Substitute
Member of the House of Lords
Labour
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
09/04/2025 | 19:47:30 Madam President and Colleagues. [spoken in French] Even from the privileged vantage point of this beautiful assembly, I see the Court of Human Rights as the jewel in the crown of the Council of Europe. But I am a life-long human rights lawyer and internationalist. I appreciate that to those of a more nationalist and law-sceptical persuasion the Apex Court of our Continent may look a little less attractive. To them, I offer the suggestion that it is through visible, accessible and effective... 08/04/2025 | 19:00:13 Mister President, Colleagues, "I am an Afghan, and I am a prisoner of the Gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am a Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.” Not my words, but those of another President, Ronald REAGAN, visiting Germany 40 years ago. I choose them to highlight that treating asylum seekers, refugees, indeed, all migrants with a modicum of dignity was non-partisan...
05/05/2025 | Doc. 16165 | Motion for a resolution Upholding our diverse culture, freedom of expression and information by effective enforcement of copyright
09/04/2025 | Doc. 16151, vote on the draft text for resolution The arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul and the state of democracy and human rights in Türkiye 09/04/2025 | Doc. 16152, vote on the draft text for resolution Russian war of aggression against Ukraine: the need to ensure accountability and avoid impunity 09/04/2025 | Doc. 16152, vote on the draft text for recommendation Russian war of aggression against Ukraine: the need to ensure accountability and avoid impunity 09/04/2025 | Doc. 16134, vote on the draft text for recommendation Implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights 09/04/2025 | Doc. 16134, vote on the draft text for resolution Implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights