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

2024/2057(INI)·10th term·FEMM·INI - Own-initiative procedure·Completed
Subjects: Women condition and rights · Relations with/in the context of international organisations: UN, OSCE, OECD, Council of Europe, EBRD
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): GÁLVEZ Lina (S&D)
Summary

A recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The amendments diverge over equality between women and men as an EU principle, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 and the backlash against women's rights, with some adding sexual and reproductive health and rights and others opposing language on transgenderism, puberty-blocking hormones and the family.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    5 Nov 2024
  2. Plenary vote — Adopted
    19 Dec 2024 · On the motion for a resolution · the text as a whole
  3. Procedure completed
207
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27
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1
Committee
5 Nov 2024
Dates

Plenary votes

39 roll-call votes

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  1. Show the 27 earlier votes
    1. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On amendment 4 · paragraph 1 · point q
      Official label: § 1, après le point q - Am 4 · what was voted ↗
      198 for359 against8 abstentions154 did not vote
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    2. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1 · point r (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point r/1 · what was voted ↗
      551 for8 against12 abstentions148 did not vote
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    3. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1 · point r (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point r/2 · what was voted ↗
      389 for153 against26 abstentions151 did not vote
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    4. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1 · point u (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point u/1 · what was voted ↗
      421 for89 against61 abstentions148 did not vote
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    5. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On paragraph 1 · point u (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point u/2 · what was voted ↗
      276 for287 against5 abstentions151 did not vote
      Decided by 11 votes. The contested ground: EPP (split 11 For / 123 Against)

      Broke with their group’s line18 Members voted against their group’s majority

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    6. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On paragraph 1 · point u (part 3 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point u/3 · what was voted ↗
      267 for297 against7 abstentions148 did not vote
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    7. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1 · point u (part 4 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point u/4 · what was voted ↗
      382 for159 against21 abstentions157 did not vote
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    8. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1 · point u (part 5 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point u/5 · what was voted ↗
      384 for158 against23 abstentions154 did not vote
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    9. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1 · point w (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point w/1 · what was voted ↗
      395 for151 against24 abstentions149 did not vote
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    10. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1 · point w (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 1, point w/2 · what was voted ↗
      355 for177 against29 abstentions158 did not vote
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    11. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point ae/1 · what was voted ↗
      424 for141 against1 abstentions153 did not vote
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    12. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point ae/2 · what was voted ↗
      264 for292 against5 abstentions158 did not vote
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    13. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point af/1 · what was voted ↗
      549 for14 against4 abstentions152 did not vote
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    14. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point af/2 · what was voted ↗
      271 for268 against28 abstentions152 did not vote
      Decided by 3 votes. The contested ground: ECR (19 abstentions) · EPP (split 6 For / 126 Against) · Non-attached (split 11 For / 5 Against)

      Broke with their group’s line20 Members voted against their group’s majority

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    15. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On amendment 5 · paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, après le point af - Am 5 · what was voted ↗
      167 for384 against14 abstentions154 did not vote
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    16. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On amendment 6 · paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point ag - Am 6 · what was voted ↗
      210 for332 against13 abstentions164 did not vote
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    17. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On amendment 7 · paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, après le point ag - Am 7 · what was voted ↗
      152 for383 against22 abstentions162 did not vote
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    18. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On amendment 8 · paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point ak - Am 8 · what was voted ↗
      204 for355 against7 abstentions153 did not vote
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    19. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On amendment 17 · paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point al - Am 17 · what was voted ↗
      154 for379 against26 abstentions160 did not vote
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    20. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point al/1 · what was voted ↗
      492 for43 against21 abstentions163 did not vote
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    21. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point al/2 · what was voted ↗
      366 for116 against64 abstentions173 did not vote
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    22. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point al/3 · what was voted ↗
      328 for178 against38 abstentions175 did not vote
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    23. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point al/4 · what was voted ↗
      356 for157 against36 abstentions170 did not vote
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    24. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point al/5 · what was voted ↗
      364 for120 against58 abstentions177 did not vote
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    25. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, point an · what was voted ↗
      319 for183 against45 abstentions172 did not vote
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    26. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
      On amendment 9 · paragraph 1
      Official label: § 1, après le point ar - Am 9 · what was voted ↗
      170 for364 against15 abstentions170 did not vote
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    27. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
      On citation 14
      Official label: Visa 14 · what was voted ↗
      310 for183 against50 abstentions176 did not vote
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  2. 19 Dec 2024Adopted
    On recital K
    Official label: Considérant K · what was voted ↗
    328 for143 against85 abstentions163 did not vote
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  3. 19 Dec 2024Rejected
    On amendment 1 · text to be inserted after recital K
    Official label: Après le considérant K - Am 1 · what was voted ↗
    197 for342 against12 abstentions168 did not vote
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  4. 19 Dec 2024Main voteAdopted
    On the motion for a resolution · the text as a whole
    Official label: Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte) · what was voted ↗
    322 for163 against46 abstentions188 did not vote
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Showing the 30 most relevant of 39 recorded votes — the full list ships with the data files. · Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Plenary amendments18 tabled on this text

