Text · Amendment list
Gender Equality Strategy 2025
Report A-10-2025-0210-AM-004-004 · 2024/2125(INI)
- Kind
- Amendment list A-10-2025-0210-AM-004-004
- Date
- 5 November 2025
- Dossier
- 2024/2125(INI)
More facts (2)
- Formats
- Official page PDF Word
- Reference
- 2024/2125(INI)
Text
The text as parsed from the official Word file. Every paragraph has a link (¶) and can be saved to a project as a passage.
Motion for a resolution (Rule 188(3) of the Rules of Procedure) replacing non-legislative motion for a resolution A10-0210/2025
| – having regard to Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, – having regard to Article 157(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, – having regard to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), – having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, – having regard to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine of 4 April 1997, known as the ‘Oviedo Convention’, – having regard to the report of 14 July 2025 of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences entitled ‘The different manifestations of violence against women and girls in the context of surrogacy’, – having regard to 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 victims, which includes surrogacy among the forms of human trafficking, – having regard to Rule 55 of its Rules of Procedure, |
| A. whereas equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the EU enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty of the European Union and Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; B. whereas all policies in favour of equality must be based on respect for the intrinsic dignity of every human being, without fostering divisions or adopting ideological approaches; C. whereas violence against women, such as domestic, sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence – both online and offline – harassment in the workplace and recruitment discrimination against mothers, the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage, virginity certificates, forced abortions, sex-selective abortions and reproductive exploitation such as surrogacy are still globally widespread phenomena, including in the EU; whereas this violence has severe consequences for victims and society as a whole; D. whereas European families represent the future of the EU and must therefore be supported by family-friendly policies, which enable women to have the children they desire; E. whereas pregnant women and mothers, especially single mothers, may find themselves in situations of vulnerability and therefore require adequate support; F. whereas the ECHR enshrines the right of parents to ensure the education and teaching of their children in accordance with their religious, philosophical and educational convictions; whereas the Commission must respect this principle when defining its policies on gender equality; G. whereas the migration context increases women’s exposure to sexual violence; whereas according to a November 2024 report by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), 90 % of migrant women on the Mediterranean route are victims of rape; H. whereas surrogacy is currently practised within the EU and is a phenomenon which exposes women worldwide to exploitation and human trafficking while targeting financially and socially vulnerable women in particular; stresses its serious consequences for women’s and children’s rights and health and underlines its cross-border implications; I. whereas economic decline and increasing precarity within the EU are having a disastrous impact on women across Europe; whereas environmental and energy policies implemented by the Commission are partly responsible for this situation; |
| 1. Calls on the Commission to present a gender equality strategy for 2026-2030 that respects the competences of the Member States and is based on respect for the dignity of each person and on biological reality, i.e. defining women and men according to their biological sex; 2. Urges the EU and the Member States to tackle backsliding on women’s rights, that results from replacing sex with gender and extending women’s rights to persons of biological male sex, for example, allowing persons of biological male sex to participate in women’s sports competitions or use women’s changing rooms, or allowing men convicted of sexual assault who identify as women to be incarcerated in women’s detention centres; 3. Calls on the Commission to ensure that combating violence against women is a priority in its new gender equality strategy; 4. Is concerned about hasty diagnoses of gender dysphoria and calls for the EU and the Member States to protect the natural and healthy development of children and young people by combating the promotion of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’; 5. Calls on the Commission to promote access to education, 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; 6. Highlights the importance for women of investing in accessible, affordable and high-quality childcare and long-term care services and of promoting practical measures to support families and pregnant women; 7. Recalls that the issue of European women’s security, particularly in public spaces, must be at the heart of the new gender equality strategy; 8. Emphasises that continued migration from radical Islamic countries to Europe risks importing fundamentalist Sharia laws, thus undermining women’s rights in Europe; 9. Stresses that the mass influx of young male migrants, who are overrepresented in cases of sexual violence, directly undermines the safety of women in Europe; calls on Member States to implement readmission measures with third countries and to expel foreigners who are guilty of sexual violence; calls on the Commission to include this concern in the new gender equality strategy; 10. Welcomes the report of 14 July 2025 of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, which condemns surrogacy and calls for its international abolition; 11. Is concerned about the prevalence of violence in the pornographic industry; recalls that, according to a 2023 report by the French High Council on Gender Equality entitled ‘Pornocriminalité, mettons fin à l’impunité de l’industrie pornographique’, 90 % of pornographic content contains non-simulated acts of physical, sexual or verbal violence against women; warns of the disastrous consequences for both victims and those exposed to these images, in particular minors, and calls for the EU and the Member States to tackle this issue; 12. Calls on the Commission to reconsider policies that have undermined the economic potential of the European Union and contributed to the precarious situation of European families, particularly women and children; 13. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission. |
Connections
The dossier, the decisions on this text and its other versions.
No connections found for this item.
Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
European Parliament (2025). “A10-0210/4 - Amendment 4 - Mathilde Androuët - on behalf of the PfE Group - Report A10-0210/2025 - Marko Vešligaj - Gender Equality Strategy 2025 - (2024/2125(INI))”. Text, 5 November 2025. docId A-10-2025-0210-AM-004-004, reference A10-0210/2025. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0210-AM-004-004 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/A-10-2025-0210-AM-004-004 (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-text-a-10-2025-0210-am-004-004,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{A10-0210/4 - Amendment 4 - Mathilde Androuët - on behalf of the PfE Group - Report A10-0210/2025 - Marko Vešligaj - Gender Equality Strategy 2025 - (2024/2125(INI))}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-11-05},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0210-AM-004-004}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0210-AM-004-004},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId A-10-2025-0210-AM-004-004, reference A10-0210/2025. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}