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Next FEMM Committee meetings - 3 December and 7 December, 2020
02-12-2020 - 12:23
In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.
On 2 July, the Conference of Presidents updated the EP's calendar of activities: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/doc/news/flash/23441/Calendar%20for%202020%20-%20v14a_en.pdf
The current precautionary measures adopted by the EP to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions are maintained.
Following these decisions, the next Committee meetings will take place via multilingual remote participation:
Joint AFET-DEVE-FEMM: December 3 15.30-16.45
FEMM: 7 December from 13.45 - 15.45
The meetings will be webstreamed.
Highlights
02-12-2020 - 12:45
DEVE Members, together with AFET and FEMM Members, will meet from 15:30 to 16:45 to debate on the Gender Action Plan (GAP) III with HRVP Josep Borrell and Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen.
02-12-2020 - 11:46
On 1 December 2020, the FEMM Committee voted on the draft opinion on “Temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of technologies by number-independent interpersonal communications service providers for the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combating child sexual abuse online”.
02-12-2020 - 11:37
On 1 December 2020, the FEMM Committee voted on the draft opinion on “Implementation of Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation in light of the UNCRPD”
01-12-2020 - 15:55
On 7 December 2020, the LIBE and FEMM Committees will debate the amendments to the report on the “Implementation of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims”.
30-11-2020 - 16:15
On 30 November 2020, the LIBE and FEMM Committees held a joint hearing on “Combating Gender based Violence: Cyber Violence”. The objective of the hearing was to obtain input from relevant experts for the joint LIBE-FEMM legislative initiative draft report, which will focus on combating cyber violence as an expression of gender based violence, with specific attention to violence against women.
25-11-2020 - 15:50
On 7 December 2020, between 14.00 - 15.00, the FEMM Committee will hold a Public Hearing on "Women’s Rights Defenders (WRD) - EU’s role to combat the increasing attacks against WRD and women’s rights".
25-11-2020 - 15:45
The Gender Mainstreaming Network of the European Parliament will meet on 1 December 2020. The Gender Mainstreaming Network promotes gender mainstreaming in the work of Parliament's committees and delegations. The meeting will not be webstreamed.
25-11-2020 - 15:30
On 1 December 2020, the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) will hold a first exchange of views on the upcoming own-initiative report "The impact of intimate partner violence and custody rights on women and children" (2019/2166(INI)).
25-11-2020 - 10:53
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November), the EP Headquarters buildings in Brussels have been illuminated in orange, in honor of the UN campaign to end violence against women and girls.
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