21/03/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Statement by Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: “Each year, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is a chance to take stock of...
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...
14/03/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the eve of the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance, made the following statement: On 15 March 2019, 51 Muslim people were killed and 40 injured in mass shootings perpetrated in two mosques in Christchurch...
08/03/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
According to Marjan Hammersma, Dutch Vice-Minister of Education, Culture and Science, women and girls are still under-represented in science, technology and engineering education and careers, even though they are frontrunners of the climate movements and advocacy for a green and digital future...
07/03/2023 | President
On 8 March 2022 PACE President Tiny Kox, in an open letter to the head of Ukraine’s PACE delegation Mariia Mezentseva entitled “We see you, women of Ukraine”, expressed his solidarity after the start of the war of aggression against her country. “In the past year, tens of thousands have been...
06/03/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination will organise on Monday 6 March in New York, a side-event entitled “Towards a green and digital future: challenges and opportunities for women and girls in public life and the workplace”, with the support of the Netherlands and Estonia , on...
26/01/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2023, Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC) today made the following statement:“Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on 27 January 1945, is the day to honour the victims of the Nazi regime and...
25/01/2023 | Session
Today the Assembly emphasised the positive influence of the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection and Prevention of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence – the Istanbul Convention – on national legislation against gender-based violence and the changes it has made in policies and...
24/01/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination considers that access to sexual and reproductive healthcare must be granted to all without discrimination, adding that insufficient access to such care affects women first and foremost, resulting in unwanted pregnancies or health risks when...
23/01/2023 | Session
PACE President Tiny Kox, Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Beatrice Fresko-Rolfo (Monaco, ALDE), Vice-President of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, today inaugurated the exhibition ‘The Red Dress’, organised during the parliamentary session...
09/12/2022 | President
“Every year, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November, many events and demonstrations are held throughout the world to support the fundamental right of women and girls to live their lives free from violence,” declared PACE President Tiny Kox today, at...
02/12/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December 2022), PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination adopted the following statement: “The war of aggression against Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic and their consequences have brought with them multiple new...