22/04/2026 | 18:59:31 Madam President, Today we speak the name of Mr Sergei MAGNITSKY not simply to remember a tragedy, but to recognise what one individual can represent in the face of a corrupt system. He was not a politician. He was not a public figure. He was an ordinary man who, when confronted with extraordinary wrongdoing, chose to act with courage. For that, he paid the ultimate price, leaving behind a wife and two children and a story that might easily have been buried – but it was not. His legacy did not... 22/04/2026 | 11:23:02 ...to protect women and call out violence against it, but we should be courageous as well. We should not be afraid of calling out the grooming of young girls, forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation, because we are worried about being accused of being racist. We have to protect all women and speak up for traditional European values of respect for women. There are serious questions, it has to be said, about the Istanbul Convention. Is gender a social construct? Should we... 21/04/2026 | 18:10:14 Thank you, Madam President. Of course, we all believe in freedom of religion. I personally, and none of us here, would attack any person's religious belief. Nobody would do something so outrageous as to burn the Koran or anything like that, or to criticise Islam, but having said that, we have to fight for freedom of expression. The truth is that I'm a Catholic. The overwhelming prejudice, martyrdoms, attacks on people around the world are because they are Christian. People feel it, even in... 21/04/2026 | 11:03:55 Mister Chairman, I would like to start by paying tribute to my murdered friend, Mr David AMESS. His only crime was to attend a surgery to look after his own constituents, and he was stabbed to death by an Islamist extremist. He had made no criticism of Islam. He spent most of his political career actually defending the rights of animals. And for that crime, he was murdered, ruthlessly and horribly. So this is an important debate. And we should call out hatred wherever it is found. It gives... 20/04/2026 | 16:38:02 You know perfectly well, Mister Minister, that there is no effective deterrent against the boats crossing the Channel. Dozens are dying every year. Successive British governments have begged you to be fraternal and to take back these migrants when they are picked up in Dover. You have refused to do so. Your policemen stand on the beach and watch these people wading out the boats. They do nothing. Is it because you want to offload these migrants onto Great Britain? Do you want to have more of...
13/03/2020 | Doc. 15093 | Report Modification of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure – follow-up to Resolution 2319 (2020) on the Complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations 29/09/2015 | Doc. 13886 | Committee Opinion Freedom of religion and living together in a democratic society
22/04/2026 | Doc. 16389 | Motion for a resolution Urgent need for targeted sanctions against Turkish officials responsible for the deprivation of liberty of Osman Kavala 23/01/2026 | Doc. 16329 | Written declaration The mischaracterisation of democratic Taiwan as regards the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 15/04/2025 | Doc. 16161 | Motion for a resolution Political pluralism and democracy undermined in Bulgaria 14/11/2024 | Doc. 16073 | Written declaration The Parliamentary Assembly must support the Russian democratic opposition 24/04/2024 | Doc. 15915 | Written declaration Iran: people's rights against repression
22/04/2026 | Doc. 16370, vote on the draft text for resolution Paving the way for a culture of consent 22/04/2026 | Doc. 16372, vote on the draft text for resolution Promoting the Istanbul Convention and improving its implementation: building on lessons learnt 22/04/2026 | Doc. 16375 rev, vote on the draft text for resolution Towards the universal abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances 22/04/2026 | Doc. 16362, vote on the draft text for resolution Tracking the proceeds of the crime denounced by Sergei Magnitsky and holding its perpetrators accountable 21/04/2026 | Doc. 16363, vote on the draft text for recommendation Violence and hate speech against politicians: a threat to democracy