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

  1. Amendment 1PfEDraft recommendation · Recital K a (new)
    Amendment

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

    official amendment document ↗
  2. Amendment 2PfEDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
    Amendment

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

    official amendment document ↗
  3. Amendment 3PfEDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point q a (new)
    Amendment

    (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;

    official amendment document ↗
  4. Amendment 4PfEDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point q b (new)
    Amendment

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

    official amendment document ↗
  5. Amendment 5PfEDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point af a (new)
    Amendment

    (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.

    official amendment document ↗
  6. Amendment 6PfEDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point ag
    Current text

    (ag) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding online and offline gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological, verbal and economic violence, harassment at work, as well as violence in situations of conflict and war, trafficking, early and forced marriages and sexual and reproductive exploitation, noting that this should include support for the establishment of help centres for women victims of violence in non-EU countries, particularly in disadvantaged areas, similar to anti-violence centres, with a dual objective, namely: assisting in the recognition of situations of violence and providing both legal and practi…

    Amendment

    (ag) enhance the EU’s response, resources and toolkit, both internally and externally, regarding online and offline gender-based violence, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological, verbal and economic violence, harassment at work, as well as violence in situations of conflict and war, in particular the use of rape as a weapon of war, trafficking, early and forced marriages, honour killings and sexual and reproductive exploitation, noting that this should include support for the establishment of help centres for women victims of violence in non-EU countries, particularly in disadvantaged areas, similar to anti-violence centres, with a dual objective, namely: assisting in the recogn…

    Excerpt — full text in the official PDF.
    official amendment document ↗
  7. Amendment 7PfEDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point ag a (new)
    Amendment

    (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;

    official amendment document ↗
  8. Amendment 8PfEDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point ak
    Current text

    (ak) promote the prevention of gender-based violence in sports by establishing a system to monitor and prevent such violence within sports institutions, requiring organisations to adopt preventive policies and measures, along with a secure and protected reporting mechanism;

    Amendment

    (ak) promote the prevention of gender-based violence in sports by establishing a system to monitor and prevent such violence within sports institutions, requiring organisations to adopt preventive policies and measures, along with a secure and protected reporting mechanism; denounce the breach of equality for women represented by the participation of transgender athletes in sporting competitions;

    official amendment document ↗
  9. Amendment 9PfEDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point ar a (new)
    Amendment

    (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;

    official amendment document ↗
  10. Amendment 10ECRDraft recommendation · Recital G a (new)
    Amendment

    Ga. whereas Directive (EU) 2024/1712 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims1a includes the exploitation of surrogacy within the scope of practices constituting trafficking in human beings; ______________ 1a OJ L, 2024/1712, 24.6.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/1712/oj.

    official amendment document ↗
  11. Amendment 11ECRDraft recommendation · Recital I a (new)
    Amendment

    Ia. whereas women’s sports competitions must be a celebration of sporting values; whereas all conditions must be met to ensure fairness within these competitions, to preserve the health of female athletes and to prevent physical and psychological violence against them;

    official amendment document ↗
  12. Amendment 12ECRDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point h
    Current text

    (h) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving a gender-equal world through leading by example and supporting partner countries in addressing all types of 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;

    Amendment

    (h) reiterate that the EU has an important role to play in achieving equality between men and women and supporting partner countries in addressing all types of violence against women;

    official amendment document ↗
  13. Amendment 13ECRDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
    Amendment

    (ha) reiterate the EU’s opposition to all practices constituting trafficking in human beings, such as surrogacy, forced marriage and illegal adoption;

    official amendment document ↗
  14. Amendment 14ECRDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
    Amendment

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

    official amendment document ↗
  15. Amendment 15ECRDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point m a (new)
    Amendment

    (ma) recall the essential contribution of motherhood to the global economy, and encourage countries to ensure that women who want to be mothers can make this choice without being constrained by their social conditions;

    official amendment document ↗
  16. Amendment 16ECRDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point aj a (new)
    Amendment

