24/04/2023 | 17:10:21 Dear Ms Dunja MIJATOVIC, Thank you very much for the work that lies behind your report. Your report also mentions the right to live in a healthy environment. We know that last week, Mr António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, published a letter to his fictional great-great-granddaughter, where he stresses his concern that maybe humankind will not manage the challenges of the climate crisis. I think it's also a task for us to do work on this. My question is: What exactly can... 27/01/2023 | 10:37:54 Thank you very much, Since I will only have thirty seconds to explain my amendment later, I would like to address the issue of codes of conduct here and now. Previous speakers have said how these automated weapons systems are developing incredibly rapidly, and I don't believe we have time for all these legalistic manoeuvres. Rather, we have got to find a straightforward path ahead; we have got to look at how human control can be exercised over these systems and make sure we can do something... 25/01/2023 | 17:52:06 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. Violence has many faces. It can be systematic, economic, psychological, emotional, physical, sexual or any combination you could consider. I want to thank the three rapporteurs. You shared the figures with us. The alarming figures. Ms Margreet De BOER, Ms Petra STIENEN, Ms Zita GURMAI, thank you very much for this work, for this really great work. I know how emotional it can be to work on violence, especially after my report yesterday on conflict-related... 25/01/2023 | 10:41:41 Yes, thank you very much for this really important report. I would like to focus exclusively on the aspects relating to the International Criminal Court, where ecocide would be the fifth crime, alongside crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and aggression. I think this would be a very, very important step. There is also a very concrete legal proposal as to how this crime could be defined, where it would be a matter of punishing unlawful or wanton acts that would cause serious, far... 24/01/2023 | 11:33:25 Thank you all for your support, for your commitment and I hope that we will all together get active against this atrocity. I also want to thank Ms Penelope DENU from the Secretariat who did a great job on this report as well. It was a great co-operation as always. And let me make three remarks content-wise. First of all, this morning, we appointed the very first male rapporteur on combating violence against women in the history of the Parliamentary Assembly. Mr Even ERIKSEN from Norway will... 24/01/2023 | 10:08:15 Thank you, Mr President. In my report on conflict-related sexual violence, I enshrine a couple of recommendations on different topics, beginning with –of course– prevention. Prevention of sexual violence in conflicts starts long before the war, long before a conflict starts. It starts when it comes to education of soldiers. It starts when we see how the gender balance in an army or in police forces are. That's awareness raising on the possibility of sexual violence is made. I also tackle the... 23/01/2023 | 15:42:17 Thank you very much, Mr Tiny KOX. Also, congratulations on your re-election. It really makes me happy. It also makes me happy, and I'm sure you're aware, that it is our first meeting where the new requirements according a quota –like it is written in our rules of procedure– are in force. It really makes me very happy that all the 46 delegations fulfil this requirement. That's great, and it's not only a paper exercise that we are doing here. It's really an important step closer to representing... 22/06/2022 | 17:12:24 Thank you very much. First of all, I would like to congratulate all three rapporteurs for these three really important reports. I would like to focus on the one by Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK - because I believe that if women are not involved in the reconstruction of societies, there is a huge risk that the new societies will look exactly like the old ones did. These are mostly societies that have a very hard time resolving conflicts; a very hard time coming to a dispute culture that is not an... 22/06/2022 | 11:51:39 Thank you very much, Madam President. Thank you all my colleagues for this very rich debate, for this broad support on this report. I think most of what is said I totally agree with just to tackle some issues, yes, legal measures are important. The new approach of the European Union, as countries, as the member countries, to appoint co-ordinators is important and really makes a difference obviously in many cases. I also totally agree that it is so important to have desegregated data about... 22/06/2022 | 10:05:24 Thank you very much Mrs President. I am happy to have this report today in the plenary. As we all know, antisemitism is not a new phenomenon. With Covid-19 and rallies against measures to curb the virus and the pervasiveness of social media in everyday life, antisemitism became more present and appeared in a new guise. When Covid-19 deniers and anti-vaxxers wearing yellow stars present themselves as “new victims”, equalising themselves with victims of the Shoah and chanting “vaccination makes...