whereas the domestic work sector employed over 52 million people around the world in 2010, according to ILO figures, and a further 7,4 million domestic workers under the age of 15, accounting for between 5 % and 9 % of all employment in industrialised countries; whereas according to the ILO the majority of workers employed in this sector are women. accounting for 83 % of the global domestic workforce in 2010 and translating into 2,5 million in the EU, 88 % of them being women; whereas this sector is characterised by considerable feminisation; whereas domestic workers and carers contribute greatly to the gender equality targets of the ...[+++]Europe 2020 strategy by effectively providing the infrastructure enabling many families in the EU to achieve work-life balance.

The temporary housing units will be allocated to the families whose houses have been destroyed or are unsafe.

Some businesses will go under and some families will lose their homes because, quite frankly, $2,000 breaks the backs of some families that are already suffering because of this recession.

The two EU representatives also went to Haifa to visit houses damaged by Hezbollah rockets and talked to families whose homes were destroyed.

The current situation, where families are being forced from the house of one family member to another, having extended family situations, has gone on for too long.

But as we debate this issue let us remember that with every hour that passes more families flee their homes for safety outside Kosovo, more and more men and women sift through the rubble of their homes accidentally destroyed by air strikes, and more Canadians serving overseas experience trauma and risk their lives.