– having regard to the United Nations legal instruments in the sphere of human rights and especially women’s rights, in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and other United Nations instruments relating to violence against women, for example the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, and UN General Assembly resolutions 48/104 ...[+++], of 20 December 1993, on the elimination of violence against women, 58/147, of 19 February 2004, on the elimination of domestic violence against women, 57/179, of 30 January 2003, working towards the elimination of crimes against women committed in the name of honour, and 52/86, of 2 February 1998, on crime prevention and criminal justice measures to eliminate violence against women,

19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to review the situation of women in fishing and farming communities at European, national and regional level and to address any issues relating to the adequacy of their health and other social protection and to remove any barriers to their participation in representative activities; proposes, as an initial measure, that the Commission make a recommendation to the competent bodies that they take action ...[+++]in this regard;

19. Calls on the Commission and Member States to review the situation of women in fishing and farming communities at European, national and regional level and to address any issues relating to the adequacy of their health and other social protection and to remove any barriers to their participation in representative activities; proposes, as an initial measure, that the Commission make a recommendation to the competent bodies that they take action in t ...[+++]his regard;

I would like to list the names of all the signatories to this beautiful message: Assembly of quebec bishops; Association des collaboratrices et partenaires en affaires; association of Quebec native women; Quebec psychiatric association; Association des ressources intervenant auprès des hommes violents; Association des sexologues du Quebec; women's association for education and social action; Association québécoise Plaidoyer-victimes; Avon Canada; Quebec bar association; Quebec teaching congress; congress of democratic unions; centre for interdisciplinary research on family violence and violence against women; Chambre des not ...[+++]aires du Québec; college of Quebec physicians; human rights commission; confederation of national trade unions; Quebec conference of regional health and social services boards.

The British Columbia Native Women's Society met with us, as did the National Native Women's Conference, of which Marilyn Buffalo, to whom I pay tribute, is a member.

Addressing a Conference on equal opportunities, Mr FISCHLER said that while women represent more than one third of the active agricultural population and 10% of the "heads of farms" women working on the farm have for many years received little, if any recognition in a professional capacity but are seen rather as playing an essential but subordinate role.