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Draft report (2024/2125(INI)) 2025-04-30

Gender Equality Strategy 2025

Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

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Amendment 385

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

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Amendment 386

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access for everyone in the EU and outside, to sexual and reproductive healthcare services and rights, including maternal healthcare, information about family planning and access to fertility treatments, safe and affordable modern contraception methods of one's choice and the right to safe and legal abortion care services, as well as access to free menstrual hygiene products, endometriosis treatment and cancer prevention initiatives with the aim of combating period poverty, eliminating HPV-related cancers and promoting equal health rights, for women and girls in all their diversity and particularly for those affected by intersecting forms of discrimination;

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Amendment 387

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services and rights, including maternal healthcare, information about family planning, safe and affordable modern contraception methods of one’s choice ,and the right to safe and the right to safe and legal abortion, care services as well as access to free menstrual hygiene, endometriosis treatment products and cancer prevention initiatives, with the aim of combating period poverty, eliminating HPV- related cancers and promoting equal health rights, for women and girls in all their diversity and particularly for those affected by intersecting forms of discrimination;

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Amendment 388

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services and rights, including the right to safe and legal abortion (medical and surgical), and full range of moders family planning methods for women and girls in all their diversity; urges the Commission to set up financial mechanism to support Member States willing to perform safe sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including safe and legal abortion, for those in the EU who still lack access to such services;

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Amendment 389

Ewa Kopacz, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity; calls furthermore on the Commission to ensure age-appropriate sex education and support for teenage girls who are pregnant or young mothers so that they can continue their education;

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Amendment 390

Mathilde Androuët, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Member States, in cooperation with the Commission, to ensure full and equal access for women and girls to sexual, gynaecological and reproductive healthcare services, including maternity wards and facilities to support mothers, taking account of matrescence and the risks of post-partum depression, which are all too often unrecognised;

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Amendment 391

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to all sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, comprehensive family planning services, gender-affirming care and fertility care for women and girls in all their diversity, and non-binary people;

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Amendment 392

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity; as an integral part of their human rights, without which the rule of law cannot be upheld;

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Amendment 393

Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, by fully respecting the Member States' responsibilities, for women and girls in diverse situations and conditions;

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Amendment 394

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Giusi Princi, Eleonora Meleti, Maria Walsh, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, with due regard to the Member States competency in this area, for women and girls in all their diversity;

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Amendment 395

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services for women and girls;

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Amendment 396

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to respect that, in accordance with Article 168 TFEU, the substance of rights related to sexual and reproductive healthcare services falls within the exclusive competence of the Member States;

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Amendment 397

Irmhild Boßdorf

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls in all their diversity;

8. Calls on the Commission to ensure full and equal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the right to safe and legal abortion, for women and girls;

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Amendment 398

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 – point 1 (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(1) Calls on the Commission to monitor, and create mechanisms to penalise, any key players who spread false information on reproductive health;

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Amendment 399

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to fully adopt the Guttmacher-Lancet definition of SRHR and guarantee universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including modern contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal and newborn care, menstrual health, fertility services, and gender-affirming care. Member States must ensure these services are accessible, affordable, and non-discriminatory, particularly for adolescents, LGBTQI+ persons, people with disabilities, racialised women and underserved or marginalised communities;

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Amendment 400

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Highlights the EU citizen's broad support for enabling everyone in the EU to have access to safe abortion care, no matter who they are or where they come from, as it is among others reflected by the succesful European citizen's initiative (ECI) "My voice, my choice" calling on the EU to pass legislation that would create a financial mechanism helping Member States that voluntarily join this policy to provide safe abortion care for all those who don't have access to it; urges the Commission to take swift action and follow this ECI demand;

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Amendment 401

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Stresses the need to address territorial disparities in access to healthcare by ensuring the availability of gender-responsive health services, including gynaecological, obstetric and mental health care, in rural, remote and depopulated areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest in mobile health units, telemedicine and the training and deployment of healthcare professionals in underserved regions, with a particular focus on the needs of women and girls;

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Amendment 402

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Urges the Commission to prioritise women’s health by increasing funding for gender-specific health research, ensuring equal representation of women in medical trials, improving access to early diagnosis and treatment for diseases that disproportionately affect women, and supporting the training of healthcare professionals to recognise symptoms in women that may differ from those typically observed in men; asks the Commission to develop a specific women’s health strategy;

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Amendment 403

Giusi Princi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that women with disabilities, including those with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, are not subjected to harmful, invasive and irreversible involuntary treatments — such as forced sterilisation, abortion and contraception — and to establish that all medical interventions concerning persons with disabilities are based on their personal, free and fully informed consent;

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Amendment 404

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to enshrine the right to legal and safe abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, according to the already adopted European Parliament resolution; also to prioritize access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in external policies in order to advance human rights globally;

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Amendment 405

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8a. Points out to the Member States that loneliness among elderly women, especially very old women, is higher than the average for the population in the Member States of the European Union, and that psychosocial risk prevention needs to be adapted accordingly;

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Amendment 406

Galato Alexandraki

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8a. Underlines that EU healthcare policy must fully respect the sovereignty and ethical choices of the Member States, in particular on sensitive issues such as abortion, and opposes any attempt to impose a uniform approach or ideological manipulation;

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Amendment 407

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Calls on the Commission to support medical and pharmaceutical research that incorporates gender as a key factor of analysis, acknowledging that the same disease can affect women and men differently, and that treatments may yield varying outcomes depending on gender;

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Amendment 408

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Recalls how cancer affects both women and men, yet the gender specific types of cancer as well as approaches to diagnostics and prevention can differ, as a result, targeted and differing policy responses are required;

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Amendment 409

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Calls on the European Commission to issue a Recommendation to Member States on SRHR, in line with international public health and human rights standards, including the WHO Guideline on Abortion Care;

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Amendment 410

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Calls on the Commission to initiate steps for the inclusion of SRHR in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, in line with the European Parliament´s resolution of 11 April 2024;

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Amendment 411

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure access to breast and cervical cancer screening, conducted according to EU guidelines, to be recognised as an undisputed women’s right;

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Amendment 412

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Valérie Devaux, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Urges the Commission to continue the fight against menstrual poverty by ensuring access to affordable and acceptable menstrual products;

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Amendment 413

Maria Noichl

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Highlights the citizen’s support for this issue and points to the successful European citizen’s initiative “My Voice, My Choice";

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Amendment 414

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Urges the European Commission to address health inequalities and ensure equitable access to healthcare for all women across the EU -regardless of income, geography, background or status - with a comprehensive, multi-pronged and overarching approach; calls on EU member states to maintain a base of universal healthcare coverage that guarantees access to essential services, including maternal and reproductive health care, cancer screenings, mental health support, and access to essential medications; calls on the EU to play a critical role in encouraging and supporting member states to implement or expand national health insurance systems that offer comprehensive and affordable care, with particular attention to vulnerable groups;

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Amendment 415

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Calls on the Commission to apply the Conditionality Regulation in cases of regressions in women’s rights, including restrictions on SRHR, access to abortion care or sexuality education, which must be considered violations of EU values and trigger proportionate institutional responses, including infringement procedures and funding consequences; calls on the Commission to ensure that no EU funding benefits to actors who aim to undermine EU values, including gender equality and women’s rights including SRHR.

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Amendment 416

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Calls on the Commission, in the framework of the implementation of the Directive on violence against women, to issue clear Guidelines on the provision of sexual and reproductive healthcare to victims of sexual violence, in line with international public health and human rights standards, including the WHO standards on the clinical management of rape;

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Amendment 417

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Urges the Commission to take mental health and its gender related challenges into account in all relevant healthcare related measures; stresses that, due to biological and social factors, women are more likely to develop certain mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and eating disorders;

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Amendment 418

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the new Gender Equality Strategy incorporates a stronger focus on gender balance in public health and addresses existing disparities, specifically in the field of cardiovascular disease, which disproportionately affects women compared to men;

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Amendment 419

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to include Sexual and Reproductive Health, including the right to safe and legal abortion care, in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as laid out in the European Parliament resolution of 11 April 2024;

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Amendment 420

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Calls on the Commission to further promote the expansion of free HPV vaccination to all individuals up to age 25 through national health insurance systems, regardless of gender;

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Amendment 421

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8b. Calls on the EU to respect and defend the natural and healthy development of young girls by combating the promotion of so-called 'gender-affirming care';

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Amendment 422

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Calls on Member States to ensure appropriate pre-natal and post-natal healthcare for all mothers, with the goal that no woman should die in childbirth;

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Amendment 423

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure sustained access to essential and life saving health services in Ukraine;

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Amendment 424

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 c. Highlights the EU citizen’s broad support for enabling everyone in the EU to have access to safe abortion care, no matter who they are or where they come from, as it is among others reflected by the successful European citizen’s initiative (ECI) “My Voice, My Choice” calling on the EU to pass legislation that would create a financial mechanism helping Member States that voluntarily join this policy to provide safe abortion care for all those who don’t have access to it.; urges the Commission to take swift action and follow this ECI demand;

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Amendment 425

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 c. Sresses that men are less likely to seek medical attention, as they are generally less aware of symptoms or tend to downplay them, often not reporting signs of disease or illness; therefore, urges the Commission to implement measures that raise awareness among both women and men about their right to access healthcare services32o;

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32o EIGE: https://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/policy-areas/health?language_content_entity=en

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Amendment 426

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 c. Calls on the Commission to encourage and engage men as active allies in the promotion of SRHR through raising awareness, encouraging male responsibility in reproductive decisions and promoting healthy masculinity; urges the Commission to address the broader context of the rising backlash among young men against young women and feminism;

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Amendment 427

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 c. Calls on the European Commission to develop, support, monitor and evaluate a comprehensive ‘Healthy Women - Healthy Europe’ strategy to address the very specific women’s health, social and education needs through the life-span, complementing and supporting the EU Roadmap for Women’s Rights;

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Amendment 428

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 c. Underlines the power of the individual and their families to choose a care path that is best for them, supported by their family, friends and neighbours, and medical and social professionals as well;

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Amendment 429

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 c. Calls on the Commission to issue a Recommendation for Member States on SRHR, in line with international public health and human rights standards, including the WHO Guideline on Abortion Care;

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Amendment 430

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 c. Calls on the Commission to establish a financial solidarity mechanism between Member States to ensure women in the EU can access abortion care;

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Amendment 431

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 d. Calls on the Commission and Member States to fully adopt the Guttmacher-Lancet definition of SRHR and guarantee universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including modern contraception, safe and legal abortion, maternal and newborn care, menstrual health, fertility services, and genderaffirming care. Member States must ensure these services are accessible, affordable, and non-discriminatory, particularly for adolescents, LGBTQI+ persons, people with disabilities, racialised women and underserved or marginalised communities;

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Amendment 432

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 d. Recognises that fertility is a critical aspect of women's health, and emphasises the need to proactively address the multifaceted factors and challenges related to fertility, such as the lack of access to fertility-related healthcare and treatments, or insufficient information and support services, together with the impact of lifestyle and age-related factors or environmental exposure to toxins, endocrine disruptors, and pollutants;

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Amendment 433

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 d. In the framework of the implementation of the Directive on violence against women, calls on the Commission to issue clear Guidelines on the provision of sexual and reproductive healthcare to victims of sexual violence, in line with international public health and human rights standards, including the WHO standards on the clinical management of rape;

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Amendment 434

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 d. Calls on the European Commission to address the commercial and social determinants that impact health and, in particular, the health of women and girls, by including health in the EU Semester and developing policies that will help improve women’s quality of life and erase all forms of inequalities;

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Amendment 435

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 d. Calls on the Commission to recognise all violations of women’s sexual and reproductive rights as forms of gender-based violence;

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Amendment 436

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 e. Calls on the Commission to establish a monitoring and accountability mechanism, to swiftly address or condemn any retrogressive developments or threats thereof on gender equality, women’s rights including SRHR, and LGBTIQ+ people’s rights, in Member States, as part of existing mechanisms to assess compliance with the rule of law or fundamental rights, or as a dedicated mechanism; calls on the Commission to apply the Conditionality Regulation in cases of regressions in women’s rights, including restrictions on SRHR, access to abortion care or sexuality education, which must be considered violations of EU values and trigger proportionate institutional responses, including infringement procedures and funding consequences; calls on the Commission to ensure that no EU funding benefits to actors who aim to undermine EU values, including gender equality and women’s rights including SRHR;

