Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-02-Speech-4-133"
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I welcome this report, which reaffirms that men’s violence against women is a violation of human rights and that perpetrators of such violence should be prosecuted as vigorously as in those cases where violence is directed at men. There is a discrepancy between how crimes of violence are treated and punished depending on the gender of the victim. Whether such violence occurs in a public environment or in a private environment should not be relevant in tackling such violence as a criminal offence.
Whilst recognising that the declaration on the elimination of violence against women adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1993 was an important milestone in the recognition of the problem of domestic violence against women, this report rightly stresses that, in the EU context, more can be done.
I especially support its calls for a fundamental analysis of the extent of the problem following studies carried out in three EU countries showing that 40-50% of women had, at some point in their lives, been subjected to violence by a man. In the EU we have a duty to recognise and ensure the rights of women to life and physical safety under the rule of law."@en1
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