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This study presents an overview of how the issue of obstetric and gynaecological violence is currently being apprehended in the EU. Based on research carried out across the EU 27 Member States, it identifies issues and challenges; looks at the legal framework currently applicable to this form of violence; examines ongoing political and legal developments; and gathers initiatives carried out at the national level to improve understanding and prevention of this form of gender-based violence by healthcare ...

Nel corso del tempo, l'Unione europea ha prestato sempre più attenzione alla questione della libera circolazione delle persone con disabilità, che nell'UE rappresentano una persona su quattro. Il 6 settembre 2023 la Commissione europea ha lanciato un'iniziativa legislativa per creare una tessera europea di disabilità e un contrassegno europeo di parcheggio che siano riconosciuti in tutti gli Stati membri. Il testo finale concordato in sede di trilogo sarà votato durante la tornata di aprile II.

Nel marzo 2022 la Commissione ha proposto una direttiva intesa a combattere la violenza contro le donne e la violenza domestica nell'UE e i colegislatori hanno raggiunto un accordo su un testo di compromesso all'inizio del 2024. Il voto del Parlamento su tale testo è previsto per la tornata di aprile II. La nuova direttiva stabilirebbe norme minime per configurare come reato gravi forme di violenza e migliorare la prevenzione, l'accesso alla giustizia e la protezione delle vittime.

Durante la tornata di aprile I il Parlamento europeo voterà due proposte volte a rafforzare i poteri e il mandato degli organismi nazionali per la parità al fine di combattere la discriminazione fondata sul sesso, la razza, la religione o le convinzioni personali, la disabilità, l'età e l'orientamento sessuale.

International trade is not gender neutral. Both inside and outside Europe, trade liberalisation has gender differentiated impacts, stemming from women and men's unequal access to resources and their different positions on labour markets, in households and in society. The challenge for EU policy makers is therefore to ensure that both women and men in the EU and partner countries enjoy gains from trade agreements and are protected from negative impacts and, more broadly, that EU trade policy contributes ...

The Roma are Europe's largest ethnic minority. Out of an estimated total of 10 to 12 million Roma in Europe as a whole, some 6 million live in the European Union (EU) and most of them are citizens of an EU Member State. A significant number of Roma people live in very poor socio-economic conditions. The social exclusion, discrimination and segregation they face are mutually reinforcing. Their restricted access to education and difficulties entering the labour market result in low income and poor ...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, analyses the impact of digitalization on vulnerable social groups in terms of lower income and education, age, people affected by disabilities, minority ethnic groups and people living in remote/isolated geographic areas. It includes a review of the relevant academic literature, secondary data analysis, as well as three case studies focused ...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, is aimed at assessing the state of implementation of gender mainstreaming activities in the parliamentary work of the LIBE Committee and, particularly, it analyses the adoption of a gender mainstreaming and intersectional approach in LIBE’s legislative and non-legislative work in the 2021–2022 period.

Cross-border parental child abductions in the EU are governed by The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and (except for Denmark) the Brussels II-ter Regulation. Countries outside of the EU may or may not be Contracting States to ‘the Convention’, but will not be bound by Brussels II-ter. Research has found that the often negative, long-lasting impact of abduction may continue throughout the lifecycle of those who have been abducted. It may also affect future ...