Traduction de «Association canadienne des femmes en communications » (Français → Anglais) :

H. whereas in paragraph 31 of its resolution of 22 November 2012 on small-scale coastal fishing, artisanal fishing and the reform of the common fisheries policy Parliament called for the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) to provide funding to foster women’s participation in the fisheries sector, support women’s associations, promote vocational training and enhance women’s role in fishing, by granting support for both activities carried out on land and those associated with fishing, both upstream and downstream;

H. whereas in paragraph 31 of its resolution of 22 November 2012 on small-scale coastal fishing, artisanal fishing and the reform of the common fisheries policy Parliament called for the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) to provide funding to foster women’s participation in the fisheries sector, support women’s associations, promote vocational training and enhance women’s role in fishing, by granting support for both activities carried out on land and those associated with fishing, both upstream and downstream;

26. Invites the Member States and the Commission, especially through the involvement of the EIGE where appropriate, to collect, analyse and disseminate data broken down by sex for the purpose of monitoring gender equality in decision-making in all sectors (public and private) and at all hierarchical levels and as a basis for further measures if the set targets are not met; calls on the Commission to continue to collect and disseminate comparable data at EU level through the use of its database on women and men in decision-making posi ...[+++]tions and to develop this observatory towards a European map of gender balance that includes the annual variations experienced at EU, state and regional levels with regard to gender balance, on the basis of common indicators; considers that this map should include, at least:

Mrs. Christiane Gagnon (Québec, BQ): Mr. Speaker, two French speaking women holding key positions made a speech at the annual meeting of Canadian Women in Communication.

3. Calls for Community action to develop a cross-border employment and labour market policy to focus particularly on: support for cross-border regional employment pacts and for cross-border regional labour market development monitoring, and the strengthening and extension of the European Employment Services Network; proposes in addition stepping up regional cooperation over social affairs, whilst complying with the principle of subsidiarity and taking into account regional differences and characteristics, and including the relevant actors in municipal and regional authorities, trade unions, employers' associations, associations of unemp ...[+++]loyed persons, charitable associations and initiatives in favour of women; refers in this connection to the requests made by the 28 chambers of industry and commerce of the border regions;

Finally there is more room for optimism in the presentation of the three horizontal guiding principles which are to apply to all EU-ACP cooperation: under the first priority, building local capacity, there is a recognition of the importance of building civil society, and within that women"s associations; the second priority itself is to "adopt a gender-sensitive approach and reduce disparities between men and women" (section 4.3.2), and this includes the vital commitment to integrate gender into "all macroeconomic, sectoral or project assistance", as promised already by Member ...[+++] States at Beijing and in the Council Resolution of December 1995; again, significantly, the Communication stresses that "mainstreaming" should not preclude positive action in favour of women where gender disparities are still significant.