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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think that everyone is agreed that fundamentalism has an extremely negative effect on the emancipation process of women. It is a source of violation of human and women’s rights and fundamental freedoms, as enshrined in the international treaties and conventions, and exercises its baleful influence not only directly, but also via religious rules, cultural characteristics, customs, political campaigns and social standards. Women’s rights are human rights, and this must form the basis of our actions. As I see it, and as we hear, women wish to accentuate the equal qualities of, and not the differences between, people. Let us transcend our religious differences in order to achieve a more humane world, preferably without violence. How many wars and how much violence find their improper origins in religious intolerance, often fed by political interests rather than religious perception? The unnecessary, pointless violence between Muslims and Hindus in India serves as a recent example of this.
It would be a major credit to this report if, thanks to the suggestions mentioned in it, an extreme danger of fundamentalism, namely the suffering of women and girls in Afghanistan, were turned into an example of how things can be changed.
Allow me to explain. In the report, we asked the Council, the Member States and the Commission to take a joint initiative to send a special group of observers, specialised in gender equality, to Afghanistan to ensure that women’s rights, as enshrined in international agreements and Treaties, are observed, and that aid and reconstruction policy takes sufficient account of the gender equality issues. In this way, the tragedy caused by the Taliban, as well as the solution to it, can be used in the fight against other forms of fundamentalism.
This report is also praiseworthy for the fact that it expresses the wish that in the future directive on procedures for granting asylum in the Member States, account should be taken of various forms of female persecution."@en1
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