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This is a monumental week in the European Parliament for the women of Europe with the final vote on the first-ever EU Directive to combat Violence Against Women & Domestic Violence 🇪🇺
Today: Debate 🗣️
Tomorrow: Final Vote 🗳️
📢Today after the votes
Debate on combatting violence against women Frances Fitzgerald MEP MEP Evin Incir (S) LIBE Committee Press
Watch it ⤵️
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreamin…
📢 Tonight, around 20:15
Debate on preventing and combating human trafficking
M. Eugenia R. Palop Malin Björk LIBE Committee Press
Watch it live ⤵️
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreamin…
📢 Tomorrow at 10:00, the committee will hold its last meeting of this legislative term.
On the agenda:
➡️ Obstetric and gynaecological violence in the EU
➡️ Achievements in equality this term with Helena Dalli
Watch it here:
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreamin…
European Parliament ready for negotiations on victims’ rights and support for vulnerable groups
Soraya Rodríguez F. Javier Zarzalejos Nieto LIBE Committee Press
More details ⤵️
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…
🗳️Parliament adopts new standards for equality bodies‼️
The new rules will ensure that new anti-discrimination rules are effectively applied and enforced in the EU.
EMPL Committee Press Sirpa Pietikäinen🇫🇮🇪🇺 Marc Angel
More details ⤵️
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…
📢'This event is an urgent call to action to #InvestInWomen and implement gender-responsive budgeting and #feminist financing.'
UN Women Chief WEE Dr Jemimah Njuki at the #EP event at #CSW68 on including women in economy to address poverty.
Rewatch 👉 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1o/k…
MEPs met yesterday with Sima Bahous Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, at the United Nations CSW
🎙️Parliament's side event at United Nations CSW on Tuesday
They discussed how to foster women's full inclusion in the economy and labour market to address poverty, closing the gender gaps and empowering through rights.
🇪🇺European Parliament's FEMM Committee Press Cttee is in New York for United Nations CSW.
On the agenda: Meeting 🇺🇳SG António Guterres & key UN actors on gender equality & the empowerment of all women & girls by addressing poverty & strengthening institutions & financing with a gender perspective.