Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-27-Speech-3-067"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-04-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Roma in the European Union2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050427.8.3-067"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-27-Speech-3-0682
lpv:speaker	lp:Inger Segelström2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Arbetarepartiet- Socialdemokraterna (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner Špidla, fellow citizens in the public gallery, ladies and gentlemen. Like everyone else, I welcome the debate on the Roma in the EU. I also welcome all Roma as members of the EU. In spite of the ban on discrimination in the first article of the UN Charter, 12 to 15 million Roma are in a vulnerable position. The EU’s seven to nine million Roma, a number equivalent to the Swedish population, are to be found in the majority of EU Member States, but no country properly recognises the group as its largest ethnic minority. Worryingly enough, discrimination is also on the increase. Since the year 2000, when Sweden ratified the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the Roma group has been recognised in Sweden and the Roma language, Romany, is a recognised minority language in Sweden, but that is not enough to end the Roma’s exclusion. The whole of the EU must protect the Roma’s position and, in particular, the vulnerable position of women and children. We must join with Roma women in integrating them and their children into our gender equality policy, particularly as it relates to the protection of reproductive and sexual health, promotion of family planning, education for children and girls and increased participation in political decision-making. I listened to Commissioner Špidla’s report, for which I thank him. Given that matters relating to the Roma are the responsibility of the whole of the EU, I should like to ask him, as the Commissioner responsible for equality, if there is anything more we can do specifically in terms of women’s and children’s rights and in terms of combating exclusion. I applaud the resolution."@en1

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