Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-02-03-Speech-3-876-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2016-02-03"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Clare Moody2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I join with colleagues in this Chamber in condemning the attacks on women across Europe on New Year’s Eve. However, harassment of women did not begin on 31 December 2015. Indeed, just two months earlier there was the October Beer Festival, where hundreds of women reported sexual harassment. There appears not to have been quite so much concern about those women. Equally, the Fundamental Rights Agency reported in 2014 that one in three women have been the victim of violence of some sort. So harassment of women is not a new phenomenon. Violence and discrimination in Europe pre-date the events in Cologne and elsewhere. I have condemned and will always condemn these actions and whoever perpetrates them, and I am proud that my colleagues and I have been promoting action to take practical steps to address this problem. However, in all the time I have been doing this, I have never seen some of those who are shouting the loudest now stand shoulder to shoulder with me fighting for women’s rights before. Well, Heaven rejoices at the repentance of sinners. I am somewhat sceptical at UKIP and France’s National Front’s conversion to the cause of women. I suspect them of trying to instil fear and hatred rather than trying to protect the victims. But perhaps those on the Right will prove me wrong. Perhaps they will now call for the UK Government to ratify the Istanbul Convention with legally-based standards combating violence against women. I live in hope. In the meantime, let us take this moment to pursue policies that will protect women from experiencing harassment – whatever form it takes, and whoever the perpetrator."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "(The speaker declined to take a blue card question from Marek Jurek)"1 "Clare Moody (S&D )."1
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