Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-15-Speech-3-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights, racism, xenophobia and antisemitism2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000315.2.3-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-15-Speech-3-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Mário Soares2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by offering my congratulations on Mrs Malmström’s report to Mrs Malmström herself and to everyone who contributed to it. It seems to me to be a very comprehensive report and to make some very striking points. I would like to draw the House’s attention to three key points concerning human rights as I see this issue at present. One of these is the issue of water. The World Water Forum is about to take place in The Hague, at the end of this week to be precise. At this event, water will be treated as a rare economic commodity. This is serious, as whilst it may be true that water is becoming ever more important in economic terms, it is also true that the right to water is a human and social right for everyone. I would therefore like to draw honourable Members’ attention to precisely this issue, water, which is going to be one of the most hotly debated subjects this year. The situation is becoming ever more critical, but the right to water also has to be seen as a human right. The second point that I would like to mention today, very briefly, is the situation in Angola. The report says that attacks on human rights in Angola have been treated with too much diplomatic discretion. I believe that this is exactly what has happened – a veil of silence has been drawn over events in Angola, a country which has been in a state of permanent war for 40 years and at civil war for 25 years. We need to have a clearer and better informed view of events in Angola, as I said in this House when we were discussing the issue of attacks on journalists’ rights. But what worries me most, and what worries me most in Angola, is the issue of the rights of children forced to take part in the war by both sides, and the rights of women, who are the greatest victims of this ferocious war."@en1

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