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Giovedì 26 Aprile 2012

10:30 - ARAB SPRING: PACE, ENHANCING THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND PROMOTING THEIR REPRESENTATION

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which is holding its plenary assembly in Strasbourg until tomorrow, adopted a resolution calling on “Arab Spring” countries to introduce reforms “to enhance the status of women and eradicate all forms of discrimination against them” and “to promote women’s representation in elected public bodies”. According to the PACE, these countries should also bring legislation in the area of family and personal status law “into line with international human rights standards”, and introduce a legal framework aimed at preventing and prosecuting all forms of violence against women. As proposed by the rapporteur, Fatiha Saïdi (Belgium, SOC), the Assembly also invited the countries of the region “to consider the prospects for parliamentary dialogue offered by the status of Partner for Democracy”, which the Moroccan parliament obtained in June 2011. Finally, the PACE welcomed the initiatives taken by the Secretary General and other Council of Europe bodies to establish closer dialogue with the countries of the region, especially Morocco and Tunisia, and invited the Committee of Ministers to pursue this course of action through political dialogue and specific action plans - drawn up in consultation with the authorities of the countries concerned - whilst ensuring that “gender equality and the enhancement of the status of women are high priorities”.

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