PES Women
We promote gender equality and women’s representation both inside and outside the Party of European Socialists.
About usPromoting gender equality and women’s rights
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 Executive and Statutory meetings call for strong feminist 2024-2029 EU mandate
Post-European elections, PES Women held special Executive and Statutory meetings in Vienna, Austria, this weekend to take stock of the gender equality developments in the…
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PES European elections candidates pledge to protect women’s rights
Women’s rights and gender equality have always been at the centre of our political family’s foundations and values. Securing women’s rights and progressing gender equality…
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PES Women at CSW: eradicate poverty of women and girls to strengthen global gender equality
From 11 – 15 March, PES Women President Zita Gurmai, Vice-President Katrine Skov, and Coordinator Ana Pirtskhalava were in New York for the 68th session of the…
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PES Women promotes gender equality and women’s representation. We fight for equal pay, to end viol
🇪🇺Post-European elections 🗳️, PES Women held special Executive and Statutory meetings in Vienna, Austria, this weekend to take stock of the gender equality developments in the last EU mandate and identify the challenges for the upcoming term. 📝![]()
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👉For the gender equality agenda, the last mandate was challenging, busy and full of important achievements, driven forward by PES Women and our progressive family in the European Parliament, Council and Commission.![]()
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💪 But our fight will continue during the next 2024-2029 mandate. Above all, we must preserve what we have achieved ! ![]()
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💜From today on, PES Women will keep pushing forward feminist priorities from our elections manifesto and we will fight for the adoption and implementation of an EU Charter for Women’s Rights. ![]()
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Read more on the achievements and priorities that we discussed in our last webstory 👀. Link on our web page ⬆️
📣📣📣📣the European Parliament has voted in favour of including access to abortion in the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.![]()
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➡️ PES women and our progressive family has been campaigning for many years so that everyone has the right to bodily autonomy, to free, informed, full and universal access to SRHR, and to all related healthcare services without discrimination, including access to safe and legal abortion! ![]()
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📢📢📢📢We are proud that our political group in the European Parliament has been the driving force in pushing and adopting the resolution!