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From · resolution motion· 30 Jan 2024

B-9-2024-0091

on the EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

To · adopted text· 8 Feb 2024

TA-9-2024-0074

The EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

+3 added · −2 removed · 5 changed paragraphs, packaging included.

Part 2 of 2: Paragraphs 61–75

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(s) to ensure that Member States prioritise the investment in social infrastructures and green jobs in order to assure the well-being and empowerment of women;

(t) enhance public services including health services, quality and affordable public education and public transport and to recognise the vital role of accessible and reliable public transportation in enabling women’s participation in work and society;

(u) to promote green jobs and invest in women’s full participation in the green transition as it is essential to advance towards a sustainable economy while ensuring gender equality in new and emerging sectors;

(v) to recognise that energy poverty affects women disproportionately and put forward specific measures to support those in vulnerable situations while ensuring everyone has access to electricity, heating and cooling in the green energy transition;

(w) to ensure access to SRHR, including age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality and relationship education for all, affordable modern contraception, safe and legal abortion care and other SRHR services as quality maternal health services;

(x) to advocate, support and take concrete measures to realise the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including by ensuring universal access to SRHR;

(y) to take strong action to unequivocally denounce the current backlash and attacks against gender equality and SRHR, including from extreme right organisations and anti-democratic movements, to undermine women’s fundamental rights, their autonomy and emancipation in every field;

(z) to strengthen and support civil society organisations and NGOs that are supporting women’s rights and their empowerment;

(aa) to accelerate the implementation of international commitments already made, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Istanbul Convention, ILO Convention 190 and UNSCR 1325; to support new measures to empower women and girls and thus combat their poverty and social exclusion;

(ab) to work to promote the concept of combating multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, throughout all UN bodies and the EU and its Member States;

(ac) to reiterate the need for the EU to play a leading role at multilateral level in promoting feminist diplomacy in order to implement international agreements pertaining to the rights and empowerment of women and girls; calls for the EU, its Member States, the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to commit to advancing towards a feminist foreign, security and development policy that entails a gender-transformative vision and to make gender equality a core part of their external actions and priorities;

(ad) to take into account the need to strengthen gender mainstreaming and to utilise the principles of gender budgeting more effectively, also in EU external policies, to address gender inequality worldwide;

(ae) to fully implement the EU Gender Action Plan III and ensure that 85 % of all new actions throughout external relations by 2025 will contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment; to apply the holistic and sustainable approach of a feminist foreign policy in all its external actions and policies;

(af) to ensure comparable and age, sex, gender disaggregated data capturing of the situation of people facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination so as to improve data analysis and to inform the design and implementation of policies since less than half of the data required to monitor SDG 5 is currently available;

2. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the EU Special Representative for Human Rights.