Topics
International Women's Day:
Feminist Left Struggles in Europe
15.00-15.10 Opening by Gabriele Zimmer (GUE/NGL) President
First session: Women Workers' Rights
15.10 – 16.10 Moderated by Kostadinka Kuneva (Greece, GUE/NGL, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality) and Joao Pimenta Lopes (Portugal, GUE/NGL, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality)
* The role of Unions
Speaker: Fátima Messias, Member of the Executive Committee of CGTP-IN
* Organising women workers in Trade Unions – Challenges, Proposals and Good Practices; the case of women domestic workers
Speaker: Katerina Bougioukou, Women Equality Secretary of the Greek General Confederation of Labour
* Exchange of views/Debate
Second session: Freedom from violence and women´s rights to decide over their bodies
16.10 – 17.10
Moderated by Malin Björk MEP (Sweden, GUE/NGL, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality)
* Politics of the body: The right to SRHR and abortion
Speaker: Rosa San Segundo, Professor University Carlos III, University Institute of Gender Studies
* Combatting violence against women: Europe and beyond
Speaker Serna Fiorletta, AIDOS, the Italian Association for Women in Development
* Exchange of views/Debate
Third session: 17.20 – 18.20 The Role of the Feminist Left Movement
17.20-18.30
Moderated by Eleonora Forenza MEP (Italy, GUE/NGL, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality)
* Feminist Left Struggles: an Insight
Speaker Lilian Halls-French, Euro-med Feminist Initiative, IFE-EFI
*Exchange of views/Debate
18.20-18.30
Closing remarks by Malin Björk MEP (Sweden, GUE/NGL, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality)
18.30 Cocktail
3 March 2016 at 15.00-17.00 Room PHS1C47 & PHS1C51
European Parliament, Brussels
Sandwich Lunch 12.30 in PHS 1C47
Two parallel workshops
Facilitator: GUE/NGL MEP or other representatives
15.00 – 17.00 Women´s Economic Independence
Women´s working conditions: social and labour rights
* Parental Leave
* Austerity / the Public sector
* Pensions
* Economic violence as violence against women
Facilitator Bakartxo Ruiz Jaso, Member of the Parliament of the Foral Autonomy of Navarre
Introductory remarks: Mayra Moro-Coco, feminist activist expert on women's human rights, gender and development, Podemos & Alexandra Meredyth, Ute Wischnewski, Die Linke
Women´s rights to our bodies
*SRHR
*VAW
*Prostitution
*Surrogacy
Facilitator: Anne Wizorek, initiator of German campaign “Ausnahmslos” (no excuses)
Introductory remarks: Hanna Cederin, President Swedish Left Party´s Youth section and Marie Pencikova, KSCM, Czech Republic
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