01/03/2010 Equality and Non-Discrimination
José Mendes Bota (Portugal, EPP/CD), Chair of the PACE Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, today represented the Assembly at an event organised in New York by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, on the role of parliaments in enforcing legislation on violence against women. This event was held in the fringe of the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Tomorrow, Mr Mendes Bota will speak on behalf of the Council of Europe at a meeting organised by the Permanent Representation of Switzerland to the United Nations and by the Council of Europe, on current human rights issues concerning women in the field of migration, including female genital mutilation and excision.