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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 10 years after the Beijing conference, reality continues to be implacable for millions of women in the European Union.
Unemployment is three percentage points higher for women than for men; 33% of women are forced to work part time compared with 6% of men. Pay differentials vary from 6 to 30% for the same work. One woman in five in the EU is a victim of domestic violence, which is a serious human rights violation and one that must now be brought into the public domain. The recorded number of prostitutes has increased 10 fold in 20 years and 90% of them suffer violence at the hands of their pimps and their clients.
Commissioner, it would seem to be a matter of urgent necessity to set in motion aggressive policies to provide information on rights and to enforce existing laws in the Member States as well as to implement an effective policy of controls and penalties, because it is not enough to set ambitious targets and then see nothing change over 10, 20 or 30 years. It is not enough – and this applies to us here – to salve our consciences one day a year and then despise women the rest of the time.
The enlarged, reunified Europe, the land of freedom, the land of human rights, has the duty to comply with its future Constitution."@en1
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