20/04/2021 | 14:53:40 Yes. I hope you can hear me clearly. My question is: we have seen and continue to witness growing challenges to human rights standards and principles in all our member states. We have seen Afrophobia or anti-black racism increase, we have seen anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Gypsyism reach alarming levels. The hostility to human rights as universal, indivisible, and legally binding has increased, fuelling a hateful narrative and a growing structural institutional racism that we see. While... 28/01/2021 | 12:22:38 Thank you very much Mr President for allowing me to speak. This is a very important report. It's a very, very important report. I had planned to give a speech which, after listening to everybody else speaking, I don't want to repeat what everybody else has said. I want to thank the Rapporteur for lifting this very important issue which normally is not discussed, and when discussed we only sometimes acknowledge its existence and we don't move forward. We need to move forward because this is a... 27/01/2021 | 17:47:51 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. There is no democracy without civil society. It should be made clear that any repressive measures leading to reduced or diminished democratic space for civil society is a violation of the right to freedom of assembly, association, and expression embodied in Article 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, that we are all a party to. We have seen an increase in adoption of repressive laws created purposely for the prohibition by the authorities of... 27/01/2021 | 12:13:12 Thank you very much. I'm not sure if you can hear me but thank you very much, Mister Chair. I want to start by thanking the rapporteur for a well-written, very important, and comprehensive report. For me it is simply about common good. It is a common saying that global problems require global solutions. I think we will all agree that the public health and socio-economic impact of COVID-19 has reached beyond the borders of Europe. As we speak of solutions regarding access to the vaccine, we... 26/01/2021 | 17:53:05 Thank you very much, Mister Commissioner REYNDERS. It is said that crisis doesn't create character, it reveasl it. The current public health crisis and the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement revealed the long-standing structural, institutional, and socio-economic inequalities which are a product of systematic, institutional and structural racism in Europe. People across the EU continue to be targeted by racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance just because of... 20/11/2020 | 16:39:40 Thank you very much, Miss Petra STIENEN. I want to really congratulate you for this great draft report on the gender dimension of foreign policy. I'm very proud to be part of the Swedish delegation, where in Sweden we have this gender dimension in foreign policy, and have inspired this report, too. As we have seen, and as many of you have said, there are growing attacks and backlash against women's rights in many of our member States. That's why this report is timely and urgent. Feminism. My... 20/11/2020 | 10:33:49 Thank you very much, Mr President, and thank you very much, honourable Minister, and congratulations for the Presidency. I was very happy to hear some of the priorities that were mentioned especially when it comes to the priority on focusing on minorities and minority rights. I'm very happy that we're lifting the Roma because I think that's that's extremely important. But, I also wanted to ask, in light of all the discussions that are taking place in regards to the Black Lives Matters... 29/01/2020 | 10:30:15 Thank you very much, Mr President. On behalf of the United European Left, I would like to express how complicated this report is. Because it's like a double-edged sword. Freedom of religion is extremely important, especially today. It has never been as important to protect that freedom as it is today. On the one hand. On the other hand, we have to also take into consideration that nobody should be discriminated based on their sex or their sexual preference. So it is a complicated report... 28/01/2020 | 17:43:48 Thank you very much Madam President. This debate is about freedom of expression and what this Assembly must do to promote the protection of journalists and guarantee the safety of journalists against the backdrop of increased repression of journalists and media houses, not only in Europe but around the world. Over the last decade we have seen an increase both in gravity and number in the manifestations of repressive measures against journalists and media houses sometimes being called enemies... 28/01/2020 | 11:31:30 Thank you so much, Madame President. This debate is about democracy and the rule of law and it amazes me when I hear people use this debate to say what is happening in Sweden or what is happening in France or what is happening in Germany. Now, this Assembly is the guardian of human rights and the rule of law and we would, we will, at any point in time try to fight to make sure that we maintain the standards that we say we represent, regardless if it is in France or in Poland, but today this...