Draft minutes of the 17th meeting of the IWG EqOP held on 14 October 2026. The IWG’s strategic objective is to achieve more equitable and robust occupant protection for a diverse population through inclusive regulations and protection strategies that reduce injury risk below a tolerable threshold for as many occupants as possible. The priorities endorsed by GRSP remain rear impact protection, frontal impact restraint systems, and the assessment of injury types that are currently insufficiently addressed, particularly brain, soft-tissue neck, and lower-extremity injuries. The Chairs reviewed progress of task forces and introduced the proposed theme of the Tokyo workshop: robustness assessment of occupant protection.