and
international
cooperation
instrument
(NDICI); calls on the Commission and the
EEAS to provide political and financial
support to civil society organisations
fighting for the sexual and reproductive
health and rights of all people, including
the most vulnerable or at risk, particularly
women and girls on the move, on
migration routes or in camps;
COMP 19: Education and inclusion
Covers AMs 38 (Guteland), 40 (Guteland), 135 (Cseh), 138 (Vautmans), 140 (Barley), 143
(Arena)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
9 d.
Regrets that women and girls
around the world are still subjected to
systematic discrimination; notes that
women’s poverty is largely due to a lack
of access to economic resources; [135
Cseh]; believes that education is key to
realising gender equality and
empowerment of women and girls;
therefore calls on the EU to increase its
commitment to promoting gender equality
and combating gender stereotypes in and
through education systems in its
upcoming Gender Action Plan III; [138
Vautmans]; calls on the Commission, the
Council and the EEAS that its
development cooperation policy and
humanitarian aid action supports
women's economic empowerment,
including visibility for women’s
entrepreneurship [135 Cseh] in partner
countries [140 Barley]; recalls that
greater inclusion of women in the labour
market, better support for female
entrepreneurship, safeguarding equal
opportunities and equal pay for men and
women and promoting work-life balance
are key factors for achieving long-term
sustainable and inclusive economic
growth, combating inequalities, and
encouraging women’s financial
independence [40 Guteland];
COMP 20: Political dialogues
Covers AMs 24 (Rangel), 69 (Zovko), 71 (Zovko), 132 (Arena), 136 (Barley)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 e (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
9 e.
Recalls the need to tackle gender
equality matters in political dialogues with
partner countries; [132 Arena]; stresses
the importance of
promoting gender
equality within the scope of the EU’s
neighbourhood and enlargement policy,
particularly in the context of accession
talks; [24 Rangel] and calls on the
Commission and the EEAS to use the
accession negotiations as a leverage to
foster gender equality in the candidate
countries; [136 Barley]; welcomes the
different mechanisms to monitor progress
towards gender equality, such as the one
recently created by the UfM [69 Zovko]
and the project ‘EIGE’s cooperation with
the EU candidate and potential candidate
countries 2017-2019, improved monitoring
of gender equality progress’; calls on the
EIGE to continue monitoring progress on
gender equality in third countries; [Zovko
71] ;
COMP 21: COVID
Covers AMs 130 (Neumann) and AM 134 (Vautmans)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 f (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
9 f.
Notes that the UN has warned that
the COVID-19 pandemic is exposing and
exacerbating all kinds of inequalities,
including
gender
inequality
[134
Vautmans];
is deeply concerned by the
unequal partition of both domestic and
public care work, with women making up
around 70% of the global health
workforce, the worrisome spike in gender-
based violence, partially due to extended
periods of confinement, and a constrained
access to reproductive and maternal health
[130 Neumann]; therefore calls on the EU
to target specific actions to address the
socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in
women and girls [134 Vautmans];
stresses
that adequate funding must be made
urgently available to ensure that women’s
organisations, human rights’ defenders
and
peacebuilders
have
full
and
unhindered access to quality technology in
order
to
enable
their
meaningful
participation in decision-making processes
during the COVID19 crisis; emphasises
the need for the VP/HR and the
Commission to acknowledge the necessity
of human security, encompassing all
aspects of the EU Strategic Approach to
WPS; stresses the need to ensure that the
implementation of the EU's Global
Response to COVID-19 is not gender blind
and calls for it to address the specific needs
of women and other marginalized groups
appropriately as well as to ensure their
involvement in the whole programming
cycle [130 Neumann].
COMP 22: Gender analysis and conflict prevention (recital)
Covers AMs 1 (Stefanuta) and AM 72 (Neumann)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
Aa.
whereas inclusive peace processes
are more sustainable and offer more
opportunities to find solutions and win
better support and women’s involvement in
peace processes and peace building must
increase [1 Stefanuta]; whereas between
1988 and 2018 women constituted 13% of
negotiators, 3% of mediators and only 4%
of signatories in major peace processes [72
Neumann];
