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Ms Gala VELDHOEN (Netherlands, SOC)

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Representative
Senator
GreenLeft-Labour Party

Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2025 , 2024 , 2023

Latest news

03/03/2025 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE General Rapporteur appalled by planned firing squad execution in the US 09/10/2024 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights ‘The death penalty does not make society safer,’ says General Rapporteur

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 09/10/2023

In the Assembly

  • since 09/10/2023 Representative - Netherlands

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Member: Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities (since 12/04/2025)
  • General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 02/10/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 15/04/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 15/04/2024)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 22/01/2024 to 11/04/2025)
  • Full Member SOC: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 28/11/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (since 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 16/04/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Ruben BREKELMANS (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 09/10/2023 to 14/04/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Caspar van den BERG (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 09/10/2023 to 14/04/2024)

Interventions

Last speeches

28/01/2025 | 20:01:39 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Ladies and gentlemen, Since the end of the Second World War, the international community has built a comprehensive legal framework to govern war and military occupations, ensuring that civilians are protected from unnecessary death and suffering. Three key branches of international law apply to this conflict: · International humanitarian law, which prioritizes the protection of civilians, establishes critical principles of distinction...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

25/06/2024 | Doc. 16016 | Committee Opinion Safeguarding human rights for future generations

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

09/04/2025 | Doc. 16157 | Motion for a resolution Follow-up to the 4th round of GRECO recommendations relating to parliamentarians 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16155 | Written declaration Upholding the rights to protest: defending the Budapest Pride march 18/03/2025 | Doc. 16133 | Motion for a resolution Paving the way for a culture of consent 12/03/2025 | Doc. 16127 | Motion for a resolution Regulating social networks: a democratic imperative 03/02/2025 | Doc. 16112 | Motion for a resolution Migrants’ and refugees’ access to healthcare

Votes on adopted texts

29/01/2025 | Doc. 16090, vote on the draft text for recommendation Multiperspectivity in remembrance and history education for democratic citizenship 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16090, vote on the draft text for resolution Multiperspectivity in remembrance and history education for democratic citizenship 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16087, vote on the draft text for recommendation The need for a renewed rules-based international order 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16087, vote on the draft text for resolution The need for a renewed rules-based international order 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16093, vote on the draft text for resolution The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza