European Parliament Alerts from the Women's Rights and Gender Equality committee

Latest news - Next FEMM Committee meetings - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality 22-03-2018 10:57 AM CET The next Committee meeting will be held on: Tuesday 27 March 2018 from 14.30 to 18.30 in room JAN4Q1, Brussels All the meetings are broadcast live and recorded unless otherwise indicated. Further information Calendar 2018 FEMM latest press releases Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Highlights - The situation in Hungary - Consideration of draft opinion – 27.3.2018 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality 22-03-2018 10:55 AM CET Based on the findings of the FEMM mission to Hungary (12-14 February), the rapporteur Ms Maria Noichl (S&D, Germany) points out several concerns including: the narrowing of gender equality policies, sexual and reproductive rights, the ill-treatment and discrimination of Roma women in their access to healthcare, the future functioning of NGOs, which include many women's rights organizations and higher education, specifically gender studies which have become the target of defamation campaigns. Moreover, the rapporteur calls on the Hungarian government to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible and encourages them to contribute to the swift adoption of the work-life balance directive in the Council. Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Highlights - Work-life balance for parents and carers - Consideration of draft opinion – 27.3.2018 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality 22-03-2018 10:54 AM CET The rapporteur, Ms Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz (EPP, Poland ) focuses on the objective of the Directive to increase women's employment and to well reflect its legal basis. Two crucial pillars of the proposal which the rapporteur considers fundamental for achieving these objectives are: non-transferability of parental leave and sick pay level of compensation during leaves. The rapporteur introduces several modifications with the intention of making the proposal responsive to the demands of the EU economies. Several amendments aim to reflect the concern for the functioning of micro, small and medium-sized companies. Better clarity and the need for clear notice periods as well as qualifying periods for the leaves and for flexible working arrangements are requested by the rapporteur. Further information Link to the Commission's proposal Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Highlights - Union Civil Protection Mechanism – Vote – 27.3.2018 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality 22-03-2018 10:52 AM CET The Commission has the intention to redeploy funding from the existing programmes including the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) programme in 2019 and 2020 to the benefit of the extension of the Civil Protection mechanism. The programmes on gender equality and violence against women (Daphne) come from the REC programme. In fact last years' implementation rate of the REC is more than 99% and FEMM has repeatedly called for an increase in those funds. For all these reasons, the opinion, whose rapporteur is Ms Angelika MLINAR (ALDE, Austria), is strongly against the deployment at expense of REC programme. It also introduces amendments to mainstream gender in the Civil Protection Mechanism. 21 amendments have been tabled. Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP QUESTIONS? STAY CONNECTED  Contact Us | This email was sent on behalf of the European Parliament · Bât. Altiero Spinelli · 60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60 · B-1047 - Bruxelles/Brussels  · Belgium · Phone: +32(0)2 28 42111