Substitute
Senator
JA21
Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands
Working language: English
25/04/2023 | 20:03:12 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Thank you chair, We heard numerous speakers, some of them with examples of the practices of the words in their countries. On this subject are high expectations. Let us take the Netherlands as an example. The Council of Europe sent a Monitoring committee to the Netherlands as a balance of the same monitoring in Poland and Hungary. The first findings are very shameful - and that for a so called organised and fair country. There are big problems... 13/10/2022 | 15:52:18 Mister Chair, We talk today, as I look at the agenda, of a Pride event in Belgrade that is stopped by the responsible authorities. The reason was a risk of security for as well participants as possible demonstrators. A wise decision, unless you want a provocation from whatever side. Whatever cultural background there is, this can happen in a city. But the special situation is now that this issue has become a debate in the Council of Europe. The Pride organisers have already complained about... 11/10/2022 | 18:21:07 Mister Chair, The title of the report leads us to confusion. There's no answer in this total report on how Islamophobia arises. The major point, prevention, is missing. I'm a father of difficult children, four children, and one of them is married to a Muslim. Myself, I'm Jewish, and my grandson is homosexual, so we look at the same issue from different points. But still, the "why" question is missing. Let us take some typical examples: A white girl passes by a Muslim boy. A Jewish man, like... 24/06/2022 | 11:06:48 Thank you, Mister Chair. It is a free debate, so I want to bring up some some points about what has happened this week. I felt very bad about this debate we had yesterday about the United Kingdom. It looked as if this country was in a way doing such bad things that I thought, is this not overreacting to the situation? There are more important things to discuss; what I really recommend to be discussed in this debate in this Hemicycle are two situations of abuses of human rights in the... 24/06/2022 | 10:17:02 Thank you, Mister Chairman. When I see the title of this debate, it looks like I am in my former professional days in a medical congress. Whilst, on the other hand, we get repetition of yesterday's issue on misinformation. It is not that I am saying it is not good because, in fact, I really promote basic vaccinations but I still have some comments and the basis is that trust is the base of acceptance. Basic vaccines are proven [to be] fine and give great results, so they should, really...
27/06/2023 | Doc. 15766 | Written declaration Call on the Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe to give strong political support to the creation of a special international criminal tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine 27/06/2023 | Doc. 15790 | Written declaration Call on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the international community to demand that the Russian Federation fully complies with the international humanitarian law concerning the Ukrainian prisoners of war 23/06/2023 | Doc. 15813 | Written declaration The need for a stronger Parliamentary Assembly stance against human rights violations by the Cuban regime 20/06/2023 | Doc. 15798 | Written declaration Safeguarding the right to return and ensuring justice for expelled Azerbaijanis 05/06/2023 | Doc. 15790 | Written declaration Call on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the international community to demand that the Russian Federation fully complies with the international humanitarian law concerning the Ukrainian prisoners of war
23/06/2023 | Doc. 15787, vote on the draft text for resolution Transnational repression as a growing threat to the rule of law and human rights 23/06/2023 | Doc. 15787, vote on the draft text for recommendation Transnational repression as a growing threat to the rule of law and human rights 23/06/2023 | Doc. 15776, vote on the draft text for resolution Closing the digital divide: promoting equal access to digital technologies 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?