Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunities across AER

AER is committed to empowering its members to guarantee equal opportunities for each and every one of their citizens.

Within the AER structure, we promote gender parity in the various AER organs – this principle is promoted within the AER statutes and rules of procedure.

Across AER, we encourage regions to acknowledge and implement the equal opportunities perspective in all policy areas and we have worked on:

 

Women entrepreneurship & women’s employment opportunities
Equal opportunities for young people
Equal rights for people with disabilities
AER and Equal Opportunities - a long history

Gender Equality has been a key priority within AER for many years – a working group on Gender Equality was created in the late 1990s. The Standing Committee on Equal Opportunities was preceded by the AER Observatory on Gender Issues, that operated within the framework of the AER Social Policy and Public Health Committee (Committee 2). 

The AER Standing Committee on Equal Opportunities was created by a decision of the AER General Assembly on 26 November 2009.

In May 2013, the General Assembly meeting in Paris decided to end the mandate of the Standing Committee on Equal Opportunities, and to nominate an AER Vice-President in charge of Equal Opportunities, in recognition of the importance of equal opportunities within AER’s work and the need to ensure that these issues are mainstreamed across the entire organisation.

Our work on Equal Opportunities intends to cover all kinds of inequality, whether they are based on gender, ethnic or other origin, age, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or any other reason people can find to create categories among human beings. 

A word from Monica Carlsson
Have you seen this?
Gender Equality Index: http://eige.europa.eu/content/gender-equality-index#/
Contact us

Monica CARLSSON
AER Vice-President in charge of Equal Opportunities

 
AER Declarations on Equal Opportunities
Declaration on Violence against Women - 2009
Valencia Declaration on Equal access to the labour market - 2008
Timisoara Declaration on Migrant Women - 2007
Kiruna Declaration - 2006
World Cup 2006 - Resolution against prostitution and trafficking - 2006
Venice Declaration - 2003
Manifesto of Catalonia - 2002
Above : The tiled dome of the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, where the Manifesto of Catalonia was adopted in 2002 (© Scools)
 
 
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