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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Afghanistan: one year after the Bonn Agreement2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030115.1.3-024"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-15-Speech-3-0252
lpv:speaker	lp:Maj Britt Theorin2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; 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 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, at the invitation of UN mediator Mr Brahimi, I had the privilege of talking to the Afghan leaders at the Bonn Conference. I was at that time chairman of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities and had listened to a representative of the Rawa organisation speaking about the position of women in Afghanistan. I was consequently able to put to the Afghan leaders the obvious demands that women be included in the provisional and permanent governments and not marginalised in the reconstruction work. Together with non-governmental organisations, the committee arranged a conference for women from Afghanistan. We then presented the joint priorities in a resolution adopted by Parliament during the December 2001 part-session. On behalf of the committee, I requested that the Committee on Budgets introduce a special supplementary item concerning aid for the women of Afghanistan, something which the Committee on Budgets and Parliament in fact went on to do. Why am I giving you this background information? It is because I see extremely few traces of it in the joint resolution. There is no mention of women and their human rights. It is the Afghan Government’s priorities, rather than women’s, that are mentioned in the resolution. Nor is there any requirement that all aid projects should be informed by the dimension of equality. Women’s rights are quickly forgotten in the man’s world in which we live. The strong and pro-active Minister for Equality in the provisional Afghan Government was removed, and the role of Afghan women is now all but totally eclipsed, in spite of the fact that probably two thirds of the population consist of women and children. I want to ask the Commission and the Council of Ministers how this is to be interpreted. Have women been forgotten again? Are no demands concerning women being made of the Afghan Government? Women were victims under both the Northern Alliance and the Taliban. Women are the most important actors in the cause of peace. A policy for Afghanistan must be a policy for the majority, that is to say for women and children."@en1

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