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"Mr President, where the present report is concerned, we note that there is just about one hundred per cent agreement in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities. I should like, however, to point out a number of things.
We note that women’s and children’s rights form an indispensable and inseparable dimension of human rights generally. Economic independence for women is a necessity if it is to be possible to achieve true equality. Women both within and outside the European Union are especially vulnerable to poverty.
The 1995 action platform expressly mentions the freedom to take personal responsibility in questions affecting sexuality, as well as full respect for the individual’s integrity and equality in relations between women and men and in issues affecting sexual relations and reproduction.
These are points which religious fundamentalists of different kinds now refuse to accept. The
movement and so-called family protection groups, the Vatican and Muslim fundamentalists are very active and have been so in a very well organised way during the conferences which, in the course of recent months, have been held in, among other places, New York. They are thereby sabotaging constructive dialogue between governments and voluntary organisations. I should like to appeal to this Parliament’s large Christian Democratic group to distance themselves from this sabotage of the United Nations’ follow-up conference.
I would also urge the governments of the Member States and the delegation from the European Parliament which is to go to New York in a few weeks’ time to do all they can to bring about the final document from the Beijing + 5 Conference which is, in fact, threatened by these groups. It is a question of producing a final document containing, still intact, the twelve points in the action plan which have been approved. In that way, we can all of us work to advance women’s rights and equality, and not to set them back."@en1
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