Ms Kristien Van VAERENBERGH (Belgium, NR)

In the political groups

• Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group since 12/11/2010

In the Assembly

• since 30/09/2024 Representative - Belgium
• from 12/11/2010 to 29/09/2024 Substitute - Belgium

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

• Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 30/09/2019)
• Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 23/01/2012 to 29/09/2019)
• Member: (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population (from 12/11/2010 to 23/01/2012)
• Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 03/10/2024)
• Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (since 02/10/2024)
• Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 01/10/2024)
• Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 03/10/2019 to 26/01/2022)
• Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/01/2013 to 24/01/2021)
• Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 24/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
• Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 27/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
• Alternate of Ms Véronique DURENNE (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 27/01/2025)
• Alternate of Ms Marie-Christine MARGHEM (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 30/09/2024 to 26/01/2025)
• Alternate of Ms Latifa GAHOUCHI (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 29/11/2019 to 29/09/2024)
• Alternate of Ms Daphné DUMERY (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 18/11/2014 to 29/09/2019)
• Alternate of Mr Piet De BRUYN (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 03/10/2011 to 23/01/2012)
• Alternate of Mr Patrick De GROOTE (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 12/11/2010 to 03/10/2011)
• Alternate of Mr Dirk Van der MAELEN (Member): (Former) Political Affairs Committee / Committee on General Affairs (from 28/09/2009 to 23/01/2012)
• Alternate of Mr Julien RIBAUDO (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Western Balkans (since 03/10/2024)
• Alternate of Mr Simon MOUTQUIN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/01/2022 to 29/09/2024)
• Alternate of Mr Georges-Louis BOUCHEZ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 27/01/2022 to 24/01/2024)
• Alternate of Ms Daphné DUMERY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 25/01/2017 to 29/09/2019)
• Alternate of Ms Daphné DUMERY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Population (from 27/01/2015 to 25/01/2017)
• Alternate of Ms Daphné DUMERY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Detention (from 27/11/2014 to 25/01/2015)
• Alternate of Mr Piet De BRUYN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 03/10/2011 to 23/01/2012)
• Alternate of Mr Armand De DECKER (Member): Sub-Committee on Population (from 25/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
• Alternate of Mr Dirk Van der MAELEN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 28/09/2009 to 23/01/2012)

Reports and committee opinions

24/06/2014 | Doc. 13547 | Committee Opinion Child-friendly juvenile justice: from rhetoric to reality

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

04/12/2020 | Doc. 15190 | Written declaration Members of the Parliamentary Assembly ask Iran not to carry out the death penalty of Ahmadreza Djalali 02/10/2014 | Doc. 13624 | Written declaration Support human rights, democracy and gender equality in Iran in order to overcome extremism, evict Iran's theocracy from meddling in Iraq, Syria and the region 25/04/2014 | Doc. 13408 | Written declaration Despite widespread international condemnation, stigmatisation of LGBT people by the Russian authorities continues 29/01/2014 | Doc. 13408 | Written declaration Despite widespread international condemnation, stigmatisation of LGBT people by the Russian authorities continues 14/11/2012 | Doc. 13064 | Motion for a resolution Human rights in the North Caucasus: what follow-up to Resolution 1738 (2010)?

Votes on adopted texts

27/06/2014 | Doc. 13511, vote on the draft text for resolution Child-friendly juvenile justice: from rhetoric to reality 25/04/2013 | Doc. 13193, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge on procedural grounds of the still unratified credentials of Mr Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine, EPP/CD) 14/04/2011 | Doc. 12581, vote on the draft text for resolution The large-scale arrival of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees on Europe’s southern shores 14/04/2011 | Doc. 12581, vote on the draft text for recommendation The large-scale arrival of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees on Europe’s southern shores