7.2.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 47/197 Wednesday 6 July 2022
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Notes that access to health care can be impaired by the compounded effect of intersectional discrimination; calls on the Member States to ensure universal and accessible healthcare coverage, including specialised mental health services, and to urgently remove the barriers that exist to health care for all, including for migrants in an irregular administrative situation and with a specific focus on women in all their diversity; highlights that access to health care should never be impaired by ignorance, bias or stigma; stresses the importance of healthcare professionals in providing care in a humane, non-discriminatory and non-judgmental manner, respecting free, prior and informed consent and patients’ rights; notes that there is a substantial lack of data on women from marginalised groups and migrant women accessing health services, especially mental health services; 48.
Calls on the Member States to take note of the compounded effect of intersectional discrimination on access to healthcare diagnosis, particularly concerning reproductive health and specifically for Black women, women of colour and minority women; recalls that sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental human rights to which all people, in their diversity, should have safe and legal access; 49.
Calls on the Member States to adopt and implement strategies, policies and programmes to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of marginalised groups of women and to eradicate the systemic, financial, legal, practical and social barriers they face and to ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights are protected and respected in all Member States; calls on the Member States to promote family planning and comprehensive age-appropriate sexuality education and to help women in vulnerable or precarious situations to access free contraception in all its different forms, and to ensure that they will not face any discriminatory practices in access to health services; 50.
Encourages the Member States to ensure accessible and transparent legal gender recognition procedures based on self-determination and in line with the World Health Organization’s ICD-11, to recognise trans, non-binary and intersex people in law and to abolish barriers such as mandatory surgical interventions or mandatory psychological counselling; urges the Member States to ban intersex genital mutilation and to ensure that intersex infants are not subjected to non-vital medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood; 51.
Calls on the Member States to end the practice of forced sterilisation, forced abortion and forced contraception, including of women with disabilities and Roma women and medicalisation for trans people, and to respect their physical and bodily integrity; calls on the Member States to ensure effective and timely remedies for all survivors of forced and coercive sterilisation and forced divorce, including through the establishment of effective reparations schemes; 52.
Recalls that women in all their diversity, in particular those facing intersecting forms of discrimination, in marginalised situations and in conflict settings, are disproportionally affected by climate change and its consequences; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that all climate action includes an intersectional perspective, including gender and race, and that targeted funds and measures are implemented to that end and to guarantee the equal participation of women in all their diversity in decision-making bodies at international, European, national and local level; 53.
Urges the Member States to take swift, effective and coordinated action to protect the human rights and address the sexual and reproductive health needs of women and girls and marginalised populations affected by the conflict in Ukraine; o o 54.
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Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission.