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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
In the closed coordinators’ meeting, the agenda is adopted and coordinators begin deciding on rapporteur appointments and procedural approaches for the committee’s upcoming annual discharge opinions.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair introduces the study on defunding women’s rights organisations and gender backsliding, the authors document funding cuts, administrative harassment and diversion of resources away from specialist services, analyse anti‑gender networks and the concept of backsliding without formal legal repeal, and MEPs clash over the framing of ‘backsliding’ while raising concerns about migrant women, threatened national services and low Daphne success rates; the authors then recommend multi‑annual operating grants, more accessible and traceable EU funding (including Daphne and GAP IV targets), and safeguards to ensure EU money supports specialist feminist services rather than anti‑equality actors, before the Chair closes the public meeting.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
MEPs debate how to operationalise gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting, including better uptake of FEMM amendments, mandatory justifications when they are rejected, divergent views on gender quotas in party lists, the role of delegations and external relations, and the need for resources, monitoring and civil society engagement to turn formal equality into concrete institutional change, before co‑rapporteurs and the Chair signal next steps and the January vote.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair closes the AI item and introduces the annual report on gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament, as co‑rapporteurs and the BUDG opinion rapporteur present priorities on women’s access to Parliament and leadership, gender‑responsive budgeting across EU institutions and the entire budget cycle, systematic use of EIGE tools and sex‑disaggregated data, and the need for standardised gender impact assessments, stronger FEMM influence, and clear timetables under Parliament’s Gender Action Plan.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The study authors respond to MEPs on how AI can be steered for positive equality outcomes via feminist, rights‑based regulation, explain enforcement and accountability challenges under the AI Act and DSA (including limits of self‑assessment, de‑risking, resourcing of equality bodies and trusted flaggers, and the AI Office’s guidance role), and clarify how unconscious developer bias, data gaps, moderation practices and weak complaint handling reproduce structural gender inequalities beyond classic discrimination concepts.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur and shadow speakers from multiple groups outline political priorities and concerns on AI’s risks and opportunities for gender equality, focusing on online abuse, deepfakes and hypersexualisation, the limits of current bans and classifications, structural discrimination in labour and welfare, data and NGO roles, and the need for stronger enforcement, reporting systems and a possible EU‑wide AI liability regime, including reference to stricter national approaches such as Italy’s labour rules.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the FEMM meeting during Gender Equality Week, sets the agenda and links the commissioned study on gender bias and AI to the committee’s own‑initiative work, while the authors present their research questions, impacts across key life domains and tech‑facilitated GBV, and a detailed analysis of the EU legal framework (equality law, GDPR, DSA, AI Act, VAW directive), including remedies, gaps and recommendations.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting HEARING
Panelists answer MEPs on differentiating democratic debate from anti‑democratic tactics, foreign funding, EU funding instruments and security framing of gendered and digital violence, after which the FEMM Chair underlines anti‑gender campaigns as a threat to EU democracy and announces follow‑up work on the gender‑based violence directive.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting HEARING
The AFET standing rapporteur and MEPs from several political groups connect anti‑gender mobilisations to Gaza and global politics, question EU competences, funding priorities and demographic narratives, and confront each other and the panel on SRHR, LGBTQIA+ recognition, abortion, and links to racism and authoritarianism.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Speakers highlight the lived consequences of queerphobia and political hate, document SRHR and LGBTQI rollbacks, shrinking civic space and defunding of equality NGOs, and set out EU‑level recommendations and Nordic research insights treating the anti‑gender agenda as a systemic threat requiring stronger legal, financial and democratic safeguards.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Camille Butin presents the updated ‘most‑favoured European woman’ clause concept for elevating EU law to the best national standards on women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights, and describes Choisir’s cross‑country mapping work and the creation of an intersectional European feminist secretariat to coordinate partners.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting HEARING
Civil society speakers from EU member states and Nordic countries present best‑practice equality laws, on‑the‑ground experiences of queer youth, shrinking civic space for SRHR providers, funding cuts, and evidence of coordinated harassment that raises hybrid security concerns for democratic institutions.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Neil Datta details the rapid growth and five‑pillar structure of anti‑gender actors in Europe, their links to US networks, and their use of legal, policy and digital challenges (including to EU law and the Istanbul Convention) as part of a broader authoritarian and geopolitical project undermining SRHR, LGBTI rights and democratic norms.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting HEARING
