Substitute
Member of the House of Lords
Labour
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
24/06/2021 | 10:09:22 Thank you Mr President and colleagues. I'm a minister of religion and I worked with diasporas for the whole of my working life. Mr Paulo PISCO's report is most welcome. Time is short and a number of important points have already been made. I'd like to highlight three aspects of this question which might be added to the report. Firstly, there's the importance of remittances: money sent by members of diasporic communities to their families back home. According to Organisation for Economic Co... 22/06/2021 | 09:49:13 Dear Chair and colleagues, In the short time I've been involved in the work of the Council of Europe, I've come to see how the subject we are discussing is at the heart of everything we do and represent. As others have said, the very idea of democracy and the rule of law is underpinned by the existence of a free and independent press, this should be axiomatic and need no further elaboration. But the last things can be more complicated than that. Let me offer a story, a parable in the words of... 21/04/2021 | 11:51:18 Thank you very much, Mister President, and allow me with others to thank Lord David BLENCATHRA and Ms Alexandra LOUIS for their reports. The spirit, as well as the letter, of each of those reports is to be honoured. The Council of Europe strives not only to be critical of wrongdoing, which is of course proper, but also to offer a way to better days and the spirit of these reports is so admirable. I, like my dear friend, Lord George FOULKES, have adopted a prisoner in Belarus. He is just 17... 19/04/2021 | 18:56:52 Madam President, Ms Elvira KOVÁCS is to be congratulated on her report, which captures the essence of the question she addresses, and also provides sensible and effective steps for progress towards the ideal she describes. I have no hesitation at all in endorsing her proposal and in supporting her plea that the eight remaining nations who have not yet ratified this agreement should proceed to do so without further delay. She is quite right that ratification does not of itself guarantee... 28/01/2021 | 13:30:54 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) The title of this debate describes something that must surely be self-evident. Of course ethnic profiling is a matter of great concern and the only surprise is that we continue to need to say so. I read what Mr Boriss Cilevics has put before us with interest. Despite the fact that my only knowledge of how this Assembly works has been gained remotely, I’ve had no difficulty recognising Mr Cilevics as one of its significant characters. The...
04/03/2021 | Doc. 15232 | Motion for a resolution 70th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention: what would Europe be like without the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees? 09/12/2020 | Doc. 15195 | Motion for a resolution Respect for the rule of law and fight against corruption within the Council of Europe 10/09/2020 | Doc. 15137 | Motion for a resolution Fighting and preventing excessive and unjustified use of force by the law enforcement officers 08/09/2020 | Doc. 15135 | Motion for a resolution Human rights violations in Belarus require an international investigation 01/09/2020 | Doc. 15130 | Motion for a resolution Call for an inclusive national political process in Belarus
24/06/2021 | Doc. 15250, vote on the draft text for resolution For a European policy on diasporas 24/06/2021 | Doc. 15250, vote on the draft text for recommendation For a European policy on diasporas 22/06/2021 | Doc. 15308, vote on the draft text for resolution Media freedom, public trust and the people’s right to know 22/06/2021 | Doc. 15308, vote on the draft text for recommendation Media freedom, public trust and the people’s right to know 22/06/2021 | Doc. 15309, vote on the draft text for resolution Covid passes or certificates: protection of fundamental rights and legal implications