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... 20/06/2022 | 15:35:57 Thank you very much, Ingrid, Yes, the fight against racism, against hatred and against intolerance must be conducted in parallel on many, many levels. It makes absolute sense to start with the political elites. One of the reasons for this – even if not as much as in the past – is that politicians are still something of a role model for many people, or at least they should be. They certainly set an example in their behaviour, in their actions, in their speeches. That is why it is very, very... 20/06/2022 | 12:12:01 Thank you very much, Mr President. I would like to start where Mr Aleksander POCIEJ ended at the Serbian election observation, where I would like to share some really concrete concerns with you and share some main points of criticism. Three of them are more general, which is, first of all, the access to media, which is very uneven and we saw that especially with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). The party of the president had the vast majority of time and media, especially TV, which is the... 27/04/2022 | 18:09:38 Thank you very much, Madam Chair, Organised crime accounted for about 800 billion in turnover in 2017. This includes human trafficking, drug trafficking, illegal trade in art objects, forced prostitution, money laundering, extortion, white-collar crime, online crime. In addition to this organised crime, there is corruption. Corruption as an abuse of economic, political and cultural power is diametrically opposed to the realisation of human rights, because it simply undermines the rule of law... 27/04/2022 | 17:48:17 Yes, sexual violence and rape are means of war, they are war crimes under the Rome Statute. And you need different ways how to produce evidence. It will not help to use satellites, it will not help to count graves, you really have to provide the survivors of sexual violence and their caregivers with know-how and with tools. Tools are equipment. How, for instance, how to save DNA or questionnaires to fill directly after a rape. As long as you really clearly remember details. And also kits for... 26/04/2022 | 12:27:58 Yes. Thank you very much Madam Commissioner for your report, for your recommendations, and also for your work in general. Both the questions I wanted to tackle you've already mentioned. It concerns people fleeing from Ukraine. At the beginning there was the concern that we had push-backs of people without Ukrainian citizenship, without ensuing international protection. I want to know what exactly could we do to really protect people, displaced people, fleeing, without distinguishing, and... 25/04/2022 | 17:06:27 Thank you very much, Mr Tiny KOX. I will take another focus. I want to remind you all that about a year ago, or last year at least, we have taken a decision to change our rules of procedure. This change in the rules of procedure obliges us to bring more women into this Assembly. It is now a friendly reminder to all of you not to forget that by January 2023, the number of the women in your national parliaments has to be mirrored here in your delegation. But at least, there will have to be a...