Programme

Hearing on "Ensuring sexual and reproductive health rights for women with disabilities"

EESC permanent Group on Disability Rights

Via Interactio, online platform, EESC, VMA23, Monday, 8 July 2024 from 09.30 a.m. to 01.00 p.m.

The EESC's Permanent Group on disability Rights is organising a hybrid public hearing on " Ensuring sexual and reproductive health rights for women with disabilities " on 8 July 2024 from 9:30 am to 1 pm. During the event, we will discuss with relevant stakeholders existing good practices as well as problems encountered by women with disabilities in the EU but also on a global level, namely in developing countries.

09.00 a.m. - 09.30 a.m. | Testing connection

09.30 a.m. - 09.40 a.m. | Welcome & introduction

• Christophe Lefèvre, President of the EESC Permanent Group on Disability rights (PG DIS) 

09.40 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. | Panel 1 

Moderator: Marie Zvolská, EESC PG DIS Member

• Dovilė Juodkaitė, co-rapporteur of EESC opinion on "Violence against women as a human rights issue: state of play of measures across the EU"
• Katrin Langensiepen, Member of the European Parliament
• Maria Rosa Mollica, Team leader – Stop Violence against women, DG JUST, European Commission
• Sara Rocha, activist and Board member of the European Council of Autistic People (EUCAP) and vice chair of EDF's Women Committee
• Sif Holst, President of the EESC Ad Hoc Group on Equality

Q&A

11.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. | Coffee break

11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Panel 2

Moderator: Marie Zvolská, EESC PG DIS Member

• Ana Peláez Narváez, Chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Secretary-General of the European Disability Forum (EDF) and Executive Vice-President of CERMI's Women Foundation
• Helen Portal, Advocacy and Policy Officer, Inclusion Europe
• Charlotte Olhausen, Policy Officer, European Union of the Deaf (EUD)
• Virginia Ossana, Senior Program Officer, Capacity & Movement Strengthening, Women Enabled International (WEI)
• Irene Rosales, Senior Policy Advisor, European Women Lobby (EWL)

Q&A

12.45 p.m. - 01.00 p.m. | Closing remarks

• Christophe Lefèvre, President of the EESC Permanent Group on Disability rights (PG DIS) 

Interpretation requested from French, English, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Lithuanian, Polish and Slovak into French, English, Italian, Spanish and Polish.

International sign language is provided.