Substitute
Member of the House of Lords
Labour
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
coepa.del@parliament.uk
lordfoulkes.wordpress.com
Working language: English
28/01/2020 - Session Call on member States to remedy quickly and effectively any threats to media freedom 31/10/2019 - Culture, Science, Education and Media Lord Foulkes: ‘Impunity for crimes against journalists must end’ 21/02/2019 - Culture, Science, Education and Media Rapporteur calls on Russian authorities to drop charges against journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva 23/01/2019 - Session Consolidating media freedom as a pillar of democratic elections 07/09/2018 - Culture, Science, Education and Media Call for respect of confidentiality of journalists’ sources
28/01/2020 | 19:52:34 Chair, I have been very impressed by the eloquence of the debate in both the Committee and in the Plenary and the almost unanimous support for the report. I hope journalists who are covering it will note that politicians from every part of Europe and every party have been supporting them in their freedom and in the right to report facts impartially. I hope that they'll cover our debate today. The criticism that has come to the report I think was dealt with by Mr José CEPEDA who said almost every... 28/01/2020 | 16:53:50 Madame President, Thank you very much indeed and apologies for the delay, I had to move from another part of the chamber. Madame President, it's been a great privilege and the pleasure for me to carry out this report on behalf of the Parliamentary Assembly because media freedom and journalists' safety has regularly come back to the Council of Europe and to the Assembly in particular. And the reason is very clear, the situation in the Council of Europe region is not improving. In fact, it's worse... 01/10/2019 | 10:40:34 Chair, it's a great pleasure to follow another United Kingdom delegate Mr John HOWELL, who is one of the few decent conservatives left in our country. However, he paints a somewhat rosy picture of the situation in the United Kingdom. The situation in the United Kingdom has deteriorated substantially recently. It's very difficult to get answers to freedom of information requests. The prime minister tried to shut down parliament for five weeks so that we couldn't ask any questions and he had to be... 26/06/2019 | 19:11:06 I would like to congratulate Pieter OMTZIGT also on his excellent report. I heard today that Pieter himself is now under personal attack because of his report. And I think it's doubly disgraceful that someone doing our work, on behalf of the Council of Europe, in the way that Pieter has done, should be subject to personal attack. I think we should all support him. I'm the general rapporteur on media, freedom and safety of journalists for this Parliamentary Assembly. We've got reports, sadly, tha... 25/06/2019 | 12:22:40 Madam President, we have been a bit too preoccupied with Russia, just as the United Kingdom is a bit too preoccupied with Brexit. I want to take a wider perspective. This is my third time as a delegate here. I was here in the 1980s, at the beginning of this century, and here I am again. Grayer and whiter than when I started. My feeling, however, is that it's almost exactly the same as when I first came here, it has hardly changed at all. This whole organisation is very conservative, very sclerot...
03/01/2020 | Doc. 15021 | Report Threats to media freedom and journalists’ security in Europe 09/05/2017 | Doc. 14320 | Report Human rights of older persons and their comprehensive care 25/09/1980 | Doc. 4587 | Report Youth cooperation in Europe
11/02/2020 | Doc. 15082 | Motion for a resolution Voluntary relocation for migrants in need of humanitarian protection 04/02/2020 | Doc. 15071 | Motion for a resolution Prevention of abuse of mutual legal co-operation with respect to refugees and asylum seekers 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15062 | Written declaration Persecution of civil society in Kazakhstan: personal sanctions must be imposed and trade co-operation reviewed 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15046 | Motion for a resolution Follow-up to the humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine 27/01/2020 | Doc. 15040 | Motion for a resolution Media freedom, public trust and the people’s right to know
29/01/2020 | Doc. 15015, vote on the draft text for resolution The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace 29/01/2020 | Doc. 15015, vote on the draft text for recommendation The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15025, vote on the draft text for resolution The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15021, vote on the draft text for resolution Threats to media freedom and journalists’ security in Europe 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15021, vote on the draft text for recommendation Threats to media freedom and journalists’ security in Europe