Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-14-Speech-3-166"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparations for the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040114.3.3-166"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-14-Speech-3-1672
lpv:speaker	lp:Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Treaty of Amsterdam provided the European Union with a legal basis for taking action to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. That led to the adoption here a few years ago of a directive against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in employment and elsewhere. In the course of the enlargement process, we have consistently and successfully insisted that penalising sexual contact between persons of the same sex be abolished before a country could join the European Union. In this House, we have also repeatedly reminded countries such as Zimbabwe and Egypt, with which the European Union has concluded agreements, that they should put an end to discrimination and punishment of sexual contact between adults of the same sex. We make ourselves very clear on this point every year in our reports on human rights in the world and within the European Union. It is only logical, therefore, that we also raise this policy at the United Nations. As has already been said, last year, Brazil presented the UN Commission on Human Rights with an initiative to include combating discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the human rights policy of the United Nations. This year, that proposal will be further elaborated and then raised again. This elaboration will probably include mention of discrimination on grounds of sexual identity. That is a subject on which the European Court of Justice passed a landmark judgment just last week. My group hopes, therefore, that the EU delegation will support this Brazilian initiative in full – every last part of it – and also cooperate on elaborating it further. All further attempts to destroy this initiative by countries minded to do so must be prevented, in cooperation with at least the EU Member States that are members of the UN Commission on Human Rights."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph