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Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
4.2.2026 A10-0010/10
Amendment 10
Laurence Trochu, Aurelijus Veryga, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Guillaume Peltier, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Emmanouil Fragkos
on behalf of the ECR Group
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
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| – having regard to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences of 14 July 2025 entitled ‘The different manifestations of violence against women and girls in the context of surrogacy’; |
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4.2.2026 A10-0010/11
Amendment 11
Laurence Trochu, Aurelijus Veryga, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Guillaume Peltier, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Emmanouil Fragkos
on behalf of the ECR Group
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
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| B. whereas gender equality, democracy, fundamental rights and the rule of law are indivisibly linked; whereas a growing backlash against women’s rights and gender equality is driven by the rise of anti-gender and anti-democratic movements; whereas recent cuts in US development aid disproportionately impact women and girls worldwide, increasing vulnerabilities and harming communities; whereas the UN General Assembly has warned of active resistance to gender equality and a transnational backlash against women’s rights; whereas there is an urgent need to reaffirm substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls5 ; | B. whereas gender equality, democracy, fundamental rights and the rule of law are indivisibly linked; whereas a growing backlash against women’s rights and gender equality is driven by the rise in physical and sexual violence; |
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| 5 https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g24/073/47/pdf/g2407347.pdf. |
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4.2.2026 A10-0010/12
Amendment 12
Laurence Trochu, Nicolas Bay, Marion Maréchal, Guillaume Peltier
on behalf of the ECR Group
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
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| Ca. whereas only biological women can get pregnant; |
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4.2.2026 A10-0010/13
Amendment 13
Laurence Trochu, Aurelijus Veryga, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Guillaume Peltier, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Emmanouil Fragkos
on behalf of the ECR Group
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
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| Da. whereas there is a narrative within institutions that disparages motherhood, considering it to be an obstacle to women’s careers and a burden on their personal lives; whereas this discourse contributes both to the decline in the European birth rate and to the denigration of women; |
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4.2.2026 A10-0010/14
Amendment 14
Laurence Trochu, Aurelijus Veryga, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Guillaume Peltier, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Emmanouil Fragkos
on behalf of the ECR Group
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
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| G. whereas women remain seriously under-represented worldwide at the highest levels of the judiciary and prosecutorial authorities, particularly in leadership positions such as presidents of courts, chief justices and heads of prosecution offices; whereas achieving balanced gender representation in these decision-making bodies must be a priority; whereas a gender-sensitive approach must be continued, even when the presence of women has been ensured; whereas integrating a gender perspective into judicial decision-making is essential to securing equal access to justice for women and girls, and requires assessing facts and applying the law without gender bias and harmful stereotypes, both in the decision itself and in the process by which it is made; whereas in 2024 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) issued General recommendation No 40 on the equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems, stating parity as 50:50 representation between women and men in all their diversity, in terms of both equal access and equal power within such systems; | G. whereas affirmative action policies are an obstacle to equal treatment and meritocracy, and undermine the dignity and individual talents of people; |
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4.2.2026 A10-0010/15
Amendment 15
Laurence Trochu, Aurelijus Veryga, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Guillaume Peltier, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Emmanouil Fragkos
on behalf of the ECR Group
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
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| N. whereas rape remains a widespread human rights violation and is often used as a weapon of war to terrorise civilian populations and destroy communities; whereas urgent action is needed to end impunity, in this regard, and secure justice for victims of rape; | N. whereas rape remains a widespread human rights violation and is often used as a weapon of war to terrorise civilian populations and destroy communities; whereas there is a worrying increase in cases of rape of elderly women in certain EU countries1a; whereas this phenomenon is under-documented, particularly with regard to the profiles of perpetrators, and insufficiently addressed by public policies on prevention, victim protection and prosecution of perpetrators; whereas urgent action is needed to end impunity, in this regard, and secure justice for victims of rape; |
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| 1a French Senate, ‘Transparency on sexual violence against our elders’, 5 June 2025, https://www.senat.fr/questions/base/2025/qSEQ250504904.html. |
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4.2.2026 A10-0010/16
Amendment 16
Laurence Trochu, Aurelijus Veryga, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Guillaume Peltier, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Emmanouil Fragkos
on behalf of the ECR Group
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
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| (da) condemn the practice of surrogacy, which involves the reproductive exploitation and use of women’s bodies for financial or other gain, particularly in the case of vulnerable women in developing countries; |
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4.2.2026 A10-0010/17
Amendment 17
Laurence Trochu, Aurelijus Veryga, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Guillaume Peltier, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Emmanouil Fragkos
on behalf of the ECR Group
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
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| (fa) emphasise the importance of supporting public policies that promote and support motherhood; |
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4.2.2026 A10-0010/18
Amendment 18
Laurence Trochu, Aurelijus Veryga, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Guillaume Peltier, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Emmanouil Fragkos
on behalf of the ECR Group
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Report A10-0010/2026
Lina Gálvez
Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(2025/2240(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
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| (ka) encourage all measures aimed at protecting women’s health and safety, including judicial measures, allocating resources to border security and protection, and providing specific health resources; |
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