Representative
Deputy
Concord
Saeima of the Republic of Latvia
LV - 1811 - Rīga
Latvia
Working language: English
21/06/2021 - Session Politicians need a particularly high level of protection of freedom of speech, but such freedom is not unlimited 03/06/2021 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Politicians should not face prosecution for statements made in the exercise of their political mandates as long as they respect certain limits 28/01/2021 - Session States must do more to stamp out ethnic profiling 27/11/2020 - Equality and Non-Discrimination States must do more to stamp out ethnic profiling, says PACE committee 22/10/2020 - Standing Committee Justice by algorithm? PACE urges smart regulation of AI in criminal justice to avoid unfairness
30/09/2021 | 18:05:57 Thank you, President. I hope I can nature this time with my brief intervention as a Chairman of the Reporting Committee. Yes, first I would like to express my gratitude to all those who took part in this debate and indeed Mr André GATTOLIN did make some very important points, as well as Mr Hişyar ÖZSOY and Mr Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU. Of course, it is a very specific issue and apparently it is not a proper format for us to discuss technicalities but this is certainly correct. And our... 29/09/2021 | 12:33:04 Thank you, Madam President. Any political programme or project or concept needs a legal framework to be implemented, and these ideas which were expressed by today's rapporteurs and participants in this debate anyway must be put into the form of some legislation, both international provisions and national legislation, in order to be implemented. This is what we are interested in. And this is what we must do as politicians. It is very easy to speak for a long time, very loudly, very beautifully... 29/09/2021 | 10:16:43 President, dear colleagues, The report of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development presented by Ms Edite ESTRELA rightly focuses on the threats to the rule of law related to climate crisis and the latest developments concerning tackling this phenomenon at European level. It focuses on Council of Europe's existing instruments which might prove useful in promoting climate resilience while ensuring the respect for the rule of law, democracy and human rights. Moreover... 23/06/2021 | 18:01:40 Thank you, Madam President. Many years ago, in the 1990s, when I was a young activist I took part in international projects aimed at facilitating the repatriation of Crimean Tatars. Crimean Tatars were only among three peoples who were deported by Stalin in the mid 1940s and were not allowed to return under Khrushchev's rule in the mid-1950s. So Crimean Tatars started returning back only on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Other researchers predicted serious bloody conflicts... 22/06/2021 | 12:47:37 Thank you. I believe that this is exactly the type of issues which our Assembly should discuss. This is a fundamental problem. The need to respond to this challenge of the pandemic highlighted one of the major problems in the field of fundamental human rights that our Assembly deals with: How far European societies are prepared to go in sacrificing their human rights and individual freedoms to defend other people, to protect lives and the health of other people. And how far democracies can go...
07/06/2021 | Doc. 15307 | Report Should politicians be prosecuted for statements made in the exercise of their mandate? 14/12/2020 | Doc. 15199 | Report Ethnic profiling in Europe: a matter of great concern 01/10/2020 | Doc. 15156 | Report Justice by algorithm – the role of artificial intelligence in policing and criminal justice systems 02/11/2018 | Doc. 14662 | Report Procedure for the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights 17/09/2018 | Doc. 14618 | Report Deal-making in criminal proceedings: the need for minimum standards for trial waiver systems
08/10/2021 | Doc. 15344 | Written declaration Hungary’s adoption of legislation akin to the Russian law against "LGBT propaganda" must be condemned 04/10/2021 | Doc. 15391 | Motion for a resolution Systematic prosecution of democratic and human rights in Turkey 21/09/2021 | Doc. 15373 | Motion for a recommendation Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance 21/09/2021 | Doc. 15374 | Motion for a resolution Supporting a European perspective for the Western Balkans 22/07/2021 | Doc. 15344 | Written declaration Hungary’s adoption of legislation akin to the Russian law against "LGBT propaganda" must be condemned
30/09/2021 | Doc. 15382 rev, vote on the draft text for resolution Increased migration pressure on the borders of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland with Belarus 30/09/2021 | Doc. 15379, vote on the draft text for opinion Draft Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence 29/09/2021 | Doc. 15367, vote on the draft text for resolution Anchoring the right to a healthy environment: need for enhanced action by the Council of Europe 29/09/2021 | Doc. 15367, vote on the draft text for recommendation Anchoring the right to a healthy environment: need for enhanced action by the Council of Europe 29/09/2021 | Doc. 15351, vote on the draft text for resolution More participatory democracy to tackle climate change