Elza Pais

Elza Pais - WEF - Hotel Palacio Estoril - Portugal - 2017

Elza Pais

President of the Sub-Commission for Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Portuguese Parliament.

Portugal

Elza Pais is Congresswoman and President of the Sub-Commission for Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Portuguese Parliament.
Elza Pais is Congresswoman and President of the Sub-Commission for Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Portuguese Parliament.
She is the President of the National Department of the Socialist Women.
Her academic and political career has focused on the fundamental structures of the social life, such as the social integration, drug prevention, fight against domestic abuse and for women empowerment and leadership, gender equality, and fight against any kind of discrimination.

She was the Secretary of State for Equality at the 18th Constitutional Government.
She was the President of the Commission for the Citizenship and Gender Equality, 2005-2010.
She was the Coordinator of the Structural Mission of the European Year for Equal Opportunities for Everyone – 2007
She was the President of the Portuguese Institute for Drug Abuse and Addiction

She was Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University, and at the Faculty for the Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon.
She is Researcher at the Centre of Sociological Studies at the New University of L isbon, CICS.NOVA; and at the Centre for Research on Penal Law and Criminal Sciences at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, on the topic of domestic abuse.
She has written : “Homicídio Conjugal em Portugal – ruturas violentas da conjugalidade”, ed. Casa da Moeda; “Uma Década pela Igualdade e contra a Violência de Género”, edições Esgotadas, 2015. 2010; and co-authored the book “Violência contra as Mulheres”, CIDM, 1997.
In 2007 she received the Arco-Íris Award from ILGA – Portugal for her active fight against homophobia and for the recognition of the LGBTI rights.