Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-16-Speech-4-154"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991216.7.4-154"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-16-Speech-4-1552
lpv:speaker	lp:María Sornosa Martínez2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank the other parliamentary groups for their support and for their contributions to this initiative in favour of Afghan women. I believe that the whole world is aware of their situation and for this reason has supported this initiative. By defending their rights we also defend our own. The resolution which we are debating today must be one more contribution to the ending of the situation of women in a country, Afghanistan, where the Taliban regime, through its authoritarianism, is causing terror throughout the population and international alarm. The public execution of Zaarmeena, the obligation to wear the the denial of the right to healthcare and education for women are but a few examples of the flagrant violations of human rights committed in that country. Serious violations of women’s rights are committed every day, unpunished by a government which supports and encourages acts of repression and torture against them. This Parliament, the European Parliament, has the moral obligation to express its solidarity with the Afghan women, to request that the UN intervene more actively, to ask the Member States to continue to refuse to recognise the Taliban regime until it respects human rights and puts an end to its discrimination against women. The approval of this resolution may be a step – however small – in that direction. Women currently make up 52% of the world population and, nevertheless, we are one of the groups which is most discriminated against and marginalised. The case of the Afghan women illustrates the problem of the lack of respect for human rights which takes place every day in all corners of the planet and also in this Europe of ours. We all know about the white slave trade, murders and abuse etc.. Perhaps there is little we can do from this House, but we have the duty to put pressure on the UN and the Member States."@en1
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