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"Mr President, Commissioner, the phenomenon of poverty has no gender. This is not exclusively a women’s problem, but it does particularly affect women. Women earn lower salaries and receive a lower level of social protection. They are the last to gain access to permanent work and the first to be laid off. Women’s economic dependency places constraints on their freedom. As for poor single mothers, how many of them have no means of feeding their children, no roof to shelter them and no government support on which to live with a minimum of dignity?
These single mothers, whom Mr Buttiglione chose to insult, are real heroines. Fortunately, Parliament gave him the response he deserved and I was delighted to hear Mrs Schreyer say that we must respect single mothers. I trust that Mr Barroso will also keep this in mind in the future.
Everything is linked: poverty, disease, illiteracy, lack of academic success, infant and maternal mortality, urban and environmental decay, social discrimination, lack of professional qualifications, unemployment, promiscuity, domestic violence, trafficking in human beings. Around 700 000 women and children every year are seized by networks of human traffickers. The European Institutions cannot turn a blind eye to this shocking figure. It is because of poverty that more children than ever are abandoned, raped, trafficked, beaten up and even murdered by their own parents. Everything is linked, such as poverty and death due to backstreet abortion, as we showed recently in this House with regard to the case of the boat belonging to the ‘Women on Waves’ movement. We must not forget that those who suffer most from the consequences of criminalising the voluntary termination of pregnancy are women from the poorest sections of society. Poor women pay with their health and even with their lives for the monstrous laws that prevent them from gaining access to a safe and hygienic voluntary termination of pregnancy. Such is the case in Ireland, Poland and Portugal.
The fight against the social exclusion of women requires practical measures, as, in fact, laid down in the Lisbon Strategy. What is needed is an updated reading of the Lisbon Strategy to include a gender perspective. The Europe that we want and deserve must show greater solidarity, fairness and humanity towards women too."@en1
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