Brussels, 14 June 2022
Wednesday 15 June 15.15-16.30 (ANTALL building, room 2Q2) and Thursday 16 June 9.00 – 16.00 (ANTALL building, room 6Q2)
VOTES –16 June
10.00 – 10.30
Women’s poverty in Europe
Adoption of a draft report by rapporteur Lina Gálvez Muñoz (S&D, Spain). The draft report is available here.
The draft report seeks to address the gender-based poverty gap, calling for specific public policies to tackle the structural gender inequalities that cause, exacerbate or perpetuate women’s poverty.
Intersectional discrimination in the European Union: the socio-economic situation of women of African, Middle-Eastern, Latin-American and Asian descent
Adoption of a draft report by rapporteur Alice Kuhnke (Greens/EFA, Sweden). The draft report is available here.
The draft report stresses the need for EU policymaking to address intersecting forms of discrimination and is expected to call for positive action measures, such as quotas, for women facing intersectional discrimination in public institutions.
11.00 -11:30
Jointly with the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchange (Women on boards)
Vote on the provisional agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiations. Rapporteurs Lara Wolters (S&D, The Netherlands) for the Legal Affairs Committee and Evelyn Regner (S&D, Austria) for the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee.
WORKSHOP
Women and cancer prevention– 16 June 14.30
An exchange of views with experts organised by Policy Department C.
For more information, including the draft programme, click here.
PRESENTATION
Presentation by the Anti-trafficking Coordinator of the Anti-Trafficking Plan to protect people fleeing the war in Ukraine –15 June 2022, 15.15
NEXT MEETINGS
21 June 2022 jointly with the Employment Committee – time to be confirmed
23 June 2022 jointly with the Civil Liberties Committee – time to be confirmed
12 July 2022, 9.00 – 12.00 and 14.30 – 18.00
Source – EU Parliament