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Amendment 437

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 e. To reflect the intersectionality of the myriad of women’s challenges, calls on the European Commission and Member States to build on the broad range of expertise across the EU Member States and support the setting-up of women’s expert groups to address the specific challenges that impact women’s quality of life and participation in society, foster collaboration and exchange of best practices, drive the women’s health, social, research and education agenda across the EU and meet the EU Treaty’s goal to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women;

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Amendment 438

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 f. Urges the Commission to create a comprehensive, binding framework that ensures equal access to contraception, fertility treatments, and abortion services for all women, regardless of the domestic laws in their respective Member State; sets-up minimum standards for reproductive healthcare that all EU countries must meet such as the guarantee of access to affordable and easily accessible contraception for all women across the EU, the provision of fertility treatments to ensure that women struggling with infertility can access the care they need and access to safe, legal, and accessible abortion care within established time frames;

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Amendment 439

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 f. Stresses that any equality strategy should tackle all forms of violence against women, including backsliding over and violations of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights; reiterates that access to healthcare and public services, particularly access to induced abortion services and psychological support for women victims of violence should be considered a priority;

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Amendment 440

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 g (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 g. Calls on the Commission to support healthcare systems to develop, implement and evaluate gender-focussed disease prevention strategies to reduce the still overlooked impact of these diseases on women as health promotion and disease prevention can reduce the burden of chronic and NCDs on society, reduce women’s and girl’s time spent in poor health, increase their quality of life, improve their participation in the economy and society, and generate savings;

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Amendment 441

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 g (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 g. Calls on the Commission to ensure full accessibility and inclusion of women with disabilities in all gender equality measures, including in sexual and reproductive health, education and employment;

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Amendment 442

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 h (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 h. Urges the Commission to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services regardless of a person’s migration or residence status, including for undocumented women;

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Amendment 443

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 h (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 h. Calls on the Commission to further promote the expansion of free HPV vaccination to all individuals up to age 25 through national health insurance systems, regardless of gender;

Or. en

Amendment 444

Carolina Morace, Emma Fourreau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 i (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 i. Urges the Commission to ensure easy access to the healthcare needed for diseases that particularly affect women, such as HPV cancer, breast cancer and endometriosis, which requires the Commission to work to increase research and data collection on women's diseases and to support studies into the relationship between gender-based violence, intimate partner violence and cancer;

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Amendment 445

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 i (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 i. Urges the Commission to ensure that all women undergoing treatment that may lead to premature ovarian failure are counselled on fertility preservation;

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Amendment 446

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Gender equality and women’s empowerment in the world of work

Equality between women and men and women’s empowerment in the world of work

Or. en

Amendment 447

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33 , pay transparency34 and women on boards35 ;

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33 Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union (OJ L 275, 25.10.2022, p. 33, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2022/2041/oj).

34 Directive (EU) 2023/970.

35 Directive (EU) 2022/2381.

Or. en

Amendment 448

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33 , pay transparency34 and women on boards35 ;

deleted

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34 Directive (EU) 2023/970.

35 Directive (EU) 2022/2381.

Or. en

Amendment 449

Ewa Kopacz, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33, pay transparency34and women on boards35;

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33, pay transparency34 and women on boards35, which is of crucial importance for the new generation of women entering the labour market and will enable them to enjoy equal conditions from the start of their careers;

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34 Directive (EU) 2023/970.

35 Directive (EU) 2022/2381.

Or. pl

Amendment 450

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33 , pay transparency34 and women on boards35 ;

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor, follow and report back to Parliament on the implementation of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive 33a and Pay Transparency Directive 34a and the transposition of the Women on Boards Directive 35a;

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33a Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union (OJ L 275, 25.10.2022, p. 33, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2022/2041/oj).

34 Directive (EU) 2023/970.

34a Directive (EU) 2023/970.

35 Directive (EU) 2022/2381.

35a Directive (EU) 2022/2381.

Or. en

Amendment 451

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33 , pay transparency34 and women on boards35 ;

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33 , pay transparency34 and women on boards35 and guarantee their proper and timely enforcement;

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34 Directive (EU) 2023/970.

35 Directive (EU) 2022/2381.

Or. en

Amendment 452

Mathilde Androuët, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33, pay transparency34and women on boards35;

9. Calls on the Commission to monitor and encourage a swift transposition of the directives on adequate minimum wages33 and women on boards35;

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34 Directive (EU) 2023/970.

35 Directive (EU) 2022/2381.

Or. fr

Amendment 453

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen efforts to address discrimination faced by the most vulnerable women, such as women with disabilities, who continue to face high unemployment rate and lower pay, by, inter alia, enforcing the Equality Employment Directive across Member States and strengthening equality bodies, as provided for by Directive 2024/1499, and ensuring access to minimum wages on an equal basis with others;

Or. en

Amendment 454

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Emphasises that remuneration should reflect performance, productivity, and voluntary agreements between employers and employees, and calls on the Member States to ensure the proper enforcement of labour contracts and to address any unjustified discrimination; supports the Commission in coordinating and promoting the exchange of best practices among Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 455

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Urges the Commission to strengthen efforts to address discrimination faced by the most marginalised women, such as women with disabilities, elderly women and those from different ethnic and migration backgrounds and to monitor and enforce the implementation of the Equality Employment Directive across Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 456

Maria Walsh, Liesbet Sommen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Calls on the Commission to complement these efforts by establishing an EU Female Founders Fund to support women entrepreneurs, promote gender equality in access to financing, and address the persistent gender gap in business leadership and innovation;

Or. en

Amendment 457

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Calls on to European Commission to review the European Regulation on Social Security, Directive 79/7 in order to ensure that it ables the adoption of positive action and to contribute to close the gender pension gap;

Or. en

Amendment 458

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Highlights that the EP will strictly oppose any intentions to withdraw or weaken the Pay Transparency Directive;

Or. en

Amendment 459

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 b. Urges the Member States to comply with their transposition and enforcement obligations under the Directive on pay transparency, guaranteeing robust pay-reporting requirements, effective access to judicial remedies for victims of pay discrimination, and appropriate sanctions for non-compliance;

Or. en

Amendment 460

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 b. Calls on the Commission to propose legislation on teleworking rules and the Right to Disconnect without further delay and to ensure it is done in a gender-responsive manner which does not exacerbate the existing gender inequalities;

Or. en

Amendment 461

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 c. Urges the Commission to actively promote women's entry into and retention in the labour market, reduce the employment gap, gender pay and pension gap and invest in life-long learning programs for women, girls and persons faced with intersectional discrimination, such as older women, migrant women, carers, LGBTIQ+ persons and those affected by the automation of jobs;

Or. en

Amendment 462

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 d. Calls on the Member States to take the gender dimension into account when reforming pension systems and adapting the retirement age, and to consider the differences between the work patterns of women and men, including all unpaid employment practices, taking into account the higher risk of intersectional discrimination faced by women in the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 463

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 e. Calls on the Commission and Member States to criminalise sexual harrasment in the world of work as an EU crime (Under the Gender Based Violence Directive), ensuring the protection of all workers from gender-based violence, including harassment, intimidation and any form of sexual violence in the workplace;

Or. en

Amendment 464

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 f. Calls on the Commission to ensure the process of ratification of the ILO Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work on the EU level and to recognise the right to a world of work free from violence and harassment, including gender-based violence;

Or. en

Amendment 465

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 466

Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Urges the Commission to develop guidelines allowing for an EU-wide definition and comparison of ‘the value of work’, and to swiftly set up gender-neutral job evaluation tools and criteria with the aim of better evaluating and more fairly remunerating work carried out in female-dominated sectors; emphasises the importance of promoting equal opportunities for women with disabilities, including supporting initiatives aimed at improving their access to leadership and decision-making roles, so that the value of their work is also fairly recognised and rewarded in higher positions;

Or. en

Amendment 467

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Urges the Commission to further develop the methodology for comprehensive and comparable tracking the gender pay gap both at the EU and the Member State level and to allow for the determination of adjusted gender pay gap; calls on the Commission to develop guidelines allowing for an EU-wide definition and comparison of ‘the value of work’, and to swiftly set up gender-neutral job evaluation tools and criteria with the aim of better evaluating and more fairly remunerating work carried out in female-dominated sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 468

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Calls on the Commission to tackle the systemic disparities in pay due to the undervaluation of work in female-dominated sectors such as care, healthcare, education and retail. Therefore, urges the Commission to work with Member States and social partners to develop gender neutral job evaluation tools and criteria allowing for an EU-wide definition and comparison of ‘the value of work’ with the aim of better evaluating and more fairly remunerating work carried out in female-dominated sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 469

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Urges the Commission to develop guidelines allowing for an EU-wide definition and comparison of ‘the value of work’, and to swiftly set up gender-neutral job evaluation tools and criteria with the aim of better evaluating and more fairly remunerating work carried out in female-dominated sectors, in line with the provisions set in the pay transparency directive, and providing upskilling and career development opportunities in these sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 470

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Urges the Commission to develop guidelines allowing for an EU-wide definition and comparison of ‘the value of work’, and to swiftly set up gender-neutral job evaluation tools and criteria with the aim of better evaluating and more fairly remunerating work carried out in female-dominated sectors, ensuring collective bargaining rights, strengthening labour inspections and guaranteeing representation of care workers in social dialogue;

Or. en

Amendment 471

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Urges the Commission to develop guidelines with the aim of better evaluating and more fairly remunerating work carried out in female-dominated sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 472

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Urges the Commission to develop clear guidelines for defining and comparing ‘the value of work’ across the EU, and to urgently set up gender-neutral job evaluation tools and criteria to ensure fairer recognition and remuneration of work carried out in female-dominated sectors;

Or. ro

Amendment 473

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Stresses the need to develop targeted employment and upskilling strategies for women over the age of 55 and women living in rural or structurally disadvantaged regions, who face compounded barriers to labour market integration, digital inclusion, and access to reskilling programmes; calls on the Commission to support Member States in designing inclusive labour market policies that respond to territorial and demographic challenges, including through cohesion policy instruments and the European Social Fund Plus;

Or. en

Amendment 474

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Stresses that women empowerment as citizens and economic actors is both an ethical and economic imperative, as it is critical to accelerate EU competitiveness, and highlights that the Draghi report mentions the underrepresentation of women in certain sectors, like STEM, and that achieving an effective and equitable Union of skills requires dedicated efforts to eliminate the barriers currently limiting labour market participation, particularly among women;

Or. en

Amendment 475

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Highlights that approximately one in four paid care workers is a migrant, many of whom face exploitation due to a lack of adequate regularisation pathways; calls on the Commission and Member States to facilitate legal pathways to formalise the status of migrant care workers, recognise their skills, and provide access to quality jobs in line with the forthcoming quality jobs roadmap;

Or. en

Amendment 476

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Calls on the Commission to put forward a comprehensive plan to address the gender pension gap, including by ensuring adequate childcare support, increasing financial literacy and education for women and improving financial advice to diminish the gender investment gap and the corresponding private pensions gender gap as well as by mitigating the so called “motherhood penalty”;

Or. en

Amendment 477

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10a. Points out that single mothers in the Member States often live below the poverty line, that they are victims of discrimination and prejudice, and that only a voluntary policy to integrate mothers into the labour market can remedy this;

Or. fr

Amendment 478

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Stresses the importance of removing barriers for women to start and own businesses in order to reduce the gender gap in entrepreneurship and strengthen economic growth; calls on the Commission to support Member States in these efforts, while respecting national contexts;

Or. en

Amendment 479

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Calls on Member States to take action in the areas of prevention, decriminalisation of people — especially women — in prostitution, demand reduction, destigmatisation, and elimination of stereotypes, moving towards the Nordic/equality model;

Or. en

Amendment 480

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Recalls how the greater activation of women in the labour market offers the opportunity to bolster women’s economic independence, meaning lower unemployment costs for the Member States and social policy dependency;

Or. en

Amendment 481

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Calls on the Commission to support women-friendly workplaces to ensure women with NCDs, chronic diseases, disabilities and menopause have equal rights and opportunities in accessing and remaining in the workplace;

Or. en

Amendment 482

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Calls for deep structural reforms through gender-responsive public investment and economic redistribution to address systemic gender inequalities;

Or. en

Amendment 483

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Stresses the need for exit programmes for women in prostituion to benefit from women’s talents and their potential and to facilitate capacities and their access to training, education, jobs and credit; highlights the crucial role the private sector plays; underlines the need for women role models, founders and business owners to help support people formerly in prostitution to make the most of their talents and carry out their own projects, including entrepreneurial projects;

Or. en

Amendment 484

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen policies and funding instruments that support women returning to the labour market after maternity leave or prolonged career breaks related to caregiving responsibilities; underlines the importance of active labour market measures, tailored reskilling and upskilling programmes, individualised job counselling, and incentives for employers to offer flexible, quality employment opportunities to returning women;

