Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-08-Speech-1-101"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Population and development2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040308.8.1-101"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-08-Speech-1-1022
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	"Madam President, this is a very important report for women and in terms of women’s rights to reproductive health and to control over their own bodies. First, a few facts. We now know that, every minute, a woman dies for reasons connected with pregnancy. Every minute, 100 abortions are carried out, almost half of them by people with no medical training. Every year, 70 000 women die as a result of unsafe abortions. Every minute, ten people are infected with HIV. Every year, two million girls between the ages of five and fifteen are introduced into the commercial sex market and to a modern form of slavery without protection of a preventative nature. Rape and sexual violence are also on the increase in Europe. Girls and women are still exposed to genital mutilation in many countries, something that is unacceptable. Such violation can lead to serious injury and to actual death. One woman in three has been exposed to violence, according to a report recently published by Amnesty. In the developing countries, reproductive problems are the most important cause of death and disablement where women of childbearing age are concerned. In Afghanistan, half of all deaths among women aged between 15 and 50 are pregnancy-related. In this situation, to refuse to support organisations that provide contraceptive advice is consciously to collude in a situation in which hundreds of thousands of women undergo unsafe abortions and suffer premature death and one in which hundreds of thousands of women are infected with HIV every year. That is a profound violation of human rights and constitutes a serious risk to women’s reproductive and mental health. The EU and the Member States must naturally comply with their obligations and fund and implement the programme of measures from Cairo. In doing so, the EU must make sexual and reproductive health a part of development policy and, of course, demand that the recipient countries ban genital mutilation."@en1

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