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Roadmap for women's rights: Next steps for EU action on gender equality
On 7 March 2025, the European Commission published a roadmap for women's rights, to reaffirm the EU's commitment to gender equality, speed up progress in this area, and counteract political movements that contest EU gender equality policies. The roadmap outlines the challenges and benefits of gender equality today, emphasising its political and economic importance. In an annex, a declaration of eight principles for a gender-equal society, inspired by and phrased in the language of human rights, takes ...
Women's rights: What is at stake?
Thirty years ago, the international community adopted the Beijing Declaration and its accompanying Platform for Action – a broad and ambitious global agenda for action with women's rights at its core. Since then, women's rights have enjoyed increased recognition, but also faced strong contestation. The EU remains a strong defender of women's rights. To guide its action, the Commission is soon to propose a roadmap on women's rights in the EU, while the European Ϸվ has called for an EU charter ...
Regulation of prostitution in the European Union: Laws and policies in selected EU Member States
Considerable differences of opinion characterise the public debate on the regulation of prostitution in the EU. This results in a complex legal and policy landscape. A lack of comprehensive statistical data complicates the picture, and the choices legislators make are deeply rooted in overarching ideological approaches. At EU level, the European Ϸվ has long been the primary forum for debating prostitution issues.
Briefing for the FEMM delegation to UN CSW 68 (18 – 22 March 2024)
This briefing contains background materials for the FEMM Committee mission to the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW 68), which focuses on the priority theme ‘Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective’. The briefing has been prepared by the European Ϸվ’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional ...
Definitions of rape in the legislation of EU Member States
This comparative analysis of the national legislation on rape in European Union Member States provides an overview of legal provisions with a focus on the notion of consent. According to the proposed EU directive on violence against women and domestic violence, lack of consent from victims of rape should be made a constitutive element of the crime.
Отвъд пандемията: Потенциалът на амбициозната политика в областта на равенството между половете
Тазгодишният Международен ден на жената отново ще се проведе в сянката на пандемията от коронавирус, която разкри и изостри съществуващото неравенство между половете. За да отбележи този повод, комисията по правата на жените и равенството между половете (FEMM) на Парламента организира среща с националните парламенти и е неин домакин. Срещата ще се проведе на 3 март 2022 г. и на нея ще бъде обсъден потенциалът на политиките за възстановяване, които са чувствителни към аспектите на пола, като вниманието ...
The differing EU Member States’ regulations on prostitution and their cross-border implications on women’s rights
This Study, commissioned by the European Ϸվ’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee – after assessing the state-of-the-art of prostitution regulations in EU MSs and the current situation of sex trafficking and related data in the EU – identifies and evaluates cross-border problems/risks related to differing national EU MSs’ regulations and suggests future EU legislation to reduce them, thus preventing women from being trafficked ...
Access to Abortion Services for Women in the EU - Croatia
An In-depth Analysis commissioned by the European Ϸվ's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee. The paper is divided into six parts. The first part of the paper defines what is meant by the term sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) according to the most important international and regional human rights instruments. The second part analyses the legal framework of the EU Member States regarding access to abortion services ...
Discriminatory Laws Undermining Women’s Rights
This paper provides insight into the current situation and recent trends in the abolition or reform of discriminatory laws undermining women's rights in countries outside the European Union (EU). The paper aims to provide a nuanced understanding of processes through which legal reforms take place. Among the factors that have proven to facilitate legal reform are the ratification of international human rights treaties, feminist activism, legal and public advocacy by women’s rights and other human ...
Radicalisation and counter-radicalisation: A gender perspective
Terrorism resulting from radicalisation and violent extremism is a serious threat to European security. Part of the complexity of these phenomena lies in the fact that there is neither a single pathway to radicalisation nor a single terrorist profile. From a gender perspective, women's radicalisation and involvement in violent extremist groups remains relatively under-estimated as there is still a general view that terrorism almost exclusively concerns men. However, recent studies indicate that around ...