Or. en

Amendment 485

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Calls on the Commission to continue supporting both existing and new tools, networks, and initiatives that create opportunities specifically geared to women entrepreneurs, such as the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN); stresses that women currently represent only one-third of entrepreneurs in the EU1a, highlighting the need for targeted action to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship;

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1a Eurochambres Women Entrepreneurs Survey 2025 – Unveiling insights from the women entrepreneurs: https://www.eurochambres.eu/publication/eurochambres-women-entrepreneurs-survey-2025-unveiling-insights-from-the-women-entrepreneurs/

Or. en

Amendment 486

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to effectively address the horizontal and vertical segregation on the labour market as the main reason for a persisting gender pay gap, including by targeting the ESF+ funds to support non-gender-stereotypical education and labour counselling, and promoting diversity charters and initiatives in the private and public sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 487

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Calls on the Commission and EIGE to conduct, in close cooperation with social partners, an in-depth analysis of the main barriers to women's employment in Europe, including barriers to full-time employment. This analysis will aim to provide a foundation to Member States to address structural barriers to women's employment;

Or. en

Amendment 488

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Emphasises the need to ensure fair working conditions and protection for migrant women who are disproportionately affected by intersectional discrimination and commit to reducing gender inequalities by recognising their important contributions, and promoting equal opportunities within the care sector;

Or. en

Amendment 489

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Calls for binding EU measures to ensure equal pay for work of equal value, particularly in female-dominated sectors, and for improving working conditions in undervalued sectors such as care, education, cleaning, and retail;

Or. en

Amendment 490

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Urges the Commission to develop guidelines for member states, the private sector and civil society to help establish gender equality targets and strategies including equal leadership opportunities;

Or. en

Amendment 491

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Stresses that the way forward is to adopt support measures that help women exit prostitution and build the life they desire;

Or. en

Amendment 492

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Calls on the Member States to increase public investment in policies that aim, directly or indirectly, to counteract the negative effects of the gender-imbalance on women in all their diversity, and to guarantee access to high-quality public and free services for care, education, health, transport and energy, as well as access to decent employment; calls on the Member States to pay special attention to rural, inland, ultra-peripheral regions and regions at risk of depopulation that often lack adequate provision of these services;

Or. en

Amendment 493

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Stresses the impact of all forms of harassment in the world of work, which can potentially affect any workplace, and the specific vulnerability of some workers such as women - about a third of women in the EU who have faced sexual harassment experienced it at work1a with devastating consequences for the victims, and therefore the importance of introducing measures to tackle it based on existing EU and international legislation, such as specialist support for victims together with strong prevention measures;

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1a Eurostat Survey on Gender based violence, 2024

Or. en

Amendment 494

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Takes the view that there is a central element to tackling inequalities; encourages the Member States to promote policies that enhance the status of work, increase real wages and safeguard rights, outlawing job insecurity, tackling the deregulation of labour relations and working hours, and imposing severe restrictions on the use of solutions such as part-time and temporary work; supports collective bargaining as a means not only to place value on working conditions but also to tackle inequalities between men and women;

Or. en

Amendment 495

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Notes that programmes for women seeking to leave prostitution are best able to help them in an inclusive, dynamic, creative and innovative economy that enables them to enter good quality, well paid and socially recognised jobs that represent a viable alternative to prostitution;

Or. en

Amendment 496

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Calls on the Commission to conduct evidence-based impact assessments, including competitiveness checks, for all new EU regulations, in order to ensure balanced and effective policymaking that respects national contexts and boosts competitiveness;

Or. en

Amendment 497

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Calls on the Commission to ensure that pregnancy and maternity discrimination are combatted through well-formed and communicated flexible working arrangements;

Or. en

Amendment 498

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Calls on Member States to ensure the active participation of women in prostitution in the development of policies related to their rights:

Or. en

Amendment 499

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 d. Calls on the Commission to strengthen efforts to address discrimination faced by the most marginalised women, such as women with disabilities, including women with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, who continue to face high unemployment rate and lower pay, by, inter alia, enforcing the Equality Employment Directive across Member States and strengthening equality bodies, as provided for by Directive 2024/1499;

Or. en

Amendment 500

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 d. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure women's equal access to work with rights and decent wages; takes the view that collective bargaining is a determining factor in reversing and overcoming inequality and tackling discrimination against women, and that the principle of equal pay for equal work of equal value must be enshrined in law and life;

Or. en

Amendment 501

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 d. Reiterates its call for the Commission to establish a concrete framework for the rights and protection of sex workers; further insists on the importance of including measures and strategies that tackle the discrimination faced by sex workers in access to funding, housing, healthcare, education and other services;

Or. en

Amendment 502

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 d. Calls on the Commission to set EU-wide targets aimed at increasing women’s participation in the labour market, to be monitored within the framework of the European Semester; underlines that this approach fully respects national differences and allows Member States the flexibility to address their unique challenges;

Or. en

Amendment 503

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 d. Calls on the Member States to introduce effective measures to reduce the demand for prostitution and therefore trafficking in human beings, sexual exploitation and the operating of organised criminal groups;

Or. en

Amendment 504

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 e. Stresses that, besides addressing the vulnerability of potential victims of prostitution and prosecuting traffickers and facilitators, among others, demand reduction is a key instrument for the prevention and reduction of human trafficking, as it targets financial incentives; believes, therefore, that this should be developed further in the revision of the EU Anti-Trafficking Directive;

Or. en

Amendment 505

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 e. Encourages the Member States to take firm measures to sanction businesses that fail to comply with labour legislation and discriminate between men and women; takes the view, furthermore, that conditionality should be applied in the allocation of EU funds to companies that have high working standards and do not discriminate against women;

Or. en

Amendment 506

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 e. Urges the Commission to encourage women’s economic activity and ensure equal opportunities for women and men to work as employees and entrepreneurs throughout life, as it is key to promoting gender equality in society and the world of work, contributing to European competitiveness;

Or. en

Amendment 507

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 f. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to criminalise sexual harassment in the world of work as an EU crime (under the Gender-Based Violence Directive), ensuring the protection of all workers from gender-based violence, including harassment, intimidation and any form of sexual violence in the workplace;

Or. en

Amendment 508

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 g (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 g. Calls on the Commission to facilitate to ensure the process of ratification of the ILO Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work on the EU level and to recognise the right to a world of work free from violence and harassment, including gender-based violence;

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Amendment 509

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Women’s rights and gender equality in education, training and the digital sphere

Women’s rights and equality between women and men in education, training and the digital sphere

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Amendment 510

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 d. Underlines that digital technology and platforms are becoming key in the overall process of providing education and training for women and girls as well as in many work selection processes; regrets the negative impacts of unequal access to technology, which may hinder the development of women’s and girls’ digital literacy and calls on the Commission to ensure that women and girls in all their diversity, including women from marginalised groups such as racilasied women, LBTQ women, migrant women, women with disabilities, elderly women and those women living in rural areas, inland areas are not disproportionately affected by lack of access to technology;

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Amendment 511

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Urges the Commission to ensure gender- and age-inclusive access to all levels of education and training and to develop high-quality standards for educational materials promoting gender equality and dismantling gender stereotypes, including the promotion of comprehensive sexuality education and consent and the promotion of education sectors like STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), traditionally associated to men and boys; calls for the promotion of healthy lifestyles to prevent diseases and contribute to healthy ageing, ensuring the digital sphere potentials do not leave anyone behind;

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Amendment 512

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Urges the Commission to ensure gender-inclusive access to all levels of education and to develop high-quality standards for educational materials promoting gender equality and dismantling gender stereotypes, including the promotion of comprehensive sexuality education and consent; emphasises that comprehensive sexuality education must be age-appropriate, scientifically accurate, and grounded in human rights and gender equality, and should equip young people with knowledge about bodily autonomy, healthy relationships, reproductive health, and the prevention of gender-based violence and discrimination;

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Amendment 513

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Urges the Commission to ensure gender-inclusive access to all levels of education and to develop high-quality standards for educational materials promoting gender equality and dismantling gender stereotypes, including the promotion of comprehensive sexuality education and consent and comprehensive decolonial and anti-racist gender studies curricula; calls for mutual respect, non-violent conflict resolution in interpersonal relationships, an end to gender-based violence against women, and respect for the right to personal integrity;

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Amendment 514

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Highlights the importance of ensuring access to quality education for girls ensuring equal opportunities, as a precondition of women´s empowerment and full enjoyment of their rights; urges the Commission to ensure gender-inclusive access to all levels of education and support Member States to develop high-quality standard education promoting gender equality and dismantling gender stereotypes and harmful societal norms, including the promotion of comprehensive sexuality education and consent;

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Amendment 515

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Urges the Commission to ensure gender-inclusive access to all levels of education and to develop high-quality standards for educational materials promoting gender equality and dismantling gender stereotypes, including the promotion of comprehensive sexuality and relationship education and consent; calls for mutual respect, non-violent conflict resolution in interpersonal relationships, an end to gender-based violence, and respect for the right to personal integrity 1a;

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1a Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence againts women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), Article 14

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Amendment 516

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Urges the Member States to make full use of their exclusive competences to ensure access to all levels of education and to develop high-quality standards for educational materials promoting equality between women and men, including the promotion of age-appropriate relationship education in line with the right of parents to decide that this education and teaching is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions;

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Amendment 517

Irmhild Boßdorf

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Commission to make it possible for everyone, in the interests of equal opportunities, to have access to educational establishments;

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Amendment 518

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 519

Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 520

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 521

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Urges the Commission to promote gender-inclusive access to all levels of education and to support Member States in developing high-quality standards for educational materials promoting gender equality and dismantling gender stereotypes, including the promotion of comprehensive sexuality education and consent;

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Amendment 522

Mathilde Androuët, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Urges the Member States to ensure access to education and to develop high-quality standards for educational materials promoting gender equality and dismantling gender stereotypes, including the promotion of comprehensive sexuality education and consent beyond the age of puberty with parents' formal agreement;

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Amendment 523

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 524

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Mathilde Androuët

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Urges the Commission to promote access to education at all levels, ensuring that the principle of equality in dignity for every person is respected and the right of parents to educate their children according to their own values is upheld;

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Amendment 525

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 526

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Notes that women are traditionally under-represented in technical education and areas such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics, which are key to the development of the mobility and transport sector; calls on the Member States to combat market segmentation in transport and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers; notes that the promotion of entrepreneurship among girls from an early age could reduce existing educational stereotypes and ensure that more women enter the logistics, engineering and transport sectors; calls, therefore, on the Commission to promote and support gender-sensitive projects and to identify women role models;

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Amendment 527

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Highlights the underrepresentation of women in the development and implementation of AI, which represents a missed opportunity for technological advancement; emphasizes the importance of STEM education with equipping women and girls with future-oriented skills, enabling access to employment and challenging gender stereotypes that have traditionally viewed these fields as male-dominated; calls on Member States to promote and encourage STEM learning from an early age to ensure that girls and women are not at an unfair disadvantage when later seeking employment in the scientific and technical sectors;

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Amendment 528

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Calls on the Commission to recognise comprehensive sexuality education and relationship education as a key part of breaking down gender stereotypes and harmful behaviours and therefore calls on the Commission to develop EU guidelines for comprehensive sexuality and relationship education for Member States and to promote consent as a key preventative measure against violence against women and domestic violence and stresses the need for curricula and teaching content to ensure its inclusivity and provide publishers with guidelines on eliminating gender bias in educational materials;

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Amendment 529

Giusi Princi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Urges the Commission to promote an integrated strategy to strengthen women's participation in STEM and AI sectors, including by launching initiatives by 2025 aimed at attracting female secondary school students to STEM pathways, as well as programmes designed to identify and disseminate successful and inclusive educational best practices, and to support STEM apprenticeships and internships dedicated to girls and women;

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Amendment 530

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce the gender gap in digital sphere by tackling the under-representation of women in STEAM careers and to ensure that women have equal access to vocational training courses and awareness-raising courses in STEAM subjects and to create a positive link between acquiring knowledge and developing skills essential for emerging job opportunities in the digital and green transition;

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Amendment 531

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 b. Urges the Commission to invest in the professional development of educators to bettere combat gender stereotypes throughout childhood education, vocational education and training, on-the-job training and adult education, as well as formal and non-formal learning educational pathway;

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Amendment 532

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 b. Calls on the Commission to actively promote STEM education among girls, ensuring greater gender balance in these fields as this is critical to ensure participation and careers in future labour markets, as well as driving technological advancement, economic growth, and innovation;

