Substitute
Member of the House of Lords
Crossbench
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
22/06/2022 | 10:35:48 Thank you very much. First of all, I would like to thank Ms Petra BAYR and Ms Ute STEYER in particular for a very interesting discourse. I have three reasons for speaking to you here this morning. First, the principle itself, which I think is self-evident. Antisemitism is clearly wrong. Secondly, personal: on my mother's side, one of my great grandfathers, in the wake of Kristallnacht in 1938, put his name at the head of a petition to raise money to get Kindertransport children out of Germany... 25/04/2022 | 18:19:17 I would like to start by thanking Mr Dimitri HOUBRON very much for a very timely and comprehensive report. This is a global problem. It affects us all, every nation, but it is global. The only way we can tackle this is by tackling it globally as well as nationally. To prioritise either over the other will not and does not work. The online world has no borders. It recognises no borders, it respects no borders. What it does respect is profitability. While welcoming this report, I do feel it's... 28/09/2021 | 19:16:05 Thank you. I shall try and do my best to represent men. I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on a report which is extremely useful, not only in helping to define what constitutes "honour"-based abuse, but it also illustrates how much further we need to go to tackle it effectively. I think we can all agree that "honour"-based abuse in the 21st century is a disgrace. But it is an unfortunate fact that most of us would struggle to describe it in great detail or to lay out clear strategies... 21/04/2021 | 12:27:47 Yes can you hear me? I congratulate the two rapporteurs on two excellent and uncomfortably timely reports. I previously spoke on Belarus during our January 2020 session – a coronavirus lifetime ago – to debate on the progress report on the November 2019 parliamentary elections. The PACE monitoring mission was headed by Lord David BLENCATHRA and I had the privilege of being one of its members. That progress report informs and echoes the first of the two reports we are discussing today. I... 27/01/2020 | 15:51:40 I had the great privilege to be part of the monitoring team to Belarus and I'd like to thank my fellow monitors, the support team and my noble friend, Lord BLENCATHRA. This was the second monitoring mission I've had the privilege of being on in 2019 and they couldn't be more different. The first was the Ukraine, the presidential election, President TRUMP's new telephone pal. There was a high level of engagement, it was a genuine contest and there was a real sense of change. Belarus, by...
26/01/2023 | Doc. 15695 | Written declaration The United Kingdom must allow trans people to live their lives with dignity 01/07/2022 | Doc. 15516 | Written declaration Call for full and immediate ban of Russian oil and gas 29/06/2022 | Doc. 15584 | Written declaration The accession of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine to the European Union 27/06/2022 | Doc. 15582 | Motion for a resolution Attempts to change the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization might violate human rights 27/06/2022 | Doc. 15583 | Motion for a resolution Legal aspects of preventing the use of explosive weapons in populated areas and explosive contamination
23/06/2022 | Doc. 15546, vote on the draft text for resolution The honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Malta 25/04/2022 | Doc. 15494, vote on the draft text for resolution For an assessment of the means and provisions to combat children's exposure to pornographic content 25/04/2022 | Doc. 15494, vote on the draft text for recommendation For an assessment of the means and provisions to combat children's exposure to pornographic content 15/03/2022 | Doc. 15477, vote on the draft text for opinion Consequences of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine 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