AFAEMME Participates in a Meeting to Constitute the Council for Women’s Participation of Spain

Published by P. Horvath, March 18th, 2009 Barcelona (Spain)

AFAEMME was invited by the Ministry for Equality of Spain to discuss the constitution of the Spanish Council for Women’s Participation in a meeting held in Madrid last March 16th.

The event counted with the presence of representatives from sixty national women organisations, including Mrs. Mª Helena de Felipe Lehtonen, President of AFAEMME. During the meeting’s debate, Mrs. de Felipe presented the model followed by the European Commission’s Network of Women in Decision-Making in Politics and Economy, as one that could be taken into account by the future Council for Women’s Participation. She also encouraged the participants to take part in the upcoming elections to the European Parliament, which will take place in June reminding the importance of having more women representatives in this institution.