European Parliament Committee on Women’s Rights & Gender Equality Opinion Document for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for Report on Human Rights & Democracy
This is an important and comprehensive gender-focused document . It comes from the European Parliament FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, and provides extensive text for the renewal of the EU Plan of Action on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and Development. It notes of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2015-2019 promoting non-discrimination, gender equality and women’s empowerment within and outside the European Union.
Just one example of its Calls for Action suggestions is:
12. “Calls for the promotion of women’s rights, gender equality and the fight against violence against women to be systematically included in the human rights country strategies and in the human rights and political dialogues with third countries and candidate countries; welcomes the appointment of the European External Action Service (EEAS) advisor on gender issues and gender-sensitive training programmes for diplomats and officials who are taking part in EU delegations; recalls the commitment to include human rights in all EU impact assessments so as to ensure that the EU respects, upholds and implements human rights and that its external policies and activities are formulated and implemented in such a way as to consolidate human rights abroad; points out that gender equality is not confined to men and women, but must encompass the whole LGBTI community; points to the need to mainstream gender issues more strongly into EU humanitarian aid.”
Direct Link to Full 10-Page 2015 Document: http://www.wunrn.org/pdf/femm.pdf
Извор: WUNRN – 21.11.2015
