The European Parliament hold the second European Gender Equality Week from 25 to 28 October. Several parliamentary committees and delegations organise sessions addressing gender equality issues in their policy areas. Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality explain the gender equality issues in the various policy areas.

Brussels

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

meeting

Committee on Culture and Education

Women's rights / Equal opportunities (T2)

gender balance (T)

REGNER, Evelyn (S&D, AT)

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

Gender equality week: statement by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), FEMM Committee Chair - atmosphere shots of the EP Committees

SOUNDBITE (English), Evelyn REGNER (S&amp;D, AT), Chair Committee on Women&#8217;s Rights and Gender Equality, Gender equality is one of the major principles and values of the European Union, so we have to live it and we want to live it, and we do that in the Committee of Gender Equality and Women's Rights and in every single committee of the European Parliament. As far as we have not reached full gender equality, when go for that? I just tell you will push that. It's a long lasting wish of myself that every single committee in this week is doing an activity, a hearing, a presentation, just a gender mainstreaming issue. Go for example, to the ECON committee where there is a hearing on gender equality.

SOUNDBITE (English), Evelyn REGNER (S&amp;D, AT), Chair Committee on Women&rsquo;s Rights and Gender Equality, Go for example, to the ECON committee where there is a hearing on gender equality. Though, for example, to a community where there is a hearing on gender equality in the RRF, the Recovery and Resilience Fund and the National Action Plans, so it's about money. Look, for example, at the CULT Committee, where there will be an invitation to look deeper into gender equality in the ERASMUS+ and the culture programmes. Look into the Foreign Affairs Committee, where we just had gender mainstreaming at the European Union's external policies, in the foreign policies.

Atmosphere in the Committee on Employment and Social Affair during the exchange of views on Gender equality and the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 shots

Atmosphere in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs during the public hearing on The consequences of the pandemic on women and how the recovery can be designed to protect women and promote gender equality: Promotion of genderequality, equal opportunities for all and the mainstreaming of those objectives in the RRF/NRPs, 8 shots

SOUNDBITE (English), Evelyn REGNER (S&amp;D, AT), Chair Committee on Women&rsquo;s Rights and Gender Equality, The Istanbul Convention is the golden standard to protect women from violence. We have in there measures that the member states of the of those having signed the Istanbul Convention to protect women from violence. It is the duty of every government to protect women. This is not the private story. This is something where there is an obligation of every government to protect women from violence. What has Turkey done? In Istanbul, the beautiful city of Istanbul, the Istanbul Convention has been signed, had been signed and Turkey is withdrawing and this is nothing else than then hit into every single woman's face. It means a government is stepping back from the obligation to protect women from violence. This is a no go. We, the European Union, we push the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, we expect from the European Commission to propose a directive, to propose measures, legislative measures to really protect women from violence.

Atmosphere in the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee during the exchange of views on Turkey&rsquo;s withdrawal from the Istanbul convention and its consequences for the gender equality and the situation of women, 10 shots.