Representative
Senator
GreenLeft-Labour Party
Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands
Working language: English
21/05/2025 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development PACE committee urges a sustainable and socially fair energy transition grounded in human rights 03/04/2025 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Combating child poverty and social exclusion by leveraging international standards 19/03/2025 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development The rapporteur on the humanitarian situation in Gaza appalled by the resumption of bombardments on the civilian population in Gaza 04/03/2025 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Rapporteur urgently calls for safe and unhindered access to humanitarian aid in Gaza 11/02/2025 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development PACE conference on ‘The role of national parliaments in protecting the right to a healthy environment’
10/04/2025 | 15:59:07 Thank you very much, President. In January we adopted the report on the humanitarian crisis for women and children in Gaza, looking especially at the dramatic effects for women, children, and the hostages. And we promised then to follow everything that was going on in the area. Soon after our plenary, a much needed ceasefire was achieved and NGOs could bring in goods, take care of the wounded, bring extra wounded abroad, and dead hostages could be brought home, and luckily alive ones were... 10/04/2025 | 10:49:57 Thank you very much. Well, it's not very often as chair of a committee that you have a rapporteur that is so distinguished and knowledgeable on a topic as Ms Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVAY is. And I'm so proud of how you managed the report. You did it together with our colleagues from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. You prepared many meetings, and on topic it was also very good. I'm happy to stand here together. The report was therefore also adopted unanimously in the Committee. I... 09/04/2025 | 10:49:54 Thank you very much, President. I'm from a political body in the Netherlands that has regularly debated on the issue of integrity, which is the Senate. We do not have outspoken corruption cases, but we do have integrity issues. And when you do not treat it, it's a fungi that rots the foundations of our democratic system. And also for our Organisation, it works the same way. We can only achieve the values we strive for if we also make them apply to ourselves. Our Council has been associated... 31/01/2025 | 10:54:17 Thank you very much, Chair. When we were preparing this report, I very often had to think about my good friend's daughter, Luna. I have known Luna all her life. She's 27 and she contracted Covid and went from an extremely vibrant social person working in child's healthcare to a person that is now almost full time at home. She lost her job, she has to sleep every two hours. And although she's an extremely positive person and tries to make the best of it, it's for me so clear that she's lost... 29/01/2025 | 18:41:45 Thank you very much President. I have to say – I just loved this report, and I couldn't agree more with the rapporteur. I love it because it is really fact-based on our demographic challenges and shows a wonderful, realistic attitude to migration and towards solutions that we can choose from. It also enlightens the positive spirit that most ordinary people adopt when they start living together. I mean when I was in hospital this summer, who came to bring me my food in the evening? It was my...
13/01/2025 | Doc. 16093 | Report The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza
13/05/2025 | Doc. 16172 | Written question Humanitarian situation in Gaza 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 02/04/2025 | Doc. 16141 | Written declaration Political persecution of Ekrem İmamoğlu and the erosion of democracy in Türkiye 18/03/2025 | Doc. 16133 | Motion for a resolution Paving the way for a culture of consent
10/04/2025 | Doc. 16150, vote on the draft text for opinion Draft Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16153, vote on the draft text for resolution The situation in Georgia and follow up to Resolution 2585 (2025) “Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia” 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16128, vote on the draft text for resolution Interconnections between the Council of Europe and the European Political Community 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16129, vote on the draft text for recommendation Strengthening relations between the Council of Europe and Latin America 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16129, vote on the draft text for resolution Strengthening relations between the Council of Europe and Latin America