New York and Washington, D.C.: MEPs attended UN CSW and discussed women’s rights | Atualidade | Parlamento Europeu

Led by the Chair Robert Biedroń, the delegation attended the 67th session of the UN Fee on the Standing of Girls (CSW) and held bilateral conferences with representatives of the UN, the EU, member states and civil society on 6-8 March 2023 in New York.

The CSW67 focusses this yr on innovation, technological change and on training within the digital age for attaining gender equality and the empowerment of all girls and ladies. The delegation then travelled to Washington, D.C., the place MEPs held conferences with representatives of the US administration, the US Congress and civil society on girls’s rights on 9 March 2023.

Topics that have been touched upon throughout the entire delegation’s conferences within the US have been:

• the precedence theme of the CSW67: participation of girls within the digital financial system, growth of synthetic intelligence in a gender non-biased method, combating cyberviolence, and training and empowerment of girls and ladies within the STEM sector;
• the right way to fight the worldwide backlash towards girls’s rights, entry to sexual and reproductive well being and rights together with protected and authorized abortion, sexual violence in battle and use of rape as weapon of struggle, the combat towards gender based mostly violence, together with cyberviolence, in addition to sexuality and relationship training for boys, and EU bilateral and multilateral cooperation to advance gender equality and ladies’s rights.

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Robert Biedroń (S&D, Poland), stated: “EU and UN priorities and considerations are the identical within the space of gender equality and ladies’s rights. In mild of the present backlash towards gender equality throughout the EU and worldwide, our widespread actions and joint forces are wanted greater than ever. We have to standardise girls’s rights at worldwide degree. The EU desires to guide by instance by denouncing this backlash, by empowering girls and ladies in all their range and attaining gender equality within the digital transformation.

We have to construct an inclusive digital financial system and fight gender-based cyberviolence. The whole lot that’s unlawful offline should be unlawful on-line. At our conferences in New York, we mentioned the negotiations of the conclusions of the CSW67 and we hope they are going to be robust, won’t water down already achieved progress on girls’s rights and can mix a growth and a human rights method.

In our conferences in Washington D.C., we expressed our place that sexual and reproductive well being and rights are elementary human rights which should be protected and we expressed our agency solidarity with and assist for ladies and ladies within the US.”

You may examine the delegation’s full programme right here.

Members taking part within the delegation have been:

Robert Biedroń (S&D, Poland), Head of the delegation

Frances Fitzgerald (EPP, Eire)

Sirpa Pietikäinen (EPP, Finland)

Evelyn Regner (S&D, Austria)

Heléne Fritzon (S&D, Sweden)

María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos (Renew, Spain)

Monika Vana (Greens/EFA, Austria)