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The European Parliament adopted a resolution on\ndiscrimination against girls in Pakistan, strongly condemning the\nviolent attack on Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old girl from the\nSwat Valley, who was shot in the head and neck by the\nTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on 9 October 2012 and severely\nwounded.
\nThe resolution was tabled by the EPP, S&D, ALDE,\nGreens/EFA, ECR GUE/NGL and EFD groups.
\nIt notes that Malala Yousafzai had become a national\nsymbol of resistance against the Taliban's efforts to deprive girls\nof an education through blogs she wrote since the age of 11,\nreceiving in December 2011 the National Youth Peace Prize, which\nhas been renamed in her honour the National Malala Peace\nPrice.
\nMembers call on the Government of Pakistan to\nensure the safety of Malala Yousafzai and her family and to\nbring to justice those responsible for the assault. It wants\nPakistan to ensure the safety of other human rights activists\n particularly women and girls who become active in society\nand politics who have received threats from the Taliban and\nother extremist groups, and it expresses its concern about the\nreported threats against 17-year-old Hinna Khan and her family.\nParliament states that it is deeply worried about the worsening\ntrend of violent extremism, and the repeated reports of\nviolations of childrens and womens rights in Pakistan,\nwhich has already led to the blowing up of girls schools and\nthe flogging of women in parts of the FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.\nIt welcomes the widespread condemnation of the attack by large\nsections of Pakistani society, Islamic scholars and most major\npolitical parties, and calls on all political parties to clearly\ncondemn the TTP as the ones who have claimed responsibility for the\nattack.
\nThe resolution calls on the Commission to develop,\njointly with Pakistan, education programmes aimed at improving\nthe literacy and education of women in Pakistan as part of its\ndevelopment aid policy. Parliament wants to see a significant\nincrease in funds aimed at efforts to protect women and girls\nfrom rape, abuse and domestic violence and at measures to enable\ncivil society movements against discrimination of women and girls,\nnoting also that in most cases, the perpetrators of violence\nagainst women and girls remain unprosecuted.
\nCalling on the Commission to act upon its pledge to\nchildren in its communication\nA Special Place for Children in the EU External\nAction, Members insist that womens and\nchildrens rights should be explicitly addressed in all\nhuman rights dialogues. It refers to the issue of eliminating\nall forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls,\nin particular forced marriage, domestic violence and feminicide,\nand insists that the invocation of any custom, tradition or\nreligious consideration of any kind in order to evade the duty to\neliminate such brutality should be rejected. The prevention of the\npractice of child marriage is vital to ensure that the fundamental\nrights of adolescent girls in Pakistan are respected.
\nMembers call on the competent EU institutions\nto:
\n\n· \ncontinue to emphasise the issue of religious\ntolerance in society in their political dialogue with Pakistan,\ngiven that this matter is of central importance to the long-term\nfight against Islamist extremism;
\n\n· \ninsist that the Government of Pakistan uphold\nthe democracy and human rights clause enshrined in the\ncooperation agreement between the European Union and the\nIslamic Republic of Pakistan.
\nThe European External Action Service and the EU\nSpecial Representative for Human Rights are asked to regularly\nreport on the implementation of the cooperation agreement and the\ndemocracy and human rights clause, including the exercise of\nwomens and childrens rights.
\nMembers urge the Pakistani authorities to
\n\n· \nprosecute those individuals and groups inciting\nviolence, in particular those calling for the killing of\nindividuals and groups with whom they disagree;
\n\n· \ntrace the hundreds, if not thousands, of victims\nof enforced disappearance in Pakistan, including children, some of\nthem girls as young as nine and ten years old, and to publish the\nresults of internal government investigations into the scale of\nthis problem;
\n\n· \nuse the current momentum to make real\nimprovements to women's and girls rights, reviewing and reforming\nparts of the Hudood Ordinances and the Law of Evidence, the Child\nMarriage Restraint Act and other pieces of legislation that violate\nthe status and rights of women, making them subordinate in\nlaw;
\nLastly, Parliament calls on to work closely with the\nUN and the EU in delivering on the Millennium Development Goals, in\nparticular Goal 2 which states that by 2015 all children, girls and\nboys, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling,\nand to make it a priority to increase the number of girls receiving\nschool education and to guarantee their safety while receiving an\neducation.
