Meeting of Women Parliamentarians

caucus [ party caucus | caucus of party ]

Tri-Partite Meeting of Parliamentary, Governmental and Inter-governmental Representatives to Follow-up on the World Summit for Social Development

Africa Parliamentary Workshop

Meeting on the situation of women in southern Africa

Regional Preparatory meetings to the World Conference on Women

[9] A promising initiative in this respect is the Young Parliamentarians' meeting organised by ASEF, including a first meeting in Cebu/Philippines in November 1998, and a second meeting to be held in Lisbon in April 2000

24. Supports the idea of many women parliamentarians in these countries that women’s rights and gender equality and the active participation of women in political, economic and social life by enhancing their skills and combating discrimination could better be promoted and implemented in legislation with the establishment of a women’s caucus or a special parliamentary gender equality committee, where one does not yet exist, to deal with the issue and ensure gender mainstreaming in parliamentary work;

41. Calls for the strengthening of anti-discrimination policies and the effective implementation thereof, including more efforts to protect the rights of women and children, as well as those of disabled people; welcomes the active and effective role of the Parliamentary Women's Club, but is concerned by still low participation of women in political life at local level, and considers that education programmes aimed at involving women in civil and political life should be enhanced and implemented; calls for further efforts to deinstitutionalise disabled people; welcomes the ...[+++]parliamentary ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 7 December 2011;

41. Calls for the strengthening of anti-discrimination policies and the effective implementation thereof, including more efforts to protect the rights of women and children, as well as those of disabled people; welcomes the active and effective role of the Parliamentary Women’s Club, but is concerned by still low participation of women in political life at local level, and considers that education programmes aimed at involving women in civil and political life should be enhanced and implemented; calls for further efforts to deinstitutionalise disabled people; welcomes the ...[+++]parliamentary ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 7 December 2011;