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Report on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development Cooperation

Document number
1544
Date
2008
Title
Report on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development Cooperation
Author/publisher
Committee on Development, European Parliament, European Union
Availability
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
(2007/2182(INI)), Rapporteur: Feleknas Uca, A6-0035/2008, Motion for a European Parliament Resolution on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development Cooperation (2007/2182(INI))
Summary
In fundamental terms, the rapporteur has welcomed the Commission strategy, because the Commissioncommunication takes account of many of the recommendations made by civil societyorganisations. Nevertheless, the rapporteur has expressed her view that key aspects have been neglected andthat many of the calls made in the communication are half-hearted. She draws attention to theneed to scrutinise closely the way in which the EU and the Member States implement thecommunication, with a view to ensuring that its proposals do not simply look good on paperbut are actually put into practice.
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