Text · Opinion parliamentary committee draft
On implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum
Document FEMM-PA-770238 · 2025/2014(INI)
- Kind
- Opinion parliamentary committee draft FEMM-PA-770238
- Date
- 19 March 2025
- Committee
- Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
- Rapporteur
- Mathilde Androuët
- Dossier
- 2025/2014(INI)
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- ENV, CDEV
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- 2025/2014(INI)
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The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality submits the following to the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety, as the committee responsible:
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| Aa. whereas single mothers face a significantly higher poverty rate in the EU, with 22 % of children living in a single family headed by their father in poverty in 2018, compared to 45 % for children living in a single family with their mother; whereas pay gaps and job insecurity affect this population category in particular, limiting their access to essential services, including housing, health and education; |
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| Ab. whereas women account for between 52 % and 66 % of informal carers, whereas they devote an average of 17 hours a week to these activities, and whereas around 90 % of professional carers in the EU are women; whereas carers frequently suffer a break in salary due to the time spent caring for sick or dependent relatives, and whereas this leads to further insecurity and limited access to social benefits and pension entitlements; |
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| Ac. whereas women living in the outermost regions and islands of the European Union are particularly vulnerable due to limited access to healthcare, drinking water, schooling and basic services, thus exacerbating socioeconomic inequalities and limiting their career opportunities; |
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| Ad. whereas the gender pay gap remains a persistent reality in the EU, especially in female-dominated sectors such as care, education and social services, hampering women’s economic empowerment and equal opportunities; whereas integrating mothers into the workforce remains an important challenge, and whereas training, whether continuous or one-off, can help to alleviate this difficulty; |
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| Ae. whereas female unemployment and underemployment rates remain high in several Member States, due in particular to insufficient access to childcare facilities and a lack of flexibility in the labour market for reconciling work and family life; |
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| Af. whereas migration contexts increase women’s exposure to gender-based and sexual violence; whereas, for example, 90 % of migrant women moving along the Mediterranean route are raped by smugglers or other migrants, according to the UNHCR1a; | |
| 1a Source: International Organisation 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, OIM, MMC, HCR, Geneva, 2024, https://mixedmigration.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/On-this-journey-vol-2.pdf. |
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| Ag. whereas poverty disproportionately affects women, especially single mothers, which exacerbates their economic and social vulnerability in the face of energy crises; |
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| Ah. whereas access to affordable, decent and safe housing is an integral part of UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’), and whereas it is unfortunately still a major challenge for women on low incomes in the EU; |
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| 4. Highlights that EU leadership in the global implementation of the SDGs remains crucial, especially in light of the multiple geopolitical challenges and ongoing crises; | 4. Highlights that EU leadership in the global implementation of the SDGs remains crucial, especially in light of the multiple geopolitical challenges and ongoing crises; reaffirms the EU’s position in favour of protecting women’s fundamental rights and combating all forms of violence against women; stresses the importance for the EU of leading by example by suspending any aid or funding to a third country which adopts or maintains laws and practices that are discriminatory or violent against women; |
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| (1) warns that women affected by career breaks, in particular because of family responsibilities, are particularly at risk of poverty, which may lead them to give up medical care; calls on the Member States to take these career breaks into account in their social protection and health insurance systems; |
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| (2) regrets the major inequalities in access to care and health services in the EU’s outermost regions and islands, where women are particularly exposed to medical poverty; calls for increased investment in hospital infrastructure and healthcare professionals in these areas; |
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| (1) stresses that single mothers face increased challenges in terms of health and access to care, notably due to their precarious economic situation and the lack of sufficient medical coverage in some Member States; stresses the need to ensure access to health services for single-parent families, in particular for women in vulnerable situations; |
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| (2) stresses that women in precarious or low-paid jobs face difficulties in accessing quality care, especially for gynaecological health; calls on the Member States to ensure accessible health services, including through policies to make essential care free of charge; |
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| (3) recalls that men and women have specific health needs that should be taken into account in health policies; |
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| 8. Calls for the universal right to a healthy environment to be added to the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, and for a legally binding framework to be put in place; | deleted |
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| 8a. Stresses that a secure environment is essential to ensuring good health and well-being; regrets that European women face increased insecurity in public spaces, which, in terms of achieving SDG 3, is a regression; |
