Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-25-Speech-4-115"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The European Union and the campaign against torture2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030925.9.4-115"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-25-Speech-4-1162
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; België Spirit (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, I should like to express thanks on behalf of our group to you – and also to Mr Patten, who cannot be here today, and his staff – for the great readiness you have shown in the past, and are also showing today, to enter into discussion with Parliament regarding the serious problem of torture. You yourself pointed out the important distinction that is currently being made between rehabilitation of the victims on the one hand, and prevention on the other. It is extremely important that we continue to take the rehabilitation of the victims to heart; yet we have reduced the appropriations for this by 45%. We should like to ask you, however, whether you can assure us that we can continue to count on the funds that are currently available. If not, we shall find ourselves in the unpleasant situation in which those involved in rehabilitation have to compete for budget resources with those working on prevention, when of course prevention, too, is an absolute necessity. Systematic rape as a weapon in warfare is, sadly, a widespread practice. Also, it seems that the situation in which the police consider it normal to torture in order to extract certain information is still the order of the day, even in countries which are applying to join the European Union such as Turkey. It is unacceptable that the police consider torture a normal means to an end. I think that it is particularly good that we are also devoting attention to educating the police in this sense. Good methods, in which humanity is the primary consideration, must be our guiding principle at all times. I should also like to draw attention to the fact that children are being used as weapons against their parents. I am talking here about the appalling problem of child soldiers, where a child is taken away from home in order to be subsequently used as a means of oppression, as a weapon against its own mother and father. Commissioner, we want to work together to prevent this kind of abomination. While this is an important tool in conflict prevention, we also want to continue to urge you not to let us lose sight of the rehabilitation of victims."@en1

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