Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-14-Speech-3-167"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Special UN conference: Women 20002
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20000614.7.3-167"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-14-Speech-3-1682
lpv:speaker	lp:Heidi Hautala2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Vihreät (1999-07-20--2003-03-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am not now asking for an extra minute in the name of equality, however; I shall try to keep to two minutes. I will join that group of people who just said that real progress was made on many issues at the New York Conference. Women’s human rights, the trade in women, violence against women, women’s economic rights, the status of civil society: we may be pleased about the progress that has been made in all these issues. It is the very determined work of the European Union we have to thank for that. We were there as observers, but it is to be hoped that we were also able to influence the way the talks went – at least in some respect. It was especially gratifying for me that all the Member States and almost all the candidate countries were talking together under Portugal’s leadership. This is a promising sign that we will also be able to strengthen legislation on equality within the context of the European Union. I myself do not remember seeing such single-mindedness, and for that thanks go to the chairman and, obviously, the Commission as well. The only exception among the candidate countries was Poland, which was not at all interested in supporting the strengthening of women’s rights in the same way as the Member States of the European Union and the other candidate countries. I would appeal to Commissioner Patten that when enlargement negotiations are being conducted, serious attention be paid to Poland’s compliance with EU legislation on equality and its recognition of women’s rights. I also think that greater attention must be paid to women’s rights in connection with the cooperation that is going on with Mediterranean countries, as it is there that glaring violations of human rights, particularly in respect of women, take place. I believe this conference has given hope to all those millions of women who are without fundamental human rights; and we need a further follow-up conference in five years’ time."@en1
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