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"Mr President, the Commission fully agrees with Mrs Theorin’s concern about the problem of violence against women and the need to give support to the rehabilitation of victims and their families.
The issue of making such violence a crime and punishing it really falls within the jurisdiction of the Member States. All forms of violence, whether against men, women or children, are banned in all Member States by their respective criminal codes.
The Council of the Union, in its joint action of 24 February 1997 relating to action against the trade in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children requests Member States to revise the legislation and the practices in force in these areas in order to guarantee that the kinds of behaviour I have just referred to are subject to effective criminal punishment. At the end of this year, the progress achieved by Member States in this joint action will be debated in the Council. Since 1997, the Commission has been responsible for implementing the Daphne programme, which is specifically designed to combat violence against women, adolescents and children and which will be succeeded by the Daphne – 2000-2203 programme (approved this very day), which has the same objective.
Underlying these initiatives is the pressing need to defend human rights, especially those of women and children. By means of the action I have just mentioned, the Commission has supported a raft of initiatives relating to the structural causes of violence, particularly the practises and behaviour of men, as well as actions assisting and rehabilitating the victims. And the Commission will continue in its endeavour to develop initiatives to this effect.
The Commission is also responsible for the STOP programme, the aim of which is to provide the necessary training and information for professionals, particularly judges, for police forces and for social services departments in the fight against the trade in human beings and the sexual exploitation of women.
Our main concern, apart from continuing in this direction, is to implement the Tampere European Council’s decision to come up with definitions, prosecutions and punishments for crimes of trading in human beings and crimes of abuse against children."@en1
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