07/03/2011 President
"In March 1911, for the first time, more than a million women attended rallies to celebrate the first International Women’s Day and ask for womens' right to receive an education, to work, to vote and to hold public office," said PACE President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, on the anniversary of International Women’s Day 2011.
"After one century, the objective of equality between women and men is, regrettably, still to be achieved; and yet, it has never been within such close reach: this is no longer a women’s fight; it is more and more a shared fight of women and men, for the full enjoyment of human rights by everyone," he added.
"The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe shall not relent its efforts to eradicate violence against women, promote women’s social and economic empowerment and their participation in political and public life. It will continue to express the conviction that men should be at the forefront in this battle, and do its best to ensure that gender equality will not have to wait another hundred years to be realised," he stressed.