03/10/2019 | 16:58:40 Thank you, Madam President. I can not begin without quoting at least a few sentences from the Hippocratic oath: "I will inform the patients of the decisions envisaged, of their reason and their consequences. I will never betray their trust and will not exploit the power inherent to the circumstances to force knowledge." Madam Rapporteur, the ALDE Group would like to thank you for your work and your engagement on a difficult subject. You tackle an unspoken taboo, since unequivocal discomfort... 26/06/2019 | 10:54:12 Thank you, Madam President. To better understand this resolution, let me remind you what is a ”constraint”. ”The term coercion refers to situations of intervention on others in which the person does not give his authorization and/or which involve, to varying degrees, an attack on his physical or psychological integrity or his rights.” For decades, mental health coercion has been the subject of exciting political-philosophical debates. The ”pros” opposing the opponents, both movements putting... 25/06/2019 | 17:50:43 Thank you, Madam President, First of all, I would like to thank Ms KOVÁCS and Ms GURMAI for the reports they have prepared on behalf of the Committee, they will be very useful to our Assembly. These two resolutions are intrinsically linked, and I am delighted that we are having this joint debate. As a preliminary point, I would like to remind my colleagues that inequalities and stereotypes are essentially based on a social construction, i.e. on mentalities, on the ideas we have about the... 09/04/2019 | 18:06:33 Less than a fortnight ago, the Committee of Ministers provided a clear definition of sexism that referred to “dignity”, the “inherent” rights of the individual and the almost unbelievable reality of a “hostile” and “degrading” environment. Although the definition may apply to men and women alike, let us have no doubt for a moment that women are the prime victims of such behaviour. For a number of years, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has been adopting resolutions to... 23/01/2019 | 16:28:18 I congratulate the rapporteur on the excellent work done on behalf of the committee. Member States of the Council of Europe have always been at pains to promote a democratic image. One only has to think of the increase in the number of election observation missions organised at the request of certain countries when organising national elections. Some would limit action in favour of democracy to the mere fact of organising elections. Others seem to believe that freedom of thought and...