Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-301"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The rights and dignity of disabled people2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.11.2-301"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-3022
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I wish sincerely to thank Mrs Lynne for the effort she has put into the work on a legally binding UN Convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of disabled people. It is an important issue, and one that we are highlighting here in the European Parliament through campaigning for the Convention to become legally binding and to be accompanied by an efficient supervisory system, in common with the other six UN conventions on human rights. It is important for this Convention to be seen as a way of strengthening the UN’s general work for democracy and human rights around the world. It is also important to emphasise that, if disabled people are given opportunities to live outside institutions, they must be offered sufficient support for doing so successfully. In Sweden, people who would once have resided in institutions for mentally handicapped and/or mentally disabled people now, in large measure, live instead in their own homes, with the result that many of these people are no longer part of a social community and have instead been isolated in their flats or become homeless and out on the streets. That is a tragic lesson for other European countries to take into account. It is also important for there to be a sensible definition of ‘disabled’ as a concept so that it does not lose its real meaning. As a Swedish Christian Democrat, I should like to have seen us in the European Parliament state that the future Convention should include wording concerning the right to life, implying that disabilities should not form a basis for diagnosing foetuses as unviable, for it is absolutely basic to our view of human beings that people with disabilities should not be looked down upon and their human dignity violated. Foetal diagnosis must not be used for screening out people with disabilities. In conclusion, I want to express my pleasure at the fact that this debate is being interpreted as a sign."@en1

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