Comisión de Derechos de las Mujeres e Igualdad de Género

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".

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”.

DEVE Members, together with AFET and FEMM Members, met on Thursday, 3 December 2020, to debate on the Gender Action Plan (GAP) III with HRVP Josep Borrell and Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen.

On 1 December 2020, the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) held 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)).

The Gender Mainstreaming Network of the European Parliament met on 1 December 2020. The Gender Mainstreaming Network promotes gender mainstreaming in the work of Parliament's committees and delegations. The meeting was not webstreamed.

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”.

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”

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.

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.