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"I am pleased that I was able to write an opinion on this report in the Committee on Women’s Rights. I have taken a particular interest in the issue of children’s rights in the context of foreign relations.
My opinion was unanimously approved. It states above all that the EU foreign strategy as regards children’s rights should be based on the values and principles set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular Articles 3, 16, 18, 23, 25, 26 and 29. These are particularly important for the wellbeing of individuals and society as a whole. My opinion stresses that all measures in the interests of children’s rights should give priority status to parents and immediate relatives of children.
The fact that the European Parliament has adopted my opinion underlines the importance of protecting human life right from the outset, and of giving each child its own identity. I succeeded in introducing statements condemning gender-based eugenic discrimination, which is increasingly common in some countries. The opinion asks the Commission to emphasise the importance of the need to register every child at birth in all third countries as part of the Commission’s development policy, and to make its aid programmes dependent on this requirement.
I support any attempt to promote development aid. I do, however, insist that humanitarian organisations and international bodies responsible for allocating aid guarantee that the aid and funding allocated actually reaches the children it is destined for, and is not squandered."@en1
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