Brussels, 08/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Women's Lobby (EWL) strongly regrets that the draft Charter of fundamental rights "does not introduce the concept of gender equality as a basic unconditional and fundamental principal of the Union (…) worse, the Charter in English, German, Spanish and French versions that we have read, uses sexist language in several articles". "The Charter as presently drafted, constitutes a devastating step backwards in the fight against the persistent...