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Ms Luz MARTINEZ SEIJO

Speeches since 2019

10/04/2025 | 10:43:31 Thank you, President. Today we are tackling one of the most critical challenges of our times: the protection of the environment. That is why I would like to thank Ms Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVA for this necessary report. The deterioration of the environment not only threatens biodiversity and ecosystems, it also puts at risk both the health and welfare of current and future generations. These are crimes committed by criminal networks, who also commit other offences such as corruption and human... 08/04/2025 | 19:25:28 Thank you very much, President.  We're touching upon a really important topic for the future of Europe: the management of migration and the need to put an end to collective expulsions of foreigners.  Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ's report offers us a clear vision of the challenges and the opportunities that we currently face.  Collective expulsions affect refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, including women, children, and people with disabilities. The consequences can be devastating: violence... 08/04/2025 | 12:55:52 Thank you, President, Mister Espot. Allow me to emphasise that in Andorra abortion is illegal in all circumstances without exception: including in cases involving rape, when the foetus is deformed, or when the mother's life is at risk. This is a problem of human rights, as this diverges from the democratic principles that apply in the rest of Europe and gender-based European rules. This absolute ban forces women in Andorra to travel to other countries to have an abortion. In Catalonia alone... 29/01/2025 | 11:42:06 Thank you, Madam Chair, Many thanks. As an educator and a politican, I feel deeply thinking for this unanimous support from pratically each and everyone of you concerning my report. This report shows some very important aspects of the futures of our society. It is clear that we need to commemorate freedom and democracy which don't come for free. In Spain, we know this very well. Spain was at the bottom of international rankings for democratic quality, but today it's one of the fullest... 29/01/2025 | 10:08:09 Thank you, Madam President, I have the honour to present this report on a particularly important day – when we are going to celebrate the anniversary of the Holocaust right here. Memory is precisely the subject of this report, which analyses the importance of teaching history and the use of memory to promote democratic citizenship in a European environment of multiculturality and polarisation. It is a report started some time ago by Mr Roberto RAMPI. It deals with current social and... 28/01/2025 | 18:25:46 Thank you, President.  First of all, I would like to congratulate the Assembly for having put forward this essential debate on the grave, dramatic situation in Gaza.  The European and international community cannot simply turn away in the face of the suffering of thousands of people or what has happened. We are talking about a conflict that hasn't ended. A ceasefire is not the same as peace. This is proven by the fact that since the announcement of the ceasefire, more than 100 people have... 04/10/2024 | 10:46:57 Thank you, President, Dear colleagues, This is the first time that I have represented the Committee in plenary on a very innovative report that our colleague has prepared with great clarity, common sense and moderation. First of all, this report and the accompanying draft resolution show that we parliamentarians need to be much more visionary and prudent as well as far-sighted in our roles as legislators, because although this may appear to belong to the realm of science fiction, in the very... 03/10/2024 | 16:30:44 Thank you, Mister President. I would like to speak Spanish if you don't mind.  Despite the great progress we have made in protecting the rights of lesbian, bi, queer, trans and intersex people over the last few years, the attacks that wish to deny or withdraw those rights have grown in Europe.  Lesbian, bi and trans (LGT) women were marginalised for a long time and today they are specifically attacked by anti-gender movements that attack women's rights and the rights of LGBT people... 01/10/2024 | 20:37:35 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   The international community cannot remain impassive in the face of the suffering of thousands of people, we cannot live with death and destruction or normalise violence. A new escalation of violence has increased in Lebanon, we must call again for de-escalation, for peaceful coexistence between countries, for peace. It is now a year since we condemned the shocking terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel. We continue to do so today and to call... 28/06/2024 | 10:39:36 Thank you, Mr President. First of all I would like to commend all the work done by our rapporteurs that really leads us to think in an age in which a wave of extremism threatens to wipe out everything that we have achieved in recent decades in Europe, a continent whose hallmark is the defence of human rights, particularly this institution, the first created in the wake of the Second World War to defend human rights. Now, repeatedly, debates have shown that there is rejection of migrants, an...