24/04/2026 | 10:32:44 Thank you, President, and greetings to all in this august place, in the hemicycle of the Council of Europe, with its central focus on the values we all cherish. I want to speak of a country that has a disregard for human rights, has no democratically elected government and knows nothing about the rule of law. I wish to speak about Haiti. Haiti is in the Caribbean, and you may well think that's a long way from here and perhaps not very relevant. Europe has left its mark on the Caribbean. The... 21/04/2026 | 18:19:40 Thank you Madam Chair, and thank you to my friend Mr Francesco VERDUCCI for such a wonderful report that has got us all thinking. And I would just like to come to this debate perhaps from a different angle. Of course, I support all that's been said about fundamental human rights and the dangers of the moment, but my angle is a different one because I am, and have been, a religious leader myself, the head of the Methodist Church in Great Britain, and still have a considerable role to play... 21/04/2026 | 11:38:13 Thank you President and colleagues, It's good to be here. I'm the rare member of this Assembly who has never had a death or harmful threat of any kind at all. And it has been important for me to hear the pain that's been reported, the personal experiences that the people have undergone and the widespread nature of the harm being done by irresponsible speech and the anonymised threats that come via the Internet. So I'm very glad I've heard what I've heard, but I can't add to it, except to say... 26/06/2025 | 18:12:40 It's simply that when we have a debate in the House of Lords, all speakers are obliged to stay throughout the debate. So I just looked expectantly. But for all of that, the words have been said. We've had three meetings with Georgian delegations that I've been part of in the last, well, since this year began. And on each occasion, I start by asking what's happened since the last time? And it gets worse and worse. And all I can say is that I dread coming in September, October, to meet them... 25/06/2025 | 10:52:50 No, no, not at all. I'm most grateful to the two great Danes who have introduced these debates and for all the thinking that the Culture Committee has gone through in order to bring these matters to our attention. I've listened carefully to the points that have been made. I share with Mr Petri HONKONEN the experience of having been my government's or my party's spokesperson for sport in the House of Lords in the British Parliament. And there I discovered some very interesting things that...
04/11/2021 | Doc. 15396 | Report 70th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention: the Council of Europe and the international protection of refugees
23/12/2025 | Doc. 16313 | Written declaration The detention of Temirlan Sultanbekov 07/10/2025 | Doc. 16200 | Written declaration Urgent condemnation of the arrest of passengers during the “Freedom Flottilla” operation 19/08/2025 | Doc. 16229 | Written declaration Stand up for human rights in Kazakhstan 25/06/2025 | Doc. 16213 | Motion for a resolution Regular working relationships with Taiwan 19/06/2025 | Doc. 16200 | Written declaration Urgent condemnation of the arrest of passengers during the “Freedom Flottilla” operation
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