What Aušra spoke about.

Mr President, a few years ago, in response to a journalist's question as to whether she felt discriminated against as a woman, my country's current Prime Minister responded very aptly: "Your own question clearly demonstrates how deeply rooted this discrimination is". The last couple extended by more than 36 years the time needed to eradicate gender equality during the pandemic. In other words, the…

Dear President, dear colleagues, a few years ago my eighteen-year-old student and her mother were shot dead by a father blinded by jealousy. The man who chose the cruel way of solving family problems was a famous doctor, a professor, with whom I worked together on the committee of parents of the school. What causes 31% of women in Europe to be physically and sexually abused, sometimes leading to d…