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The President of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women and Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Ms Irini Charalambidou, leaves today for Brussels to participate in the Women Political Leaders Summit. The Summit, whose theme is "Representation Matters", is co-organised by the European Parliament and the Federal Parliament of Belgium on 7 and 8 June.
Ms Charalambidou will be one of the keynote speakers in a panel discussion on the issue of women's representation in politics, and has been appointed as a moderator for a panel discussion organised by the World Bank in the context of the Summit on the theme "Building a strong gender strategy by the World Bank".
The Conference will be addressed by, among others, the President of the European Parliament Ms Roberta Metsola, the European Union Commissioner for Equality Ms Helena Dalli, the President of the Senate of Belgium Ms Stephanie D'Hose and the President of the Belgian House of Representatives Ms Éliane Tillieux.
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