Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-12-Speech-2-149"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Women and fundamentalism2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020312.7.2-149"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-12-Speech-2-1502
lpv:speaker	lp:Elena Valenciano2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 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) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am also perplexed by the fact that tradition and culture are always used as an argument at the expense of anything else. Historically, culture and tradition have put women into the situation of inequality they suffer today. The worst violations against women in the world are currently carried out on behalf of religious fundamentalism. Religious fundamentalism is also political and, when women and girls live under it, their lives tragically offer them no possibility of escape. In the name of the freedom of thought which the Members from the People’s Party advocate, quite rightly, the Izquierdo report argues in favour of the separation of the powers of Church and State, that is, between religion and politics. That should be the report’s most significant argument. Many women are awaiting our commitment on this issue. We must defend the values that we, men and women, espouse in order that we may live together in freedom. In the name of that freedom of choice and decision which is denied to the majority of women in the rest of the world. We do not agree with the exclusive determinism for women, which condemns them for the rest of their lives. It is not true that women can participate with the same dignity as men because they are excluded from practically everything which may give them that dignity. In the name of tradition, religion and fundamentalism, women are stoned, murdered and mutilated. As I have said, many women await our commitment and we cannot disappoint them. In the name of freedom of thought, we must vote in favour of this report."@en1

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