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"Mr President, in European society and especially in the European Parliament, where we fight for respect for human rights, the debate on the issue of fundamentalism and its repercussions on people's lives and on the productivity and creativity of society is of immense importance.
History teaches us – and modern times also show us – that women are the first and most vulnerable victims of fundamentalism and it is this which interests Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights.
Violations of women's human rights are a daily occurrence in numerous areas of the world, in various forms and in various sectors of public and private life. And if we exercise a little self-criticism, we must admit that it was the destruction of cultural monuments by the Taliban and the terrorist attack on 11 September which made us aware of the situation of women in Afghanistan. And cultural and religious customs and traditions are constantly cited in Afghanistan – as they are elsewhere – as an excuse for violating these rights. It is true that women and how they live are always the last bastion of resistance to progress in a country or society. So what we see is that, while numerous countries accused of violating human rights, especially women's human rights, are finding the courage to introduce economic reforms which often fly in the face of traditional or religious precepts, when it comes to women and their rights, change is resisted at every turn.
My political group and the rapporteur differ on the role which religion plays in people's lives. We do not accept that religion and human rights are in opposite camps. Anyway, keeping the faith cannot go hand in glove with suppression and violence. This was the thrust of repeated amendments proposed by my political group in committee; however, the rapporteur failed to pay them any attention, which is why my political group has tabled amendments before plenary.
Rather than fight our citizens' religious convictions, our approach is to mobilise all the political means at our disposal to ensure that the principles of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights are applied to all policies, as the European Commission did recently when it took the initiative to strengthen these policies in its foreign relations."@en1
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