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Amendment 533

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 b. Calls on the Commission to address the ‘gender-care gap’ by promoting the involvement of everyone in caregiving, starting in the workplace;

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Amendment 534

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 c. Urges the Commission to address all forms of GBV in education and to establish policies aimed at preventing, recognising and responding to gender-based violence in educational settings, as well as to implement mandatory training programmes for all working in the education sector, including informal education and volunteers, as well as safe infrastructure, confidental reporting mechanisms and disciplinary actions;

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Amendment 535

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 d. Calls on the Commission to cooperate with social media platforms to introduce e-safety regulations to protect women and girls from cyber violence and harassment on social media;

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Amendment 536

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop media literacy programmes and trainings for professions such as journalists and media professionals, medical, judicial and prosecutorial professionals on gender-sensitive content;

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Amendment 537

Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt a policy of zero tolerance in the digital environment with regard to all forms of gender-based violence, harmful behaviours and narratives that undermine and discredit women’s and girls’ online and offline expression, and to prioritise preventive measures and safeguards across all digital policy domains; emphasises the need to address violent and degrading pornographic content disseminated through digital channels, particularly when it targets or affects women and girls; calls on the Commission to ensure full enforcement of the risk assessment and mitigation obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and to embed preventive measures and safeguards across all areas of digital policy, with particular attention to gender equality, gender-based violence, and human rights, as well as the protection of minors online;

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Amendment 538

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 539

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 540

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 541

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt a policy of zero tolerance in the digital environment with regard to all forms of gender-based violence and harassment, harmful behaviours and narratives that undermine and discredit women’s and girls’ online and offline expression, and to prioritise preventive measures and safeguards across all digital policy domains; nonetheless, ensuring accountability mechanisms for platforms and perpetrators, for example using AI tools for detecting inappropriate content, as well as victim protection mechanisms in line with existing EU legislation;

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Amendment 542

Maria Walsh, Liesbet Sommen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt a policy of zero tolerance in the digital environment with regard to all forms of gender-based violence, notably abusive-AI like deepfakes, harmful behaviours and narratives that undermine and discredit women’s and girls’ online and offline expression, and to prioritise preventive measures and safeguards across all digital policy domains; calls for the immediate implementation of education and awareness-raising programmes aimed at preventing online gender-based violence, particularly among young people;

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Amendment 543

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt a policy and legislation of zero tolerance in the digital environment with regard to all forms of gender-based violence, harmful behaviours and narratives that undermine and discredit women’s and girls’ online and offline expression, and to prioritise preventive measures and safeguards across all digital policy domains; and to legislate gender harassment as criminalized hate speech, with an obligation for platforms to identify and remove gender-based hate speech;

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Amendment 544

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Viktória Ferenc, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt a policy of zero tolerance in the digital environment with regard to all forms of violence, harmful behaviours and narratives that undermine the dignity and security of women and girls both online and offline ;

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Amendment 545

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt a policy of zero tolerance in the digital environment with regard to all forms of violence against women, harmful behaviours and narratives that undermine and discredit women’s and girls’ online and offline expression, and to prioritise preventive measures and safeguards across all digital policy domains;

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Amendment 546

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that women are not left behind in the digital sphere — particularly in the context of algorithms, STEM, and the dominance of powerful private tech platforms - ensuring a comprehensive and intersectional approach needed to address this challenge effectively; implementing EU regulations requiring transparency and regular auditing of AI and algorithms for bias, especially regarding gender and race; pushing for the inclusion of gender-disaggregated data in AI training to avoid male-default designs and decision-making; mandating that companies design with inclusion in mind and penalising those who violate fundamental rights through their automated systems; promoting gender parity in STEM education and employment; encouraging inclusive hiring practices and workplace environments in tech companies; providing public funding and incentives for women-led tech initiatives;

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Amendment 547

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls on the Commission to put forward targeted initiatives to support women in STEM and motivate girls towards STEM, ICT and AI-related studies and careers, including by defining a target for the participation of women researchers in STEM and AI projects, in order to close the overall skills and gender gap in this sector; Stresses that this gap inevitably results in biased algorithms; Emphasises the need to reflect the objectives and interests of women and vulnerable groups in the digital transition and to encourage the participation of men in the EHW (education, health and welfare) fields;

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Amendment 548

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls for the advancement of education, training and maintenance of new digital skills and capacities, and particularly STEM subjects, with a special focus on girls (universal access to coding, maths and ICT classes), through training and life-long learning, and to prioritise diversity and inclusion in STEM to enhance equal opportunities in the economy and in business. Girls should be encouraged to take up mathematics and science subjects in school;

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Amendment 549

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Stresses that even though the number of young women graduating in ICT and STEM fields has been increasing, the gender employment gap and the gender pay gap in the sector remains significant, with women in ICT earning nearly 20% less than their male counterparts1a; therefore, calls on the Commission to identify and combat the barriers that sustain these disparities;

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1a "Women in Digital" brochure, published on 23 September 2019

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Amendment 550

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce mandatory gender equality impact assessment as a part of Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment under the AI Act framework to identify and mitigate potential adverse effects of AI tools on women, girls, and marginalised groups and to include third-party audits to detect and correct algorithmic biases;

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Amendment 551

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure universal, inclusive access to all levels of education, including comprehensive sexuality and consent-based education, while developing a zero-tolerance framework for online and offline gender-based violence, harassment and hate speech, especially targeting girls and LGBTIQ+ youth;

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Amendment 552

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls on the Commission for full respect of national competences in educational matters in line with the principle of subsidiarity;

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Amendment 553

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Urges Member States to consider biological sex as a priority when legislating or dealing with women in sport;

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Amendment 554

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Stresses the importance of advancing women’s rights and equality of opportunity between men and women worldwide, which are crucial to the realisation of human rights; emphasises that, in spite of progress, women and girls continue to suffer from discrimination and violence, especially in countries under strict Islamic regimes, and that such societies fail to provide them with equal rights under the law and equal access to education, healthcare, decent work and political and economic representation;

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Amendment 555

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Calls on the Commission to invest in research that tracks gender equality in media and digital industries by collecting sex/gender-disaggregated data, including with intersectional perspective and to, among other activities, focus on evaluating AI biases and assessing stereotypical portrayals, amongst others, in the media;

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Amendment 556

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Calls for the Commission to promote gender equality in companies working on AI- and ICT-related activities, including through financing women-led projects in the digital sector and promoting a minimum number of women researchers participating in AI- and ICT-related research funding calls;

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Amendment 557

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Urges the Commission to ensure that the Union of Skills, a plan to enhance high-quality education, training, and lifelong learning, actively addresses gender imbalances, with the aim of empowering all individuals across the EU and making the Union more competitive and inclusive;

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Amendment 558

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Calls on the Commission to explicitly include trans people in all gender equality measures and to develop specific actions against transphobia, especially in healthcare, employment, and education;

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Amendment 559

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Calls on the Commission to support marginalised women in their educational journeys, through the creation of job fairs, internships, career counselling;

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Amendment 560

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 c. Regrets that women entrepreneurs often face unnecessary administrative challenges calls for the promotion of support such as funding, business angels and business venture capitalists, training, networking opportunities, and mentoring support programmes;

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Amendment 561

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 c. Calls on the Commission to cooperate with social media platforms to introduce e-safety regulations to protect women and girls from cyber violence and harassment on social media;

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Amendment 562

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 c. Calls on the Commission and Eurostat to enhance monitoring of gender composition within STEM professions, such as the health workforce;

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Amendment 563

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 d. Calls on the Commission and the Member states to develop media literacy programmes and trainings for professions such as journalists and media professionals, medical, judicial and prosecutorial professionals on gender-sensitive content;

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Amendment 564

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 e. Calls on the Commission to introduce mandatory gender equality impact assessment as a part of Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment under the AI Act framework to identify and mitigate potential adverse effects of AI tools on women, girls and marginalised groups and to include third-party audits to detect and correct algorithmic biases;

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Amendment 565

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 f. Calls on the Commission to invest in research that tracks gender equality in media and digital industries by collecting sex/gender-disaggregated data, including with intersectional perspective and to, among other activities, focus on evaluating AI biases in relation to workforce management; tracking working conditions in the media and digital sectors; and assessing stereotypical portrayals in the media;

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Amendment 566

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Reconciliation of private and professional life

Reconciliation of private and professional life and addressing gender inequalities in care provision;

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Amendment 567

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal, addressing both formal and informal carers (mostly women), equipped with binding legislative and financial tools for investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare, educational after-school programmes and long-term care services; emphasises the need for EU and national policies for informal carers aiming for financial support and respite, training, inclusion in pension and health systems in order to mitigate the adverse affects of caregiving on women’s careers and economic independence;

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Amendment 568

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal, equipped with binding legislative and financial tools for investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services that enables a rights based approach to care; while at the same time impactful measures should be taken to improve working conditions in the care sector, in which the majority of workers are women;

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Amendment 569

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal, equipped with binding legislative and financial tools for investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services and emphasises the need to set ambitious EU level tragets for care services and increase investments in working conditions as well as health and safety in the care sector;

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Amendment 570

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal, equipped with binding legislative and financial tools for investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services for elderly people or those with reduced mobility, be they family members or people outside the family;

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Amendment 571

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal, equipped with binding legislative and financial tools for investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services, financing care infrastructure through progressive taxation and public provision without recourse to austerity measures;

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Amendment 572

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to ensure proper monitor and follow-up on the implementation of the European Care Strategy, with regular data provision, creation of indicators, exchange of best practices, mobilisation of adequate financial tools for supporting investment in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services;

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Amendment 573

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal, equipped with binding legislative and financial tools for investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services, expanding paid parental leave, and adopting policies that foster inclusive communities;

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Amendment 574

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Encourages the Member States to invest in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services and to further practical measures to support families;

Or. fr

Amendment 575

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Encourages the Commission to continue supporting Member States in strengthening accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services, while fully respecting national competencies and contexts, and promoting effective use of existing financial instruments;

Or. en

Amendment 576

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal to ensure accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services;

Or. en

Amendment 577

Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal, equipped with legislative and financial tools for investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services;

Or. en

Amendment 578

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls on the Commission to develop the European Care Strategy into a comprehensive European Care Deal that can support Member States in investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services;

Or. en

Amendment 579

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Calls on the Commission to recognise the right to care and to be cared for as a fundamental social right, enshrined in Principle 18 of the European Pillar of Social Rights; calls on Member States to guarantee universal access to affordable, high-quality care services for children, older persons and persons with disabilities and to fully transpose and implement Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers, establishing robust enforcement, monitoring and reporting mechanisms; calls on the Commission to monitor and report annually on Member States’ compliance, to allocate dedicated funding under the next Multiannual Financial Framework, and to propose binding EU-level quality standards for long-term care services, including staffing, training and quality assurance;

Or. en

Amendment 580

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Calls on the Commission to review Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers to ensure it is fit for purpose, facilitating the combination of paid employment and caregiving responsibilities, thereby promoting gender equality in the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 581

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Highlights that inadequate transport infrastructure, lack of public transport connectivity, and unaffordable mobility options constitute a gendered structural barrier to women’s access to employment, education, healthcare, and care services, particularly in rural, remote, and low-income areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to prioritise investment in inclusive, safe, affordable and sustainable transport systems that take into account women’s specific mobility patterns and needs, as part of broader efforts to reduce transport poverty and promote territorial equality;

Or. en

Amendment 582

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Calls on the Commission to set specific quantitative targets under the European Care Deal, including a goal of dedicating at least 2% of EU GDP to care services by 2030, with binding national objectives and regular monitoring to ensure progress towards accessible, affordable and high-quality care services;

Or. en

Amendment 583

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13a. Encourages the Member States to step up training mechanisms for mothers, making it possible to compensate for major career breaks, and to support initiatives enabling mothers to have access to a decent retirement;

Or. fr

Amendment 584

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Stresses the need to address the discrimination against women in the workplace, especially women with children;

Or. en

Amendment 585

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 b. Stresses that care work must be recognised, remunerated and supported as a public good; calls for the establishment of public care systems that ensure dignity for both care recipients and care workers;

Or. en

Amendment 586

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 b. Calls on the Commission to address the ‘gender-care gap’ by promoting the involvement of men in caregiving, starting in the workplace;

Or. en

Amendment 587

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 c. Calls on the Commission to establish a binding EU framework for free, publicly funded, accessible and high-quality childcare and long-term care services, with specific attention to low-income households and single-parent families;

Or. en

Amendment 588

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 d. Calls on the EU and its Member States to further protect mothers and fathers, including by increasing periods of leave, taking into account the World Health Organisation recommendation that children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives, and ensuring that these parents are paid at 100%, without loss of pay;

