25/01/2022 | 09:51:56 Thank you very much Mr. Tiny KOX, I´d like to start by wishing you all the best for the election. I very much look forward to working with you over the next two years, all the best. On the reports - Mr Fourat BEN CHIKHA is quite right to address in his report that hatred against LGBTIQ people has long had nothing to do with individual expression of hatred. It is much better recognised as organised hatred against persons who simply have a different construction of family and of love to the... 30/09/2021 | 12:58:42 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Humanitarian assistance, the prevention of violence, UN driven resettlement programs, and secure refugee corridors are key for people most at risk in Afghanistan. I am ashamed that my government is among a minority of countries that is not ready to accept a single refugee: not a women judge, not a girl that is denies access to education and is threatened because of her attitude, not a member of an ethnic minority or an LGBTIQ person. Shame on... 29/09/2021 | 18:38:06 Yes, of course. I want to applaud Ms Edite ESTRELA for her farsightedness, for her vision, her and also the Committee of Ministers, to have the idea to transform the human rights to a healthy environment into international hard law. I assume that some decades ago in this Assembly, in this hemicycle, there was somebody who wrote a report about the violence against women. Maybe she had the vision that in some decades that could become a convention, an international convention to combat violence... 29/09/2021 | 11:20:31 Thank you very much, colleagues, I'm convinced this Assembly needs a general rapporteur on the protection of the environment and of the climate. We know that the global heating is everywhere, but not everybody is affected in the same way. There are those who are living in poor houses, close to streets with heavy traffic, with polluted air, hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and having no chance to seek refuge anywhere else. There are those who live in better houses and well-equipped... 28/09/2021 | 19:37:10 Yes, shortly. To kill, to mutilate, to suppress people, mainly women, because of hate, of lack of respect, fear and to camouflage that with "honour" is not acceptable nowhere and never ever. Discrimination, stigmatisation and violence is never a way to express our opinion towards somebody who might be a different, has a different opinion or lives a different way of life or does not think as a majority does. And it is good that the Istanbul Convention covers all these kind of criminal offences... 28/09/2021 | 17:24:55 Thank you very much, Mister President. An adoption of this resolution including the opinion will not be a revolution. Which has moved the composition of our Assembly towards the direction that is based on demography and much more important on democracy. It is key for us as an Assembly to mirror the reality of our societies at the Assembly. And I'm very grateful to Nicole for her important report that really lays a fundament for a next step forward. I'm very grateful to Ingjerd for organizing... 28/09/2021 | 12:14:29 Thank you very much, Madame President. Selin, I also want to applaud you for this really comprehensive and important report and I especially want to line out article, or paragraph, 10.4 where you tackle the impact of economic activities and human rights and we must not forget the situation beyond Europe due to long and very complex supply chains, the environment, social rights and human rights are infringed. We see for instance poisoned air, having fresh water, child labour, slave work and... 27/09/2021 | 15:36:43 Thank you very much, Mr Chairman, I would like to do something unusual, I would like to use the Progress Report not to talk about content, but to talk about the other side, so that parts here of politics, namely how we work and how we work with each other here in the Assembly, how we also try to create visibility and create impact for our politics. I would like to take as an example, because this is also mentioned in the in Progress report, the June session where we had this High-Level Panel... 24/06/2021 | 17:22:04 There are about 15 million people of African descent living in Europe. It is the very first report in 72 years where our Assembly really has a focus on these people, one year after the murder of George Floyd. Even if the report comes very late, I am really grateful that the report comes and I am very grateful to you, that you really made it happen, and that you put this important focus onto this issue. Racism is quite often a topic. Anti-Black racism is not so often a topic and, it was... 23/06/2021 | 19:14:04 Thank you very much, Madam President. I will not start to list all the human rights violations which are included in the report. We all hear that we can read it, it was debated throughout the last hour. I want to draw your attention to the fact that almost every article of the European Convention on Human Rights is at stake, from torture to freedom of press, to freedom of religion, to personal liberty and security. I should underline that the targets of these violations are very often Crimean...