25/06/2025 | 17:19:07 Thank you very much, President. As you know I've been a rapporteur for the humanitarian crisis for children and women in Gaza, so let me tell you about the children. Children have the right to go to school, yet all schools and universities in Gaza have been bombed to pieces. Children have the right to family, yet 40 000 Palestinian children are orphans. Children have the right to safety, health and life and yet 15 000 children are dead. Thousands and thousands of children have lost an arm or... 23/06/2025 | 12:12:44 Yes, I think I'm live. Thank you very much, President. And thank you very much to the Standing Committee and the Bureau for doing a wonderful job. I am very impressed if you read the report about what we all do here. And I think one of the things that Mr Frank SCHWABE already mentioned is we live in extremely dangerous times, times that attack the very fundamentals of what we are doing here. And sometimes you think you are having reasonable arguments to start a dialogue on certain things that... 10/04/2025 | 15:59:07 Thank you very much, President. In January we adopted the report on the humanitarian crisis for women and children in Gaza, looking especially at the dramatic effects for women, children, and the hostages. And we promised then to follow everything that was going on in the area. Soon after our plenary, a much needed ceasefire was achieved and NGOs could bring in goods, take care of the wounded, bring extra wounded abroad, and dead hostages could be brought home, and luckily alive ones were... 10/04/2025 | 10:49:57 Thank you very much. Well, it's not very often as chair of a committee that you have a rapporteur that is so distinguished and knowledgeable on a topic as Ms Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVAY is. And I'm so proud of how you managed the report. You did it together with our colleagues from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. You prepared many meetings, and on topic it was also very good. I'm happy to stand here together. The report was therefore also adopted unanimously in the Committee. I... 09/04/2025 | 10:49:54 Thank you very much, President. I'm from a political body in the Netherlands that has regularly debated on the issue of integrity, which is the Senate. We do not have outspoken corruption cases, but we do have integrity issues. And when you do not treat it, it's a fungi that rots the foundations of our democratic system. And also for our Organisation, it works the same way. We can only achieve the values we strive for if we also make them apply to ourselves. Our Council has been associated... 31/01/2025 | 10:54:17 Thank you very much, Chair. When we were preparing this report, I very often had to think about my good friend's daughter, Luna. I have known Luna all her life. She's 27 and she contracted Covid and went from an extremely vibrant social person working in child's healthcare to a person that is now almost full time at home. She lost her job, she has to sleep every two hours. And although she's an extremely positive person and tries to make the best of it, it's for me so clear that she's lost... 29/01/2025 | 18:41:45 Thank you very much President. I have to say – I just loved this report, and I couldn't agree more with the rapporteur. I love it because it is really fact-based on our demographic challenges and shows a wonderful, realistic attitude to migration and towards solutions that we can choose from. It also enlightens the positive spirit that most ordinary people adopt when they start living together. I mean when I was in hospital this summer, who came to bring me my food in the evening? It was my... 28/01/2025 | 18:47:32 Thank you, President. A lot has been said and I really want to applaud my colleagues to speak words that de-escalate the situation and that give a broad understanding to both parties in this conflict. Some remarks were made about my person. It is my firm belief that you can never, never be associated with a terrorist group or be responsible for a genocide if you are fighting for the humanitarian laws that were made especially to prevent the organisation. And this report is about sustaining... 28/01/2025 | 16:49:47 Thank you very much, Chair. I am always confused with the buttons. When we convened in October, I talked about the children who are losing at an alarming rate their arms and their legs in Gaza. And since then, we must realise that had we filled a chair, every chair in this room is a child that has lost either an arm or a leg or both. So we should not be silent when the children die. We should act and protect. And that is what this report is about. Yesterday I spoke to Abed AL ATTAR, and he's... 04/10/2024 | 10:20:40 Well, without a doubt, we today have access to a diverse information thanks to the metaverse. It has an endless opportunity for humankind. But we also have to recognise that the things that happen in the meta universe also happen in the real world. We all could read about the influence of Mr Andrew TATE on young boys and young boys translating that to female-unfriendly responses in Australia. So women are leaving now the educational sector, and that is, of course, not the way we want to go...