29/01/2026 | 18:58:33 Yes, Chair, President, I would like to say something, not in the least to Paul, because you can hear, he was not only rapporteur on this report, but you also chaired the sub-committee for two years, and you totally internalised the importance of the Social Charter, and are well-equipped to explain why it's so important. The Committee has requested this debate to be able to organise an event. And that is important because it is 65 years since we have this Charter, that people have access to... 29/01/2026 | 11:50:05 Thank you very much, Chair. The video is 12 minutes long. This is how long the picture lasts in which a father walks among hundreds of black body bags, scattered across the streets in Tehran, searching for his child. He says: "Sepehr, where are you? Sepehr, where are you? You are my son. I cannot find you." This is a massacre. This is a crime against humanity. We have seen similar cruel images from Syria, from Kurdish crowds, Yazidi villages and from Occupied Palestinian territories. And I'm... 28/01/2026 | 18:24:51 Yes, please. I first of all want to thank Ms Carmen LEYTE for a wonderful, wonderful work, her commitment and to tackling this very difficult and sensitive issue. And as you heard, Chair today or Ms President today, my committee is a wonderful group of people. They really work for human rights and they really, all over the aisles, they think. This debate was not easy in the Committee. It was very sensitive. We had different perspectives. We decided to take time to find a solution and a common... 28/01/2026 | 17:46:09 Thank you very much. I am very happy with this debate and I'm very enthusiastic about the 'blue card', to be honest. Because finally, Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, we are debating things in a very honest way. And I'm very happy with that. Having said that, the people in Palestine are not safe. They are very unsafe. And we heard the words on the Holocaust, we heard the words that indifference is what makes a genocide succeed. Indifference is what makes an ethnic cleansing succeed. Indifference is... 28/01/2026 | 16:33:18 Yes, I think this is better. Thank you very much. No one will be free until everyone is free. We have all heard this cold echo to our streets this summer, voiced by people who refuse to remain silent in the face of the injustices inflicted on the Palestinian people. Today, I want to add one essential truth to that. There can be no freedom and no peace without justice. Whether we help to bring now peace to the region is therefore deeply rooted in our willingness to ensure justice and... 26/01/2026 | 16:17:08 Thank you, dear colleagues. After the devastation of the war, Europe made a clear choice. Never again should unchecked state power and violence against citizens be allowed to prevail. Safeguards we built – freedom of expression, human dignity, decent working conditions – they all only work if we uphold them. The Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg are, like the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and the... 02/10/2025 | 19:37:34 I will be as quick as I can because I have two reports and then I have to say something about Mr Stefan SCHENNACH. So I hope for a little bit of your lenience. The joint debate is ending and I thank everybody for your opinions and your thoughts on both of the reports. I really love to hear how you look at this from different perspectives and how it is perceived in all the world, including Canada. Even in relatively prosperous Europe, the right to adequate housing and the right to health for... 02/10/2025 | 17:14:38 Thank you very much. I want to thank Ms Ingjerd Schie SCHOU for preparing this wonderful report. We underline the challenges and responsibilities highlighted and we will miss her wonderful contributions to this Assembly. Across Europe and in my own country, intolerance is gaining ground. Paradoxically, a tolerant society must be very intolerant of intolerance if it is to defend itself. Only by doing so can we safeguard a free and open Europe. Parties are meant to mobilise citizens, nurture... 02/10/2025 | 12:16:42 Thank you, President. Palestinian journalists are eyes on the truth in this war. 40 have already died this year, 200 more in total. These are grave violations by Israel of international law. Article 79 of the Geneva Conventions is explicitly there to find out about war crimes and acts of genocide. So what have Palestinian journalists found so far? They have found ambulance workers who've been shot to death while they tried to rescue their countrymen. They have found out that 80% of Gaza has... 01/10/2025 | 16:30:12 Thank you, President. I have to say, after Baroness Ruth HUNT spoke so well, what can I say? But yet, I will use some words. Across Europe, young people are standing up against the injustices of our time. It is indeed a very political generation that is stepping up. They fight against the genocide in Gaza, they fight against climate change, they fight against the ongoing violence towards women, and most of all, they fight against the lack of political responses of my generation to the...