Led by the Chair Robert Biedroń, the delegation attended the 67th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and held bilateral meetings with representatives of the UN, the EU, member states and civil society on 6-8 March 2023 in New York.

The CSW67 focusses this year on innovation, technological change and on education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. The delegation then travelled to Washington, D.C., where MEPs held meetings with representatives of the US administration, the US Congress and civil society on women’s rights on 9 March 2023.

Subjects that were touched upon during all of the delegation’s meetings in the US were:

• the priority theme of the CSW67: participation of women in the digital economy, development of artificial intelligence in a gender non-biased way, combating cyberviolence, and education and empowerment of women and girls in the STEM sector;
• how to combat the global backlash against women’s rights, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights including safe and legal abortion, sexual violence in conflict and use of rape as weapon of war, the fight against gender based violence, including cyberviolence, as well as sexuality and relationship education for boys, and EU bilateral and multilateral cooperation to advance gender equality and women’s rights.

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Robert Biedroń (S&D, Poland), said: “EU and UN priorities and concerns are the same in the area of…