Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-06-Speech-4-076"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031106.6.4-076"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-06-Speech-4-0772
lpv:speaker	lp:Joke Swiebel2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". In this report, the Commission is being asked to distribute information on the concept of parity democracy. The Commission must not be allowed to respond to this call. Parity democracy hinders the complete emancipation of women as citizens. Parity democracy aims as a last resort to introduce electoral laws that specify that half the seats in elected bodies should be reserved for women and half for men. This boils down to ‘sexual apartheid’ and implies a contravention of the free and individual right to elect and be elected. Parity democracy is based on the philosophy of differentiation and assumes that there are ‘essential’ differences between men and women. It is not the task of the Commission to implement these one-sided, dangerous concepts. I share the opinion of the French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter that the state must not be allowed to reduce people to their sex. The Commission must provide objective information on the effect of different legislative and other instruments. Interestingly, the best results have in the past been achieved in countries in which political parties have taken the initiative themselves by putting more women on their candidate lists and where the dogma of (legally enforced) parity democracy has virtually no support."@en1

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