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"Mr President, the election of Saudi Arabia as a member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women is akin to something that you would read in a parody publication. At least three, possibly five, EU countries voted in favour of this shameful position – voted for a country where women are effectively legal minors their entire lives, where they require a male guardian’s approval to travel, to attend education, to access some health care. Shame on those Member States! A Freedom of Information request from me to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs was refused, but it did show a flurry of email activity on the matter. Ireland is like the others who chose to hide behind the excuse of the secret ballots. But then, in Ireland, women’s rights and dirty secrets are nothing new. But what possible justification could there be for EU Member States to endorse the world’s leading oppressor of women now as a promoter of gender equality? In one word: trade!"@en1
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