Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-03-08-Speech-2-425-562"
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"I voted in favour of this progressive report which was concerned with the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers.
Recent research conducted by Amnesty International shows that women and girl refugees face violence, assault, exploitation and sexual harassment at every stage of their journey, including on European soil.
The organisation interviewed 40 refugee women and girls in northern Europe in December 2015 who travelled from Turkey to Greece and then across the Balkans. All the women described feeling threatened and unsafe during the journey. Many reported that in almost all of the countries they passed through they experienced physical abuse and financial exploitation, being groped or pressured to have sex by smugglers, security staff or other refugees.
It is absolutely unacceptable that after living through the horrors of the war in Iraq and Syria these women have risked everything to find safety for themselves and their children. But from the moment they begin this journey they are again exposed to violence and exploitation, with little support or protection."@en1
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