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"Madam President, when ‘Desert Flower’ was published in 1998, my eldest daughter was 14 years old, and when I read the book, in which Waris Dirie described what she went through, I thought that surely this was something that happened in the Middle Ages. I could not believe that it was happening in the present day.
I still find it incomprehensible that it is happening in our midst, and that it affects 500 000 women in Europe. Today, 14 years later, my youngest daughter is 14 years old, and I am pleased that she will be spared such barbaric practices. I believe that, now that we know what is going on, we have a particular responsibility to deal with it. We must establish that it is nothing to do with religious practices, but that in reality, it is a gross violation of human rights. On this issue we must adopt absolute zero tolerance; we are talking about causing physical and psychological harm to these women. One task that we should take away with us today is to fight the stigmatisation of the women affected, because it is only if the victims speak out that we have any chance of ending this barbaric practice."@en1
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