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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur Alsalani’s priorities on restoring gender targets, earmarking for women’s organisations and SRHR are confronted with sharply contrasting group positions, from calls for binding targets and feminist partnerships to accusations of ‘gender ideology’ and overspending, with timelines for amendments and votes announced.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Procedure for adopting the FEMM agenda, with a legal and budgetary challenge to referencing the ‘My Body My Choice’ European Citizens’ Initiative and clarification that the committee will proceed while allowing members to register opposition via their vote.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Debate on whether consent-based rape definitions fall under EU criminal-law competence followed by presentation and roll‑call adoption of the revised Victims’ Rights Directive, including new provisions on reporting, support and reproductive care references.
In this chapter
Chairs open the joint LIBE–FEMM meeting, adopt the agenda, then co‑rapporteurs present the consent‑based rape report and secure its adoption amid minority objections on EU competence, before presenting and adopting the provisional agreement on the Victims’ Rights Directive covering access to justice, protection and reproductive health for victims of sexual violence.
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