Four women fighting for freedom, peace and justice in their home countries – from Belarus, leader of the country's democratic forces Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, and Palina Sharenda Panasiuk; and Lenie Umerova and Tata Kepler from Ukraine – have all been invited to address plenary., Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of Belarus’ democratic forces, 

will speak to MEPs at a solemn session on Tuesday at noon. 

In the early afternoon, MEPs and Council and Commission representatives will debate the Commission’s “Roadmap for Women’s Rights” (expected to be adopted by the Commission on Friday 7 March). The discussion is expected to focus on the EU’s role in safeguarding and advancing women’s rights and the principles and measures outlined in the Roadmap. Key issues will include the implementation of EU legislation, such as the first ever EU rules to combat violence against women, the rules on improving gender balance on corporate boards, and binding pay transparency measures. MEPs are also likely to discuss the need for women’s equal participation in the economy and society, including in politics, and the impact of shifting political dynamics on women’s rights and gender equality.

International Women's Day Celebration

EP President Roberta METSOLA meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA Leader of Belarusian democratic opposition

High-Level Conference - Standing with the People of Belarus

EPP members of  FEMM committee and guests of  the International Women's Day family photo

Signature Ceremony #EPstandsBYyou - Friends of Democratic Belarus

EP Plenary session International Women's Day Celebration

Members of the EP Conference of Presidents meet with  Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Leader of Belarusian democratic opposition forces

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with the guests of  the International Women's Day

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA Leader of Belarusian democratic opposition

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Leader of the Belarusian democratic forces and Head of the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Meeting with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Leader of the Belarusian democratic opposition

EP Plenary session - Formal sitting- Address by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, exiled Belarusian opposition leader

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, exiled Belarusian opposition leader

Othmar KARAS meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, exiled Belarusian opposition leader

Visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, in United States - Keynote Address at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, at Harvard University, Cambridge

AFET Committee - Exchange of views with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of democratic forces of Belarus and Sakharov Prize laureate 2020

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of the Belarusian democratic movement

Othmar KARAS meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of the Belarusian democratic movement

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Aachen, Germany, to participate in the International Charlemagne Prize 2022: Political Manifestation: Charlemagne Prize for Peace

EP Plenary Session - Formal sitting - Address by Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Belarussian opposition leader

Visit by Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA amid a continuing geopolitical crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. The Belarusian dictatorial regime has been funnelling migrants primarily from the Middle East to the country’s border with the EU, and in particular Poland, as revenge for EU-imposed sanctions.

Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Belarusian opposition leader at the European Parliament: arrival, welcome and meeting with David SASSOLI, EP President

David SASSOLI, EP President pays an official visit to Vilnius, in Lithuania where he meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Sakharov laureate 2020 and Belarus opposition leader (recorded 17/08).

Official visit by David SASSOLI, EP President to Lithuania: meeting with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Sakharov laureate 2020 and Belarus opposition leader

Exchange of views at the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) in association with the Delegation for relations with Belarus on the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk Belarus and the detention by Belarusian authorities of journalist Raman Pratasevich and Sofia Sapega. Opening statement by David MCALLISTER (EPP, DE), Chair of the AFET Committee, Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, representative of the Belarus opposition and Michael SIEBERT, Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional cooperation and OSCE of the European External Action Service.This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check against delivery.

Exchange of views on the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk Belarus in AFET Committee: opening and statement by Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA

Formal opening of the 9th Ordinary Session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels. Greeting addresses by the Observers to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly: Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Democratic Representative of Belarus, Christa SCHWENG, President of the European Economic and Social Committee, Aleksandra DULKIEWICZ, Mayor of Gdansk (Poland) and CORLEAP Bureau member and Irina SUKHY and Sofia STRIVE, Co-Chairs of the Eastern Partnership - Civil Society Forum. The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly is a parliamentary forum to promote political association and further economic integration between the European Union and the EU's Eastern European partners.

Ninth Ordinary Session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly: Greeting addresses by the Observers to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly

In 2020, The UK Withdrawal Agreement was approved by the European Parliament and the EP followed closely the work of the EU negotiator Michel Barnier. MEPs criticised the role of Turkey in the Easter Mediterranean and called for an international investigation into the Navalny case. The Parliament's 2020 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was awarded to the democratic opposition in Belarus.

European Parliament review 2020: EU relations in the world

David SASSOLI, EP President, Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA and Veranika TSAPKALA, Belarusian Democratic Opposition and laureates of the Sakharov Prize 2020, speak to the press in the European Parliament in Brussels. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check against delivery.

Press conference by David SASSOLI, EP President, Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA and Veranika TSAPKALA, Belarusian Democratic Opposition and laureates of the Sakharov Prize 2020

In the framework of the award ceremony of the 2020 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, David SASSOLI, EP President meets with Maria ADAMOVIC, Tatiana KHOMICH, Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Siarhei DYLEUSKI, Veranika TSAPKALA, Volha KAVALKOVA, Ales BIALIATSKI, and Stsiapan PUTSILA, representatives of the Belarusian democratic opposition, laureates of the Sakharov Prize 2020, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with the representatives of the Belarusian Democratic Opposition, laureates of the Sakharov Prize 2020: roundtable

Award ceremony of the 2020 Sakharov Prize during the plenary session (14-18/12) of the European Parliament, mainly in Brussels. The democratic opposition in Belarus is awarded in a ceremony in the European Parliament, in Brussels. David SASSOLI, EP President, makes the opening statement followed by the statement by Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Belarussian Democratic Opposition. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check Against delivery.

Award of the Sakharov Prize 2020: opening statements by David SASSOLI, EP President, and Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Belarussian Democratic Opposition

During the plenary session (14-17/12) of the European Parliament in Brussels, the Belarusian Democratic Opposition, represented by several laureates including opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, is awarded the 2020 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Extracts from the statements by David SASSOLI, EP President, and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, and from the ceremony award.

Sakharov Prize 2020 award: extracts from the ceremony

Award ceremony of the 2020 Sakharov Prize during the plenary session (14-18/12) of the European Parliament, mainly in Brussels. The democratic opposition in Belarus is awarded in a ceremony in the European Parliament, in Brussels. Award Ceremony with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Veranika TSAPKALA, Siarhei DYLEUSKI, Ales BIALIATSKI, Stsiapan PUTSILA, Maria ADAMOVIC, wife of Mikola STATKEVICH, Tatiana KHOMICH - sister of Maryia KALESNIKAVA, Volha KAVALKOVA and remotely Svetlana ALEXIEVICH

Award of the Sakharov Prize 2020: Ceremony with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Veranika TSAPKALA, Siarhei DYLEUSKI, Ales BIALIATSKI, Stsiapan PUTSILA, Maria ADAMOVIC, Tatiana KHOMICH, Volha KAVALKOVA and, remotely, Svetlana ALEXIEVICH

Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Belarusian democratic opposition and co-laureate of Sakharov Prize 2020 makes a statement in the European Parliament in Brussels on the meaning of the Sakharov Prize for Belorussian people and her fight for new elections. The democratic opposition in Belarus, represented by several laureates,receives the 2020 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Statement by Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Belarusian Democratic Opposition leader, laureate of the Sakharov Prize 2020

Recording of the Videomessage by Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of Belarus opposition, ahead of the award ceremony during the plenary session of the European Parliament (14-17 December 2020).

Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2020: Videomessage by Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of Belarus opposition, ahead of the award ceremony

Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) host Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and other members of the Belarusian democratic opposition, Volha Kavalkova and Pavel Latushka, for a debate on the latest political developments and the popular uprising in Belarus, in the European Parliament in Brussels. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addresses the committee and participates in an exchange of views with MEPs. Statements by Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Volha KAVALKOVA and Pavel LATUSHKA, members of the Belarus opposition. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check against delivery.

AFET - Situation in Belarus: exchange of views with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Volha KAVALKOVA and Pavel LATUSHKA, members of the Belarus opposition

The Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) meet with exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA and Volha KAVALKOVA to discuss the latest developments in the country in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Situation in Belarus: extracts from the exchange of views with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA and further members of the Belarus opposition

Visit of Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of Belarus opposition, to the European Parliament in Brussels, in the context of the fraudulent presidential elections, subsequent popular uprising and brutal crackdown by the authorities in Belarus. Arrival, welcome by David SASSOLI, EP President, and roundtable.

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of Belarus opposition: arrival and roundtable

David SASSOLI, EP President and Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of Belarus opposition, speak to the press following their meeting in the European Parliament in Brussels

Joint press statement by David SASSOLI, EP President and Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of Belarus opposition, following their meeting

This Infoclip illustrates representatives of the the democratic opposition in Belarus during a visit to the European Parliament on the 21st of September 2020. Views of the main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and the political activists Volha Kavalkova. The democratic opposition in Belarus, is the laureate for the 2020 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Infoclip: The democratic opposition in Belarus – Sakharov Prize Laureate 2020

Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) host Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and other members of the Belarusian democratic opposition, Volha Kavalkova and Pavel Latushka, for a debate on the latest political developments and the popular uprising in Belarus, in the European Parliament in Brussels. Opening by David McALLISTER (EPP, DE), AFET Chair. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check against delivery.

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