Or. en

Amendment 589

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to aim for an ’equal earner – equal carer’ model in the EU, and to revise and adjust the Barcelona targets in this regard, and also to further develop the measures on maternity and paternity leave with the aim of achieving a more equal gender balance concerning care responsibilities;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 590

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Viktória Ferenc, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Mathilde Androuët

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to strive for better work-life balance;

Or. en

Amendment 591

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses that full acceptance of a fair distribution of employment and care responsibilities must be achieved within the EU, that this goal must be promoted through appropriate legal provisions, to revise and adjust the Barcelona targets in this regard, and also to further develop and improve the conditions for parental leave with the aim of achieving a more gender- balanced distribution of care responsibilities;

Or. en

Amendment 592

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 593

Ewa Kopacz, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to aim for an ’equal earner – equal carer’ model in the EU, and to revise and adjust the Barcelona targets in this regard, and also to further develop the measures on maternity and paternity leave, as well as incentives for the second parent to take parental leave, with the aim of achieving a more equal gender balance concerning care responsibilities;

Or. pl

Amendment 594

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Emphasises the importance of supporting Member States policies that enable a better balance between earning and caregiving responsibilities across the EU; encourages continued dialogue on the Barcelona targets in light of evolving needs, and urge Member States to further develop parental leave policies according to national contexts while promoting gender equality;

Or. en

Amendment 595

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 596

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to implement an "equal earner – equal carer" model in the EU, for that purpose calls on the Commission to strengthen the Work-Life Balance Directive, improving maternity, paternity and shared parental leave and expand the Barcelona targets with the aim of achieving a more equal gender balance concerning care responsibilities;

Or. en

Amendment 597

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to aim for an ’equal earner – equal carer’ model in the EU, and to revise and adjust the Barcelona targets in this regard, and also to further develop the measures on parental as well as maternity and paternity paid care leave with the aim of achieving a more equal gender balance concerning care responsibilities;

Or. en

Amendment 598

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Recalls that adequate housing is a fundamental right that must be protected and be recognised as a precondition for the exercise of, and access to, other fundamental rights and a life in dignity; regrets that as a result of discrimination and inequality in housing, many women live in insecure, undignified and unsafe conditions, and are at increased risk of homelessness and violence; stresses that forced evictions and other violations of the right to housing disproportionally impact women and reinforce existing inequalities, representing a significant barrier to gender equality; calls on the Commission to assess and propose, where appropriate, new legislative acts to mitigate the financialisation of housing markets and to stop speculators from making housing unaffordable;

Or. en

Amendment 599

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Calls on the Commission to urge Member States to promptly transpose Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work–life balance for parents and carers into national law, ensuring that they fulfil their obligation to grant the right to a parental leave; further calls on the Commission to monitor the effective implementation of the Directive across all Member States and, where necessary, to initiate infringement proceedings or other enforcement measures to secure full compliance;

Or. en

Amendment 600

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Reiterates the scale and social importance of unpaid domestic and care work - such as caring for children, the elderly as well as dependent family members - which continues to be predominantly carried out by women; stresses the importance of creating conditions that support both women and men in organising family life and equally dividing responsibilities between paid employment and caregiving;

Or. en

Amendment 601

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Recalls the importance of the directive on work life balance, for working parents and carers, and the measures included, and the need to promote the paternity leave, introduced by Directive 2019/1158, through EU wide campaigns as well as the close link between the measures for work-life balance and the gender care gap which feeds into the employment, pay and pension gap;

Or. en

Amendment 602

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Urges the Commission to extend and equalise paid maternity and paternity leave periods across Member States, promote non-transferable parental leave, and adopt measures to redistribute caregiving responsibilities within households and between the state and families;

Or. en

Amendment 603

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that pregnancy and maternity discrimination are combatted through improved flexible working arrangements, adapted to nowadays need and posibilities;

Or. en

Amendment 604

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 b. Emphasises that incentives are needed for measures that encourage and promote the family as a privileged environment where people can develop and achieve their full potential;

Or. en

Amendment 605

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 b. Calls for the introduction of a European Day of Work-Life Balance on the 20th of March each year, symbolically reflecting the spring day-night equality;

Or. en

Amendment 606

Irmhild Boßdorf

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. de

Amendment 607

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 608

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to ensure substantive gender equality, including through introduction of permanent or temporary special measures to achieve 50:50 gender parity, such as legislative gender quotas and zipping-based lists for all elections on the basis of gender parity, and to ensure institutional gender parity at all levels of decision-making, in line with CEDAW general recommendation No. 40;

Or. en

Amendment 609

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to enforce legislative gender quotas and zipping-based lists for all elections on the basis of gender parity, and to ensure institutional gender parity and representation at all levels of decision-making, including local, regional, national and European level; stresses that the European Parliament must serve as a role model in this regard;

Or. en

Amendment 610

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to implement immediately mandatory legislative gender quotas and list-zipping mechanisms for all types of elections as essential tools for achieving gender parity, and to ensure strict respect for the principle of gender parity at all levels of institutional decision-making, including through effective monitoring measures and penalties;

Or. ro

Amendment 611

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to address and remedy all obstructive practices in all levels of the political sphere to ensure full and equal access for women’s and men’s political participation, including parental leave while holding political office, and to ensure institutional gender parity at all levels of decision-making;

Or. en

Amendment 612

Maria Noichl

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to enforce legislative gender quotas and zipping-based lists for all elections on the basis of gender parity, and to ensure institutional gender parity at all levels of decision-making; stresses that the European Parliament must serve as a role model in this regard;

Or. en

Amendment 613

Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to ensure institutional gender parity at all levels of decision-making;

Or. en

Amendment 614

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to encourage sharing of best practices among Member states to explore improving the participation and advancement of women in various instances aiming at reaching the best level possible of women involved in politics and decision-making;

Or. en

Amendment 615

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Encourages the Commission to promote legislative gender quotas and zipping-based lists for all elections on the basis of gender parity and institutional gender parity at all levels of decision-making, while fully respecting the principle of subsidiarity;

Or. en

Amendment 616

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to encourage the participation of women and men in all areas of decision-making, promoting an approach based on merit and ability, and respecting free choice and equality of opportunities at all levels;

Or. en

Amendment 617

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to enforce legislative gender quotas and zipping-based lists for all elections on the basis of gender representation, and to ensure institutional gender representation at all levels of decision-making;

Or. en

Amendment 618

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Urges the Commission to enforce legislative gender quotas for all elections on the basis of gender parity, and to ensure institutional gender parity at all levels of decision-making;

Or. en

Amendment 619

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Stresses that women remain significantly underrepresented in local and regional political decision-making bodies across the Union; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote gender parity at all levels of governance, including through awareness campaigns, capacity-building programmes, political mentoring for women candidates, and the removal of institutional and cultural barriers to women’s participation in local democracy;

Or. en

Amendment 620

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Calls on the Commission to promote gender-balanced representation in positions of responsibility and decision-making, to ensure women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in all spheres and at all levels of public and political life, notably through awareness raising campaigns and the promotion of female role models and mentors, in order to encourage greater participation;

Or. en

Amendment 621

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Stresses the importance of equal opportunity rather than equal outcome; encourages the Commission to respect individual freedom of choice and the diversity of career paths pursued by women and men, and to refrain from imposing legislative quotas that override merit-based selection or democratic processes;

Or. en

Amendment 622

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Urges the Commission to develop guidelines for Member States, the private sector and civil society to help establish gender equality targets and strategies including equal leadership opportunities;

Or. en

Amendment 623

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Notes with concern the failed attempts to ensure gender equality, such as the The Gender Corrective Mechanism in Malta, which can work against women candidates;

Or. en

Amendment 624

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Climate, environment and gender equality

Or. en

Amendment 625

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 b. Urges the Commission to support preventive measures ensuring the safety of women in public life and zero tolerance towards violence, hatred or harassment against women and girls in public life, both online and off-line; stresses that the fact that women are the primary targets of cyberviolence and deepfake content poses a serious threat to their safe participation in public life, and therefore, to democracy itself;

Or. en

Amendment 626

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Stresses that the harmful effects of climate change and ecosystem degradation are being borne disproportionately by the poor, notably women, young people, disable people and other minorities including indigenous peoples and other natural resource-dependent communities;

Or. en

Amendment 627

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 b. Calls on the Commission to enhance and support the configuration of a Council of Ministers for Gender Equality, dedicated to the very questions of women's rights and gender equality;

Or. en

Amendment 628

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 b. Calls on Member States to raise awareness of women in the media and to exchange best practices in advancing women’s representation and portrayal in the media;

Or. en

Amendment 629

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 c. Calls on the Member States to swiftly implement the Women on Boards Directive, noting that women remain underrepresented in positions of power in many economic sectors across the EU, and urges Member States to effectively address the issue of underrepresentation of women in economic and political-decision making positions;

Or. en

Amendment 630

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 b. Underlines the harmful effects that environmental degradation has on the health of women and girls, especially the impact of PFAS which are linked to a number of serious health problems, including cancer, infertility, birth defects and immune system disorders;

Or. en

Amendment 631

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 c. Urges the Commission to highlight these links and to work across DGs to enforce environmental policies, including the REACH regulation, to prevent the continued destruction of the environment and the ongoing degredation of health of women, girls and other vulnerable groups;

Or. en

Amendment 632

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 d. Recalls that a just green transition is necessary to avoid severe future crises and increased poverty; recalls, furthermore, that the green transition will only be socially fair if it includes a gender perspective and guarantees equal opportunities for women and those experiencing intersectional discrimination as well as their meaningful inclusion in the policymaking process; calls, therefore, on the Commission to appoint an EU gender and climate coordinator with sufficient staff and funding, and to introduce gender impact assessments in all EU policies and legislation, in particular in European Green Deal initiatives;

Or. en

Amendment 633

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Feminist foreign policy

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 634

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Feminist foreign policy

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 635

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Feminist foreign policy

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 636

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Mathilde Androuët

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Feminist foreign policy

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 637

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Giusi Princi, Eleonora Meleti, Maria Walsh, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Feminist foreign policy

Gender equality and foreign policy

Or. en

Amendment 638

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Feminist foreign policy

Gender sensitive foreign policy

Or. en

Amendment 639

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 640

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 641

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on the Commission to promote a foreign, security, trade and development policy that gives priority to gender equality following the principle of the three ‘R’s (rights, representation and resources) and to establish a dedicated support service for countering the anti-gender movement, providing support to women human rights defenders and organisations globally; stresses that this service should operate through EU Permanent Representations in third countries, with a specific mandate to support women’s rights organisations and defenders; calls on the Commission to allocate targeted funding to Permanent Representations to enable them to effectively carry out this task;

Or. en

Amendment 642

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on the Commission to promote a feminist foreign, security, trade and development policy entails a gender transformative vision, putting the need to address unequal structures and power relations at its centre; highlights that such a policy must advocate for systemic changes and the dismantlement of systems of oppression, including colonialism, racism and patriarchy;

Or. en

Amendment 643

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on the Commission to promote and advance a foreign, security, trade and development policy that gives priority to gender equality and protects women's rights following the three ‘R’s (rights, representation and resources), principles of feminist foreign policy; calls on the Commission to include Feminist Foreign Policy as a policy objective under the GES post 2025;

Or. en

Amendment 644

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on the Commission to promote a foreign, security, trade and development policy that gives priority to gender equality following the principle of the three ‘R’s (rights, representation and resources), redirecting military budgets towards social and climate justice initiatives, and suspending arms exports to regimes with poor women's rights records;

Or. en

Amendment 645

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on the Commission to not grant funds, within the framework of its external action, to third countries that fail to uphold gender equality, particularly countries practising apartheid between the sexes such as Afghanistan;

Or. fr

Amendment 646

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Giusi Princi, Eleonora Meleti, Maria Walsh, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on the Commission to promote a foreign, security, trade and development policy that advances gender equality following the principle of the three ‘R’s (rights, representation and resources);

Or. en

Amendment 647

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on the Commission to promote a foreign, security, trade and development policy that recognises the importance of gender equality, in accordance with international human rights standards;

Or. en

Amendment 648

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Stresses the importance of integrating gender equality as a key objective of EU development cooperation and external action; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that targeted technical assistance and policy dialogue are directed toward supporting women’s empowerment, access to education, healthcare and economic opportunities in developing countries, in particular in fragile, conflict-affected and climate-vulnerable regions; underlines the need to partner with and strengthen the capacity of local women’s organisations and grassroots movements;

