Women’s rights

ALTEA Council this week hosted a series of discus‐sions on the impact of Covid on women’s rights.

Topics included gender violence, employment and the digital gap, and were led by Equality coun‐cillor José Luis León and Citizen Participation coun‐cillor Maria Laviós.

Numerous local associa‐tions campaigning for equality and women’s rights took part including Mujeres con voz, E‐ Mu ‐jeres.net, the Benidorm‐Marina Baja delegation of Las Kellys hotel room cleaners and the Pangea migrant office, as well as Altea social services, psy‐chologists and other ex‐perts.

The debates were or ‐ganised as part of the Eu‐ropean CERV EnEnWom‐en project to “analyse the impact of Covid on wom‐en in the areas of employ‐