Monday 24 February 2025 
A delegation from the two chambers of Parliament is taking part on July 4 and 5 in the Forum of Women Parliamentarians work, organized in Lisbon (Portugal) by the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (PAM), indicates on Monday a press release from the Council of the nation.
This meeting is intended to be “an inaugural session for the Forum launch, the constitution of which was proclaimed on March 8, 2021 on the occasion of International Women’s Day”, according to the upper house of Parliament.
The PAM Women’s Forum of Parliamentarians aims to “provide a platform and space for dialogue on gender and equality issues and to propose legislative initiatives without any distinction between the sexes”, notes the press release.
On the work program of this inaugural session is the debate and examination of two main themes, namely “Refugee women of the year 2022 in the Mediterranean and Gulf region” and “Gender equality in countries of the Mediterranean and Gulf region: post-Covid perspectives”.
Intervening in the debate, the representatives of the delegation of the Council of the Nation affirmed that “asylum is a strategic question of great importance, in particular in the regions prey to renewed tensions like the Mediterranean, from where the need for intensified efforts and broad coordination with sincere intentions, as asylum is a mode of migration that affects the political, socio-economic, security and cultural life of countries and communities,” the same source added.
They considered it necessary “to link forced migration to its fundamental causes on the basis of the principle of resolving the issue by resolving its causes, an approach advocated by Algeria in all regional and international fora”, concluded the meeting. same source.