Deputy
Independent
House of Commons
GB - SW1A OAA - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
Declarations of interests:
2023
, 2022
, 2021
, 2020
Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)
27/04/2023 - Session PACE calls for sustainable development and protection of fundamental rights in trade agreements 17/03/2023 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Trade agreements should also be used to protect the environment and human rights, says PACE committee 30/11/2016 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Call for scrutiny to protect democracy and citizens in blue print for future world trade 25/11/2016 - Standing Committee PACE encourages bans on ‘fracking’ in favour of cleaner and safer energy alternatives 14/10/2016 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Committee calls on member States to use cleaner energy resources focusing on renewables
27/04/2023 | 19:37:52 Well, thank you, Chair. Thank you for all those fantastic speeches of support for this recommendation: Mr Samad SEYIDOV about transparency. Mr Paul GAVAN about the Energy Charter Treaty and possibly scrapping that together. Mr Christophe LACROIX talking about how human rights in mining elsewhere have been abused, which is important in this report. Mr Franz Leonhard ESSL in terms of the eco-social market economy, which he has mentioned before in this debate when we were in Marrakesh. Ms... 27/04/2023 | 18:34:44 Thank you, Mister President, The future of our planet and democracies will depend upon whether trade deals green or blacken our global economy and whether they safeguard our human rights and our democracy or undermine them. That's why these proposals to embed our values, our human rights, our democracy, our rule of law on a sustainable environment are so important. And these proposals, I'm pleased to say, were first put forward in Marrakesh earlier this year, the birthplace of the World Trade... 25/01/2023 | 13:06:33 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) A safe and healthy environment is a human right and therefore those who breach that right, in particular on a mass scale during wartime as an act of ecocide, must be legally accountable in an international court of law. So this Council of Europe imitative for a convention and treaty to help deliver environmental justice and to help pay to repair the damage is welcome. The devastation of habitats, species and our natural environment must... 14/10/2022 | 10:58:01 Thank you, Mister President. This is basically to say that local authorities should provide online platforms so the businesses can basically sell to local people and some of the profits can go back to local services and tax. We know that Amazon is essentially destroying our retail situation, destroying local businesses, destroying jobs and taking the profits offshore, and they're not taxed. This is basically saying that businesses and workers should work collectively, together, for... 14/10/2022 | 10:28:35 Mr President, It's a great pleasure to stand here and support this fantastic report. The bottom line is that trade union and worker rights are critically important if we're all to share the benefits, the maximum benefits, from a stronger, fairer and greener economy in an electronic age. Green growth must mean environmentally sustainable growth. And, of course, we do know from the OECD, that less inequality means higher growth. The issue is really how to capture the digital age to provide more...
06/04/2023 | Doc. 15739 | Report Safeguarding democracy, rights and the environment in international trade 06/10/2017 | Doc. 14410 | Committee Opinion The activities of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2016-2017 25/01/2017 | Doc. 14255 | Committee Opinion Human rights compatibility of investor–State arbitration in international investment protection agreements 14/12/2016 | Doc. 14219 | Report “New generation” trade agreements and their implications for social rights, public health and sustainable development 03/11/2016 | Doc. 14196 | Report The exploration and exploitation of non-conventional hydrocarbons in Europe
01/02/2024 | Doc. 15849 | Written declaration Human rights situation in Iran 12/10/2023 | Doc. 15849 | Written declaration Human rights situation in Iran 27/06/2023 | Doc. 15790 | Written declaration Call on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the international community to demand that the Russian Federation fully complies with the international humanitarian law concerning the Ukrainian prisoners of war 05/06/2023 | Doc. 15790 | Written declaration Call on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the international community to demand that the Russian Federation fully complies with the international humanitarian law concerning the Ukrainian prisoners of war 27/04/2023 | Doc. 15752 | Motion for a resolution A parliamentary sponsorship programme between the Parliamentary Assembly members and human rights defenders or the politically oppressed
27/04/2023 | Doc. 15739, vote on the draft text for resolution Safeguarding democracy, rights and the environment in international trade 27/04/2023 | Doc. 15739, vote on the draft text for recommendation Safeguarding democracy, rights and the environment in international trade 25/01/2023 | Doc. 15674, vote on the draft text for resolution Environmental impact of armed conflicts 25/01/2023 | Doc. 15674, vote on the draft text for recommendation Environmental impact of armed conflicts 14/10/2022 | Doc. 15620, vote on the draft text for resolution The future of work is here: revisiting labour rights