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PES Women is fighting for a gender just and feminist Europe by giving a voice, tools and platform for women, by putting forward specific women’s rights policies, through gender-mainstreaming the overall policy-making of the Social Democratic family.
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PES Women honours outgoing feminist Commissioner Helena Dalli
At this Friday’s Statutory meeting, PES Women honoured outgoing Commissioner Helena Dalli for her commitment and tireless work as the first Equality Commissioner. PES Women…
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PES Women demands greater equality focus in open letter to Commission President
Subordination of the Equality portfolio under another competence – rather than maintaining it as a standalone priority – sends a concerning signal about the next…
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PES Women renews commitment to progress gender equality in new mandate
Today, members of the PES Women Executive board met for the first time under the new legislative term to reaffirm their commitment to meet new…
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➡️Today all eyes are on US election day! ![]()
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🗳️PES women had the chance to visit Washington, Philadelphia and New York post elections to hold the meetings, to observe the campaigning process and to show our support to Kamala Harris. ![]()
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🙋🏽♀️The women’s vote will be decisive in this elections. The gender gap in voting intentions is at its highest since 2000s. As Harris pointed out in her speech “Trust women, trust them to know what is in their best interest”!
✊ Ahou Daryaei, an Iranian student at Azad University in Tehran, removed her clothes in protest against Iran’s strict hijab dress code, after being harassed by campus security officers. Since then, she has been severely beaten and arrested by the morality police.![]()
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This occurs two years after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested and killed by the morality police for allegedly not adhering to this dress code, which sparked the movement “Women, Life, Freedom.”![]()
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✊ Through her act of resistance, Ahou risked her life and has become, alongside Mahsa Amini, Narges Mohammadi, and many other Iranian women, a heroine of freedom. ![]()
We stand by their side. ![]()
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#ahoudaryaei #mahsaamini #nargesmohammadi #iranianwomen