24/01/2022 | 18:01:38 Thank you, thank you very much, Ms BÖKE. I very much enjoyed the debate and thank you all for your vision and enthusiasm for the reports. I thank Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN as well for this because I think that we have both shown that the reports complement each other. They are about empowering children. They are about to respect between children and adults, etc. So I think that you, as a group, are right to say that we should, as one of the children almost said, we should use children as a... 24/01/2022 | 16:37:17 Thank you very much Madam President. Good afternoon friends and colleagues. I regret that I cannot be in Strasbourg today, but nevertheless it is a great pleasure to present this report to you. I want today to share with you some of the key issues in the report, and listen to your contributions. I know that we can, with European partners, create a new impetus for working with children to enable them to understand about children’s rights and about the political structures which enable those... 22/06/2021 | 19:26:09 Thank you, Mister President. The second attempt has worked. Thank you so much. Thank you also to my colleagues for your perceptive and sympathetic comments in this very excellent debate. I assure those people who did not manage to be heard that I will actually ask to read all those speeches that were not presented. We all agreed on the negative impact of Covid-19. We are, as many of us said, talking about the future. Therefore really must, as many have said, listen to the children. We've... 22/06/2021 | 18:21:54 Dear President and colleagues, I hope that you are well wherever you are. It is a great pleasure to follow my colleague Mr Andrej HUNKO, who has spoken with great passion and insight about his report. I am passionate about the impact of Covid-19 on the lives of children, particularly vulnerable children. The pandemic has made their lives very difficult. Some children’s services were under great pressure before Covid-19, and they have deteriorated. The rights of children, as defined in the UN... 21/04/2021 | 17:51:18 Mr President. I congratulate Ms Martine WONNER on this very incisive report. She is right to draw attention to the duties of the Council of Europe member states to ensure universal access to the rights of people with disabilities and long-term illness. As the report points out, chronic and long-term illnesses can have a devastating impact on a person's life, dignity and ability to function. They are the main cause of premature death and affect human rights and fundamental freedoms. There are... 27/01/2021 | 11:05:46 It's a very great pleasure to speak in this debate which is so incredibly timely. I thank Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN for researching and producing it. Of course, things move on almost daily with regard to this pandemic. For example, scientific opinion, production and allocation of the vaccine and so on. The virus has mutated of course which includes further dilemmas, but this does not alter the fact that there must be ethical, legal and practical considerations and there must be respect for... 30/01/2020 | 17:18:56 Thank you, Mr President. These are two very important reports, we must not ever take our eyes off this vital issue of protecting child migrants, especially unaccompanied migrants. I mean, we must be vigilant about the ramifications attendant on human trafficking and smuggling. As my colleague, Ms Kerry MCCARTHY, has said earlier, my colleague Mr Vernon COAKER was responsible the first report and has put so much effort into it. He's not here due to one of those vagaries of an election. I know... 30/01/2020 | 10:18:17 Thank you, Mr President and colleagues. It's a great pleasure to follow the Commissioner for Human Rights and I thank Mr Stefan SCHENNACH on behalf of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group for producing and presenting this very important report. We are faced with an urgent issue: the safety of children in the context of repatriation in conflict situations. The definition of child, we must not forget, is under 18, but these children are mainly under 12: they are very very young. The UN... 27/06/2019 | 15:55:00 Madam President, Colleagues, good afternoon. We have had many moving speeches today and speakers have been to the point and put many important issues to us. My experience tells me that parliaments are at their best when they are moved by an important issue and they're calling for action. And that we have had today from I think everybody. This has been I think a superb debate with many wise and powerful words about the importance of strategies for children based on Human rights. The UN... 27/06/2019 | 10:10:44 Good morning colleagues. Ladies and gentlemen. This has been a week of turbulence, noise and anxiety. In the midst of all that, it has been very good to see this Assembly also discussing fundamental issues of our human existence. Things such as mental health, women's health, and now for the second time, children's issues. It is a very important issue. I look forward to hearing my colleague Rosa express her opinions in her report. It's an honour and a pleasure to read and present this report...