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dcterms:Date	"2012-03-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human trafficking in Sinai, in particular the case of Solomon W.2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120315.24.4-301-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-03-15-Speech-4-302-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Judith Sargentini2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2012-01-19--2012-03-20)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2010-03-03--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; GroenLinks (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, refugees from the Horn of Africa seeking safety often travel to Israel via Egypt. That means that they have to cross the Sinai Desert. This desert is a no-man’s land on which the Egyptian Government seems unable to get a grip. The journey through the desert is facilitated by Bedouins, people smugglers, who exploit the vulnerability of these refugees. Women are raped, people are locked up for months on end in order to extort even more from them, people are killed for their organs or just because it is possible. This resolution takes the example of a young Eritrean named Solomon, but there are many, many more Solomons and Myriams who find or have found themselves in the same circumstances in the Sinai Desert. It strikes me as telling that female refugees are asking for an abortion as soon as they manage to get to Israel. They have become pregnant in the desert. Egypt is making too little effort to bring the Sinai under control and to prosecute the gangs and smugglers. Egypt also still lacks a working asylum policy, which raises the suspicion that it would rather see the back of the refugees and that it is not interested in their welfare. The European Union is attempting to help get democracy going in Egypt after the Arab Spring. This is not how refugees are treated in a democracy, and Europe should make recognition of the Geneva Conventions a prerequisite for its help. However, it is not only Egypt that is guilty of abusing refugees. Israel sends people back to the desert. Israel is currently building the world’s biggest detention centre for refugees, but you do not lock up refugees. Imagine you have fled from Sudan, Eritrea or Somalia. What happens? You get to Egypt or Israel, and end up in a situation that is barbaric. I call on Baroness Ashton to point this out to Egypt and Israel and to firmly protest about it."@en1
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