Anna Zaborska

Education

From 1966 to 1972 she studied medicine at the Comenius University (Univerzita Komenského) in Martin, Slovakia (Turčiansky Svätý Martin).

She speaks Czechoslovakian, English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Slovak.

Career

She worked from 1972 to 1998 as a medical doctor in Žilina, Béjaïa (Algeria) and Prievidza. In the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) she served from 1999 to 2000 as Vice-President for international relations. In 2003 she was nominated as observer in the European Parliament (European Parliament).

In 2009 she was reelected to the European Parliament. In 2014 she was reelected to the European Parliament. Among others she was the rapporteur of the following European Parliament reports: Women and poverty in the European Union (A6-0273/2005, 22 September 2005), Gender mainstreaming in the work of the committees (A6-0478/2006, 22 December 2006), Non-discrimination based on gender and intergenerational solidarity (A6-0492/2008, 10 December 2008), Gender mainstreaming in the work of its committees and delegations (A6-0198/2009, 02 April 2009).

Together with Member of the European Parliament it:Tiziano Motti, she introduced in April 2010 an European Parliament Written Declaration (P7_TA(2010)0247), which asked the European Union Council of Ministers and the European Union Commission to extend the Directive 2006/24/European Commission to make it possible to have an "early-warning system" on pedophilia. In June 2010 this text was adopted as official text of the European Parliament after having been signed by 371 of 732 MEPs.

She is a strong and influential voice for "pro-life". On 24 January, 2011, she spoke at the March for Life in Washington, District of Columbia On 22 September 2013 she was the only politician invited to speak at the March for Life in Košice.

Achievements

• In September 2014 she nominated Louis Raphael I Sako (Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon) as candidate for the 2014 European Parliament Human Rights Sakharov Prize.

Membership

Since 2004 she is a Member of the European Parliament, where she is a member of the Group of the European People"s Party (EPP), the largest of the seven political groups in the European Parliament, which is linked to the Pan-European European People"s Party (EPP). Her political engagement was heavily influenced by her father, the medical doctor Anton Neuwirth (1921-2004), activist of Catholic Action, political prisoner, Member of Parliament, Presidential candidate, Honorary President of KDH and Ambassador. From 1998 to 2004 she was a member of the Slovak National Parliament "National Council" (Národná rada), where she worked primarily in the European Union-Slovakia Joint Parliamentary Committee, which prepared the Slovak European Union membership in 2004.

In 2004 she was elected as Member of the European Parliament, where she was elected President of the European Parliament Committee on Women"s Rights and Gender Equality (2004-2009).

During that legislature she was as well member of the European Parliament Committee on Development (2004-2009) and member of the Delegation to the American College of Physicians-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-2009). She stayed member of the European Parliament Committee on Women"s Rights and Gender Equality (2009-2014) and member of the European Parliament Committee on Development (2009-2014), became in addition member of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-2014) and of the European Parliament Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering (2012-2014).

She stayed member of the European Parliament Committee on Women"s Rights and Gender Equality, member of the European Parliament Committee on Development, member of the Delegation to the American College of Physicians-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly and became in addition member of the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.