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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9050

18 October 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/poverty
European Parliament calls for action plan to tackle women's poverty and social exclusion

Brussels, 17/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - To mark the World Anti-Poverty Day, the European Parliament adopted by a wide majority the own initiative report by Anna Zaborska (EPP-ED, Slovakia) on 'Women and Poverty in the EU'. The European Parliament suggested several ways of combatting women's poverty, like 1) developing gender-based indicators and methodology to measure the differing impact of poverty and social exclusion on women and men; 2) involving poor women and families at all levels of...

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