My plenary speech on the Roadmap for Women’s Rights
When talking about women’s rights the EU Commission has to be clear and precise, otherwise it creates potential for regress.
If the Commission cannot even state its unquestionable support for one of the most fundamental human rights, i.e. the right of women to have authority over their own body, the far-right sponsored by the ANTI GENDER MOUVEMENT will do its absolute worst to backtrack on gender equality.
The EU either truly defends our UNION OF EQUALITY or opens up its gate to the far-right extremists within and outside of Europe to dilute women’s rights in every aspects of life.
Make no mistake, promising quality and inclusive education to all girls and women in all their diversity and then tiptoeing around the essence of it, such as the promotion of comprehensive sexual education is playing into the hands of far-right and out dated patriarchy.
There is a desperate need for progress and real equality as the people marching on the streets all over Europe on the 8th of March showed it very clearly. Listen to those voices!
As our feminist and democratic values are under attack, there is no middle ground or room for hesitation: it is either mainstreaming equal rights or mainstreaming misogyny and sexism.
I strongly hope that the Commission is for the strengthening of women’s rights, in which case it has my full support.
