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"Mr President, on behalf of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities, I should like to thank the Commission for its communication. Above all, however, I should like to thank the rapporteurs for their sound reports. Parliament has always given high priority to human rights and defended them in all circumstances, and we have not defended them any the less since 11 September 2001. In relation to the candidate countries – which are also of course, in a way, third countries – we have had great success in attaching importance to human rights and democratisation through the Copenhagen Criteria and the whole set of EU regulations. In that connection, we have also focused upon women’s rights and rights in general. That applies not merely to the candidate countries but also to the developing countries.
I do not think that the Commission’s communication is completely clear regarding how, in purely practical terms, we are to secure human rights specifically for women. There is of course no doubt at all that, in a long list of the countries we cooperate with, women are oppressed in a range of different areas. They are very often victims of religious or cultural traditions, and I believe we need to take stock of the concept of religious and cultural traditions used to oppress a quite specific group, namely girls and women in general. In this connection, I believe that we must try to involve women themselves more actively, and perhaps we should start by developing a number of programmes with the help of those women who have come to Europe, for we do not always have precise policies for tackling their status in our own countries. If we were to adopt this approach, we could perhaps also obtain some experience of use in connection with the developing countries. I should like especially to refer to paragraphs 2 and 3 of the opinion of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities in which we propose that the Commission do some very practical work on a number of aspects of this area."@en1
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