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"Madam President, nobody here is in favour of violence against women, of course. But what we should be doing is uniting in coming forward with ways in which we think that in this place, from the European Parliament, we can actually help, actually do something. All 28 Member States have legislation in place making violence against women a criminal offence, but they do not always enforce it. Let us learn from each other. We have come a long way and we can go further.
In London, thirty years ago, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Kenneth Newman, who was in charge of police for the whole of London, said: ‘stray dogs and domestic violence [are] rubbish work for police officers’. Now it is unthinkable that he would say that today, but still, on average, two women per week are killed by their partners in the United Kingdom. But what have we done?
Well, we have criminalised FGM, we have criminalised forced marriage, we have passed something called Clare’s Law, which allows the police to disclose information on request about a partner’s previous history of violence, thus waiving that partner’s rights to protection under the Data Protection Act. So, ladies and gentlemen, please let us get together, let us find ways of working together to end this, rather than squabbling about how we attack the Commission."@en1
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