Strasbourg, 02/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - “We have all come a long way”, said Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French Minister for Women's Rights, who opened the debates at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 27 June relating to the fight against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The French minister pointed out that, in 1949, at the time when the oldest of the pan-European institutions was created, “women depended on their husbands and...