13/05/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Parliaments across Europe and beyond should declare the goal of achieving “gender parity” in their representation, backed by strategic plans, as one of a series of measures to ensure the balanced participation of women and men in all areas of parliamentary life, according to a PACE committee...
07/04/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the eve of International Roma Day (8 April), Francesco Verducci (Italy, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance, made the following statement: “On International Roma Day, we honour the culture, language and history of Roma people, and their contribution to European...
20/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Francesco Verducci (Italy, SOC), General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance made the following statement on the occasion of the International day for the elimination of racial discrimination (21 March): On this International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial...
18/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“It is more than ever essential for world leaders to unite and harness their potential to defend women’s rights and build collective resistance to the backsliding and obscurantism that threaten these rights. Parliaments also should place the rights of women in all their diversity at the forefront...
18/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Today’s adoption by the Hungarian Parliament by accelerated procedure of a law banning the organisation of the Pride march and similar events and prohibiting participation in this type of event, to enter into force at the beginning of April, is an important setback not only for LGBTI rights, but...
14/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Francesco Verducci (Italy, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on Combating Racism and Intolerance, has made the following statement to mark the International Day to Combat Islamophobia (15 March 2025): “On this day we not only commemorate the victims of the tragic mass shootings in Christchurch, New...
11/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“There is progress towards equality, but it is much too slow, and this is partly due to short-sightedness among men who think mistakenly that ‘power-sharing’ means ‘power-loss’,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos at the opening of a side-event on the sidelines of the 69th session of the...
07/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Joint statement by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos and the Chair of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, Catia Polidori (Italy, EPP/CD), on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2025. Today, on International Women’s Day, the United Nations is calling for rights...
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...
28/01/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The crucial role of men and boys in promoting gender equality was the focus of an event on “How parliamentarians can be agents of change” organised jointly by the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination and the Nordic Council of Ministers on 27 January 2025 in the framework of PACE’s...
27/01/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Francesco Verducci (Italy, SOC), the General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), made the following statement to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2025: “Today, as we commemorate once again the anniversary of the...
05/12/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“The negative narrative around age and ageing in society needs to be challenged and changed in order to counter age-based stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination,” the PACE Committee on Equality said today. Older persons experience “age-based discrimination in all areas of life, especially in...