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Amendment 649

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls on the Commission to put forward concrete actions and measures to promote and ensure women´s participation and leadership in foreign policy, defence and security and the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts and crises as well as preparedness and peace-building; calls on the Commission to develop a common tracking methodology for collecting data on women´s participation in these sectors;

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Amendment 650

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Regrets that feminist foreign policy initiatives are short-term or crisis-driven rather than part of long-term structural reform that could affect meaningful change; notes how this short-term focus often leads to temporary changes or symbolic gestures, rather than sustained investments in gender equality that can produce lasting change for women and girls;

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Amendment 651

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls on the European Commission to renew the Gender Action Plan by timely adopting an ambitious Gender Action Plan IV in 2027; highlights that the key principles of GAPIII – human-rights based approach, intersectionality and gender-transformative approach – should be an integral part of GAP IV and their concrete implementation should be strengthened;

Or. en

Amendment 652

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 653

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen its Global Health Policy by ensuring stronger support towards the WHO goal for cervical cancer elimination, including actively promoting synergies between current policies for achieving HPV cancer elimination in Europe as part of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan;

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Amendment 654

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the meaningful participation of women in security and defence, especially at a time when the EU has made security and defence a priority with the launch of the White Paper for European Defence and the EU Preparedness Union Strategy;

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Amendment 655

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls on the Commission to systematically integrate a feminist dimension into its response to international crisis and conflicts, including through the mobilisation of dedicated funding to address the use of sexual and other gender-based violence as a weapon of war;

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Amendment 656

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls on the Commission to support HRD and civil society organisations engaged in promoting and facilitating access to SRHR, whose work is threatened by shrinking civil society space;

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Amendment 657

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Calls on the Commission to take stock of the progress made in implementing Women, Peace and Security agenda at EU level and present its conclusions to the Council and the European Parliament; urges the Commission to put forward, based on the stock-taking exercise, a follow-up Action Plan to the Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2019-2024, and presenting actions to achieve gender-balanced and gender-responsive leadership at all EU levels and sufficient in-house capacity and capability to systemically integrate a gender perspective and conduct gender analysis; stresses the need to adapt and extend the next Action Plan to the changing nature of conflicts and new threats to peace and security, and apply the agenda holistically and as a women’s human rights agenda in all decision and policy making situations;

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Amendment 658

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Stresses that SRHR must be an indivisible and non-negotiable pillar of GAP IV and of an EU's feminist foreign and development policy. The EU must demonstrate global leadership by ensuring adequate, predictable and long-term funding for SRHR initiatives, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries; by ensuring access to SRHR for survivors of gender-based violence, safe abortion, emergency contraception, and post-abortion care in all EU-funded humanitarian responses; by supporting feminist movements, women’s rights organisations and civil society organisations working on SRHR in restrictive contexts; by advocating for the removal of legal and policy barriers that criminalise abortion, same-sex relations, and gender-affirming healthcare;

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Amendment 659

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Underlines the importance of promoting the meaningful participation of women in military, peacekeeping, and security structures, both within the EU and in its external operations; calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in national armed forces and civilian missions, and to integrate gender perspectives into all phases of security and defence policy-making, planning and implementation; stresses the need to implement the Women, Peace and Security agenda as a core element of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy;

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Amendment 660

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Stresses the importance of advancing women’s rights and equality of opportunity between men and women worldwide, which are crucial to the realisation of human rights; emphasises that, in spite of progress, women and girls continue to suffer from discrimination and violence, especially in countries under strict Islamic regimes, and that such societies fail to provide them with equal rights under the law and equal access to education, healthcare, decent work and political and economic representation;

Or. en

Amendment 661

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Calls for the advancement of the implementation of the UN Resolution 1325 through National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security (NAP 1325-IV) and to support women’s participation in the military as well as in peace negotiations and in post-conflict reconstruction; highlights studies that show that peace agreements with women signatories have higher rates of implementation and last longer1a;

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1a Article "Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace": https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03050629.2018.1492386

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Amendment 662

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Calls on the EEAS, the Commission and EU member states to recommit, through a new GAP, to gender mainstreaming in all sectors, including in non-social sectors such as trade, energy, agriculture and migration; calls on the EEAS, the relevant Commission services and EU member states to commit in parallel to implement more gender targeted actions in addition to gender mainstreaming;

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Amendment 663

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Calls on the Commission to renew the Gender Action Plan by timely adopting an ambitious Gender Action Plan IV in 2027; highlights that the key principles of GAP III - human rights based approach, intersectionality and gender-transformative approach - should be an integral part of GAP IV and their concrete implementation should be strengthened;

Or. en

Amendment 664

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Notes how any foreign policy should be merit based to ensure the security and economic wellbeing of women and girls, among others;

Or. en

Amendment 665

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 c. Stresses that SRHR must be an indivisible and non-negotiable pillar of GAP IV and of an EU's feminist foreign and development policy and calls on the Commission to ensure adequate, predictable and long-term funding for SRHR initiative, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries; by ensuring access to SRHR for survivors of gender-based violence, safe abortion, emergency contraception and post-abortion care in all EU-funded humanitarian responses; by supporting feminist movements, women's rights organisations and civil society organisations working on SRHR in restrictive contexts, by advocating for the removal of legal and policy barriers that criminalise abortion, same-sex relations and gender-affirming healthcare;

Or. en

Amendment 666

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 c. Calls on the Commission to adopt a mechanism to track the amount of EU funding for gender equality allocated and disbursed in partner countries and report on it through the GAP III; further calls on the Commission to undertake a formal evaluation of the gender impact of the different programmes financed by the EU, including modalities such as budget support, and to report back to the European Parliament; stresses that this evaluation should be based on gender-disaggregated data and that its result should be integrated in future programming; reminds the importance to ensure that partners count with sufficient financial resources for gender mainstreaming;

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Amendment 667

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 c. Calls on the Commission to ensure consistent and sustainable budgeting for all gender-related activities in the EU Defence and Security sector, in line with the EU Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security; emphasizes the need for a dedicated funding for gender-related actions within Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, including a specific budget line for the Gender Advisors within civilian CSDP missions;

Or. en

Amendment 668

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 c. Recalls that due to recent and ongoing occupations of European and EU territories, there is a need for a potential shift in foreign policy priorities, focusing more on defence and security issues, especially due to regional security concerns in Europe which have grave consequences for women and girls among others;

Or. en

Amendment 669

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 c. Welcomes the Civilian Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) Compact adopted in May 2023 also committed to enhancing a gender-responsive leadership in the missions and set the goal of having 40 % of women among the international staff;

Or. en

Amendment 670

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 c. Increase political and financial support for gender equality initiatives and UN agencies like UN Women and UNFPA, with a specific focus on UNFPA Supply Partnership;

Or. en

Amendment 671

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 d. Calls on the Commission to undertake a second review of the progress achieved in implementing the current Gender Action Plan (GAP III) and to keep the pace and the level of ambition for the implementation of the Plan high; calls on the Commission to start the preparations for the next Gender Action Plan post-2027 (GAP IV) to ensure its timely adoption, including by setting aside adequate funding for the implementation of the Plan in the upcoming proposal on MFF 2028-2034; calls on the Commission to ensure that the established target of 85% of Official Development Aid (ODA) going to projects that have gender equality as a significant or principal objective is preserved under GAP IV and that a new target of 20% of ODA going to projects which have gender equality as their principal objective is included; stresses that SRHR need to be an integral part of GAP IV;

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Amendment 672

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 d. Stresses the need for women's equal and meaningful participation as active agents in conflict prevention and resolution, peace negotiations, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, humanitarian response, the preparation of crisis, preparedness and security plans and assessements, and post-conflict reconstruction; calls on the Commission to add this to its Gender Equality Strategy;

Or. en

Amendment 673

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 d. Notes with interest how countries, including EU Member States, are moving away from feminist foreign policies; underscores how the Commission and Member States should take note of this change in policy;

Or. en

Amendment 674

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 d. Guarantee, in the Gender Equality Strategy, coherence across EU external policies and between external and internal policies, meaning especially alignment with GAPIII;

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Amendment 675

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 e. Emphasises that crisis, such as armed conflicts, occupation of territory, natural disasters and humanitarian crisis, energy poverty, climate change and the cost-of-living crisis disproportionately affect the most vulnerable groups, including women, the elderly, children, LGBTIQ+ people, migrants, Roma and people with disabilities; Calls on the Commission to add crisis management, preparedness and security into the new Gender Equality Strategy; calls on the Commission to integrate gender and non-discrimination into the implementation of the EU Preparedness Union Strategy to prevent and react to emerging threats and crises, ensuring that intersectionality and gender equality are part of the plan;

Or. en

Amendment 676

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 e. Urges the Commission to effectively link the internal and external policies on gender equality, namely the upcoming Gender Equality Strategy and the GAP III and GAP IV to ensure that they are coherent, coordinated and mutually reinforce each other; highlights the need to ensure that the EU leads by example and ensure a balanced gender representation in its external actions;

Or. en

Amendment 677

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 e. Stresses that the EU must reaffirm its commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment globally, especially as democratic values, human rights and gender equality face increasing threats and defunding; calls on the Commission and Member States continue to support CSOs and WROs, particularly in regions where gender equality is under attack;

Or. en

Amendment 678

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 e. Condemns any practice that involves the use of civilians, including women and girls, as human shields, including by terrorist organizations, as has been the case with Hamas;

Or. en

Amendment 679

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 f. Calls on the Commission to ensure, through an EU Feminist Foreign Policy, that gender equality is integrated into all EU external actions, including, defence, migration, development and humanitarian policies; insists that this can only be done through increasing funding for both gender mainstreaming and gender-targeted actions across all EU external financing mechanisms; calls on the Commission to include in its proposal for the next MFF strengthened gender equality targets in external actions with 85% of all EU ODA mainstreaming gender (OECD marker G1) and 20% of ODA dedicated to gender-targeted projects (OECD marker 2);

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Amendment 680

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 f. Reaffirms the EU’s foreign policy which includes Israel's right to self-defence, which in effect ensures that the EU upholds the fundamental right of women and girls in conflict zones to live free from violence, exploitation, and the threat of being slaughtered or used as hostages and human shields by terrorist organizations;

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Amendment 681

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 f. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase funding for women’s organisations in the global south; Urges the Commission and the Member States to step into the gaps in development aid for women’s right organisations that were created by the rollback of USAID;

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Amendment 682

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 g (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 g. Recalls Iran’s support for its proxy Hamas, underscoring the ongoing proxy dynamics in the region, as Iran continues to support terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, complicating efforts for regional stability; deplores Iran’s "morality police" and suggests that the gender equality strategy offers unwavering support to the women leading the charge in calling for greater freedoms and an end to compulsory hijab laws and other horrific draconian laws;

Or. en

Amendment 683

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 g (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 g. Calls on the Member States to take measures to ensure access for migrant and refugee women to healthcare, employment, food and information services and to mitigate protection risks, particularly violence between men and women and trafficking of women;

Or. en

Amendment 684

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 h (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 h. Condemns the Taliban decree, the so-called law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’, extends these restrictions by even requiring that female voices not be heard in public, thus further depriving Afghan women of their fundamental rights and freedoms, amounting to gender apartheid;

Or. en

Amendment 685

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 h (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 h. Calls on the Commission to mainstream gender equality in all EU migration and asylum policies, ensuring access to protection, healthcare and legal aid for women, girls and LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum;

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Amendment 686

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 i (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 i. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to establish mechanisms for the protection of feminist, LGBTIQ+ and SRHR human rights defenders, particularly in countries experiencing democratic backsliding;

Or. en

Amendment 687

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 j (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 j. Emphasises that crises, such as armed conflicts, occupation of territory, natural disasters and humanitarian crises, energy poverty, climate change and the cost-of-living crisis, disproportionately affect the most vulnerable groups, including women, the elderly, children, LGBTIQ+ people, migrants, Roma and people with disabilities; calls on the Commission to add crisis management, preparedness and security into the new Gender Equality Strategy; calls on the Commission to integrate gender and non-discrimination into the implementation of the EU Preparedness Union Strategy to prevent and react to emerging threats and crises, including in the foreign policy area, ensuring that intersectionality and gender equality are part of the plan;

Or. en

Amendment 688

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Countering anti-gender movements

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Amendment 689

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Countering anti-gender movements

Protecting civil society and women’s rights organisation and countering anti-gender movements

Or. en

Amendment 690

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Countering anti-gender movements

Measures to recognise biological sex

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Amendment 691

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 d. Highlights the growth of the so-called ‘manosphere’; urges the Commission to counter rising misogynistic, far-right values among boys and young men concerning gender equality and women’s rights by promoting gender equality and sexuality and relationship education in schools, strengthening critical media literacy, countering misinformation and challenging gender stereotypes;

