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"Mr President, we welcome women’s struggle for freedom, social progress and peace at a time when we are celebrating 100 years of commemorations of International Women’s Day. Women have struggled and achieved a great deal during those 100 years, but that has still not been enough to eliminate the existing inequalities, the discrimination that persists in accessing jobs with rights, the wage inequality which is reflected in pensions, the difficulty of career progression and professional achievement, and the obstacles to accessing management and decision-making positions in economic, social and political activity; the tendency is for this situation to get worse at times of economic and social crisis.
Although motherhood is a social function indispensable to society’s development, discrimination against women for being mothers and workers continues, which, well into the 21st century, is scandalous. We would reaffirm our group’s solidarity with the struggles of women here. We continue to demand an end to inequality and discrimination, an end to all violence against women, and an end to gender stereotypes. This requires not just a break with neoliberal policies, but also a serious commitment to alternative policies that put the issue of human rights and gender equality at the centre of decision making and EU policy."@en1
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