Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-08-Speech-1-029"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100308.13.1-029"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Eva-Britt Svensson2
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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, today we are celebrating International Women’s Day and it is 15 years since the UN platform for women’s rights was established. Halfway through the review which is now under way in New York, I and the other members of the delegation from the European Parliament can only say that women all over the world will have to content themselves with the status quo. Despite the positive resolutions recently adopted by Parliament, the Tarabella report and the resolution on Beijing +15, unfortunately, the UN meeting has not yet produced any results. The EU governments involved in the negotiations clearly have less challenging objectives on women’s rights than the European Parliament expressed in the resolutions referred to earlier. Sometimes, it seems to me that the EU governments use the Beijing platform primarily as a means of lecturing non-EU countries about equality. It is often easier to tell other people what to do than to produce results oneself. Before he was elected, the President of the Commission, Mr Barroso, promised to draw up a Charter of women’s rights. Today, we have had the chance to read the Commission’s document. I and my group, the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, are deeply concerned about the weakness of the content and the way in which the charter has been drawn up. There is a major risk that it will not be worth the paper it is written on. Parliament, the national bodies and the European voluntary organisations were not involved in and did not contribute to the charter and, of course, the citizens of Europe did not take part in the process either. I would like to explain to Mr Barroso that it is not enough to make a declaration about common values. What the women and the men of Europe need is a powerful document which has been developed and drawn up in collaboration with all the relevant parties. Let this be the first draft of a Charter of women’s rights. Use the period until the next International Women’s Day to hold debates and discussions with Parliament, the national bodies and the voluntary organisations in Europe. When we then celebrate the next International Women’s Day, it will be clear that we have made progress. We are working to defend women’s rights not just on 8 March, but on every day of the year. This is what the women and the men of Europe need."@en1
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