Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 1Rejected

   Recital K a (new)

   Tabled by Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset +3 · PfE

   Added: Ka. whereas support and protection must be granted to women in motherhood, to families as the basic unit of society, and to children;

2. Amendment 2Rejected

   Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

   Tabled by Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset +2 · PfE

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

3. Amendment 3Rejected

   Paragraph 1 – point q a (new)

   Tabled by Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Catherine Griset +2 · PfE

   Added: (qa) condemn the worrying decline in women’s rights and the violations perpetrated against them, such as early and forced marriages, honour killings, genital mutilation and the imposition of religious dress, in Islamic countries where Sharia applies;

4. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph 1 – point q b (new)

   Tabled by Mathilde Androuët, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Catherine Griset +1 · PfE

   Added: (qb) call for vigilance regarding respect for women’s rights in Syria following the takeover by militant groups;

5. Amendment 5Rejected

   Paragraph 1 – point af a (new)

   Tabled by Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset +1 · PfE

   Added: (afa) warn that 90 % of illegal female migrants who take the Mediterranean route are raped by smugglers and other migrants1a; 1a International Organization for Migration (IOM), Mixed Migration Centre (MMC), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), On This Journey, No One Cares if You Live or Die: Abuse, Protection and Justice along Routes between East and West Africa and Africa’s Mediterranean Coast – Volume 2, IOM, MMC, UNHCR, Geneva, 2024.

6. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 1 – point ag

   Tabled by Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset +2 · PfE

   … at work, as well as violence in situations of conflict and war, Added: in particular the use of rape as a weapon of war, trafficking, early and forced Removed: marriages Added: marriages, honour killings and sexual and reproductive exploitation, noting that this should include support for …

7. Amendment 7Rejected

   Paragraph 1 – point ag a (new)

   Tabled by Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset +1 · PfE

   Added: (aga) advocate a universal ban on the practice of surrogacy, which compromises human dignity by exploiting women’s bodies and reproductive functions for financial and other gains, and treats the unborn child as a commercial object;

8. Amendment 8Rejected

   Paragraph 1 – point ak

   Tabled by Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset +2 · PfE

   … preventive policies and measures, along with a secure and protected reporting mechanism; Added: denounce the breach of equality for women represented by the participation of transgender athletes in sporting competitions;

9. Amendment 9Rejected

   Paragraph 1 – point ar a (new)

   Tabled by Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Mathilde Androuët, Catherine Griset +3 · PfE

   Added: (ara) recognise that the ideology of transgenderism constitutes a threat to the status of women in the EU and around the world by blurring women’s identity, by allowing a man to freely appropriate the identity of a woman, by encouraging a man to participate in institutions and competitions as a woman, by allowing a man to benefit from gender equality as a woman, by inciting violence or by making threats against whistleblowers who denounce such abuses;

10. Amendment 12Rejected

    Paragraph 1 – point h

    Tabled by Laurence Trochu, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay +2 · ECR

    … reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving Removed: a gender-equal world through leading by example Added: equality between men and women and supporting partner countries in addressing all types of Removed: direct and indirect discrimination and gender-based violence; recall the importance of the Istanbul Convention, urge the remaining five Member States that have still not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so in the shortest possible timeframe, and also call on other countries to make progress towards signing and ratifying it; Added: violence against women;

11. Amendment 14Rejected

    Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)

    Tabled by Laurence Trochu, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay +2 · ECR

    Added: (ia) oppose the inclusion of male-to-female transgender athletes in women’s sports competitions;

12. Amendment 17Rejected

    Paragraph 1 – point al

    Tabled by Laurence Trochu, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay +2 · ECR

    (al) Removed: remove the legal, financial, social and practical barriers and restrictions on access to safe and legal abortion worldwide; advocate firmly for the defence of sexual and reproductive health and rights as fundamental rights and fight against anti-choice networks; ensure that women and Removed: girls in all their diversity Added: girls, whatever their social condition, have information and access to affordable Removed: health services, including for sexual and reproductive health and rights, Added: and comprehensive health services, in line with international human rights and public health standards, including Removed: comprehensive age-appropriate and scientifically accurate sexuality and relationship education, access to contraception and emergency contraception, safe and legal abortion, respectful maternal healthcare and care-based health Removed: services; Added: services and education on reproductive health; ensure that women are protected from forced pregnancies and sex-selective or forced …