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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8909

16 March 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/women
Ten years after Beijing conference, EP considers little progress has been made on women's rights in EU and calls for 2006 to be “European Year against Violence against Women” - Invitation to closely monitor women's rights in Turkey

Strasbourg, 15/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 8 March, International Women's Day, the European Parliament held a debate on follow-up to the platform for action of the World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. Also, on 10 March, it adopted a resolution affirming that, despite many improvements, the situation of women in the EU has not made substantial progress since the conference (EUROPE of 9 March, p.15, on the subject of the press conference by President Barroso and Commissioner...

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