The EU’s priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
25.11.2024
Question for oral answer O-000015/2024
to the Council
Rule 142
Lina Gálvez
on behalf of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
The 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) will review and appraise the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly. This will include an assessment of current challenges that affect the implementation of the Platform for Action and the achievement of gender equality, and the empowerment of women and its contribution towards the full realisation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Women in Europe and around the world are still facing:
– a backlash against their rights (notably, but not limited to, sexual and reproductive health and rights);
– pervasive gender stereotyping, intersecting inequalities and discrimination, including online;
– economic inequalities, including gender-linked pay and pension gaps;
– the objectification and commodification of women’s bodies, including through advertising, social media, pornography and the exploitation of surrogacy;
– violence (including domestic, sexual, physical, psychological, verbal, online and economic violence);
– a lack of representation in decision-making.
With just six years to go until the 2030 deadline for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and not a single goal fully achieved, and with the UN estimating that it would take 286 years to close the gaps in legal protection and remove legislation that discriminates against women:
- 1.Can the Council elaborate on the main points of the EU’s statements at CSW69 and explain how Parliament’s priorities will be incorporated? How will the Council ensure that the EU has a strong, coordinated approach and an ambitious and strong commitment within its political declaration, including specific measures, in order to ensure real progress towards gender equality?
- 2.What concrete measures will the Council take to ensure that the EU and the Member States accelerate their commitment to the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Beijing+30 Political Declaration by incorporating gender equality goals, an intersectional perspective, gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting into future EU strategies, policy and budgetary processes?
Submitted: 25.11.2024
Lapses: 26.2.2025