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"Madam President, Commissioner, every day thousands of people, mainly women and children, die due to poverty. The figures are startling: 2.5 billion people living on less than USD 2 per day, and, as I said, most of them are women.
Poverty lies at the root of the trafficking of women and children, sexual slavery and gender-based violence. It leads to the non-completion of schooling, to child labour, to increased numbers of children in danger, to illegal immigration, to fundamentalism and to terrorism.
Without financial independence, there is neither freedom nor equality. Women, and especially young women, are easily recruited by international criminal gangs, who promise them well-paid jobs in wealthy countries only to throw them into forced prostitution. Women do not generally benefit from globalisation, which tends to favour workers with good qualifications. Rather, they tend to suffer the detrimental consequences of the liberalisation of trade.
This is a most timely report, on which I should like to congratulate Mrs Breyer. It contains important proposals, of which I wish to highlight the use of microcredit as a means of reducing poverty. Microfinancing instruments have proved effective in combating poverty and it is women who have benefited most and benefited best, and have succeeded in improving their families’ economic situation. Unemployed women and those on low incomes – that is to say, women without access to the usual financial institutions, as is the case with most women in developing countries – have benefited particularly.
Studies have shown that women can take part in economic decision-making. Further studies show that companies with women on their boards have gained better results. Let us, too, follow the example of Norway, as mentioned earlier."@en1
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