Newsletter 06/09 – 12/09 Committee meetings in Brussels

Newsletter 06/09 – 12/09

Committee meetings in Brussels

Women’s rights in Afghanistan

	Members of the Women’s Rights Committee and Human Rights Subcommittee will discuss the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the takeover of the Taliban. Joining the meeting are Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission Chairperson Shaharzad Akbar, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Vice President Guissou Jahangiri, as well as Sahraa Karimi, Afghan film director and president of the Afghan Film Organisation (Monday).

Monday

EU digital rules

The EP Special Committee on Foreign Interference and Disinformation
(INGE) will debate the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act and EU data and AI strategy with Margrethe Vestager, Commission Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Competition. MEPs are likely to quiz the Commissioner on the quasi-monopoly of a few companies in the digital market, how AI can be used to counter disinformation, and how to protect personal data from abuse by internet companies (Monday).

Monday

Natural disasters

MEPs will discuss about the natural disasters throughout Europe this summer (floods, fires), the implementation of relief and European solidarity, and the lessons to be learnt in European public policies.

Monday

Conference on the Future of Europe

Circular economy and social inclusion

Citizens can share their ideas on several topics : health, climate change and the environment, culture, education, digital transformation, or migration. This Infoclip illustrates persons consulting the platform futureu.europa.eu on computer and mobile.

The ESF aims to support projects which aim to help people to find better jobs and to offer more equitable professional prospects. This Infoclip illustrates people selecting items that can be treated in the waste collection center, sorting and packaging center for clothes, sorting and repair center for toys, repair shop for household appliances and second-hand store.

Ahmad Shah Massoud was in the EP in September 2001

Afghan women were received in the EP in April 2001

Nicole Fontaine, EP President, invited Commander Massaud, the Vice-President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, to visit Strasbourg to speak about the situation in his country. During the press conference, he urged to pressure Pakistan on its support for the Taliban and asked for humanitarian aid to combat the Afghan people’s conditions under the Taliban. A few months after his visit, Massoud was assassinated in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001.

Following the visit of Commander Ahmad Massoud at the EP in Strasbourg, the European Parliament, together with the Committees on Foreign Affairs Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities met with three women who were smuggled out of Kabul. The women left Kabul under an initiative of the French magazine, ELLE, who assisted in their search for safety and freedom.


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Newsletter 06/09 – 12/09 Committee meetings in Brussels

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