What has Caroline done for you?
When serving the people of Southeast England as a Green MEP, Caroline achieved a great deal since first being elected in 1999.
Below you can read some of what she has done specifically for women, workers, younger people, older people and LGBT people, as well as for her constituents in general.
She has:
- Ensured better regulations for consumer goods
- Won support for tougher laws on animal protection
- Worked for urgent action on climate change and the environment
- Promoted peace and human rights at home and abroad
- Opposed the privatisation of public services and closure of post offices
- Campaigned to end the Parliament's wasteful two seat arrangement in Brussels and Strasbourg
- Worked towards a more local, organic and sustainable food system
- Promoted a fairer system of world trade to help reduce poverty
- Ensured the health of EU citizens is at the heart of policy making
- Demanded a global economy which puts people before profit
For workers?
Demanded a massive investment in green industry and employment training, to create hundreds of thousands of new green-collar jobs here in the UK
Called on the European Commission to review the impact of the Posted Workers Directive on national jobs
Lobbied the UK authorities about better protection for temporary workers, including guaranteeing the same basic working and employment conditions as other employees doing the same job
Backed EU plans to limit the working week, giving people the chance to opt for a better work-life balance
Worked alongside trade unions to challenge the privatisation of public services and the impact this has on workers rights and job security
For women?
Backed EU wide action to help ensure that women are guaranteed a life free from all violence
Secured support for the EU's Cancer Task Force to investigate the environmental causes of cancer, especially breast cancer
Called on members of the European Union to ensure that all women can fully enjoy the right to reproductive and sexual health care and information
Campaigned for the EU to fund improvements to maternal health, specifically to prevent deaths in child birth, across the world
Challenged whether the UK's lax licensing laws for lap dancing clubs are a breach of European legislation designed to promote equality of treatment in the workplace
For older people?
Called for a £165 a week non-means-tested citizens' pension for every pensioner in the UK
Challenged the UK's decision to withdraw entitlement to free adult education for many older people
Ensured that EU law on equality and employment protects older workers, by opposing a mandatory retirement age
Supported constituents whose pensions schemes have failed
Helped protect constituents' right to health care when they retire and live some of the time in another European country
For younger people?
Campaigned to protect higher and further education from being run for profit
Encouraged the EU to provide more funding for cross-cultural programmes between young people in different countries
Worked hard to ensure that the internet remains accessible to all
Called for a Europe wide strategy to combat the trafficking of children
Demanded that children seeking asylum in the UK are not kept in detention
Supported NGO initiatives to promote greater public understanding of younger people
For the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) community?
Led a European Parliament campaign for mutual recognition of civil partnerships between different countries
Called on the European Commission to condemn LGBT oppression in places like Iran, Morocco, Egypt, Bahrain and Honduras
Backed calls for a new law that would outlaw hate crimes perpetrated against LGBT people
Urged the British government to offer asylum to those fleeing persecution because of their sexuality or gender identity
Placed pressure on Eastern European countries to fully support LGBT rights, including backing PRIDE marches
