Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-03-08-Speech-2-454-250"
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"I voted in favour of this important report which was drafted by Labour MEP Mary Honeyball. Women refugees and asylum seekers have specific protection and integration needs which have too often been overlooked. To meet the needs of everyone seeking protection, our asylum laws and policies must be fully gender sensitive at every stage.
Research shows that women and girls face violence, assault, exploitation and sexual harassment at every stage of their journey, including on European soil. Women – and indeed children – who are entitled to claim asylum are being coerced into transactional sex and forced into prostitution to pay for travel documents or a place in a boat or lorry. They need safer alternatives, as this report sets out.
This also includes the situation of women refugees in appalling makeshift conditions across the EU and on our borders, as in the Calais and Dunkirk ‘Jungles’. Member States have not provided the humanitarian response that these refugees require, and they must do so urgently.
On International Women’s Day we are sending a very clear message that action must be taken to protect women and girls seeking asylum in the EU."@en1
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