Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-03-13-Speech-4-052"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Development Cooperation (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080313.3.4-052"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-03-13-Speech-4-0532
lpv:speaker	lp:Nirj Deva2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, although there is much good in this report, there is something I totally disagree with, as my colleagues, Mr Kaczmarek and Mr Mitchell have already done. I start by asking you, Mr President, who said this: ‘Through the practice of prenatal sex selection, countless women are denied the right even to exist.’ It might surprise the rapporteur of this report to know that it was said by Ban Ki-moon in his opening address to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in New York. Furthermore, according to the UNFPA, in its state of the world population report last year, there is a global deficit of 60 million women in the world – that is the whole population of the United Kingdom! These missing females have been prenatally sex-selected, aborted and ‘infanticised’ out of existence, and this is happening on the continent on which I was born; I know what I am talking about. How is it that a report of the European Parliament on gender equality can be silent on the deliberate elimination on the basis of gender alone? Where is the equality in that? I tabled an amendment to this report demanding a gender analysis of all abortions performed in the world, and guess what happened? The Socialists voted against it! Why? Do we not have the right to know how women are being aborted before they are born? We will see later today how they vote on Amendment 11. I do not know why the rapporteur has insisted on squandering this valuable opportunity to remove the most significant cause of injustice against women in the world today – their basic right to life – and, instead, insist on perpetuating through championing the so-called rights of sexual..."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-06-26--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; DEVE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut off the speaker.)"1 "Nirj Deva (PPE-DE ). –"1

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