News & press releases
Women are on the COVID-19 frontline –the EU must not leave them behind
Europe is not seeing enough leadership or action for a gender-sensitive response to the COVID-19 crisis, European socialists and democrats are saying.
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International Women’s Day 2020: Feminists united for generation equality
On International Women’s Day PES Women joins the global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, and we echo calls for action to accelerate gender equality.
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PES Women and PES welcome Gender Equality Strategy
PES Women and the Party of European Socialists strongly welcome the publication of the EU Gender Equality Strategy today.
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PES Women: the gender pay gap is not a game
Today, at a statutory meeting in Brussels, PES Women presented its campaign to raise awareness of pay discrimination in the European Union: Gender Pay Gap – Not a Game.
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World must end FGM and all forms of gender-based violence
The PES Women Executive gathered today – International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (6 Feb) – to reiterate that FGM is a violation of human rights, which – like women’s issues in general – has been systematically overlooked by policymakers.
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PES Women: society must break the silence on online violence against women and girls
The world must be safe for women, offline and online, representatives from academia, the tech industry, civil society, and European politics said today as they met for the PES Women Annual Conference: Breaking the silence on online violence against women and girls.
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