EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Gender equality

In response to evidence of systemic gender-based violence, debate on concept of consent resurfaces in European Parliament

Brussels, 08/10/2024 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 7 October, the European Commissioner for Equality, Helena Dalli, reaffirmed before the plenary session of MEPs the Commission’s commitment to fighting against gender-based violence, a scourge that affects a third of women in the European Union.

In presenting the directive on domestic and gender-based violence, which came into force in June (see EUROPE B13431A33), Ms Dalli also spoke of the need to include consent as a basis in the European definition of rape, a concept that was...