Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-06-15-Speech-2-591"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-06-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis - Assessment of the results of the 2006-2010 Roadmap for Equality between women and men and forward looking recommendations - Charter for Women’s Rights - follow up (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100615.32.2-591"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Eva-Britt Svensson2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2011-08-31)3 unknown; Vänsterpartiet (2009-07-14--2011-08-31)3 member; IMCO (2009-07-16--2011-08-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-09-16--2011-08-31)3 chair; FEMM (2009-07-16--2011-08-31)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2009-07-16--2011-08-31)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2011-08-31)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2011-08-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in a perfect world, we would not have needed to have this debate this evening. We would live in a society that was equal. Well, we do not live in a perfect world and that is why we are having this debate. However, it must not stop at a debate. Concrete measures are needed to boost women’s rights and for our work to promote gender equality. A Charter for Women’s Rights, a charter that takes a comprehensive approach in all political areas, is something that is sorely needed. I think and believe that it is not enough to make statements and to utter fine words about equality. It is not enough to implement separate, isolated measures in different areas. No, the work on equality issues – the equality strategy, the report tabled by Mrs Figueiredo – needs to take a comprehensive approach, but we also need a comprehensive Charter for Women’s Rights. In order to draw up such a charter, I believe that we need to make use of the knowledge, skills and experience that are also found outside Parliament. In women’s organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society in general, there are skills, knowledge and experience that we should utilise when drawing up a comprehensive charter. The Commission has the opportunity to start and coordinate a process between the EU institutions, national parliaments, NGOs and others to draw up such a charter. I am certain that, with the commitment shown by Mrs Reding to the work to promote equality, we have an opportunity to produce such a charter together with the Commission. I should also like to say that we often – ahead of every election to the European Parliament in any case – discuss how we can get more women to take part in parliamentary elections and how we can get more women involved in political decision making in general. In this regard, I believe that it is not enough for us to go out and urge women to take part in the elections. No, women, and our citizens in general, are more intelligent than that. They, of course, look at what we have done to change the reality of their lives and what we have done in Parliament to improve their circumstances and so on. That is why we should now use this parliamentary term to show women in the EU and in the world that there is somewhere where we really do make a difference to the reality of life for most women."@en1
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