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"Mr President, we would very much like to thank the rapporteur, Kinga Göncz, on the rights, equalities and citizenship dossier for the very close cooperation we enjoyed from our committee.
For us, one of the issues that we wanted to raise was certainly in terms of anti-discrimination. We know that we have the legislation on the statute books – much of it directly, of course, relevant to employment – but we know that in the world of work itself there is still a lot of work to be done in terms of a real understanding of what equalities mean: for those whom we are serving, but also for our colleagues.
Certainly in terms, for example, of disability we know that at the moment it is virtually impossible for people with disabilities to really be fairly treated in the workplace. So that was a major issue for us. Also in terms of data protection: how that will affect people in the workplace directly was of course an area of concern.
But I was also working on this for my political group and there I think that, given that it is International Human Rights Day, talking about this programme is extremely important. We welcome it but, as people have said, it is modest; it is in many respects a small programme which is having to deal with very big tasks. We know too that hate speech is on the increase, whether that is against people with disabilities, or people of a different skin colour or background or sexual orientation.
So we really want to see some work done on that. We know that a lot of the national organisations which exist under the current legislation are seeing their budgets dramatically cut. We know that Equinet too is important in this role and therefore we really want to see some work done on promotion and delivery on very strong issues of anti-discrimination.
As has been said, this also encompasses the old Daphne programme and again organisations are seeing their support cut at the moment but domestic violence is increasing at a time of crisis. So we want to be able to continue the ground-breaking work that we have seen in a number of places from organisations working on these issues.
Childrenʼs rights, of course, come in as a newer dimension. We know from other work we have done in this Parliament about the difficulties, for example, in providing real legal guardianship for children within the European Union. So we can see that this programme might well also be able to help deliver something very positive for our children."@en1
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