Source: European Parliament
From 17 to 20 March, a delegation of the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee will attend the UN Commission on the Status of Women and hold a side event on women’s rights.
A FEMM delegation will attend the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York, which focussed this year on a the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly. In a resolution adopted in February, MEPs recalled that gender equality is a fundamental and universal principle and that the Union must continue to lead by example and reinforce and respect its commitments on gender equality.
As well as attending the CSW69 official meetings, MEPs, led by the Chair, Lina Gálvez, will hold a side event on 18 March on “A 30-Year Perspective on Beijing:
Achieving SDG 5 – gender equality and empowerment to all women and girls – only five years left for the world to fulfil the promises made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.
In addition, they will meet representatives of several UN bodies, civil society and the EU delegation to the UN.