Tag: women trafficking

Ahead of the football World Cup in Germany this summer, a European Parliament committee wants the Commission to explain whether current strategies against trafficking include sports events.

The percentage of women MEPs is eight per cent lower in the EU-10 than in the EU-15. However, the overall gender balance in the current parliament shows little difference from that of the previous term.

The issue of organised crime has, since the 2004 Madrid bombings and the 2005 London attacks, taken a back seat to the overriding priority of the fight against terrorism. However, drugs and human trafficking are still policy priorities.

Swedish MEP Marianne Eriksson has called on the Commission to crack down on the sex industry by restricting obscene e-mails and prohibiting companies which make money out of pornography from being quoted on the stock exchange.

At a conference in Berlin, the Commission presented the findings of a study on the situation of women in industrial research across Europe.

A new study on the status of women in industrial research will be released at a conference in Berlin on 10-11 October.

On 20 May, the Development Committee is due to discuss the overall impact of HIV/AIDS, and possible future action the EU could take to reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to this disease.

The fifteen Justice and Home Ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on 13 June, are preparing an action plan against illegal immigration, to be adopted at the EU Seville Summit next week.

The Spanish Presidency and the British government want the EU Summit of Seville in June to tackle illegal immigration. The Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, said the Summit should discuss measures against human trafficking and cutting aid to countries that are major immigration sources, such as Turkey and Yugoslavia.

Shipwreck of over 900 Kurdish refugees will speed up EU plans to fight illegal immigration and human trafficking.