[women-rights] Council of Europe seminar on women's rights in the Euro-Mediterranean region (Strasbourg, 13-14 October 2003)

Strasbourg, 10.10.2003 - The development of strategies - working together
and taking into account cultural differences - to adapt existing laws in
order to better recognise the fundamental rights of women in the
Euro-Mediterranean region is the aim of a seminar to be held by the Council
of Europe's North-South Centre on 13 and 14 October in Strasbourg.
Reinforcing partnerships between the Council of Europe and the southern
Mediterranean countries in the area of human rights protection is another
key objective of the exercise.

Participants at the seminar, which takes place as part of the Transmed
Programme*, will examine the current situation and focus their efforts on
the development of an effective network and of co-ordinated actions between
different groups involved in human rights protection. "Regional and
international legal instruments", "Citizenship and participation", and
"Women's rights between the rule of law and religious tradition" will be the
themes around which discussions will take place.

The seminar, which will be opened by the Deputy Secretary General of the
Council of Europe, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, and the Organisation's
Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles, at 9.30 am on Monday 13
October (Room 6 of the Palais de l'Europe), is open to the press.


Contact:
Fifi Benaboud, Transmed Programme Co-ordinator
Tel: +351 21 358 40 30 Mobile: +33 (0)6 32 12 25 75

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* Further information on the activities of the North-South Centre and its
Transmed Programme is available at www.nscentre.org



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