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| 9. Calls for accelerated, targeted action to end all forms of violence and harassment against women, girls and LGBTIQ+ people, including sexual and gender-based violence, and to end harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation; | 9. Calls for accelerated, targeted action tailored to the groups concerned to end all forms of violence and harassment against women, girls and people on the basis of their sexual orientation, including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological, verbal and economic violence, harassment in the workplace, and violence in war and conflict situations, and to end harmful practices such as human trafficking, early and forced marriage, female genital mutilation, forced abortion, sex-selective abortion of girls or the reproductive exploitation of women such as surrogacy1a; |
| 1a European Parliament recommendation of 19 December 2024 to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2024-0075_EN.pdf |
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| 10. Calls for the continuation of funding for programmes focusing on promoting female empowerment and fighting against all forms of gender-based violence; calls on the Commission to ensure that 85 % of all new external actions incorporate gender as a significant or principal objective and that 20 % of official development aid in each country is allocated to programmes having gender equality as one of their principal objectives; | 10. Calls for the continuation of funding for programmes focusing on promoting female empowerment and fighting against all forms of gender-based violence; calls on the Commission to ensure that all new external actions incorporate respect for and dignity of the sexes as a significant or principal objective and that gender equality is a necessary and fundamental criterion for official development aid in each third country; |
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| (1) stresses that single mothers, who represent a significant share of single-parent families in Europe, are particularly vulnerable to economic insecurity and discrimination in the labour market; calls on the Member States to strengthen employment and training support schemes for these women in order to ensure their economic autonomy; |
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| (2) notes that family carers, who are mostly women, spend an average of 22 hours a week caring for a relative without adequate financial compensation, which has a significant impact on their economic independence and on their career; |
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| (3) deplores the differences in access to childcare and health services between European regions; calls for coordinated action to ensure genuine equal access to basic services for all women, regardless of their place of residence; |
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| (4) stresses that the average gender pay gap in the EU is 13 %, and that in some sectors, such as health and social care, it exceeds 20 %; |
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| (5) stresses that women’s career breaks resulting from family responsibilities lead to a long-term loss of income and a pension deficit of up to 30 % on average; |
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| (6) calls on the Member States to enhance access to vocational and continuing training for mothers, especially single mothers, to enable them to acquire new skills and improve their employability; stresses the importance of flexible training arrangements, which include childcare solutions and online training, in order to respond to the constraints of mothers experiencing employment insecurity; |
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| 13. Calls for stronger policies and bold actions to promote inclusive and sustainable economic development; urges the EU and global partners to use instruments such as Global Gateway to create decent jobs that will reduce income inequality and ensure that no one is left behind; | 13. Calls for stronger policies and bold actions to promote inclusive and sustainable economic development; urges the EU and global partners to use instruments such as Global Gateway to create decent jobs that will reduce income inequality and ensure that no one is left behind, subject to the beneficiaries recognising and respecting the equal dignity of women and men; |
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| 14. Expresses concern that economic growth in many developing countries remains slow and uneven, often hindered by structural weaknesses, economic inequalities, political instability and external shocks; | 14. Expresses concern that economic growth in many developing countries remains slow and uneven, often hindered by structural weaknesses, economic inequalities, political instability and external shocks; stresses that the employment rate of single mothers is 10 points lower than the average for women working in the EU owing to a lack of childcare options and job insecurity; calls on the Member States to put in place specific policies to promote their access to and retention in employment, including through tax incentives and tailored training schemes; |
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| 15. Recommends increased public and private investment in research, education and skills development; | 15. Recommends increased public and private investment in research, education and skills development in the Member States; |
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| (1) calls for increased participation of women in the technological and scientific sectors, as women currently account for only 17 % of jobs in engineering and IT; |
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| (2) stresses that 80 % of family carers in Europe are women and that their care burden directly affects their participation in the labour market, with a reduced employment rate and long-term loss of income; calls for work done by carers to be formally recognised and for paid leave and specific social entitlements to be introduced; |
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| (3) stresses that women living in the outermost and island regions face high structural unemployment and increased job insecurity; calls on the Member States to strengthen support schemes for female entrepreneurship and to improve access to finance for projects run by women in these regions; |
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| (4) regrets that women still face more difficulties than men in accessing loans and finance to start their business, despite the fact that companies run by women have similar or even higher success rates; calls on the Member States and the European institutions to set up guarantee funds and specific support measures for female entrepreneurship; |
