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📢Today @EP_GenderEqual endorsed the resolution on the impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion of 🇨🇾on women and girls.
🗳️ Vote: 👍28 | 👎4 | abst. 1
📃Read our press release
link.europa.eu/wTN6Kw
⏭️Next steps: Debate and vote in an upcoming plenary
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🗣️Today in @EP_GenderEqual starting at 10:00:
- vote on the impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls
- debate on EU budget performance rules
- a joint hearing on the future of the EU Anti-Trafficking Strategy and victim protection
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🔗Meeting documents link.europa.eu/7JJhTX
🎦Streaming: link.europa.eu/dkkKj7
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Hearings | Events | FEMM europarl.europa.eu/committee… via @Europarl_EN
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🗣️Today at 14:30 in @EP_GenderEqual @EP_Justice:
How can the EU strengthen its fight against human trafficking?
Invited speakers: Diane Schmitt @EU_Commission, @mdiavel3,Petya Nestorova,@coe & Nenad Nača @EC3Europol
🔴Watch live👇
link.europa.eu/Q6nhf3
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🗣️#EPlenary MEPs voted today new rules to better protect victims of crime: 👍440 /👎49 / 84 abs.
@Lucia_Yar @zarzalejosj @EP_Justice @linagalvezmunoz
✅ Around 70 million victims of crime in the EU every year
✅ Stronger support for child victims and victims of violence
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🔗Read our press release
link.europa.eu/ndT64n👇
📺Rewatch the press conference 👇
link.europa.eu/WxTNCJ
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This week in #Eplenary 20/5 debates p.m., votes 21/5:
✅Updating the Victims’ rights directive: co-rapps. @zarzalejosj @EP_Justice & @Lucia_Yar
🖇️Text: link.europa.eu/GrKDJt
🗣️Press conference with co-rapps & @linagalvezmunoz 20/5 at 11:15 CET👇
link.europa.eu/HkwR9G
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✅ Report on advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap by co-rapps Rosa Estaràs & Eleonora Meleti @EPSocialAffairs
🖇️Read the report: link.europa.eu/w8TQpg#
📺Watch live debates👇
link.europa.eu/K4Q4mp
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🗣️Tomorrow 5/5 from 15:00 to 17:00 @EP_GenderEqual to focus on gender-based violence and the Grok case -
deepfakes, accountability & closing regulatory gaps.
Follow live: link.europa.eu/6fwnc3
Event page: link.europa.eu/qqtf9P
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📌MEPs call to recognise the vital role of women in 🇪🇺rural, island & outermost regions—urging stronger support for women-led businesses, better access to finance (rapporteur @elukacijewska)
🗳️ 404👍 | 102 👎 | 67 abst.
🔗Our press release👇
link.europa.eu/6VdQfC
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FEMM Committee Press retweeted
Apr 28
📢♀️Rape must be defined based on absence of consent
🇪🇺MEPs ask for EU legislation establishing a common definition of rape based on freely given, informed, and revocable consent.
ℹ️link.europa.eu/dN3kpd
📝Evin Incir 🇸🇪@TheProgressives & @JoankaSW @EP_GenderEqual
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FEMM Committee Press retweeted
Apr 27
🔴🔜Starting around 18:10 CEST👇
🎦Streaming LIVE : link.europa.eu/p98byH
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🗣️This afternoon MEPs will debate the need to define rape based on absence of consent in EU law (rapp. Evin Incir @TheProgressives & @JoankaSW)
📺Follow LIVE: multimedia.europarl.europa.e…
➡️Plenary vote on 28 April, followed by a press conference at 17:00 CEST
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🗣️Tomorrow 14/4 in @EP_GenderEqual from 9h to 12h30👇
- NYC mission (UN CSW70) debrief
- Structured dialogue with @hadjalahbib
-EU pay transparency rules - guidelines on gender-neutral job evaluation
- India mission 2026 update
📺Follow live multimedia.europarl.europa.e…
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FEMM Committee Press retweeted
An estimated 6.6 million people are formally employed care workers in the EU.
88% of them are women.
Read our analysis on the gender care gap: link.europa.eu/3TBmYm
@EP_GenderEqual @EPSocialAffairs @MargaPisa @ChiaraGemmaUE @DevauxVly @BenniScuderi @Kathleensf1 @IrmhildBoss
ALT EPRS visual reading '88% of the formal care workforce are women' Source: EPRS (September 2025), based on research produced by Cedefop, data reported in 2021. A woman stands next to a man in a wheelchair.
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FEMM Committee Press retweeted
Care work is largely invisible, undervalued & carried out by women.
The resulting gender care gap has profound consequences for society.
🔎 Read our analysis on addressing the gender care gap in the EU 👉 link.europa.eu/3TBmYm
@EP_GenderEqual @EPSocialAffairs @IBenEuropa
ALT EPRS visual reading '56% of women with children under 12 spend at least 5 hours per day on childcare, compared to 26% of men.' Source: EPRS (September 2025), based on research produced by EIGE, data reported in 2022. A woman holds a child in her arms.
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✅👏 ADOPTED
@EPSocialAffairs & @EP_GenderEqual just adopted recommendations to address gender inequalities in formal and informal care 🫂.
🗳️: 60⬆️, 8⬇️, 12↔️.
Rapporteurs Rosa Estaràs Ferragut & Eleonora Meleti.
Press release will follow shortly.
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📄Read our press release👇
link.europa.eu/R34dxQ
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🗣️ Today's highlights in @EP_GenderEqual 👇
🔹 2024 EU survey on gender-based violence (EIGE & FRA) (11:30–12:30)
🔹 Vote on advancing towards a care society & closing the gender care gap (14:30)
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🔹Menopause care in the EU - Hearing w/@EP_PublicHealth (15:00-16:00)
🔹Impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women & girls (16:30-17:00)
📺Streaming agenda👇 multimedia.europarl.europa.e…
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