Brussels, my love? What is needed to bring about gender equality ?

The Euronews Brussels bureau brings you its newest episode of a brand new speak present that goals to interrupt down European information and politics to make it extra accessible to viewers. 

This week we contact on the subject of Worldwide Girls’s day, a UN initiative that took place within the Seventies to have fun the cultural, political and socio-economic achievements of ladies.

Friends embody the Dutch MEP Samira Rafaela from Renew Europe, Deirdre Clune, the Irish MEP from the European Individuals’s Social gathering, and Nayla Glaise, the Secretary Common of Eurocadres. 

Panelists agreed that issues had been getting into the best route for ladies in Europe, however that complete equality would nonetheless take many years. With a pandemic and a conflict in Ukraine ongoing, girls are nonetheless going through main challenges in Europe together with power poverty.

In line with a debate within the European Parliament this week, no less than 50 girls are killed each week in Europe. The EU Elementary Rights Company says over half of feminine homicide victims are killed by an intimate associate, relative or member of the family and only one in 10 report instances of abuse to authorities. 

Watch “Brussels, my love?” within the video participant above.