Substitute
Senator
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)
Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands
Working language: English
17/03/2022 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development It is time to stop putting persons with disabilities into institutions 16/03/2021 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development ‘Would you call this home?’ – hearing on the deinstitutionalisation of people with disabilities 31/01/2020 - Session Towards a legally-binding Council of Europe treaty against trafficking in human tissues and cells 13/05/2019 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development PACE committee calls for an end to coercive practices in mental health 26/11/2018 - Election observation PACE to observe the 2nd round of the presidential election in Georgia
26/04/2022 | 17:31:35 Thank you, Chair. I would first like to thank the rapporteur of the opinion, Ms Liliana TANGUY, for her compliments and also for supporting the report. Thanks for you. Then, I want to give special thanks to Mr Pavlo SUSHKO. We met each other, as he said, in the autumn session in very different circumstances. He is now sharing his concerns about situations of the deinstitutionalisation process in Ukraine that is roughly disturbed now due to the war. I am aware that the situation of some... 26/04/2022 | 16:21:59 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, Persons with disabilities have the same human rights as you and me. They have the right to live independently and receive appropriate community-based services. This applies no matter how intensive their support needs. Society must accommodate human diversity and enable persons with disabilities to be an active part of it, to achieve full inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in the community. This report is a follow-up to my last... 22/06/2021 | 17:15:01 Thank you Chair. Good afternoon to you all. On behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe I want to congratulate the Rapporteur Mr Andrej HUNKO on this report in which he sets out the socio-economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Every state is confronted with the consequences of the measures taken to control the pandemic, which had an enormous impact on social life and slowed down economic developments. Unfortunately, we also experienced that several parts of the... 31/01/2020 | 12:35:42 Thank you, Chair and thank you all colleagues for this debate and your support. I also want to thank you die hard colleagues for your patience to stay with us during this final debate in the last part of the session of PACE 2020. I first start to apologise that Mr Stefan SCHENNACH because he has to leave down to the schedule change from this meeting this morning. He had to leave to catch his transport back home. I'll try to answer where possible on both the reports. But as I said, I am glad... 31/01/2020 | 12:02:43 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, At first, I would like to thank Mr Stefan SCHENNACH for presenting his excellent report on "Organ transplant tourism". It reads like a medical thriller, when it was not that this is about real lives, real lives getting destroyed when we do not continue our fight against illegal activities like organ trade. As Mr Stefan SCHENNACH stated in his report, "a solid legal framework regarding organ transplant already exists". This in contrast to the limited...
08/04/2022 | Doc. 15496 | Report Deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities 03/01/2020 | Doc. 15022 | Report Combating trafficking in human tissues and cells 22/05/2019 | Doc. 14895 | Report Ending coercion in mental health: the need for a human rights-based approach
27/06/2022 | Doc. 15578 | Motion for a resolution Systematic large-scale persecution against anti-war protesters in the Russian Federation 23/06/2022 | Doc. 15564 | Motion for a resolution Countering the erasure of cultural identity in war and peace 02/05/2022 | Doc. 15521 | Motion for a resolution Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan 28/04/2022 | Doc. 15514 | Motion for a resolution Arbitrary arrest of Russian human rights defender and freedom fighter Vladimir Kara-Murza 08/12/2020 | Doc. 15193 | Motion for a resolution Finding solutions for marital captivity
23/06/2022 | Doc. 15546, vote on the draft text for resolution The honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Malta 23/06/2022 | Doc. 15543, vote on the draft text for resolution Ensuring accountability for the downing of flight MH17 28/04/2022 | Doc. 15510, vote on the draft text for resolution The Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine: ensuring accountability for serious violations of international humanitarian law and other international crimes 28/04/2022 | Doc. 15510, vote on the draft text for recommendation The Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine: ensuring accountability for serious violations of international humanitarian law and other international crimes 27/04/2022 | Doc. 15506, vote on the draft text for resolution Consequences of the Russian Federation's continued aggression against Ukraine: role and response of the Council of Europe