European Parliament committees and delegations will maintain a collection of discussions and public hearings on subjects associated to gender equality.
The European Parliament will maintain its third European Gender Equality Week from 24 to 30 October. A number of parliamentary committees and delegations will organise periods addressing gender equality points of their coverage areas.
Among the many many occasions happening, the Committee on International Affairs will maintain a listening to on Afghanistan and the regional influence of the Taliban takeover on Tuesday morning. The Worldwide Commerce Committee will focus on commerce and gender on Tuesday afternoon, whereas the Constitutional Affairs Committee will maintain a listening to on the right way to change the EU Treaties to attain extra gender equality within the EU on Wednesday morning. On Thursday, the Atmosphere Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee will focus on the depathologisation of transgender and non-binary individuals. The Committee on Trade, Analysis and Vitality will focus on gender inequalities within the power sector, additionally on Thursday.
The Girls’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee will maintain a number of occasions, together with a presentation of a research on the gender dimension and influence of the Match for 55 bundle on Tuesday. Additionally on Tuesday, the committee will maintain a listening to on sexuality and relationships training for boys and shaping attitudes to combat gender-based violence, gender stereotypes and safe respect for sexual and reproductive well being and rights. On Tuesday afternoon, the Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), Carlien Scheele, will current to the committee the findings of the 2022 Gender Equality Index, which is focussed this yr on the COVID-19 pandemic and care. Collectively with the Employment Committee, there may also be a dialogue with EIGE on the scenario of ladies carers within the EU and the European Care Technique.
For particulars on these and the entire different occasions being organised by the committees and delegations collaborating, click on right here.
You’ll be able to watch all these occasions stay by way of webstreaming on the EP Multimedia Centre.
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Vice-President liable for Gender Equality Week Evelyn Regner (S&D, AT) and Chair of the Girls’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee Robert Biedroń (S&D, PL) stated: “Gender equality isn’t just a girls’s challenge. It’s everybody’s challenge. This is the reason we’re comfortable that so many EP committees, delegations, in addition to different EU establishments are becoming a member of us in celebrating European Gender Equality Week (GEW). The EU should lead by instance on this regard, so, hopefully, subsequent yr much more establishments might be on board!
The Russian aggression in Ukraine, the financial and power disaster, the escalation of gender-based violence remind us that girls all the time pay the best value. We have to present them with focused help and fulfil our guarantees for higher working situations, increased salaries, combatting gender-based violence and a lot extra! Initiatives just like the GEW present that reaching gender equality is a process we are able to solely fulfil collectively.”
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