Representative
Deputy
House of Commons
GB - SW1A OAA - London
United Kingdom
coepa.del@parliament.uk
www.johnhowellmp.com
Working language: English
18/03/2021 - Monitoring Stripping Turkish MP’s mandate is another blow to parliamentary democracy, say PACE monitors 12/02/2021 - Monitoring PACE monitors welcome return of Turkish opposition MP to parliament 25/01/2021 - Session The Assembly elects its Vice-Presidents 23/12/2020 - Monitoring ‘Selahattin Demirtaş must be released now’: rapporteurs urge the Turkish authorities to implement the Court’s final judgment 21/12/2020 - Monitoring Rapporteurs urge Turkish parliament not to adopt new restrictions on NGOs
28/01/2021 | 11:52:43 Thank you, Mr President. Firstly, I would like to add my congratulations to the rapporteur. I think he has identified a subject that is very important and the one thing that stands out in the report is the request that we must strengthen what we do to prevent racial discrimination. And of course in this we are guided by two judgments from the European Court of Human Rights. The first is the case of Timishev v. Russia and the second is the case of Lingurar v. Romania. And looking through those... 26/01/2021 | 18:27:26 Mister President, Many people have said that this report is very political. I'm not in the least bit surprised. Having worked with Sir Edward LEIGH in the British Parliament I have to say he is a consummate politician. I think it is appropriate that he has been responsible for producing this. I was struck by something one of the speakers earlier said that we don't actually want use this. Actually, we do want to use this. We want to use it to protect the values and the core business of the... 26/01/2021 | 09:21:35 Thank you very much, Mister President. There's been a lot of talk during the course of this week about what is a core part of the Council of Europe. I think, however we look at it, the European Court of Human Rights and the subject of Human Rights is a core part of our business. We cannot ignore that nor should we try to brush it under the carpet. It's interesting to see that the two States that have the largest number of cases before the European Court of Human Rights are Russia and Turkey... 25/01/2021 | 17:18:05 Thank you very much indeed, that's very kind of you. May I start by being equally kind? I would like to congratulate Mr Michael Aastrup JENSEN on being elected again as Chairman of the Monitoring Committee. I think he does a very good job there, and I think that what I would like to say is about the importance of monitoring. In a values organisation, it's absolutely essential that we monitor and that we monitor everyone. Monitoring has to be seen, not as a big stick that we take to beat a... 20/11/2020 | 17:12:14 Thank you, Mr President. I too would like to congratulate the rapporteur on his report. I think we are all in favour of academic freedom and I say that as somebody who was, in a former existence, a research fellow within a university. So I have experienced this from both sides. There are two points that I would like to make. The first one relates to the arguments against commercialisation. And I would just put down a marker on this, that I do accept the commercialisation can have a bad effect...
19/10/2020 | Doc. 15171 | Report New crackdown on political opposition and civil dissent in Turkey: urgent need to safeguard Council of Europe standards
11/02/2020 | Doc. 15082 | Motion for a resolution Voluntary relocation for migrants in need of humanitarian protection 03/02/2020 | Doc. 15066 | Motion for a resolution Widespread recurring violence against security, fire and medical services on New Year’s Eve: how to restore trust and the rule of law 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15046 | Motion for a resolution Follow-up to the humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine 04/07/2019 | Doc. 14946 | Motion for a resolution Best interests of the child and policies to ensure a work-life balance 27/06/2019 | Doc. 14931 | Motion for a resolution Initiating Assembly contacts with the Somaliland Parliament, with a view to its possible eventual Partnership for Democracy with the Assembly
28/01/2021 | Doc. 15216, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 26/01/2021 | Doc. 15093, vote on the draft text for resolution 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 25/01/2021 | Doc. 15211, vote on the draft text for resolution Progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure (January-December 2020) 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15029, vote on the draft text for resolution Organ transplant tourism 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15022, vote on the draft text for recommendation Combating trafficking in human tissues and cells