Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting HEARING
4 November 2026
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FEMM European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:10 - 00:30
Speaker 5
Okay. Hello. Hello. Welcome to, we continue the FEMM Committee, but it is our special hearing for the Gender Equality Week that, as you know, is taking place this week. It's our seventh edition.
00:30 - 01:34
Speaker 3
It is a week to reflect in the whole Parliament about what we can do in order to improve women's rights and gender equality. It's what we do every day here in this committee, the FEMM Committee, but it is not the case, unfortunately, in other committees. So, this week is especially for that. However, we are also organizing our own specific event, and this one is Women's Rights Under Pressure: Building a European Response to Backlash Against Gender Equality in Light of Global Funding Cuts. I have to say that we did not choose specifically the day, the date, because it's normally the first week of November, but it is a very good day to reflect on, specifically, this, how to combat this gender backlash.
01:34 - 02:11
Speaker 2
We have the results of the elections of United States. It was a clear gender backlash there in the United States, really dismantling many gender equality policies and women's rights. And we have the results now. So, I think it is a very interesting day to talk about that. So, I welcome you this hearing, which we organize as I was saying, as our contribution to the Gender Equality Week.
02:11 - 03:07
Speaker 4
And we will start, before saying hello to the people that will join us today in this hearing, we will start by a video of by President Metsola, that was yesterday already in the high-level panel of this Gender Equality Week, but she really wanted also to record a video for us, for this FEMM Committee hearing. So, if the technical problems are solved, I will ask to put the video on. Thank you.
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