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Updated: 2002-03-08 01:00

EU reform panel assailed for being male-dominated group (2002/03/08)

妇女节的思考:男权主义依然盛行 (2002/03/08)

EU reform panel assailed for being male-dominated groupTwo days before International Women's Day, the newly installed 105-member panel debating the future shape of the European Union, was assailed Wednesday for being a male-dominated club.

The violation of women's rights is not restricted to race, ethnic group or religion, said Anna Karamanou, chairperson of the European Parliament's Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities Committee.

She used the occasion of International Women's Day - on Friday - to warn of the danger of creating yet another EU outfit without adequate input from women.

Karamanou wrote a letter to Valery Giscard D'Estaing, the former French president who heads the European Convention, for not having enough women on his panel that began work last week.

Out of a total of 105 members, the convention includes 16 women. There are only 2 women on the 12-member executive board.

"I find the unbalanced composition a very worrying symbol, as equality of women and men is a prerequisite for the building of a democratic and non-violent society," Karamanou told a women's rights conference.

The women's conference debated rights abuses across the world and heard speakers from across the EU and elsewhere insist that if more women were involved in government the world would be a more peaceful place.

European Parliament President Pat Cox agreed.

"It is disappointing to note that the share of women in the European Convention is smaller than the share of women in the European Parliament," he said in an interview.

(Agencies)

3月6日,还有两天就是今年的国际妇女节了。新近由105名成员组成的欧洲大会工作小组正在商讨欧盟未来的发展大计,然而就在这天,有人对这个男性成员占绝大多数的组织提出了质疑。

欧洲议会妇女权利和平等机遇委员会的主席安娜·卡拉马诺说,无论种族、民族或是宗教,都普遍存在侵犯妇女权利的现象。

她想要借着今年的国际妇女节这个机会向欧盟提出警告,希望这个工作小组不要成为欧盟中又一个没有足够女性参与的组织。

由于已由上周投入工作的欧洲大会工作小组中没有设立足够的妇女席位,卡拉马诺女士致信欧洲大会领导法国前总统德斯坦表示抗议。

在此次大会工作小组的105名成员中,只有16名女性。而由12人组成的执行委员会中,只有2名女性的身影。

卡拉马诺女士在一次妇女权利会议上说:"男女平等是建立一个民主、无暴力社会的先决条件,而目前(欧洲大会中)男女人数不平衡的现象十分令人担忧。"

这次妇女权利会议主要讨论了世界范围内的妇女权利受到侵犯的问题,听取了来自欧盟及其他地区的代表的发言,这些代表认为如果妇女能够更多的参与到各国的政府工作中的话,这个世界将会是一个更加和平的世界。

对此,欧洲议会主席帕特·考克斯对此表示同意。

他在接受采访时说:"的确,欧洲大会中的女性席位比欧洲议会中的女性席位要少,这一现象确实令人失望。"

(中国日报网站译)

 
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