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"Mr President, I would like to thank our committee chair, Eva Joly, for highlighting the issue of caste-based discrimination through her report. I think she has done a singular service in uniting this House to highlight this issue. I should also like to support the comments made by Michael Cashman earlier in the debate. We really do have to be much more proactive in ensuring that we take boycott action against those countries that continue to treat people in this way.
I commend the messages in the report, in particular the need for the EU to recognise caste-based discrimination as a distinct form of discrimination which must be tackled with other forms of discrimination, such as discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, disability, race, religion, gender and sexuality.
I am glad that our colleague Mr Gustafsson, the Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, raised the issue of Dalit women. They are among the most severely exploited, including sexually exploited. They often suffer from sexual violence, sexual slavery, bonded labour and limited access to food or sanitation. This is in the 21
century. It is an extraordinary thing. But this caste-based discrimination is not confined to Asia. I spoke to a young man in Dublin as last weekend. His name is Robin, he is an Asian and he appealed to me to raise this issue because in parts of Europe the trend continues.
So I am really delighted that our committee Chair has taken the initiative on this, that she has put this issue firmly on the agenda and that there is strong cross-party support for it. I hope that communicates itself to the Commission and that collectively we can challenge this issue, which has been allowed to fester for far too long."@en1
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