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"Mr President, Mrs Jacobs, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this year the international day of 8 March sees the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the World Conference on Women, but do the world’s women today all view the progress announced in Beijing in the same way? Beijing + 10 is a new departure today and I am especially grateful to those of you who helped to table this oral question.
Today my thoughts are with all those women who have devoted their lives to defending the dignity of women by winning fundamental social, economic and political rights. Their commitment was sometimes seen as an act of transgression, a sign of a lack of femininity or even a display of exhibitionism. True equality of human rights, equal pay for equal work, protection for working mothers, fair career advancement and the equality of spouses in family life are matters of urgency. The social presence of women calls into question a society based on efficiency and productivity alone.
Abuses against women must be strongly condemned as a matter of urgency, women and girls defended against all forms of violence that turn them into objects or commodities. In such conditions, before being the responsibility of women, the choice of abortion is the responsibility of the man, with the complicity of the environment in which they live. Being a woman and being a mother should not entail any discrimination or penalisation because the survival of humanity depends on it.
A woman who is able to express her creative genius becomes truly revolutionary because she knows how to resolve conflicts, to make and restore peace. Peace is not only the absence of war; it is a state of justice, a matter of urgency that affects us all, men and women, today. Let us women therefore wish ourselves a happy anniversary!"@en1
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