El. Vozemberg in the European Parliament: It is our duty to give practical support to women in Afghanistan

The obligation of the EU and all the Member States to stand by the women of Afghanistan, who lost their rights due to the Taliban regime after 20 years of painstaking efforts, underlined in the Plenary Session of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, the MEP of the ND and EPP, Eliza Vozemberg – Vryonidis, in the presence of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.

As he said, they have lost the rights of every human being in the 21st century, “to be able to express themselves freely, to socialize, to work, to govern, to live in a democracy and the rule of law, to fight for their family, their ambitions and their dreams.”

“In one night everything was lost,” he added, stressing that “hope, the need for justice and the power to assert have not been lost.”

Ms. Vozemberg, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, said: and the rule of law “.

“We have a moral obligation and a duty to stand by these women in every way, each Member State individually and the EU united like a fist. It is the duty of all of us to give practical support to their claims, faithful to the European principles and the “We have been going for six decades,” he said.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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