EESC contribution to the EU’s priorities at the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

EESC contribution to the EU’s priorities at the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW69)

The sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women organized at the United Nations takes place at a decisive moment for women’s rights globally. Women and girls around the globe are faced with a backlash in spite of many achievements during the last decades. 30 years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, time has come for a renewed commitment to gender equality worldwide.

The EESC acknowledges the positive developments in gender equality in Europe in recent decades and urges the EU and the Member States to increase the pace of progress, be more ambitious, be vocal about the shrinking space for civil society and block any backlash against women’s rights, which are under attack, in particular by extreme-right political parties.