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In the wake of a renewed European Disability Strategy 2025-2030 and the next Report of the UNCRPD Committee on the European Union, Parliament will hold its 2nd Disability Rights Week from 2 to 6 December 2024.
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In the framework of the EP's 5th Gender Equality Week, the EMPL Committee organises an Exchange of views on "Ensuring gender equality in the labour market: addressing the gender pay gap and the ‘sticky floor’", on 12 December. The term ‘sticky floor’ refers to a discriminatory employment pattern that predominantly affects women, keeping them in lower job ranks with limited mobility and invisible barriers to career advancement.
After its successful first edition in 2023, the second Disability Rights Week in the European Parliament will take place from 2 to 6 December, around the international day for persons with disabilities, on the 3rd of December. 11 committees are organising events on topics around the challenges that persons with disabilities are facing in their daily life and discuss solutions that the EP can bring as a policy maker.
On Thursday, 21 November 2024, the EMPL committee held a hearing on loneliness in the European Union. The Subcommittee on Public Health, SANT, was also involved in this hearing. The purpose of this hearing was to present and discuss the findings of the EMPL Pilot Project on 'Loneliness in the European Union.'