\nThe European Parliament adopted a resolution on\ndiscrimination against girls in Pakistan, strongly condemning the\nviolent attack on Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old girl from the\nSwat Valley, who was shot in the head and neck by the\nTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on 9 October 2012 and severely\nwounded.
\nThe resolution was tabled by the EPP, S&D, ALDE,\nGreens/EFA, ECR GUE/NGL and EFD groups.
\nIt notes that Malala Yousafzai had become a national\nsymbol of resistance against the Taliban's efforts to deprive girls\nof an education through blogs she wrote since the age of 11,\nreceiving in December 2011 the National Youth Peace Prize, which\nhas been renamed in her honour the National Malala Peace\nPrice.
\nMembers call on the Government of Pakistan to\nensure the safety of Malala Yousafzai and her family and to\nbring to justice those responsible for the assault. It wants\nPakistan to ensure the safety of other human rights activists\n particularly women and girls who become active in society\nand politics who have received threats from the Taliban and\nother extremist groups, and it expresses its concern about the\nreported threats against 17-year-old Hinna Khan and her family.\nParliament states that it is deeply worried about the worsening\ntrend of violent extremism, and the repeated reports of\nviolations of childrens and womens rights in Pakistan,\nwhich has already led to the blowing up of girls schools and\nthe flogging of women in parts of the FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.\nIt welcomes the widespread condemnation of the attack by large\nsections of Pakistani society, Islamic scholars and most major\npolitical parties, and calls on all political parties to clearly\ncondemn the TTP as the ones who have claimed responsibility for the\nattack.
\nThe resolution calls on the Commission to develop,\njointly with Pakistan, education programmes aimed at improving\nthe literacy and education of women in Pakistan as part of its\ndevelopment aid policy. Parliament wants to see a significant\nincrease in funds aimed at efforts to protect women and girls\nfrom rape, abuse and domestic violence and at measures to enable\ncivil society movements against discrimination of women and girls,\nnoting also that in most cases, the perpetrators of violence\nagainst women and girls remain unprosecuted.
\nCalling on the Commission to act upon its pledge to\nchildren in its communication\nA Special Place for Children in the EU External\nAction, Members insist that womens and\nchildrens rights should be explicitly addressed in all\nhuman rights dialogues. It refers to the issue of eliminating\nall forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls,\nin particular forced marriage, domestic violence and feminicide,\nand insists that the invocation of any custom, tradition or\nreligious consideration of any kind in order to evade the duty to\neliminate such brutality should be rejected. The prevention of the\npractice of child marriage is vital to ensure that the fundamental\nrights of adolescent girls in Pakistan are respected.
\nMembers call on the competent EU institutions\nto:
\n\n· \ncontinue to emphasise the issue of religious\ntolerance in society in their political dialogue with Pakistan,\ngiven that this matter is of central importance to the long-term\nfight against Islamist extremism;
\n\n· \ninsist that the Government of Pakistan uphold\nthe democracy and human rights clause enshrined in the\ncooperation agreement between the European Union and the\nIslamic Republic of Pakistan.
\nThe European External Action Service and the EU\nSpecial Representative for Human Rights are asked to regularly\nreport on the implementation of the cooperation agreement and the\ndemocracy and human rights clause, including the exercise of\nwomens and childrens rights.
\nMembers urge the Pakistani authorities to
\n\n· \nprosecute those individuals and groups inciting\nviolence, in particular those calling for the killing of\nindividuals and groups with whom they disagree;
\n\n· \ntrace the hundreds, if not thousands, of victims\nof enforced disappearance in Pakistan, including children, some of\nthem girls as young as nine and ten years old, and to publish the\nresults of internal government investigations into the scale of\nthis problem;
\n\n· \nuse the current momentum to make real\nimprovements to women's and girls rights, reviewing and reforming\nparts of the Hudood Ordinances and the Law of Evidence, the Child\nMarriage Restraint Act and other pieces of legislation that violate\nthe status and rights of women, making them subordinate in\nlaw;
\nLastly, Parliament calls on to work closely with the\nUN and the EU in delivering on the Millennium Development Goals, in\nparticular Goal 2 which states that by 2015 all children, girls and\nboys, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling,\nand to make it a priority to increase the number of girls receiving\nschool education and to guarantee their safety while receiving an\neducation.
\n