Traduction de «Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness » (Anglais → Français) :

That is not addressed to you, but we do of course know that these agencies will have to start work somewhere sometime, and the Member States have proclaimed at the tops of their voices that they will, but they do not know when, they do not know where and they do not know how much it will cost. We have to be concerned about that, and the Social Democrats in this House, like the Christian Democrats, as Mr Heaton- ...[+++]Harris has said, will be insisting that we have a power of codecision here and we shall be pressing very hard for it.

In Ireland the Combat Poverty Agency has as one of its core functions to create a greater public awareness of poverty and social exclusion and what needs to be done about it.

I can sum up the basic elements of this tool in seven points. One, it supports and helps the structures in the Member States to collate data and analyse and research the situation in all the Member States. Two, it helps us work together and develop joint social indicators, for the first time. Three, it supports the procedures used to monitor and implement national action plan programmes on employment. Four, it supports the exchange of best practices and programmes. Five, it involves all the agencies, local au ...[+++]thorities, non-governmental organisations, governments, foundations and universities. Six – and I should like to highlight this point – it specifically involves associations of people who are the victims of poverty and exclusion and, seven, it allows us to raise public awareness of the huge problem of poverty, which cannot be dealt with simply by governments and European programmes but which needs to galvanise the whole of society into action.

But if this pact is supposed to be one which is somehow intended to strike terror into the hearts of, or rather, create difficulties for, the governments led by Social Democrats, then Mr Poettering and his group should be made aware that this doesn"t just create difficulties for Social Democrat-led governments, nor does it only create difficulties for governments like that of Austria, which also includes a Conservative party and a Christian People"s party, but ...[+++] it causes difficulties for the process of European unification.

Member States : an action plan The resolution also calls on the Member States to : a) promote a diversified and realistic picture of the skills and potential of women and men in society; b) take action aimed at disseminating this image by implementing measures with a view to : - providing appropriate measures to ensure respect for human dignity and an absence of discrimination on grounds of sex; - implementing and/or encouraging regular information and awareness campaigns to : promote awareness in advertising agencies, the media and the ...[+++]public so that they can identify material in advertising and the media which is discriminatory on grounds of sex; promote in advertising and the media a diversified and realistic picture of the skills and potential of women and men in society; - supporting and/or promoting fora for discussion, consultation, monitoring where appropriate within a framework of voluntary self- regulation - and follow-up with regard to material in advertising and the media which is discriminatory on grounds of sex; - supporting studies and initiatives which increase awareness in advertising agencies and the media so that, in the course of their activities, they give greater priority to equality of opportunity and contribute to a more balanced sharing of responsibilities, in particular in public, political, economic, professional, social and family life; - placing special importance on values connected with equality of opportunity in all its forms and at all levels of education and training, particularly training for professions in advertising and the media; - promoting the balanced participation of women and men in production bodies, administrative bodies and decision-making posts.

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