Effect of migration from Arab and African regions on the number of cases of physical and sexual violence against women
13.6.2022
Question for written answer E-002117/2022
to the Commission
Rule 138
Nicolaus Fest (ID)
The European Commission’s gender equality strategy aims to ‘end gender-based violence’[1]. Alongside Hungary, Poland opposed the use of the term ‘gender equality’ in the strategy[2]. The country has often been criticised for pursuing misogynistic policies.
Such allegations are surprising, though, as according to a 2014 study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 19% of women in Poland (lowest proportion in the EU) had experienced physical and/or sexual violence from a current and/or former partner or another person since the age of 15, compared to 33% on EU average.
In the light of the above, could the Commission please answer the following questions:
- 1.Why is the percentage of women in Poland who have experienced sexual and/or physical violence much lower than the EU average and the percentage in many EU Member States who, unlike the Polish Government, promote gender mainstreaming?
- 2.It is remarkable that EU Member States with a high proportion of people with an Arabic and/or African migrant background and of Muslim faith fair worse in the study: does migration from these regions have a negative impact on the statistics mentioned?
- 3.Does the Commission have more recent figures than those in the study mentioned, and will a new study be conducted?
- [1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/gender-equality/gender-equality-strategy_en
- [2] https://www.politico.eu/article/eus-gender-equality-push-for-external-relations-faces-trouble-from-the-inside/amp/?fbclid=IwAR2cHqSliessTAdPVonXmBjVoI7dY64zSwcZ3mUaykg6vwh5igFw1IOx518