In these excruciating times of war, we, the Women Parliamentarians of the Group of Socialists, Democrats and Greens in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, condemn in the strongest possible way the Russian Federation’s war of aggre...

JOINT STATEMENTBAN OF ABORTION IN POLANDAs Members of Parliaments representing the SOC, ALDE and UEL political groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, we express our deep concern about recent attempts of the Polish Constitut...

Since March 2020, all members states of the Council of Europe, though at differing degrees, have been adjusting their societies to exceptional sanitary restrictions amid the direct health and indirect economic and social effects of the COVID-19 p...

We are deeply concerned that the Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party is poised to introduce a new law granting amnesty to rapists as long as they marry their victim. It is expected that the to-be-proposed legislation will apply ...

The Socialist Women Working Group (SWWG) has been a strong defender of gender equality in all the reports and discussions presented in the Parliamentary Assembly since its creation back in the nineties. It inspired the creation of the Committee on...