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DRAFT REPORT (2024/2057(INI))

On a European Parliament recommendation to the Council concerning the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

FEMM-PR-765072

Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality · Rapporteur: Lina Gálvez

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The draft report recommends that the Council confirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and implement gender equality in all EU external action, including through gender mainstreaming and budgeting. It calls for the full involvement of Parliament in defining the EU position for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and for addressing obstacles such as backlash, poverty, gender-based violence, and lack of data. It urges the Commission to implement the EU Gender Action Plan III, with 85% of new actions contributing to gender equality by 2025, and to improve data collection and support the European Institute for Gender Equality. It also calls for policies to reduce women's poverty, ensure access to health services including sexual and reproductive health, address gender-based violence, and consider gender in the green transition.

Committee position. The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, through its rapporteur, recommends that the Council adopt these priorities for the EU's position at the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Key points

  1. Recommends that the Council confirm its commitment to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to women's human rights, including through gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting.
  2. Calls for gender equality and women's rights to be implemented in all EU external action with an adequately funded, gender-transformative, inclusive and intersectional approach.
  3. Demands full involvement of Parliament and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality in the EU position for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, with timely information and consultation.
  4. Urges the EU to lead by example, including urging the remaining five Member States that have not ratified and implemented the Istanbul Convention to do so.
  5. Calls for equal opportunities in decision-making and opposition to semiotic violence against women in politics.
  6. Identifies weak political leadership, lack of commitment, data gaps, insufficient investment, and anti-rights movements as obstacles, and calls for more women in leadership and policy reforms.
  7. Calls on the Commission to develop concrete and well-financed plans to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals related to gender equality.
  8. Urges the Commission to improve collection of gender-desegregated data and reinforce the European Institute for Gender Equality in funding and capacity.
  9. Calls for implementation of the EU Gender Action Plan III and ensuring that 85% of all new actions in external relations by 2025 contribute to gender equality and women's empowerment.
  10. Calls for policies to reduce gender as a factor in poverty, address root causes, and empower women through education, training, and non-discriminatory labour opportunities.
  11. Calls for further efforts and legislation to ensure the rights of women domestic workers.
  12. Calls for enhanced response to gender-based violence, including in war zones, and for access to health services including sexual and reproductive health, and for addressing gender in the green transition.

Who is affected

  • The Council, which is recommended to adopt these priorities for the EU's position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
  • The Commission, which is called on to implement the Gender Action Plan III and improve data collection.
  • The European Parliament and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, which seek involvement in defining the EU position.
  • Member States that have not ratified the Istanbul Convention are urged to do so.
  • Women and girls in all their diversity, who are to benefit from these policies.

Figures and deadlines

  • 85% of all new actions throughout external relations by 2025 should contribute to gender equality and women's empowerment.
  • The 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women is scheduled for 10-25 March 2025.