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This
resolution highlighted many areas, in which we need to make important
progress in order to achieve gender equality, such as pay
transparency, stepping up the fight against gender-based violence,
the role of education and zero tolerance for discrimination, access
to safe and legal abortion, etc.
However,
it included two problematic points, which led to our abstention on
the final vote. First, we do not support the introduction of binding
quotas in elected bodies. We
of course stand behind the full representation of women, but we doubt
that quotas are the most efficient means to achieve it. On the
contrary, they limit the free choice of voters and could result in a
discrimination vis-a-vis other groups, creating a system with no
choice and not based on capabilities.
Secondly,
the resolution is calling to use any actions to eradicate hate speech
and online harassment. As much as we fight against these phenomena,
we consider the use of ‘any’ means to be disproportionate and
with the risk to open the door to solutions we strongly oppose, such
as automatic filters.