22/01/2024 | 17:08:06 Thank you very much, Mr President. Distinguished Ms Commissioner for Human Rights, dear Ms Dunja MIJATOVIĆ. On behalf of my political group I would really want to thank you for the work you have done for human rights during the last years. You always have been –and you will be– a loud voice for human rights. You often acted outside the comfort zone, and I think that's an appropriate place for a Human Rights Commissioner. Your term will end by March, and we will decide about your successor in... 13/10/2023 | 12:51:07 Thank you very much, Mr President, For more than two years, when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, women have been almost completely banished and disappeared from the public sphere. They are excluded from the labour market, they have no right to education, and in some areas of Afghanistan the education of girls over the age of ten is completely forbidden. This also leads to the fact that girls hardly have any perspectives, that the existence of girls and women has become extremely... 12/10/2023 | 20:01:45 Thank you, Mister President. I promise to be briefer than 3 minutes. So I'll try my best. Just let me express the thanks for the support of your statements and also express thanks to the Secretariat for their swift and profound work. I would like to reply to three speakers. First of all, Mr Caspar van den BERG. Thank you very much for reminding us that the there must be fair conditions for the detention. It's really important, even if you want him to be released as soon as as possible, of... 12/10/2023 | 19:22:17 Dear President, Dear colleagues, The topic of this urgent debate Report is “Call for the immediate release of Osman Kavala”. I was appointed as rapporteur on Monday, the same day that our Assembly awarded Mr Osman Kavala with the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. Mr Osman Kavala has been detained in Türkiye since 18 October 2017 on the basis of evidence that does not even give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he committed any offence, let alone sufficient to prosecute or convict him to... 11/10/2023 | 19:12:14 Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, thank you very much, Ms. Béatrice FRESKO-ROLFO, for this wonderful report. I would like to talk about one specific issue, and that is the issue of sexual violence. And we know that usually in Europe, one in five women is affected by sexual violence. Among women with disabilities, it is one in three, even more. This means that women who live with a disability are much more exposed to sexual violence and the social impact of that violence. Either in the... 23/06/2023 | 12:07:11 Thank you very much, Madam President. Access to the internet, to the global network, has become so essential that some people are even talking about a human right to the internet. I also take note of the fact that others smell a world conspiracy behind this, where the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the World Health Organization WHO are pulling some strings and alternatives are to be sought. Perhaps you should try it once with carrier pigeons. It could be quite an alternative, which could... 21/06/2023 | 16:00:43 Thank you, Mister President. Multilateralism costs money, a lot of money, indeed. It offers gains. Combatants meet at the table, and not on the battlefield. That means that multilateralism not only saves our values. It saves lives. It saves the environment. It saves societies that otherwise would be destroyed. Multilateral bodies, like the Council of Europe, not only face the challenge of keeping, of restoring things, we also have to repair things which often were destroyed by the greed of... 20/06/2023 | 19:25:43 Thank you very much, Thank you very much, Mister President. My very dear Ms Selin SAYEK BÖKE, I have read your report with great interest, and I am extremely sorry that it will be your last report. In a nutshell, it is simply an appeal for human rights-based health policy. When I talk about human rights in relation to health, I can't help but also point out that sexual and reproductive rights are human rights that are related to health and that they should never be second-class health... 19/06/2023 | 15:55:40 Thank you very much, Mr Tiny KOX. I would like to take the occasion in my role as General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance to inform you and to share some information about the progress the Parliamentary No Hate Alliance made. We had the possibility to meet in May in Vienna in the newly refurbished parliament for a seminar where we not only had the chance to dive deeper into the root causes of racism and intolerance and learn how NGOs are working to empower those who are... 26/04/2023 | 17:00:08 Thank you very much, Mister Tiny KOX. I actually wanted to speak in German. Let me address two different levels to this issue. On the one hand, a very general but very worrying one is, namely, the fact that our world is really in a state of emergency, that our world is on the verge of a real collapse. This is really very, very serious. Thank you, Mister Simon MOUTQUIN, for the report, which is, I think, very very important at this time. There are still quite a few corporations all over the...