Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
4 November 2026
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FEMM European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:08 - 03:40
Good morning. Hello. Hello to today's FEMM Committee in the equality week which is a bit busy week. I'm sorry for being late but there are too many things going on gender equality and women's rights this week in Parliament and you know that the distance are sometimes very big in the House. So we start by the first point which is the adoption of the agenda and as usual if there are no comments the agenda is adopted. And then we move to point two which is chair's announcements.
And here my only announcement is that decisions of the FEMM coordinators in the written procedure of the 13th of October are included in the documents in the meeting and again if there are no comments the decisions are endorsed. And then we move to point three which is the adoption of the minutes and again they are included in documents and if there are no comments the minutes are endorsed. And yes, now we move to point four which is the one dealing with recommendation of the Council on the European Union priorities for the 21st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. So, just as a reminder this 71st session of the Commission of the Status of Women, what we call CSW, will take place in United Nations headquarters in New York from the 8th to the 19th of March of 2027. The priority you know that each year is thematic.
There is a priority theme in this session is accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, so the sustainable development goals. The review theme sorry, is this one. And achieving gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programs. And the critical area of cross cutting issue is poverty and the economic empowerment of women. So, very important and very important topics.
And yesterday in the high level event with President Metsola, she mentioned something that we have to have in mind and there is truly important is that when we go there we go to UN the rest of the world is waiting for us. We are leaving this gender equality agenda especially now even if from today some things can change on that or improve also, or we can have more allies now. But this is the world is waiting for us. So, we have to make it right and obviously to continue to improve the condition of women and the rights of women all over the globe, even beyond the European Union.
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