Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-15-Speech-3-039"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights, racism, xenophobia and antisemitism2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000315.2.3-039"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-15-Speech-3-0402
lpv:speaker	lp:Gary Titley2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, in this great debate about human rights it is surprising how infrequently we hear children mentioned – the people who are least able to protect themselves in relation to human rights. Children are actually invisible in the EU Treaties. Animals have rights, children do not. Yet children are affected by the laws that the EU passes and the single market. The electronic revolution seems to have given more freedom to exploiters, the paedophiles and the pornographers, than to industrialists. In a twenty-first century where we regard ourselves as civilised there is still a slave trade in which children are bought and sold for sexual exploitation throughout the world. We have problems in the candidate countries. We have a scandal at the moment in Latvia which allegedly goes to the very heart of the government. We have pictures on our TV almost every day of child soldiers fighting in conflicts throughout the world. And of course, we have familiar tales of child labour. We have to take tougher action. We have to bring children up the agenda. This is not to say that the EU should start to be responsible for children's policy but we could start by ensuring that EU laws are child-proof. We should ensure that measures developed by the Commission have a specific children's dimension. We should ensure that there is somebody in the Commission with responsibility for child matters. In 1998 my own government appointed a child rights expert from Save The Children to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to develop strategies and practical projects in relation to children's rights. Why can we not do the same? We also have in Great Britain a Children's Select Committee able to investigate child abuses and to interrogate expert witnesses. Why can we not do the same? Can we make sure that the Charter of Fundamental Rights has a section relating to children? I know we have communications. We have action plans and conventions but what we want is action, not good intentions."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2000-02-16--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2003-05-20)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Titley (PSE )."1

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