Type: Acts of the European Union: European Parliament Resolution on gender mainstreaming in EU external relations and peace-building/nation-building

Authority: European Authorities - European Union: European Parliament

Date: 05/07/2009

Subject: Even if the EU institutions have attached increasing importance to gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment, the number of personnel currently working on gender issues within the Council and the Commission is inadequate, according to the European Parliament. The EP therefore called on those institutions to allocate more staff to the structures in charge of the EU's external action with specific responsibility for gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment. Moreover it ask to systematically include gender equality and women's empowerment in the EU's political dialogue, in the policy discussions with partner countries and in the relations with third-country parliaments.

Classification: Equality - Art. 23 Equality between men and women

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Notices: The European Parliament called upon the Charter in the Preamble