Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-11-30-Speech-4-037"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-11-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation of people with disabilities2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061130.5.4-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-11-30-Speech-4-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"I join with the rapporteur in reiterating Parliament’s support for a comprehensive non-discrimination directive on disability under Article 13. The Portuguese Presidency promised it to us in 2000, as did the former Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs in 2003. Four years later and unless there is action, the Commission will continue saying that there is a hierarchy of discrimination, which none of us can accept. Secondly, I welcome the action plan’s emphasis on moving beyond employment rights to social care. I call on the Commission to undertake this work with a genuine spirit and commitment towards an independent lifestyle for people with disabilities, to the right to personal assistance and to the right for disabled people and disabled children and their parents to choose mainstream provision, whether that is education or housing, not only employment. Thirdly, we can do much more on the international front in external assistance. We claim to adopt a human rights approach to disability. Let us do more within our human rights programmes worldwide. We have not done enough regarding the human rights of disabled people in assessing candidate countries for accession to the European Union. We can do better in that area. We should not only move swiftly to ratify and sign the draft UN Convention on People with Disabilities but work with third-country governments to make sure they do too. Finally on PPE-DE Group’s Amendment 5, I am outraged that the Conservatives should try to withdraw the part of my text suggesting that the Commission should be required to monitor the participation of people with disabilities in their programmes. We should not just talk about participation, we should make it happen. The PPE-DE Group should withdraw that amendment."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; DROI (2004-09-01--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 unknown; Labour Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt (PSE ). –"1

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