http://assembly.coe.int/rss/rss.aspx?cat=685&size=20&title=Parliamentary+Assembly+of+the+Council+of+Europe+(PACE):+Women@PACE&rssdesc=Women@PACE&lang=en-gb Women@PACE Mon, 11 May 2026 17:14:12 +0200 The Women@PACE group and the Parliamentary Network for a Healthy Environment held a joint meeting focusing on the links between environmental challenges, public health and gender equality. Opening the event, Aurora Floridia, Chairperson of the Environment Network and member of the Women@PACE... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=10271&lang=2 A parliamentary round table at the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau focused on what parliamentarians can do to implement the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s legal standard on combating violence against women, and heard from leading Moldovan officials the progress... Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=10120&lang=2 “Policy alone does not bring change. We need to change mindsets” stressed from the outset Her Excellency Myriam Spiteri Debono, President of Malta, speaking at the Women@PACE group meeting during the 2025 Autumn Session of the PACE. The discussion, under the theme “Passing the Torch: Women’s... Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=10039&lang=2 The former President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was the guest of honour at a working breakfast of the Assembly’s Women@PACE group which took place in Malta ahead of a meeting of the Assembly’s Standing Committee, sharing her experience of “breaking the glass ceiling” in public life. Ms... Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=9909&lang=2 At the last Women@PACE group meeting during the PACE spring plenary session, Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg joined parliamentarians, ambassadors and experts for an exchange of views on structural gender-based violence, placing survivors’ voices and lived experiences at the... Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=9856&lang=2 Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg was the guest of honour at a working breakfast of the Assembly’s Women@PACE group which took place in Luxembourg ahead of a meeting of the Assembly’s Standing Committee. Her Royal Highness, in an event coinciding with the global 16 days of action... Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=9700&lang=2 “With seven women and eight men as Ministers, your government has become the most gender-balanced cabinet in eastern Europe, with women holding key ministries, notably those of Justice, Finance, Economy, and the Interior,” said PACE Secretary General Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, welcoming... Fri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=9482&lang=2 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... Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=9149&lang=2 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... Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=9113&lang=2 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... Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=9076&lang=2 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... Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=9062&lang=2 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... Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=8953&lang=2 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... Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=8841&lang=2 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... Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=8735&lang=2 Meeting in Strasbourg for the second time, members of the Women@PACE group have strongly condemned the numerous reports of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Ukraine, and the huge and overall disproportionate impact the Russian Federation’s aggression is having on women and... Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=8680&lang=2 The newly-formed Women@PACE group is organising a special consignment of flak jackets for women in the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, as a gesture of solidarity with female colleagues who continue to carry out their democratic duties while under potential military attack. Members of... Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=8660&lang=2 “We stand in solidarity with you,” the women MPs of the newly-created Women@PACE group declared, welcoming their Ukrainian counterparts at a first ever meeting of the group in Strasbourg on 15 March 2022. They paid tribute to the outstanding courage and strength of women in Ukraine, and more... Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=8642&lang=2 One year into her term of office, the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, is proposing to offer the 245 or so women MPs represented in the Assembly the opportunity to raise their voices in an informal “Women@PACE” group. "Women play a major... Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=8619&lang=2