Týždenná agenda 

Organised by the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, this hearing will feed into the own-initiative report which is forthcoming later on in the year. The rapporteur is Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ (EPP, Czech Republic).

The experts Lenka VOCHOCOVÁ (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague), Donatella MARTINI (DonneinQuota) and Martine SIMONIS (Belgian Association of Journalists) will present the current situation of women occupying different positions in the media sector and will analyse the interplay between the prevalent gender stereotypes and the media industry itself.

The joint public hearing of Parliament's Regional Development Committee and the Committee of the Regions (COTER) will give the opportunity to experts invited, representatives from the Commission and the MEPs to evaluate for the first time the 12 thematic partnerships, which are the key delivery mechanisms of the Urban Agenda.

A "stateless person" is a “person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”(1). Stateless people are excluded from the protection, rights and benefits offered by a nationality.

This hearing, jointly organised by the Civil Liberties and Petitions Committees will examine the following:

• practices and approaches in EU Member States to prevent and end statelessness. EP Policy department study will be presented for discussion by one of its authors, Katja SWIDER (University of Amsterdam)
• measures to prevent childhood statelessness
• identification and protection of stateless persons and protection from arbitrary detention

See draft programme for full list of participants.

(1) Article 1 of the 1954 Convention relating to the status of stateless persons