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Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR (Iceland, SOC)

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Representative
Deputy
Pirate Party

Althingi - Parliament of Iceland
IS - 150 - Reykjavik
Iceland

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019

Latest news

15/09/2023 - Monitoring Bulgaria: post-monitoring visit by PACE co-rapporteurs 14/09/2023 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE general rapporteur concerned by ongoing treatment of Vladimir Kara-Murza 04/09/2023 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE rapporteurs raise concerns over health of imprisoned Crimean Tatar journalist Amet Suleymanov 24/08/2023 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE rapporteur calls for immediate release of Gubad Ibadoghlu 20/06/2023 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE rapporteurs warn against extradition to the United States of Julian Assange

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Auditor: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 24/01/2022
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 25/01/2021 to 23/01/2022
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 27/01/2020 to 24/01/2021
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 21/01/2019 to 26/01/2020
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 22/01/2018 to 20/01/2019
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 26/01/2017 to 08/10/2017

In the Assembly

  • since 26/01/2017 Representative - Iceland

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

  • General Rapporteur for political prisoners: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 22/05/2023)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 19/04/2023)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 23/01/2023 to 18/04/2023)
  • General Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 30/01/2022 to 22/05/2023)
  • Alternate SOC: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 25/01/2021)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 27/01/2020)
  • Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 25/06/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Bureau of the Assembly (from 25/06/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Standing Committee (from 25/06/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 25/06/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 25/06/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 27/04/2018 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 22/01/2018)
  • Alternate SOC: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 22/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 12/10/2017 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 10/03/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 10/03/2017)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 31/01/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 08/09/2023)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 25/04/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (since 23/05/2022)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 23/05/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 04/04/2022)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 19/04/2021 to 25/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 25/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 25/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 22/01/2019 to 26/01/2020)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 25/06/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 25/06/2018 to 21/01/2019)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 25/06/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 25/06/2018 to 26/01/2020)

Interventions

Last speeches

20/06/2023 | 16:22:38 Thank you, Madam President. I would like to thank the rapporteur for his excellent report, and I would also like to express my deep admiration and respect for Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA and for the work that you are doing, and the important work of her cabinet for the people of Belarus. As general rapporteur for the issue of political prisoners in Europe, I express my full solidarity with the 1 700 political prisoners of Belarus and I pledge to use my office to push for their release and to... 27/04/2023 | 16:15:38 Thank you, Mister President, and thank you, Madam ZELENSKA, for being with us today and for your powerful plea for justice for the children of Ukraine. Stealing children, robbing them of their families and their identity is not only an atrocity towards them, it is not only a horrible crime against these children and their families, but it is rightly defined as a component of the crime of all crimes, the crime of genocide. The mounting evidence of the systemic and intentional nature of these... 26/01/2023 | 10:43:07 Thank you, Mister President. Impunity for war crimes is a driving factor for war crimes. The fact that perpetrators of war crimes very often escape justice is a big reason why war crimes are so readily committed in conflicts all over the world. This is why we must do our very best to end impunity for war crimes. In the case of Russia's horrendous war of aggression against Ukraine, there's not only impunity for war crimes, but the terrible practice of Russian soldiers being awarded for war... 14/10/2022 | 12:29:07 Thank you, Mister President. I would like to use this opportunity to speak about the issue of political prisoners which have not been high on the Agenda this session, but should always be on our agenda and we should be reminded of it on a regular basis. When I moved the report about the reported cases of political prisoners in the Russian Federation, and we adopted the resolution that came with it, one of the items of the resolution focused on making 30 October the international day of... 14/10/2022 | 12:08:43 Thank you Madam President, And thank you colleagues for supporting the continuation of my work with this report by voting that we should vote on it. Indeed, I think it is quite important that we complete it. We did put in a lot of work to complete it before this session, because we did not want the work to become instantly obsolete as so many things are when it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic. Of course, our knowledge is constantly increasing, of course, we are always getting more and more...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

19/09/2022 | Doc. 15608 | Report Preventing vaccine discrimination 03/06/2022 | Doc. 15545 | Report Reported cases of political prisoners in the Russian Federation 15/11/2021 | Doc. 15402 | Report Revision of the Code of Conduct for Members of the Parliamentary Assembly: introducing the explicit prohibition of sexism, sexual harassment and sexual violence and misconduct 04/06/2021 | Doc. 15305 | Report The situation of Crimean Tatars 04/12/2020 | Doc. 15192 | Report Urgent need to strengthen financial intelligence units – Sharper tools needed to improve confiscation of illegal assets

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

21/06/2023 | Doc. 15807 | Motion for a resolution Shaping the Parliamentary Assembly’s relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council 23/05/2023 | Doc. 15777 | Motion for a resolution The detention of Julian Assange and its chilling effects on human rights 09/05/2023 | Doc. 15692 | Written declaration Do not extradite Julian Assange to the United States 09/05/2023 | Doc. 15695 | Written declaration The United Kingdom must allow trans people to live their lives with dignity 04/05/2023 | Doc. 15765 | Written declaration The Slovak Republic must avoid regression on legal gender recognition

Votes on adopted texts

22/06/2023 | Doc. 15797, vote on the draft text for resolution Political consequences of the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine 22/06/2023 | Doc. 15795, vote on the draft text for resolution War of aggression against Ukraine – Participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics? 20/06/2023 | Doc. 15783, vote on the draft text for resolution Addressing the specific challenges faced by the Belarusians in exile 26/01/2023 | Doc. 15689, vote on the draft text for resolution Legal and human rights aspects of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine 23/01/2023 | Doc. 15591, vote on the draft text for resolution Addressing the issue of Daesh foreign fighters and their families returning from Syria and other countries to the member States of the Council of Europe