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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the last conference, which was held in Beijing in 1995, clearly identified a number of factors in female poverty and recognised the gender-specific dimension in the way governments deal with poverty.
The chain of events that lead to poverty is always the same: unemployment, sickness, humiliation and then social exclusion. It is a vicious circle where women are more vulnerable than men. Indeed, they are constantly in a situation of inequality relative to men, in all areas of society.
The number of women living below the poverty line has risen by 50% since the 1970s, while that of men has grown by 30%. What is behind what sociologists call the feminisation of poverty? No one can deny that poverty is fertile ground for prostitution. Moreover, the AIDS virus spreads more quickly in environments where women are kept in a state of sexual slavery.
Europe cannot be indifferent to all that. It must continue to play a shrewd and uncompromising role in ensuring that all the underlying causes of poverty are dealt with and that the most degrading of its consequences, the trafficking of women for profit in a parallel market which reduces them to nothing more than a commodity, is eliminated."@en1
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