14. Stresses that realising the potential of the female workforce is also consistent with the objective of the EU-2020 strategy to reduce poverty, and that access to employment is a key factor in efforts to combat poverty;

28. Stresses that realising the potential of the female workforce is also consistent with the objective of the EU-2020 strategy to reduce poverty, and that access to employment is a key factor in efforts to combat poverty;

7. Insists that the EU's Common Policy on Burma should be strengthened immediately and, in addition to the measures proposed by the Council, should also ban the import of goods and services from enterprises owned by the military, military personnel and their associates and ban the import of strategically important goods from sectors of the economy under monopoly, such as gems and timber, and furthermore calls on travel agencies and independent tour operators in the EU to stop promoting and selling tourist visits to Burma;

7. Insists that the EU's Common Policy on Burma should be strengthened immediately, and, in addition to the measures proposed by the Council, should also ban the import of goods and services from enterprises owned by the military, military personnel and their associates, ban the import of strategically important goods from sectors of the economy under monopoly, such as gems and timber, and calls on travel agencies and independent tour operators in the EU to stop promoting and selling tourist visits to Burma;

Not wanting to see his country vanquished by the enemy, Qu Yuan, the age of 62, held a rock in both arms and drowned himself in the Miluo River, present-day Changsha.

79. Further urges all parties concerned to recognise that nature protection is not achievable solely through the identification and protection of designated areas, but must also be based on general policies which stimulate sustainable economic activity both in the countryside and in urban areas (including recreational pursuits), encourage environmentally friendly agriculture and forestry and the development of the urban and industrial environments, integrate environmental considerations into the broad range of public policy wherever appropriate, most obviously in relation to transport and energy, reduce overall levels of air- and water-based p ...[+++]ollution, preserve soil quality and other natural resources, and discourage forms of economic activity which lead to the destruction of valuable habitats (such as the draining of wetlands); to this end seek ways to avoid the reproduction of problems characteristic of the EU 15, problems associated with intensive farming, monoculture, displacement of agricultural labour, and a failure to take into account the general and economic value of biodiversity; such ways to include, inter alia, the broad exploitation of possibilities to counter such tendencies (and to encourage, for example, the survival of rural communities, smallholdings, traditional and ecologically friendly methods of field division - such as hedges, water channels and dry stone walls - rare breeds of domestic animal, and ecological corridors) offered by existing budgetary measures such as the EAGGF and the Community Instrument LEADER;