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Meeting role models across the Atlantic; inspiring and engaging!

My third visit to the US this year took place thanks to the invitation as special guest to the 33rd Annual Parties of Your Choice Gala organised by the Women’s Campaign Fund, a cross-party initiative...

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Happy birthday PES Women!

“The Same Rights, the same fights!” a motto that embraces not only what PES Women stands for nowadays, but also why 20 Years ago the foundation for the PES Standing Committee of PES Women were...

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PES Women President met with a delegation from India

Yesterday, I welcomed to the PES headquarters an Indian delegation of gender experts invited by the Brussels office of the Friederich Ebert Stiftung (FES) with whom PES Women has had numerous meetings...

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We need a gender perspective while addressing youth unemployment!

As PES Women has been repeatedly saying in the frame of the joint campaign “Your Future is My Future: a European Youth Guarantee now”, we need to include a gender perspective while addressing youth...

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PES Women welcomes the French law’s project on equality between women and men

I warmly welcome the commitment and priority of the French government, towards gender equality and women’s rights, implemented by my friend Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. Despite the current crisis that...

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Save the date: 2 October - screening of the film 'The Threshold of Desert' in...

Before the summer break, I would like to announce the screening of an inspiring documentary on 2 October, which I will host in the European Parliament, The Threshold of Desert directed by Ramon Vila,...

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Ensuring gender equality in times of crisis is not luxury policy but an...

On Monday, FEPS organised a fringe roundtable discussion on “Woman up!” enhancing women’s employment opportunities in the frame of this 3rd edition of the Call to Europe entitled “Beyond austerity:...

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Women, ready for 2014 European Elections?

After a stimulating exchange with the Secretary Generals of the PES Members Parties in Warsaw and in the presence of the PES Common Candidates Designate, Martin Schulz, on the upcoming 2014 European...

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Gender quotas on company boards need concrete targets to be met and concrete...

PES Women President, Zita Gurmai tells EU Commissioner Reding that Company Board gender quotas needs ‘binding’ EU legislation to workIn a face to face meeting today with Vice President of the European...

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PES Women at CSW New York; education and employment key for women’s empowerment

Last year on 2 October 2013, I hosted the screening of a truly moving documentary, “The Threshold of the Desert”, in the European Parliament and had the pleasure of meeting the documentary main star...

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Equal Pay is key to women’s empowerment, a source of progress for all

If we take a quick look at the countries of the European Union, and make a quick comparison with the rest of the world, we might get the impression that we have made so much progress in Europe that...

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A NATIONAL PLATFORM TO PROMOTE FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP – MINISTER CARDONA

Today, the Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small Business, Dr Chris Cardona had a formal discussion on Female Entrepreneurship with Ms Zita Gurmai PES Women President and Former MEP

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Priorités du PSE après les élections européennes de 2014

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Gender quotas: Europe cannot afford the loss of 50 percent of its talent

I was happy to hear this week’s good news as on Tuesday 26 November, Germany decided the introduction, from 2016, of a quota requirement of at least 30% of women in supervisory boards. Although, this...

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Beyond austerity, towards employment and gender equality

On Friday 12 December, I was in Barcelona to participate at the seminar organised by the Foundation of European Progressive Studies and the Rafael Campalans Foundation as part of the “Beyond austerity,...

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Keep drawing

In solidarity with the victims of ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and defenders of freedom of media and in the name of freedom of expression and democracy, we need to remain united and firm in our fight for liberties...

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Power to Women

Dear friends,I am writing this in New York, where I am spending some days at the occasion of the 59th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the United Nations. The week was very fruitful for PES...

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Strengthening Arab social democratic women

It is under the slogan Taste of Freedom: Power to Women that the Global Progressive Forum with its Partners, PES Women, the S&D Group, Solidar and the Arab Social Democratic Forum (ASDF), wanted to...

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Budapest, Power to Women

In the light of 2015, the year for gender equality and women’s rights in Europe and around the world, PES Women organised its yearly conference 'Power to Women' with the aim of taking stock and...

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Concern about the sustainability of protection against discrimination in Estonia

On July 7th, the Estonian Human Rights Centre alongside with twelve other non-governmental organisations addressed a joint letter of concern to the Minister for Social Protection Margus Tsahkna,...

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