Or. en

Amendment 692

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 e. Acknowledges that a significant portion of the funding driving the growth of anti-gender movements across the EU comes from foreign actors, which have reportedly provided financial and logistical support to organisations and campaigns aimed at promoting anti- gender narratives and calls on the Commission to revise all current funding in order to ensure that no EU funds are going towards anti-democratic and anti-gender objectives and projects;

Or. en

Amendment 693

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 f. Notes with concern the alarming rise in hate crimes and hate speech targeting women, LGBTIQ+ individuals, racialised people and other marginalised groups across several Member States, exacerbated by political rhetoric and insufficient enforcement of anti- discrimination laws;

Or. en

Amendment 694

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 g (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 g. Highlights the lack of protection across the Member States, due to variations in the implementation of protective measures, leaving certain groups more vulnerable to discrimination and violence; expresses concern over the lack of progress in the implementation of equality and anti- discrimination laws in some Member States and urges the Commission to address this in the new Gender Equality Strategy; further calls on the Commission to reverse the withdrawal of the horizontal anti-discrimination directive;

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Amendment 695

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to develop a comprehensive tool to monitor and counter democratic backsliding and backsliding in women’s rights, which are intrinsically linked, and to ensure that gender equality remains a priority across the EU;

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Or. en

Amendment 696

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to establish a comprehensive monitoring and accountability mechanism to swiftly address any democratic backsliding and backsliding in women’s rights and gender equality, including SRHR and the rights of LGBTIQ+ persons, which are intrinsically linked, in Member States, as part of the existing mechanisms to assess compliance with the rule of law or fundamental rights, or as a dedicated mechanism; calls on the Commission to apply the Conditionality Regulation in cases of regressions in human rights, including but not limited to restrictions on SRHR, access to abortion care or sexuality education, which must be considered violations of EU values and trigger proportionate institutional responses, including infringement procedures and funding consequences and to ensure that gender equality remains a priority across the EU, calls on the Commission in that sense to ensure that gender equality remains a priority across the EU;

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Amendment 697

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to counter the continuing democratic backsliding, including the backsliding in women's rights, which are intrinsically linked, and to ensure that gender equality remains a priority across the EU; with all measures to counter backsliding should reflect an intersectional perspective because anti-rights actors disproportionately target women who have intersecting identities, including women of ethnic, national, or religious backgrounds, LBTIQ women, migrant and undocumented women and others; building upon using existing instruments such as the Digital Services Act, including the Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech, and AI Act, it also should include developing policy proposals to close identified gaps, for example under the European Democracy Shield and Digital Fairness Act;

Or. en

Amendment 698

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to develop a comprehensive tool to monitor and counter democratic backsliding and backsliding in women’s rights, such as the fact that gender can replace sex, that women’s rights can be opened up to people of the biological male sex, that women’s sports competitions or changing rooms can be accessible to people who are biologically male, or that men convicted of sexual assault who self-identify as women are incarcerated in detention centres reserved for women, and to ensure that gender equality remains a priority across the EU;

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Amendment 699

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to develop a comprehensive, efficient and transparent tool for the monitoring and countering of democratic backsliding and backsliding on women’s rights, which are intrinsically-linked phenomena, and to guarantee that the promotion of gender equality remains a cross-cutting and effective priority in all EU policies and measures;

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Amendment 700

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to develop a comprehensive tool to monitor and counter democratic backsliding in women’s rights and gender equality, where women journalists, activists, and human rights defenders including defenders of sexual and reproductive health and rights are particularly vulnerable and consistently targeted;

Or. en

Amendment 701

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to develop a comprehensive tool to monitor and counter democratic backsliding and backsliding in women’s rights, which are intrinsically linked, in line with the existing tools for monitoring the rule of law and to ensure that gender equality remains a priority and is pursued across the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 702

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 703

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to monitor and counter democratic backsliding in the rule of law and backsliding in women’s rights, and to ensure that gender equality remains a priority across the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 704

Irmhild Boßdorf

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Urges the Commission to develop a comprehensive tool to counter democratic backsliding and backsliding in women’s rights, which are intrinsically linked, and to ensure that gender equality remains a priority across the EU;

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Amendment 705

Mathilde Androuët, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17a. Is concerned about hasty diagnoses of gender dysphoria, the health consequences of gender transitions, the psychiatric co-morbidities of sex reassignment operations1a, the deterioration in conditions for gays and lesbians faced with transgenderism in their living environments, the lack of recognition for victims of gender transition or detransitioners, and the opening up of women's sporting competitions to people who are biologically male, which compounds the risks for women's health and social and sports representation;

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1a 'Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study', The Journal of Sexual Medicine, published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The International Society for Sexual Medicine, 25 January 2025

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Amendment 706

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Urges the Commission to closely monitor the implementation in Member States of funds under shared management aimed at promoting gender equality and supporting civil society, including women NGOs, in order to ensure that calls for proposals to obtain such funds are not being deliberately paused or withheld;

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Amendment 707

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce mandatory gender impact assessments for artificial intelligence systems and digital technologies, ensuring that gender biases are identified, prevented and mitigated at all stages of design, development, deployment and use;

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Amendment 708

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Valérie Devaux, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Calls on the Commission to explore the growing divergence in attitudes between young men and young women towards feminism, to assess its societal consequences, particularly in online spaces, and to develop measures to address emerging challenges;

Or. en

Amendment 709

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Underlines that any request for EIGE’s assistance in ensuring gender equality between men and women and the provision of data should not be expected on top of their current workload; calls for the EIGE to be allocated seven temporary agents;

Or. en

Amendment 710

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Urges the Commission to ensure sustainable and accessible funding for women's rights organisations, recognising their crucial role in defending democracy, promoting gender equality, safeguarding fundamental rights, and providing essential services;

Or. en

Amendment 711

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Calls on the Commission to recognise and protect feminist, LGBTIQ+ and reproductive rights movements, which are increasingly targeted by anti-gender and far-right groups across Europe;

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Amendment 712

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 b. Recalls the crucial role played by civil society organisations (CSOs), especially women's rights organisations (WROs) and women human rights defenders (WHRDs), in defending and advancing gender equality, human rights, and fundamental freedoms, especially during times of political, social, and institutional backlash; urges the Commission and Member States to protect, ensure the safety of, and support CSOs,WROs and WHRDs, which are essential in advocating for inclusive policy reforms, challenging discriminatory practices, and mobilising communities in the defence of fundamental rights in the EU and globally;

Or. en

Amendment 713

Loucas Fourlas

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 b. Notes how the renewed gender equality strategy, and the new tasks assigned to it for monitoring the implementation of EU legislation such as, the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, the Gender Balance on Boards Directive, the Pay Transparency Directive, the Directive to combat violence against women and domestic violence and the Standards for Equality Bodies Directive will create extra work for the Agency, thereby demonstrating the need for the extra seven temporary agents;

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Amendment 714

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 b. Urges the Commission and Member States to support and protect civil society organisations, including women´s right organisations, and women human rights defenders, which play a crucial role in defending and advancing gender equality, human rights, and fundamental freedoms, especially during times of political, social, and institutional backlash;

Or. en

Amendment 715

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 c. Urges the Commission to maintain and strengthen its commitment to supporting civil society, including financially through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV), ensuring that it remains a robust tool for addressing emerging threats to rights and freedoms; calls in particular on the Commission to maintain CERV as a standalone Programme under direct management, with a dedicated strand to gender equality and women’s rights, including SRHR, as well as dedicated strands to combating gender-based violence, and to combating discrimination including against LGBTIQ people, that provides both action grants and operating grants, covering structural costs and a wide range of activities, including advocacy; calls on the Commission to increase substantially the funding allocated to CERV, to respond to the needs of underfunded CSOs and to the increasing threats and challenges to civic space and EU values, in order to fulfil the ambitions of the Programme;

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Amendment 716

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 c. Urges the Commission to conduct in-depth research on anti-gender movements to gain deeper insights into their current operations and financing strategies; stresses that understanding these dynamics is crucial for safeguarding a modern, inclusive, and tolerant Europe true to its values;

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Amendment 717

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 d. Stresses the need for a deeper the understanding of the incel phenomenon and ideology and put forward more active policies to counter them and their narratives; emphasizes the importance of prevention, including by increasing digital media literacy, demystifying sex and sexuality amongst youth and raising awareness among practitioners and caregivers; highlights the importance of addressing both the potential security issues related to the incel phenomenon and ideology, but also the underlying mental health issues;

Or. en

Amendment 718

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 d. Recalls that EIGE has experienced persistent issues with understaffing, which were further aggravated through the sharp increase in requests for technical assistance;

Or. en

Amendment 719

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 e. Urges the Commission and Member States to increase the support for women’s organisations, including those working in the humanitarian sector, to tackle the current decrease in international funding;

Or. en

Amendment 720

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Institutional environment

Or. en

Amendment 721

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 f. Calls on the Commission to ensure that European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has sufficient financial and staff resources to be able to effectively deliver on its tasks and have leeway to adjust to changing circumstances, including inflationary pressure; Urges the Commission to ensure that EIGE is allocated adequate additional resources when a legislative proposal assigns it new tasks, in line with the Inter-institutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 on budgetary discipline, cooperation in budgetary matters, and sound financial management (IIA);

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Amendment 722

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 g (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 g. Calls on the Commission to ensure institutional set up for gender equality at EU level and in Member States; urges the Commission to monitor and encourage swift implementation of the Directive on standards for equality bodies and to put forward a recommendation to Member States regarding standards of their functioning and tasks in order to facilitate the correct transposition of the Directive and ensure harmonisation of the set-up of equality bodies across the Union;

Or. en

Amendment 723

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 h (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 h. Calls on the Council to establish a configuration on Gender Equality gathering ministers and secretaries of state in charge of gender equality in a single dedicated forum in order to deliver common and concrete measures to address the challenges in the field of women’s rights and gender equality, and to ensure that gender equality issues are discussed at the highest political level;

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Amendment 724

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Emphasises the link between deteriorating rule of law and democratic standards and the violation of fundamental rights, particularly women and minority rights, where political actors fuel hatred and divisions in various Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 725

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 b. Urges the Commission to counter rising anti-democratic values among boys and young men concerning gender equality and women's rights by promoting gender equality and sexuality and relationship education in schools, strenghtening critical media literacy, countering misinformation and challenging gender stereotypes;

Or. en

Amendment 726

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 c. Acknowledges that a significant portion of the funding driving the growth of anti-gender movements across the EU comes from foreign actors, which have reportedly provided financial and logistical support to organisations and campaigns aimed at promoting anti-gender narratives 1a and calls on the Commission to revise all current funding in order to ensure that no EU funds are going towards anti-democratic and anti-gender objectives and projects;

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1a European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, ‘Tip of the Iceberg: Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality & Reproductive Health in Europe’, June 2021,

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Amendment 727

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 d. Notes with concern the alarming rise in hate crimes and hate speech targeting women, LGBTIQ+ individuals, racial minorities and other vulnerable groups across several Member States, exacerbated by political rhetoric and insufficient enforcement of anti-discrimination laws; highlights the lack of protection across the Member States due to variations in the implementation of protective measures, leaving certain groups more vulnerable to discrimination and violence; expresses concern over the lack of progress in the implementation of equality and anti-discrimination laws in some Member States and urges the Commission to address this in the new GE Strategy;

Or. en

Amendment 728

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Cross-cutting means ofachieving gender equality

Cross-cutting means of achieving equality between women and men

Or. en

Amendment 729

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Cross-cutting means ofachieving gender equality

Cross-cutting means of achieving equality

Or. en

Amendment 730

Irmhild Boßdorf

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in gender equality must be made with full respect of the principles of intersectionality and gender mainstreaming;

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Amendment 731

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in gender equality must be made with full respect of the principles of intersectionality and gender mainstreaming;

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in gender equality must follow the principles of gender mainstreaming, ensuring that gender perspectives are integrated into all policies, actions and processes across all levels of governance, within the EU; calls on the Commission to ensure that gender mainstreaming is applied consistently and effectively across all sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 732

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in gender equality must be made with full respect of the principles of intersectionality and gender mainstreaming;

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in gender equality must be made with full respect of the principles of diversity-sensitive approaches and gender mainstreaming;

Or. en

Amendment 733

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in gender equality must be made with full respect of the principles of intersectionality and gender mainstreaming;

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in equality between women and men must take into account the natural differences between women and men ;

Or. en

Amendment 734

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in gender equality must be made with full respect of the principles of intersectionality and gender mainstreaming;

