Gender equality is key to safeguard human rights, up-hold democracy and preserve the rule of law. Gender equality entails equal rights for women and men in all spheres of public and private life. Gender equality lies also at the root of efforts to prevent violence against women and domestic violence. In the current context of growing economic difficulties and subsequent austerity policies and measures, political uncertainties and raising inequalities at all levels of the society, rising nationalism and populism and their attacks on women’s rights, the Council of Europe launches its Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023 in the international conference “Gender Equality: Paving the Way”, organised in the framework of the Danish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers (Copenhagen, Eigtveds Pakhus, 3-4 May).
The aim of the event is to address current and emerging challenges which prevent a faster pace of progress to achieve substantive and full gender equality, and to discuss the way forward in implementing the new strategy.