The FEMM Chair opens the Gender Equality Week hearing, sets the political and institutional context with President Metsola’s message, and the first expert maps the financing, structure and strategic targets of the anti‑gender movement and its links to democratic backsliding and authoritarian actors.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the ‘Women’s Rights Under Pressure’ hearing in the context of Gender Equality Week, presents President Metsola’s message on leadership and internal reforms, and frames the session with reference to reduced female representation, US developments and funding cuts before introducing the mixed panel of EU and civil‑society actors.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The committee debates the chemical submission report in connection with the EU gender‑based violence directive, with the rapporteur and shadows addressing consent‑based rape definitions, victim‑centred care, EU‑wide definitions, platform liability, cross‑border policing and disagreements over EU criminal‑law harmonisation before scheduling a January vote.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the FEMM meeting, adopts the agenda and introduces the CSW71 recommendation process, with the rapporteur and shadows outlining priorities and political divergences on economic independence, care, SRHR, climate, security and EU unity ahead of the 3 December vote and March New York mission.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality – Hearing: Gender Equality Week
Hearing held during the European Parliament's Gender Equality Week on how women’s leadership can drive change and inspire future generations.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Groups clash over quotas, zip lists, gender budgeting and institutional competence, after which experts and co‑rapporteurs address costs, evidence and parity mechanisms; the chair then recalls amendment deadlines, promotes Equality Week and formally closes the FEMM meeting with the next session dates.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
EPRS experts present findings on the state of gender mainstreaming and persistent gaps in the Parliament, and the co‑rapporteurs outline INI priorities on committee gender action plans, impact assessments, gender‑responsive budgeting, institutional structures and intersectional analysis.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Patriots and ECR stress national criminal‑law competence and evidentiary issues, while Renew, Greens and the Left call for a stronger EU framework on definitions, toxicology access, consent‑based rape laws and platform liability, with the chair closing the item and setting the amendment deadline.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Following a short procedural pause due to the delayed rapporteur, the chair explains the scheduling decision and then reads the rapporteur’s statement outlining chemical submission as drug‑facilitated sexual violence and proposing eight EU‑level priorities on consent, evidence, data, platforms and victim support.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Shadows from different groups set out contrasting views on EU competence, workplace obligations, medical research and the risk of ‘ideologisation’, while the rapporteur responds on data gaps, FP10 and MFF linkages, clarifies the empowerment aim, and announces the amendments deadline.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the FEMM meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and, as rapporteur, presents the draft INI report on menopause, framing it as a major but neglected women’s health and labour‑market issue requiring an EU strategy, better research funding and workplace support.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
After the Chair hands over to EPRS, its expert presents research on AI’s gendered opportunities and risks, including documented bias in AI systems, deepfakes, online violence, economic discrimination, health data gaps and privacy concerns around femtech. Members then react with questions and comments on rural women’s access and protection, AI’s implications for democracy and Parliament’s work, and the need to address gender‑based online and political violence within broader institutional debates on AI governance.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Gender Mainstreaming Network opens its meeting with agenda and minutes adoption and announces the 7th European Gender Equality Week in November 2026, inviting committees and delegations to organise gender‑equality‑related events across policy areas.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Gender Mainstreaming Network meeting is opened with procedural points, announcements on European Gender Equality Week and the annual gender mainstreaming report, and the introduction of a thematic exchange on gender equality and artificial intelligence. The Commission’s AI Office then outlines women’s underrepresentation in AI and ICT, details EU skills and education initiatives to increase women’s participation, and explains how the AI Act aims to prevent discriminatory AI outcomes while calling for coordinated action across stakeholders to close the gender gap in AI.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Political groups respond to the draft CSW71 report, with S&D backing the substance but questioning rapporteur neutrality, Patriots for Europe attacking what they see as an ideological gender agenda and costs, and Renew, Greens and The Left pushing for strong language on SRHR, climate, violence, participation and funding for women’s organisations. ESN and feminist MEPs clash over motherhood, STEM quotas and the scope of gender equality policies, before the rapporteur and Chair close by defending the process, clarifying budget figures and calling for a strong, common EU line towards the Council and at CSW.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Political groups present contrasting views on the draft CSW71 report, with S&D, Renew, Greens and The Left seeking ambitious language on poverty, climate, SRHR and violence, while conservative members criticise the gender agenda and emphasise motherhood; the rapporteur and chair close by defending the process and calling for a unified Parliament line for New York.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The chair introduces the draft report on EU priorities for the 71st UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the rapporteur outlines the strategic focus on women’s economic autonomy, decent work, STEM skills and green/digital transitions, stressing implementation tools, data and the EU’s role in shaping a credible common position.
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