Our Public Affairs Director Valentina Bottarelli will give evidence on the achievements and challenges at EU level with the aim of identifying a path forward which leaves no one behind. Join the livestream to follow the conversation!

Serbian civil society organisations participate in the work of the European Economic and Social Committee as part of the ECMs Initiative, as the EESC elaborates an opinion on the #RuleOfLaw in Europe

❌ NO to the extradition from Serbia to Belarus of Andrey Gnyot, Belarusian journalist, activist & #HumanRights defender, says European Economic and Social Committee's ad hoc group on Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law 📄Read the statement: europa.eu/!d8NtTg

🚨 Nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise in Europe. How can we counteract them? Join ECIT Foundation at "European Citizenship at the Crossroads" on July 3rd at the European Economic and Social Committee Shape the future of EU citizenship with experts and policymakers! 📅 Register: ecit-foundation.eu/annual-confere…

📢Join us for our hearing on 8th July!#SRHRplusD 👉Webstream available eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/our-…

📢Follow EESC Social Affairs hearing on ensuring #SexualReproductiveHealthRights to #WomenWithDisabilities #SRHR 📅 8/07, 9h30-13h ❓ What are the key challenges & best practices for supporting #women with #disabilities 🗞️Programme europa.eu/!W9yBRG 📺europa.eu/!Nkgjgb

⌛️Starting now 9h30-13h, EESC Social Affairs hearing on ensuring #SexualReproductiveHealthRights to #WomenWithDisabilities #SRHR ❓What are the key challenges & best practices for supporting #women with #disabilities ? 📰Programme europa.eu/!W9yBRG 📺Join europa.eu/!Nkgjgb

Absolutely 👏 The EU Directive on combating violence against women failed to mandate data disaggregation by disability and we will probably continue without enough data to understand the extent and impact of violence against women and girls with disabilities.

The ableist idea women with disabilities are unable to decide on their bodies and become mothers, and the normalisation of violence as 'care' can't continue. The EU will be complicit with eugenics and human rights violations until we #EndForcedSterilisation.

Did you miss out our hearing? The webstory is online. 👉 Check it out here eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/…

👩‍🦽Deprived of accessible services & denied the right to take decisions about their own bodies, women with #disabilities face abject discrimination on many counts 🔎Here's a recap of our hearing on their #SexualReproductiveHealthRights #SRHRplusD 📰europa.eu/!QwXV4w

📢Leaving No One Behind: #EU Commitment to #RareDiseases hearing EESC Social Affairs 📅 Friday 12/07 9.30-13h ❓What are the #challenges and #achievements at EU level? How to move forward?⏩ 🗞️Programme and speakers 🔊europa.eu/!fFKqbQ 📝Register at europa.eu/!J7DKFT

1/2 Too little is done to protect the sexual and reproductive rights of women with disabilities in the 🇪🇺 Thanks Sara Rocha charlotte olhausen Katrin Langensiepen MEP/GreensEFA Helen and Ana Peláez (among others) for speaking about this critical topic.

Today is #WorldPoulationDay! At the EESC , we also call for a stop to ageism and discrimination of all sort against #olderadults . Read our recommendations in our opinion eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/op… A new one to be adopted in September eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/op…

SAVE THE DATE European Economic and Social Committee and Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024 Conference on #RareDiseases 📅29 November 2024 🕑9:00-16:30 🌍Budapest 3⃣6⃣ million people in the 🇪🇺are affected by a rare disease. We urgently need a 🇪🇺policy framework for rare diseases to tackle this ℹ️ europa.eu/!Qgwcnq

The European Commission #RuleOfLaw Report is crucial for tackling justice & fundamental rights challenges. We support its findings, mainly on media freedom declines in several 🇪🇺 MS. We call for a stronger role for #EUCivilSociety & will discuss this in our September #EESCPlenary.

5 years in, EU's #RuleOfLaw Toolbox is a valuable instrument - but our work shows it still needs improvements for efficiency & inclusiveness Read Oliver Röpke & #FRRLGroup joint statement as our Opinion on the #RuleOfLawReport will come up in October ▶️bit.ly/3WwGzSV

Come join us at the European Economic and Social Committee for 10 September for, "Climate migration: where to next?". What are the current trends? Is the EU ready for it? We ask experts in climate migration for the answers. More info europa.eu/!HPRMWY and register europa.eu/!TbBT7B

Supporting our friends of the #EUMigrationForum, please apply!

Calling all CSOs and LRAs Eurocities! Want to be part of the 9th #EUMigrationForum discussing the PMA with EU Home Affairs at the European Economic and Social Committee this November? Apply before 12 September europa.eu/!KrNDqk More info: europa.eu/!ytFvVh