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"Mr President, I think it is disappointing that in the year 2010, we are still talking about women’s rights, notwithstanding the great progress made by the European Union, especially in trying to get equal pay for equal work.
I also want to highlight the lack of women’s rights particularly in the third world. I worked as a volunteer in Malawi for a few months and I was appalled at the treatment of women there. Firstly, they did most of the hard work in the fields while the men loafed around the place, and secondly, the sexual entitlements of some of those men, especially a guy known as ‘The Hyena’, were absolutely abhorrent.
I think it is time that the European Union made development aid to these countries conditional on eliminating some of these appalling practices. The NGOs could highlight it too a bit more than they are doing. I look forward to a women’s rights charter here in Europe which can hopefully become a model to be implemented right throughout the world."@en1
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