Representative
Deputy
Ecolo-Groen
Chambre des représentants
BE - 1008 - Brussels
Belgium
Working language: French
29/09/2021 - Session The right to a healthy environment: PACE proposes draft of a new protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights 09/09/2021 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Committee proposes draft of a new protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on the right to a healthy environment 01/12/2020 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Is inaction on climate change a human rights violation?
23/06/2022 | 16:28:34 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I'm going to ask you first if the next speaker will have time to speak as well, since he is more concerned than I am and I'd like him to speak. Okay, very well, thank you very much. Dear President, dear colleagues, Many, many members of the House have already spoken about this: the agreement between the UK and Rwanda is illegal and immoral. The return of asylum seekers to Rwanda violates all rules of international law. Amnesty International has pointed out that... 29/09/2021 | 12:19:57 Thank you, Madam President. This is going to be a rather complicated exercise since your speeches were so comprehensive and, I must say, very warm, despite the fact that there may have been some nuances in some of our reports, which, it must be said, are quite rare. I am delighted to see, in listening to you, that there is a total awareness of the challenge of climate change. Ten years ago, in assemblies such as this one, there might still have been doubts among some parliamentarians; today... 29/09/2021 | 09:46:50 Thank you, Mister President. Ladies and gentlemen, This summer, a few kilometres from my home, in Court-Saint-Étienne, the village where I studied when I was a schoolboy, the river rose and destroyed hundreds of houses. This summer, a few kilometres away, in Erftstadt, Trooz, Pepinster, Thieu, in the Liège region and in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, 220 people were killed and tens of thousands of others affected in the worst floods our regions have ever seen. A few hundred kilometres... 30/01/2020 | 10:43:48 Thank you, Mr. Vice President, Dear colleagues, Mr Rapporteur, We don't procrastinate when it comes to children's lives. We don't think about the child. We do not condemn, we do not regret, we do not deplore: we act. Today, there are 500 children from European countries who are allegedly being held prisoner in camps in Syria. Seventy were born in my country, Belgium. There were seventy-five of them a few months ago; five of them will never return. The United Nations Human Rights Council and...
13/09/2021 | Doc. 15367 | Report Anchoring the right to a healthy environment: need for enhanced action by the Council of Europe
27/06/2022 | Doc. 15577 | Motion for a resolution Impact of job insecurity on the mental health of the population 27/06/2022 | Doc. 15574 | Written declaration Europe must not compromise with regard to the rule of law in Poland 27/06/2022 | Doc. 15575 | Written declaration Kazakhstan: civil society organisations are calling for personal sanctions for lack of international and impartial investigations of violent crackdown on peaceful protesters 27/06/2022 | Doc. 15576 | Written declaration Civil society organisations aiding refugees from Ukraine must be supported 27/06/2022 | Doc. 15581 | Written declaration Mikhail Saakashvili needs medical help
23/06/2022 | Doc. 15543, vote on the draft text for resolution Ensuring accountability for the downing of flight MH17 22/06/2022 | Doc. 15547, vote on the draft text for resolution Humanitarian consequences and internal and external migration in connection with the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine 22/06/2022 | Doc. 15548, vote on the draft text for resolution Protection and alternative care for unaccompanied and separated migrant and refugee children 22/06/2022 | Doc. 15525, vote on the draft text for resolution Justice and security for women in peace reconciliation 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