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dcterms:Date	"2002-04-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Gender equality2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20020424.6.3-120"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-24-Speech-3-1212
lpv:speaker	lp:Anna Karamanou2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (2002-01-17--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 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 chair; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-03-13--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we are debating two very important reports on women's rights today. A few days ago, someone asked me if I really believed that women's rights are violated in Europe. Naturally I did not need to think long or hard before replying that, compared with other parts of the world, Europe is a paradise for women's rights. Without doubt it has made a great deal of progress over recent years, as we can see from the European Commission's annual reports. However, serious problems persist even in democratic Europe, such as violence against women in its various manifestations, domestic violence, sexual violence, violence in the workplace. And it is to the Spanish Presidency's credit, I say it again, that it has put these issues at the top of its agenda. The fact that some 500 000 women are bought and sold in the European Union every year is a blatant violation of fundamental rights; the European Union has still not woken up to this and, more to the point, it has still not taken specific measures to combat this phenomenon. The fact that 3 000 women in the United Kingdom alone are sexually mutilated every year, in the name of cultural traditions which immigrants from fundamentalist and anti-democratic regimes bring with them together with their baggage is also a violation of basic rights, as was the recent crime of honour in Sweden. The fact is, the European job market is still fragmented along gender lines, women's salaries are much lower than men's, only 25% of businesses belong to women and women are kept below the glass ceiling and out of responsible managerial and decision-making positions; all examples of violations and discrimination against women. Furthermore, the standard which is the idea at the core of the guidelines for the European strategy on employment should also be the objective for women's employment, as should stepping up measures to reconcile working and family life and individualising rights, as Mrs Fraisse quite rightly points out."@en1

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