18. Reiterates that all efforts to achieve progress in gender equality must be made with full respect of women's biological sex and men's biological sex;

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Amendment 735

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to reflect the intersectionality of the myriad of women’s challenges, build on the broad range of expertise across the EU Member States and support the setting-up of women’s expert groups to address the specific challenges that impact women’s quality of life and participation in society, foster collaboration and exchange of best practices, drive the women’s health, social, research and education agenda across the EU and meet the EU Treaty’s goal to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women;

Or. en

Amendment 736

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Recalls the vital role women in rural areas play in maintaining their communities and in keeping agriculture viable; regrets despite their substantial contribution, they continue to face numerous challenges, including limited employment opportunities, poorer access to services, less developed infrastructure and underrepresentation in decision-making fora and furthermore regrets that much of the work of rural women is informal and unacknowledged;

Or. en

Amendment 737

Galato Alexandraki

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18a. Stresses that equality policies must support and strengthen the role of women in the family and society, recognising the value of motherhood, the specificities of women and cultural tradition. Rejects the promotion of controversial ideological concepts such as gender that confuse roles and weaken respect for women as women;

Or. el

Amendment 738

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Urges the Member States to take specific economic and social measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, particularly with regard to access to housing, transport and energy at accessible prices;

Or. en

Amendment 739

Giusi Princi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on the Commission, in line with the principle of intersectionality, to pay particular attention to the specific needs of women with disabilities within the forthcoming Gender Equality Strategy;

Or. en

Amendment 740

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on the Commission to examine and address the persisting inequalities in key policy areas and sectors, including but not limited to agriculture, rural development and housing;

Or. en

Amendment 741

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 b. Notes the creation of a thematic sub-programme for women in rural areas through the Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plans financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), encouraging women’s employment and female entrepreneurship using opportunities linked to agro-tourism and the development of digital villages, improving female farmers’ access to land, credit and financial instruments, skills and performance through education, training and advisory services, increased participation in local action groups and the development of local partnerships under the Leader programme;

Or. en

Amendment 742

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 c. Calls for the exchange of best practices by Member States, in particular on professional status for assisting spouses in the agricultural sector, thereby addressing women’s social security rights, including maternity leave or pension entitlements, and women’s access to available EU funding;

Or. en

Amendment 743

Irmhild Boßdorf

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Or. de

Amendment 744

Mathilde Androuët, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. fr

Amendment 745

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 746

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls on the Commission to ensure and further develop the application of gender mainstreaming in its structures, methods and tools, and to ensure that the gender perspective is integrated into all of the Commission’s proposals, including all budgetary procedures; in the framework of the next MFF, calls on the Commission to include a gender-budgeting approach into all pillars, funding instruments and budget lines of the next MFF, to ensure they all actively contribute to gender equality goals at all stages – from planning and allocation to monitoring of financial resources;

Or. en

Amendment 747

Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Mirosława Nykiel, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls on the Commission to ensure and further develop the application of gender mainstreaming in its structures, methods and tools, and to ensure that the gender perspective is integrated into all of the Commission’s proposals, including all budgetary procedures; calls, in particular, for the consistent application of gender budgeting as a practical tool to improve the transparency, efficiency and fairness of EU spending, ensuring that public resources support equal opportunities for women and men in line with the objectives of the Union;

Or. en

Amendment 748

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all its policies, procedures, and proposals are developed in accordance with fundamental rights, including the right to equality between women and men, and that they move away from ideological approaches that may distort the principle of equality, promoting objective measures that benefit all individuals;

Or. en

Amendment 749

Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 750

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 751

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Urges the Commission to further develop the gender expenditure tracking methodology as set out in the Inter-institutional Agreement, especially to address gaps in terms of collection of gender-disaggregated data and to clarify scoring criteria; calls on the Commission to introduce a score category to capture budgetary interventions with a negative impact on gender equality which is currently missing;

Or. en

Amendment 752

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure a just and socially fair transition that works for all by developing a gender-transformative intersectional strategy to address poverty and by increasing public investment in social, affordable and energy-efficient housing, taking into account the specific needs of women, who often significantly contribute towards household management, yet lack equal access to resources;

Or. en

Amendment 753

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Urges the Commission to mainstream gender equality in the new MFF and help eliminate inequalities across the Union, includng by dedicating a concrete budget line with resources that are higher than the current ones and by supporting gender equality and other equality objectivs in line with the Treaties;

Or. en

Amendment 754

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen inter-service cooperation between relevant Directorates-General to ensure gender equality is systematically integrated across initiatives related to health, including the health workforce, cancer prevention and control, and the elimination of HPV-related cancers;

Or. en

Amendment 755

Lina Gálvez

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Calls on the European Commision to avoid eliminating the gender conditionality of funds or the gender perspective in any of the EU Programmes, such as Horizon Europe, under pretext of supposed improvement of competitivenes;

Or. en

Amendment 756

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure binding gender budgeting at all levels of EU spending, and to make use of gender impact assessments in all financial instruments;

Or. en

Amendment 757

Benedetta Scuderi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 b. Calls for links to be established between the targets included in the upcoming gender equality strategy and the MFF as a key vehicle to implement the strategy; underlines the need for improved collection, reporting and evaluation of comparable gender-disaggregated data and the development of horizontal EU definitions, to facilitate gender impact assessments in Union policy areas; calls for an improved methodology that should identify not only the beneficiaries of the funds, but also the transformative potential of the programmes; points out that, besides a positive and neutral effects, some budgetary interventions might have negative implications for gender equality, similarly to climate action; stresses that the current budget tracking methodology does not foresee any category for such cases, which does not allow for an objective assessment of the state of play of gender budgeting in the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 758

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 b. Urges the Commission to further develop the current “tracking-only” stage into a fully-fledged gender budgeting, embedding the gender equality perspective across the entire budget cycle, from planning to evaluation; calls on the Commission to ensure that it is done in time for the next MFF 2028-2034; stresses that this requires setting clear priorities, commitments and indicators on gender equality via a targeted approach as well as setting concrete criteria to measure progress;

Or. en

Amendment 759

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 b. Calls for adequate funding for EU researchers, including the European Institute for Gender Equality and the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, and through tools such as projects of the gender equality plans funded by Horizon Europe, the Union of Skills and the STEM education strategic plan;

Or. en

Amendment 760

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure greater transparency and stakeholder involvement in the governance and implementation of all gender-related initiatives, and to involve the European Parliament more systematically in the scrutiny and evaluation of these actions;

Or. en

Amendment 761

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 b. Stresses the need to boost investment in public services significantly, particularly healthcare, education and transport services, with a view to addressing populations' needs and contributing to the independence, equality and emancipation of women;

Or. en

Amendment 762

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 c. Asserts that the Commission should continue tu support civil society organisations and human rights defenders working on gender equality and non-discrimination by providing adequate and accessible funding through the MFF and relevant funding programmes; reiterates that all such funding must align with the common values of the Union as enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, ensuring that financial support reinforces the democratic values of the EU; calls for sufficient funding to be allocated to civil society organisations, including women's organisations, for preventing gender-based violence under the Daphne component of the citizens, equality, rights and values programme;

Or. en

Amendment 763

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 c. Calls on the Commission to develop a robust mechanism to encompass all Union values under Article 2 TEU, including democracy, rule of law and fundamental and human rights, including women´s rights, operating under an inter-institutional agreement between the Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council, ensuring a unified approach to annual monitoring across all Member States and a clear link to concrete Union measures for cases when deficiencies remain unaddressed;

Or. en

Amendment 764

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 d. Urges the Commission to ensure that the Gender Equality Strategy post-2025 is coordinated with all other relevant existing and forthcoming strategies, frameworks and action plans, such as the EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030, EU Roma Strategic Framework on equality, inclusion and participation, EU Strategy on Victims´ Rights, LGBTIQ Strategy and EU Action Plan against Racism;

Or. en

Amendment 765

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 e. Calls on the Commission to actively consult and involve of women and girls in all their diversity through their representative organisations in the preparation and implementation of the Gender Equality Strategy post-2025, including women with disabilities, LGBTIQ women or women in rural areas;

Or. en

Amendment 766

Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mireia Borrás Pabón

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

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Or. fr

Amendment 767

Irmhild Boßdorf

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

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Amendment 768

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

20. Urges the Commission, in the new Gender Equality Strategy, to prioritise equality of opportunity - which enables women to pursue their full potential in line with their personal preferences - and to move away from the principle of equality of outcome, as promoted by the Gender Equality Index - which disregards individual choices of women and may therefore have negative unintended consequences, particularly if used as a basis for legislative proposals;

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Amendment 769

Lucia Yar, Abir Al-Sahlani, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Dainius Žalimas, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Billy Kelleher, Valérie Devaux, Jana Toom

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy and ensure intersectional approach within all legislative and non-legislative measures, especially the intersectionality of gender with other grounds of discrimination, such as disability, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, religion of belief, membership of a national minority, age or sexual orientation;

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Amendment 770

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

20. Acknowledges that many women face intersecting inequalities and discrimination in the EU and urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

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Amendment 771

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy, implementing gender-responsive budgeting and feminist audits of all EU funds;

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Amendment 772

Verena Mertens

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop intersectionality as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

20. Urges the Commission to use and further develop diversity-sensitive approaches as a cross-cutting principle in the new Gender Equality Strategy;

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Amendment 773

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Urges the Commisison and the Member States to address intersectionality in all policies related to gender equality, acknowledging that gender-based violence and discrimination are compounded also by factors such as age, ethnicity, disability, migration status and sexual orientation, and that the intersection of these factors create multiple and unique forms of discrimination that require targeted, context-specific measures to ensure equal protection and support for all women, partcularly those in vulnerable and marginalised situations;

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Amendment 774

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Eleonora Meleti, Loucas Fourlas, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Liesbet Sommen, Maria Walsh, Giusi Princi, Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that measures cover all EU territory and that they provide effective instruments to address regional disparities on gender equality both between and within EU Member States and their regions, including the outermost regions; stresses that these measures should be adaptable and adequately resourced to tackle gender disparities, taking into account the available resources, accessibility, and level of progress of each region;

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Amendment 775

Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Georgiana Teodorescu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Emphasises that the methodology used in the compilation of the Gender Equality Index does not sufficiently reflect the diverse individual preferences and interests of women and men in society, and therefore calls for its reassessment;

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Amendment 776

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Urges the Commission to make access to EU funds conditional on compliance with gender equality and SRHR standards, including the protection of sexual and reproductive rights and the fight against gender-based violence;

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Amendment 777

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 b. Calls on the Commission to develop a broad network of stakeholders contributing to achieving the goals of the new GE Strategy and to recognise the role that many of them play on different levels, such as cities, rural communities, CSOs, local action groups and academia;

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Amendment 778

Carolina Morace

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 b. Maintains that public, universal and compassionate social security, free and high-quality public and healthcare services should be provided, access to justice should be ensured and the right to housing should be enshrined;

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Amendment 779

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 c. Emphasises the importance of cooperating with experts on the ground and reiterates the importance that local and regional municipalities and organisations like the Committee of Regions have in realising gender equality; calls on the Commission to also ensure that gender equality policies are properly funded and are supported at local and regional levels and that the EU's cohesion and recovery funds include requirements for clear gender equality objectives, to ensure that regional development contributes to reducing gender disparities rather than exacerbating inequalities as they have a direct influence on a range of areas affecting gender equality, such as employment, education, care infrastructure, health, support for women who are victims of violence, and gender-sensitive urban planning and transport;

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Amendment 780

Carolina Morace, Emma Fourreau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 c. Calls on the Commission to ensure greater transparency and stakeholder involvement in the governance and implementation of all gender-related initiatives, and to involve the European Parliament more systematically in the scrutiny and evaluation of these actions by providing an annual report on implementation of the EU Gender Equality Strategy to the FEMM Committee;

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Amendment 781

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 d. Stresses that civil society organisations and human rights defenders, including organisations working on gender and equality, are essential in promoting and protecting the values and rights enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights; emphasises that the work of civil society organisations is indispensable in the system of checks and balances in a healthy democracy; calls on the Commission to include as a horizontal pillar in EU policies and in the GE Strategy actions and recommendations on the safeguarding and support of civil society organisations working on women's rights, gender equality and anti-discrimination;

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Amendment 782

Marko Vešligaj, Marina Kaljurand, Maria Noichl, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Emma Rafowicz, Elisabeth Grossmann, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Carla Tavares, Lina Gálvez, Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 e. Calls on the Commission to develop an annual report on the implementation of the GE Strategy and provide it to the FEMM Committee in order to assist its scrutiny and oversight;

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