08/03/2024 | Secretary General of the Assembly
Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, participated today, on the occasion of International Women's Rights Day, in a round table organised by the General Council (Parliament) of Andorra. Speaking to members of the General...
10/10/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
As part of Pink October, the Network of Parliamentarians for a Healthy Environment and the Women@PACE group will hold an exchange of views on “Breast cancer and the right to a healthy environment”, in the margins of the PACE plenary session. Professor Carole Mathelin – an obstetrician...
10/10/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“The environment clearly has an impact on the development of breast cancer,” said Professor Carole Mathelin, a Hospital Practitioner specialising in breast cancer surgery, who has developed a research project to establish the link between the environment and breast cancer. She was speaking at an...
20/06/2023 | Women@PACE
The ‘Women@PACE’ group today held an exchange of views with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of the Belarus democratic opposition, on women’s political participation. Addressing the participants, she shared her journey and shed light on the challenges faced by women in her country's political...
26/05/2023 | Standing Committee
In the framework of the Standing Committee meeting in Riga, the ‘Women@PACE’ group today held an exchange of views with Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, who served as the President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She was the first woman to hold the post in the country. Addressing the participants, Ms Vīķe...
27/04/2023 | Women@PACE
The ‘Women@PACE’ group today held an exchange of views with Ms Anita Bhatia, UN Women Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, on innovation and technological change: progress towards gender equality, and on the role of parliamentarians in implementing the...
26/04/2023 | Women@PACE
At its next meeting in the margins of the PACE plenary session, the informal ‘Women@PACE’ group will hold an exchange of views on innovation and technological change: progress towards gender equality, and in particular, the role of parliamentarians in implementing the conclusions of the 67th...
25/01/2023 | Women@PACE
To mark World Education Day (24 January), the Women@PACE group today expressed its solidarity with women and girls in Afghanistan who are barred from receiving an education. “Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the situation of women and girls in the country has severely...
25/11/2022 | Women@PACE
In the framework of the Standing Committee meeting in Reykjavik, the ‘Women@PACE’ group organised a working breakfast together with all women members of the Icelandic Parliament. After opening remarks by Women@PACE Bureau member Petra Stienen, the Prime Minister of Iceland and Minister for...
11/10/2022 | Women@PACE
The ‘Women@PACE’ group today discussed barriers in breast cancer detection and treatment as part of the October Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign. “Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women, with an ever-increasing incidence of over 500,000 new cases each year in Europe, and 142,000...
04/10/2022 | Women@PACE
At its next meeting in the margins of the PACE plenary session, the informal ‘Women@PACE’ group will hold an exchange of views on “Barriers in breast cancer detection and treatment”. Professor Carole Mathelin – an obstetrician-gynaecologist, Vice-Chairperson of the Senologic International Society...
31/05/2022 | Women@PACE
At the initiative of Fiona O'Loughlin, Chairperson of the Irish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly, women members of the Standing Committee representing the newly established Women@PACE group, held an informal joint meeting in Dublin with the Irish Women’s Parliamentary Caucus and heard...