05/02/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on 6 February, Etilda Gjonaj (Albania, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Co-ordinator of the Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence, calls for the universal...
25/11/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Violence against women and girls continues to rise, online and offline. One of the most prevalent and serious human rights violations across Europe and beyond, it is deeply rooted in gender stereotypes and patriarchal beliefs. Women’s human rights are under attack in many places and are always...
07/03/2024 | President
Joint statement by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos and the Chair of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination Mariia Mezentseva, on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2024 Gender inequality continues to trigger gender-based violence, in our continent and beyond. There is...
06/02/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Etilda Gjonaj (Albania, SOC), General Rapporteur on Violence against Women of PACE and Co-ordinator of the Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence, has called for universal prohibition of this...
08/12/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The '16 Days of activism against gender-based violence' international Campaign, led annually by civil society, which began on 25 November – the International day for the elimination of violence against women – will end on 10 December, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, which...
23/11/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Violence against women and girls is still one of the most serious human rights violations across Europe and throughout the world, deeply rooted as it is in multiple forms of gender inequality and discrimination. Despite progress, better laws and better policies in many countries, women’s rights...
14/03/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On 13 March PACE's Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, the Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence and the British delegation to PACE organised a peer seminar at the Palace of Westminster in London, where parliamentarians from the United Kingdom and Ukraine compared the...
01/12/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Equality Committee, meeting in Paris, today welcomed the influence of the Istanbul Convention on national legislation to fight gender-based violence and the changes it has inspired in policies and awareness-raising actions. It also welcomed the high number of ratifications – 37 to date, with...
24/11/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Parliamentarians must join with international and civil society organisations to reject the backlash and backsliding that are stopping progress in ending gender-based violence, which affects women and girls around the world the most,” said PACE’s General Rapporteur on Violence against Women and...
16/09/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“There is an urgent need to prevent gender-based violence, sexism, discrimination and gender stereotypes in the world of sport, promote gender equality, invest in sport for all, and put an end to the invisibility of women and girls,” said the Equality Committee meeting in Paris today. The report...
02/05/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Gender equality can only be reached by involving all genders. Patriarchy is also detrimental to men. Too often men think that gender-based violence is not about them,” said Petra Stienen (Netherlands, ALDE), PACE Rapporteur on “The role of men and boys in stopping gender-based violence” during a...
06/04/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Zita Gurmai (Hungary, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Coordinator of the Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence, today denounced the horrifying sexual violence reportedly perpetrated by Russian military forces in Ukraine. “Testimonies of rape and sexual...