Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-15-Speech-3-301"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Gender-related aspects of armed conflicts2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001115.13.3-301"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-15-Speech-3-3022
lpv:speaker	lp:Geneviève Fraisse2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Indépendant (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to start by expressing my interest in this report and to underscore its excellence. Now we have to move on to practical work and I have two topical points to make. As regards women, since women are participants in history, they must now become players in the peace process. I am one of the ten women MEPs which went as a delegation to the Middle East two weeks ago, so it is topical – Mrs Morgantini will be able to fill you in on the details – not only so that women would be present in the peace process, but also so that there would be a European policy and that we women would support a European policy to promote peace in the Middle East. We really need to be practical. The second point concerns, not the female peacemakers, but the victims of war. In two weeks’ time, there will be a tribunal in Tokyo organised by NGOs. This attempt at a tribunal to denounce what ‘comfort women’ were made to do during the Second World War will take place in December 2000. I call on this Parliament to support it. This point is very important because this tribunal also wants to act as a pioneer and to be the first to raise the question of the crimes against humanity committed against women. Comfort women, mostly from Korea, were raped and duped into becoming sexual slaves during the Second World War by Japan, which does not want to acknowledge this crime. They were held prisoner. There is now a film and witness statements which will be presented to this tribunal. I hope, Mrs Theorin, that we will take an initiative on behalf of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities to support this action with a view to recognising and making reparations for this crime against humanity perpetrated against women."@en1

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