Special Committee on Child Care [ Parliamentary Task Force on Child Care ]

Parliamentary Committee on Child Care Arrangements

Federal-Provincial Working Group on Nutrition for Preschoolers [ Working Group on Nutrition for Preschoolers ]

Task Force for Child Survival

Working Group on Children's Participation in Social and Family Life

Working Party on Parliamentary Reform

The Global Horizontal Note, a monitoring and reporting mechanism of grave violations against children in situations of armed conflict, reported to the Security Council's Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) that during the October to December 2013 reporting period, ADF was responsible for 14 of the 18 child casualties documented, including in an incident on 11 December 2013, in Beni territory, North Kivu, when ADF attacked the village of Musuku, killing 23 people, including 11 children (three girls and eight boys), aged 2 months to 17 years.

18. Emphasises the fact that increased flexibility in working arrangements can increase women’s opportunities to participate actively in the labour market, but notes, at the same time, that this flexibility can have a negative impact on women’s wages and pensions; points, therefore, to the need for specific work-life balance proposals, and encourages men and women to share occupational, family, and social responsibilities more evenly, especially in cases where assistance to dependants and childcare are concerned;

18. Emphasises the fact that increased flexibility in working arrangements can increase women’s opportunities to participate actively in the labour market, but notes, at the same time, that this flexibility can have a negative impact on women’s wages and pensions; points, therefore, to the need for specific work-life balance proposals, and encourages men and women to share occupational, family, and social responsibilities more evenly, especially in cases where assistance to dependants and childcare are concerned;

66. Reiterates its warning of the socioeconomic challenges facing the Union, especially in some Member States, and of the risks to its sustainability and stable growth potential posed by a reversal in regional convergence; recalls that more than 122 million EU citizens are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including in-work poverty and child poverty; points out that 19 % of children in the EU are currently estimated to be at risk of poverty, and insists that these levels are unacceptable and need to be reduced immediately; calls on the Commission to continue developing the social dimension in the EU; acknowledges the Commission ...[+++]’s work on the social pillar of the Economic and Monetary Union, as part of the process of integrating the social dimension into the current structure of the economic governance mechanisms, and calls for the continuation on this path with the aim to advance with the fulfilling of the Europa 2020 strategy;