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"Mr President, I supported elements of this report which dealt with domestic violence, LGBT rights and human trafficking. Whilst things are improving in the Balkans, the record on violence against women remains alarming: 204 women died in Croatia in 2001 as a result of domestic violence, a quarter of women in Montenegro claim to suffer physical abuse by their partners, and the Serbian police filed almost 3 000 criminal reports of violence against women last year.
On LGBT rights the record is also worrying. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people still face discrimination and threats throughout the Balkans. A number of countries have weak anti-discrimination legislation. Serbia has repeatedly banned Gay Pride marches, and Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are, according to ILGA Europe (the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association), two of the worst places in Europe in which to be gay.
On trafficking, 30% of victims of cross-border human trafficking in the EU are nationals of Balkan countries.
In spite of the report’s positive elements, I cannot support proposals to introduce quotas for women. Quotas in public life and in business are counterproductive. Furthermore, it is not Parliament’s place to introduce quotas in candidate and accession countries."@en1
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