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"Madam President, may I first of all thank Baroness Ashton for her courtesy and the courtesies of her staff, which were extended to Members, and say how much I regret the ungentlemanly behaviour of Members of this House who use privilege to hurl abuse. It is not the role of Parliament to do that in a debate where people are not in a position to respond themselves.
May I say also that I disagree with those colleagues who put forward the view that the Special Representative for Human Rights should be a lawyer. I think the person who is appointed will have plenty of advice available to him or her, and what I want is a person who has a good heart, who is impartial, who has courage, who will show good judgment, who has energy and, above all, who is not politically correct; a person who will pursue the truth. Human rights are indivisible; they are not just conferred by law.
The European Consensus on Development calls for the issue of gender equality to be a core part of all policy strategies within the European Union. We have missing from the world’s population today 100 million women – 100 million females – terminated by infanticide or abortion on no other basis than the fact that they were female. I do not hear anybody mentioning this in this House. I am quite appalled that it has not been mentioned in this House. I want somebody who has the courage to come to this House and talk to us about this issue in an impartial, fair, direct, honest, open way, and who will equally pursue all human rights issues because human rights are indivisible. They apply to all persons by right, and are not conferred by our prejudices or our bias."@en1
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