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| 16. Emphasises that initiatives aimed at stimulating economic growth cannot come at the expense of social justice, labour rights or environmental protection; | 16. Emphasises that initiatives aimed at stimulating economic growth cannot come at the expense of social justice, labour rights, gender equality or environmental protection; |
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| 16a. Is concerned that EU environmental policies negatively affect the economy and thus the economic situation of women, who are more vulnerable to economic crises; |
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| 21. Reaffirms that Official Development Assistance (ODA) remains a crucial source of public financing; calls, therefore, on all EU Member States and global partners to ensure that sufficient financing is dedicated to fulfilling the commitment to spend 0.7 % of gross national income on ODA; | 21. Reaffirms that Official Development Assistance (ODA) remains a crucial source of public financing; calls, therefore, on all EU Member States and global partners to ensure that sufficient financing is dedicated to it and that programmes committed under ODA respect and promote fundamental rights, in particular gender equality, as well as European interests; |
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| 22. Emphasises the crucial role of multi-stakeholder partnerships and the involvement of local governments, civil society and youth representatives; | 22. Emphasises the crucial role of multi-stakeholder partnerships and the involvement of local governments, civil society and youth representatives; calls for international cooperation programmes and strategic partnerships to systematically include a component on the integration of women into employment, especially in future-oriented sectors such as green technologies, digital and industry, in order to ensure their full participation in the global economic transition; |
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| (1) regrets that European funding programmes for economic development do not sufficiently take into account the specific needs of women, especially mothers, in terms of access to employment; |
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| (2) stresses the need to make EU funding for international projects conditional on respect for gender equality in access to economic opportunities; |
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| (3) recalls that women in the EU’s outermost regions and islands face more difficulties in accessing vocational training and job support schemes; calls for cohesion funds and development programmes to include enhanced specific measures to address these territorial inequalities; |
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| (4) calls for the development of mentoring and training programmes for women in sectors with high added value, in particular in partnership with private companies and international organisations, in order to reduce the gender representation gap in strategic and leadership positions; |
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| (5) recalls that only 30 % of entrepreneurs in the EU are women and that their access to finance remains limited compared to their male counterparts, while entrepreneurship can be an opportunity for women to reconcile work and family life; calls for the creation of a specific European fund for female entrepreneurship, ensuring tailored financing conditions and specific support; |
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| 24. Stresses the need to align the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe, including Global Gateway programmes, with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement; calls for greater involvement of Parliament in the scrutiny of Global Gateway programmes; | 24. Stresses the need to align the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe, including Global Gateway programmes, with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement, subject to compliance with the fundamental criterion of gender equality; calls for greater involvement of Parliament in the scrutiny of Global Gateway programmes; |
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| 26. Reiterates that the SDGs are the only globally agreed and comprehensive set of goals on the major challenges faced by both developed and developing countries and are the best tool for tackling their root causes; | 26. Reiterates that the SDGs are the only globally agreed and comprehensive set of goals on the major challenges faced by both developed and developing countries and are the best tool for tackling their root causes; calls for gender equality to become an essential and mandatory criterion for the allocation of EU funds to third countries; insists that all EU funding should be conditional on tangible and verifiable commitments to reduce economic and professional inequalities between the sexes, including the adoption of measures to promote equal pay, women’s access to education and employment, and the fight against discrimination; |
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| (1) affirms that achieving the SDGs will require better integration of women into the labour market, including through measures that ensure fair access to training towards qualifications, entrepreneurship finance and jobs of the future, especially in the technological and environmental sectors; |
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| (2) stresses that European policies must include a specific approach for single mothers, who face higher poverty rates and limited access to stable employment; calls for stronger support schemes, including childcare support and training tailored to family constraints; |
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| (3) recalls that the digital and green transition can only be fully successful if it includes women, including women in the EU’s outermost regions and islands, where access to training infrastructure and employment opportunities remains limited; stresses the need for targeted investments to reduce these territorial inequalities; |
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| (4) stresses the need for better recognition of unpaid work done by carers, which mostly affects women and can lead to long-term economic insecurity, even though it provides a benefit for society as a whole; |
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author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{DRAFT OPINION on implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-03-19},
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url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-770238},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
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