    (aja) pay particular attention to the condition of Syrian women and children, including those from Christian minorities, who are more likely to be the particular target of an Islamist regime, as already seen in several Middle Eastern countries, such as Afghanistan and Iraq;

    official amendment document ↗
  17. Amendment 17ECRDraft recommendation · Paragraph 1 – point al
    Current text

    (al) 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 girls in all their diversity have information and access to affordable health services, including for sexual and reproductive health and rights, in line with international human rights and public health standards, including comprehensive age-appropriate and scientifically accurate sexuality and relationship education, access to contraception and emergency contraception, safe and legal abortion, respectful m…

    Amendment

    (al) ensure that women and girls, whatever their social condition, have information and access to affordable and comprehensive health services, in line with international human rights and public health standards, including respectful maternal healthcare and care-based health services and education on reproductive health; ensure that women are protected from forced pregnancies and sex-selective or forced abortions, particularly in the context of ethnic cleansing practices, and that in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning, as mentioned in the Beijing Declaration; emphasise the importance of access to mental health services tailored to the specific needs of women a…

    Excerpt — full text in the official PDF.
    official amendment document ↗
  18. Amendment 18ECRDraft recommendation · Recital J a (new)
    Amendment

    Ja. whereas the rebels who brought down the regime in Syria are dominated by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) force; whereas the HTS group is an Islamist organisation classified as a terrorist organisation by the EU and the UN; whereas this situation raises serious concerns about the security of women and girls in the area;

    official amendment document ↗

Official amendment documents

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Members who amended this procedure

27 Members · by amendment count
1
Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN
Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN
Patriots for Europe · 🇪🇸 Spain
27(8 solo)
2
Hanna GEDIN
Hanna GEDIN
The Left (GUE/NGL) · 🇸🇪 Sweden
26(26 solo)
3
Mélissa CAMARA
Mélissa CAMARA
Greens / EFA · 🇫🇷 France
25(25 solo)
4
Diana IOVANOVICI ŞOŞOACĂ
Diana IOVANOVICI ŞOŞOACĂ
Non-attached · 🇷🇴 Romania
23(23 solo)
5
Mathilde ANDROUËT
Mathilde ANDROUËT
Patriots for Europe · 🇫🇷 France
20
6
Catherine GRISET
Catherine GRISET
Patriots for Europe · 🇫🇷 France
20
7
Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT
Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇪🇸 Spain
15(15 solo)
8
Paulo DO NASCIMENTO CABRAL
Paulo DO NASCIMENTO CABRAL
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇵🇹 Portugal
15(15 solo)
9
Eleonora MELETI
Eleonora MELETI
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇬🇷 Greece
14(14 solo)
10
Joanna SCHEURING-WIELGUS
Joanna SCHEURING-WIELGUS
Socialists & Democrats · 🇵🇱 Poland
10(10 solo)
11
Irmhild BOẞDORF
Irmhild BOẞDORF
Europe of Sovereign Nations · 🇩🇪 Germany
9(9 solo)
12
Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA
Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇵🇱 Poland
9(9 solo)
13
Gabriela FIREA
Gabriela FIREA
Socialists & Democrats · 🇷🇴 Romania
8(8 solo)
14
Abir AL-SAHLANI
Abir AL-SAHLANI
Renew Europe · 🇸🇪 Sweden
8
15
Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE
Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE
Renew Europe · 🇳🇱 Netherlands
8
16
Billy KELLEHER
Billy KELLEHER
Renew Europe · 🇮🇪 Ireland
7
17
Lucia YAR
Lucia YAR
Renew Europe · 🇸🇰 Slovakia
7
18
Valérie DEVAUX
Valérie DEVAUX
Renew Europe · 🇫🇷 France
7
19
Jana TOOM
Jana TOOM
Renew Europe · 🇪🇪 Estonia
7
20
Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ
Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ
Renew Europe · 🇸🇰 Slovakia
7
21
Laurence TROCHU
Laurence TROCHU
European Conservatives & Reformists · 🇫🇷 France
5
22
Chiara GEMMA
Chiara GEMMA
European Conservatives & Reformists · 🇮🇹 Italy
5
23
Elena DONAZZAN
Elena DONAZZAN
European Conservatives & Reformists · 🇮🇹 Italy
5
24
Carolina MORACE
Carolina MORACE
The Left (GUE/NGL) · 🇮🇹 Italy
5(5 solo)
25
Emma FOURREAU
Emma FOURREAU
The Left (GUE/NGL) · 🇫🇷 France
4(4 solo)

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