Renate Wohlwend was elected to the Liechtenstein Parliament in February 1993. Since then, she was an active Member of Parliament until March 2013, the last 4 years as Vice-President.
Democracy, rule of law and human rights are extremely important for her, and not just because of her profession as a lawyer.
She was delighted to become a member of the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1994 and to stay on until 2013, from 2001 to 2009 as head of her national delegation.
In 2003, she was elected Vice-President of the Assembly.
In all these years, she prepared many reports and opinions on various topics for the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.
As from 1996, she took an in-depth interest in the death penalty: the start of many years working on the abolition, including as PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty.
She was also a member of the Monitoring Committee; here she cooperated with Ukraine. She believes that their mentality makes it possible for the country to survive the war. She sincerely wishes the Ukrainians all the best!
She also took part in election observations in Ukraine and Armenia. She led a fact-finding mission to Belarus.
Together with colleagues, she explored the conditions for IRA prisoners in a United Kingdom high security prison.
She had the honour to chair the Sub-Committee on Human Rights and the then Sub-Committee on the Election of Judges.
She feels enriched by her time in the Assembly with so many interesting and moving encounters.
Today, she is an honorary member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The project “75 women in 75 years of Council of Europe history” is organised by the Delegation of the European Union to the Council of Europe with the Council of Europe and the Permanent Representations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
