11/12/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
At its next meeting on 14 December by videoconference, the Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence will exchange views on the Generation Equality Forum to be held in 2021 in Mexico and Paris by UN Women, after a presentation of the Forum by Ambassador Delphine O, Secretary General of the...
02/12/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December), PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination declared: “The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous negative impact on such fundamental rights as access to education, healthcare and employment globally. Persons...
30/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Over 20 years after the drafting and opening for signature of the Charter of European Political Parties for a Non-Racist Society, the time is ripe to update this text, as we have witnessed changes in the political landscape – with the emergence of populist and xenophobic movements – and in...
27/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
According to the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, meeting by videoconference, attention to minority rights since the adoption of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in 1995 has clearly diminished. “Minorities are sometimes perceived as a threat to the...
27/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
European States must pass laws to ban “ethnic profiling”, if they have not already done so, and encourage police forces to take stronger action against racist behaviour, PACE’s Equality Committee has said. Approving a draft resolution, based on a report by Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), during a...
25/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Joint statement by the chairs of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament (FEMM) On 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence...
24/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Joint statement by PACE President Rik Daems and Zita Gurmai (Hungary, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on violence against women, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November): “Violence against women remains widespread. An average of 137 women across the...
10/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
A PACE webinar on combating violence against women in sport has heard powerful testimony from a French athlete who suffered sexual abuse in her sport, as well as a series of initiatives from the UN, FIFA and other organisations on how to prevent it. Sarah Abitbol, a French figure skater...
05/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE’s Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence and Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination are organising a Facebook Live webinar entitled “Preventing and combating violence against women in sport”, on 10 November at 10 am. Speakers include former athletes and specialists in equality...
26/10/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Despite growing awareness of their situation, in 2020 intersex people continue to suffer in their daily lives and see their dreams frustrated as a consequence of unnecessary medical and surgical interventions, often practised on intersex infants and children without their consent,” said Fourat...
21/10/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“The horrendous murder of French teacher Samuel Paty on the outskirts of Paris, currently investigated as an act of terrorism, is not only an abominable crime, but also an attack against freedom of expression and peaceful living together, in France and the whole of Europe”, said Momodou Malcolm...
09/10/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo (Monaco, ALDE), PACE’s General Rapporteur on Violence against Women, and Baroness Doreen Massey (United Kingdom, SOC), rapporteur on addressing sexual violence against children, issued the following statement to mark the International Day of the Girl Child, 11 October: “25...