30/01/2020 | 16:25:10 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, Almost two years ago, our friend and colleague Vernon COAKER was appointed rapporteur on this subject, a subject he had proposed in a motion for a resolution. Since then, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons has had the opportunity to listen to a number of experts who have testified about what it really means to be a victim of trafficking in human beings in Europe, in our different member states. Mrs #Agnès Callamard, United... 04/10/2019 | 11:57:02 Thank you, Madame President. I have many acknowledgements to make today. The first is thank you very much to one of the members of our Committee, who at the last moment kindly presented the report on behalf of the rapporteur Mr STROE, who had to stay in Romania because of national political developments. I thank him in two respects, for the Committee and for myself, since we are both substitutes –I am vice-chair of the Committee– and as such, we share this important work in the hemicycle... 03/10/2019 | 18:58:28 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur for her very interesting work on a topic that is extremely relevant. So, according to the IPCC report on climate change, if we do not speed up momentum in this area, there will be irreversible impacts on ecosystems and life on Earth. An increase in temperature up to two degrees would have devastating consequences: rise in sea levels, drought, desertification, loss of natural habitat and... 03/10/2019 | 11:00:43 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur for leading the preparation of this report in record time, and for presenting an excellent text which I hope will be supported by everyone today. I also thank the speakers and members of the Committee I represent. We have heard in our Assembly this morning a lot of sincerity, a lot of emotion. We have also heard a certain admission of inefficiency in our action and our policies because... 28/06/2019 | 11:53:09 Thank you, Madam President, Dear colleagues, Dear Tineke, with a very strong sense of timeliness, you have managed to take the last slot of the week, unfortunately in front of very few people, for your last report for us, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. We are now informed; you are leaving us for the European Parliament. You will continue to do your pioneering, relevant and necessary work with the European Parliament. I know that you will not forget us and will not miss... 27/06/2019 | 16:07:31 Thank you, Madam President, Dear colleagues, The protection of the rights of migrant children is one of the main priorities of our Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population, and I would like to thank Mrs BRYNJÓLFSDÓTTIR for the important work she has done on this report which calls for an end to violence and exploitation of migrant children. Migrant children face multiple sufferings on the way to Europe –as the rapporteur rightly pointed out– but it is even more shocking to note that... 12/04/2019 | 10:23:26 I congratulate Ms Petra De SUTTER on her exhaustive report. I support the project as a whole, and the draft recommendation. Donation of sperm and oocytes is a topical subject that raises several controversial issues. It is a field in which a number of technological and scientific advances have been achieved and continue to progress. Maintaining anonymity for gamete donors has become practically impossible. People who want to trace their origins have easy access to others’ genetic data. It is... 11/04/2019 | 17:41:33 After the huge influx of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Africa in 2015 – refugees who crossed the seas, including the Mediterranean, often risking their lives – we have too often felt that the problem has calmed down. Every now and again there is a reference to the “boat people”, which is actually a daily problem in the Mediterranean. It is as if Europe has got used to what is unacceptable and migration is far less often in the headlines than it was. Yet the excellent report of our...