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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I must congratulate Mrs Sartori on the quality of her report. I believe that respect for women’s rights should in principle be regarded as a
in assessing whether a candidate country should join the European Union or not. I would say that the Copenhagen criteria ought to refer explicitly to respect for women’s rights. We highlighted it in this House last month, when we were debating the status of women in Turkey.
At the dawn of the third millennium, women in Europe still have to fight for the right to literacy, equal pay, access to high-level public positions, participation in politics and physical safety. In that respect, I fully endorse the demand that the Member States should severely punish any doctors who agree to perform painful, humiliating tribal practices, particularly female genital mutilation, just for the sake of financial gain or because of a dangerous and distorted respect for other cultures.
As for the traffic in women for use in prostitution that is carried on by criminal organisations, I staunchly support the demand that the Member States that have not yet done so should ratify the protocol supplementing the so-called ‘Palermo Protocol’ on combating the trafficking of immigrants. In that respect, I suggested to the Council and Commission back in 2004 that we should set up a centre to monitor Mafia-like organised crime in the European Union precisely so as to enhance our understanding of the extent and causes of criminal networks in Europe and to propose measures to combat them.
It is pointless to hide the fact, Madam President, that trafficking in human beings is among the most profitable of these gangs’ activities. Three years have gone by since then, but on this front Europe has remained at the good intentions stage rather than moving on to take action. I hope that the equality roadmap at least will have better luck."@en1
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