29/01/2026 | 19:33:13 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear friends, Allow me to first congratulate our two rapporteurs who put up with us and they can finally say after tonight that they are done with North Macedonia. But you are most welcomed to visit us in the summer in Ohrid! Thank you to all of you that you recognize the past and the present efforts of my country! I am sure that the colleagues from my delegation, from North Macedonia, will have better speeches than me and it will be more formal. Because tonight, I... 28/01/2026 | 17:30:26 Thank you. To retrieve one body, the Israeli military mobilised a fleet of tanks, drones and what locals described as 'explosive robots'. They turned the neighbourhood into a kill zone, dug up approximately 200 Palestinian graves and left four civilians dead in their wake. According to the National Committee for Missing Persons, more than 10 000 Palestinians remain entombed under the rubble of Gaza, decomposing in silence, lost and without identity. Families grieved without closure for their... 27/01/2026 | 17:40:02 Thank you. The year 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022, said the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine today in its monthly update on civilian harm. They verified that conflict-related violence in Ukraine in 2025 killed 2 514 civilians and injured 12 142. The total number of killed and injured civilians in 2025 was 31% higher than in 2024 and 70% higher than in 2023. Two parents of a one-year-old say that they have electricity for about 4 minutes a... 27/01/2026 | 16:25:35 Thank you, Madam President. On behalf of my group, I would like to thank and to congratulate the rapporteur on this timely report, because free and democratic elections are the core of human rights and democratic societies. But just when we thought we had overcome the elections organised during Covid-19 pandemic, we thought we had already read everything about elections during natural disasters. And when everyone thought that a clear checklist was possible for elections in wartime, a new type... 03/10/2025 | 11:31:52 Thank you, Mister President. I would like to thank the Rapporteur for this wonderful report. I'll make sure that my parliamentary assembly receives it. North Macedonia is celebrating 30 years of full membership of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. And this is the first time that North Macedonia is mentioned in this report as, I would say, a problem country. We've been, in those 30 years, through wars, we've been through Covid, and it has never been the case for a member of... 03/10/2025 | 10:50:16 Thank you very much. First of all, allow me to thank the rapporteur for this timely and utmost report. I would like to thank him enormously for tackling a topic that is classified in all of the reports that you can come across as highly unreported and is as equally important as any other violence. The statistics for sexual violence against men and boys are equally as worrying as the statistics for violence against women. This report gives us an in-depth analysis of the situation regarding the... 02/10/2025 | 12:25:38 Thank you, Mister President. The world failed has failed the 9 year old Jana so many times, failed her on food, twice. A little girl forced to endure so much pain because of deliberate decisions that were made to restrict the entry of food into the Gaza Strip. Jana was originaly evacuated for treatment in southern Gaza more than a year ago and she recovered. Once Jana was better and discharged from hospital for the first time earlier this year, she and her mother, Nesma, returned to northern... 01/10/2025 | 18:16:50 Thank you, Mister President. First of all, allow me to thank the rapporteurs for the immense effort that they have put into producing this very important report. Colleagues and friends, My government recently received a letter of complaint from another government labelling my questions and enquiries into why member countries are not executing the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as 'hate speech'. If that is hate speech, I would like it to be noted that I will continue to ask... 29/09/2025 | 16:51:08 Madam Chair, Allow me to first thank Mr Iulian BULAI for the successful election observation mission and thank him for the work done. I believe both him and all of us who are members of the observation delegation did a good job in creating this balanced approach in the report that is in front of us. Poland held its presidential elections in a very interesting and, at times, a very far-reaching atmosphere. We are all familiar with the small margins of the new President who was elected and it's... 26/06/2025 | 16:08:38 Thank you, Mister President. Poverty, gender pay gap, violence, hate speech, stereotyping, are just one of the few concepts easily associated with women. One in three women around the world experience violence. Only one in six women reports violence, including sexual violence, to the police. One third of victims never talk about it to anyone. One woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes. Over 200 million women and girls in 30 countries have undergone female...