The Council of Europe is organising on 28 and 29 October a seminar on “Combating sexist advertising: learning from practice” which will provide a platform for participants from the member States of the Council of Europe to share practices on combating sexist advertising and the role of equality bodies in this field. The seminar is open for pre-registration of participants now, until 15 October. Interested candidates can pre-register by filling in this pre-registration form. This seminar will gather representatives of equality bodies, of public institutions with competences to review media and advertising, self-regulatory bodies in the field of advertising, civil society organisations, gender experts, media, academia, international institutions, development partners, etc. Participants from Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine) will be given priority for the participation in the seminar; however, the seminar is also open for interested candidates from other countries.

The seminar has the following objectives:

• Increase the understanding of participants about sexist advertising and how to assess it
• Provide space for sharing of challenges from the national level and of the responses to this issue
• Engage participants in discussing ways in which different national entities, and equality bodies, can combat sexist advertising as part of fighting against discrimination.

For more information on the programme and the content of the seminar, you can visit the seminar's webpage.