What’s New, Webby?
Empowering women online
By Ramya Rajagopalan (ramya.rajagopalan@gmail.com), Consultant, ICSF
FEMM is a European Union (EU) Committee dedicated to women’s rights and gender equality. The FEMM page online is a channel for sharing information and for the promotion of the Committee’s mandate and achievements. According to the website, despite many successes in empowering women, numerous issues still exist in all areas of life: social, cultural, political and economic, where women are not equally treated.
Some of the areas of particular concern for the Committee are the pay gap, female poverty, women’s underrepresentation in decision making, trafficking and violence against women and children (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/femm/home.html#menuzone).
The FEMM website is a repository of information on the full range of activities that the Committee undertakes. The site has recently been updated with a draft report on specific actions in the common fisheries policy (CFP) for developing the role of women:
www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE519.712
The working of the Committee, its members, its publications and the various draft reports that the Committee has authored are among some of the offerings available. There is also a multi-media component, where Committee proceedings can be seen live: www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video?event=20131127-1000-COMMITTEE-PECH-FEMM
