Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting

5 November 2026

FEMM European Parliament

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07:41 - 10:27
Speaker 1
So, good morning.  Thank you very much for joining us this last day of the Gender Equality Week, if we survive still this very intense, but very interesting and very important week. 

So, we resume our FEMM Committee today with a very important point which is the in regarding the INI report on Digital and AI: opportunities, challenges for gender equality and gender-based violence, including AI-generated contents.  This a study that is linked to our INI report where we are going to present today.  The authors are Nelle Roekens, is project manager for strategic litigation on artificial intelligence at Equinet, where she works to advance equality and fundamental rights to AI-related litigation, legal strategy, and policy engagement; and Dr. Carlotta Rigotti, as assistant professor at eLaw, Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University.  And her research sits at the intersection of law, gender and technology, where she examines contemporary manifestations of structural and intersectional subordination of women that are technologically facilitated, amplified, or created.  This study entitled Gender Bias and Artificial Intelligence is part of the FEMM Annual Research Programme 2026, and is linked to the FEMM own-initiative report I mentioned before. 

And the rapporteur for this report is Arba Kokalari.  As for all the projects contained in the annual research programme, the study was commissioned by Policy Department Citizens' Equality and Culture, who contracted Mrs. Nele Roekens and Carlotta Rigotti has presented before.  So, I've been told the presentation will start by Carlotta, yes, that it is online.  So, the floor is yours.  I think you have 10 minutes for both, so you take the minutes you have shared among you. 

So, grazie, thank you very much for having you here, and the floor is yours. 

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